July 11

Births

1931: Thurston Harris (R&B Singer)

1931: Tab Hunter (Pop Singer)

1944: Bobby G. Rice (Country Singer / Songwriter)

1947: Jeff Hanna (Guitar & Vocals for Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)

1950: Bonnie Pointer (The Pointer Sisters)

1953: Peter Brown (Disco Artist)

1957: Pete Murphy (Vocals for Bauhaus)

1957: Michael Rose (Singer for Black Uhuru)

1959: Richie Sambora (Guitar for Bon Jovi)

1959: Susanne Vega (Singer / Songwriter)

1975: Lil' Kim (Rapper)

Events

1946: Dean Martin begins his recording career mere weeks before teaming up with nightclub comic Jerry Lewis.

1959: Joan Baez made her first recording. It was a duet with Bob Gibson which was recorded live at the Newport Folk Festival.

1969: The Rolling Stones released the single "Honky Tonk Women".

1970: The soundtrack album 'Woodstock' started a four-week run at No.1 on the US album chart.

1976: Andy Gibb marries girlfriend Kim Reeder in Australia.

1976: Frank Sinatra marries for the fourth time, this time to Barbara Marx, former wife of the Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx.

1981: Longtime songwriting team Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager are divorced.

1982: Phil Collen, former guitarist with the glam rock band Girl, replaced Pete Willis in Def Leppard who was fired due to excessive alcohol consumption on the job.

1992: Jerry Garcia introduces a series of neckties he's designed, bearing his name. President Bill Clinton immediately buys the set of eight.

1994: Michael Jackson's spokesperson publicly denies rampant rumors that the singer has married Lisa Marie Presley.

1995: Mike Mills (Bass for R.E.M.) underwent emergency intestinal surgery in Germany. Seven shows of R.E.M.'s European tour had to be cancelled.

1996: Jonathan Melvoin keyboard player with the Smashing Pumpkins died from a drug overdose in New York City aged 34. Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin who was with Melvoin tried but failed to revive him after Chamberlin was allegedly advised by 911 operators to put Melvoin's head in the shower. Several songs were inspired by his death, including Sarah McLachlan's hit single 'Angel.' He was the brother of Susannah and Wendy Melvoin of Prince and the Revolution. Melvoin had also been a member of The Dickies.

2000: Lars Ulrich (Drummer for Metallica) was the first witness to testify at a U.S. Senate hearing over copyright law issues concerning free sharing of music files on Web sites such as Napster and MP3.com.

2002: The funeral of longtime Who bassist John Entwistle is held in St. Edward's Church in Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, England, and attended by over 200 mourners.

2004: In an attempt to recapture Elvis' record of most UK Number Ones, his first single, 1954's "That's All Right," is rereleased on its 50th anniversary.

2009: The Black Eyes Peas ‘I Gotta Feeling’ started a 14-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart ending the 12-week run of the band’s previous single ‘Boom Boom Pow’. It made the band only the fourth to replace themselves at No.1 in chart history, following The Beatles, Boyz II Men, and OutKast.