Births
1912: Gene
Kelly (Singer & Dancer)
1917: Tex
Williams (Country Singer)
1946: Keith
Moon (Drummer for The Who)
1949: Rick
Springfield (Guitar & Singer)
1951:Jimi Jamison (Singer for Survivor)
1960: Stephen
Maynard Clark (Lead Guitar for Def Leppard)
1961: Dean DeLeo (Guitar for Stone Temple Pilots)
1962: Shaun Ryder (Vocals for Happy Mondays &
Black Grape)
1974: Shifty Shellshock (Seth Brooks
Binzer)(Singer for Crazy Town)
1978: Julian Casablancas (Guitar & Vocals for
The Strokes)
1986: SkyBlu (Skyler Gordy) (Rapper in
LMFAO)
Events
1962: John
Lennon marries Cynthia Powell, already two months pregnant with their son
Julian, at Liverpool's Mount Pleasant Registry Office, with Paul McCartney and
George Harrison as witnesses. Fans milling about the offices find out about the
marriage immediately, spoiling plans to keep it a secret. Manager Brian
Epstein, who had served as best man, then buys lunch for the wedding party at
the local cafeteria Reece's and gives the new couple use of his apartment. The
marriage would last six years. On the same day, local paper Mersey Beat
officially announces the replacement of Pete Best with Ringo Starr.
1963: The Rolling Stones appeared on UK TV show
Ready, Steady, Go! for the first time, performing their debut single ‘Come On.’
The group made a total of 20 appearances on the show between 1963 and 1966.
1965: The
Beatles' second film, Help! has its US premiere in New York City.
1967: Enjoying a wild birthday party Keith Moon
drummer with The Who drove his Lincoln car into a Holiday Inn swimming pool.
1970: Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground
performed together for the last time at the New York Club 'Max's Kansas City'.
Reed worked as a typist for his father for the next two years at $40 per week.
1974: The
local papers report that John Lennon, while staying in mistress' May Pang's New
York apartment during his infamous "lost weekend," has spotted a UFO.
John's next album, Walls and Bridges, contains this notation in the
inner booklet: "On 23 August 1974, I saw a UFO J.L."
1975: Joy Division singer Ian Curtis married
Deborah Woodruff, whom he met while still at school, when he was 19 and she was
18. They remained married until his death when he hanged himself in the kitchen
of his house in Macclesfield, England at the age of 23.
1987: A 20th
anniversary "Summer Of Love" concert headlined by the Grateful Dead
at Calaveras County Fairgrounds in Angel Camp, CA goes horribly wrong when an
escaped felon, wandering in the crowd, shoots a pursuing police officer while
trying to escape.
1993: News of
Michael Jackson's child molestation investigation is finally made public by the
Los Angeles police.
1993: Duran Duran received a star on the Hollywood
Walk Of Fame.
1995: Dwayne Goettel (Keyboards for Skinny Puppy)
was found dead of an apparent heroine overdose at the home of his parents in
Canada.
1998: "Scary Spice" Melanie Brown of
the Spice Girls announced that she was pregnant.
1999: Phil
Everly of the Everly Brothers marries his third wife, Patti Arnold, at Caesar's
Palace in Las Vegas.
2000: Kenny
Loggins is awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2004: Queen
becomes the first band officially sanctioned by the Iranian government since
the 1979 cultural revolution that outlawed rock groups. Lead singer Freddie
Mercury, born Farrokh Bulsara in Zanzibar of Indian parents, had remained quite
popular in the country.
2004: The Pocahontas Village Board in Illinois
votes to rename the town's Pocahontas Community Park as Gretchen Wilson Park.
2005: Bay
City Rollers' lead singer Les McKeown is arraigned on cocaine possession and
distribution charges in London. He is eventually acquitted of the intent to
distribute.
2007: Queen
guitarist Brian May is finally awarded his doctorate in astrophysics by
London's Imperial College -- the very Ph. D. title he was seeking when he left
the college during the band's first flush of success.
