December 2

Births

1960: Rick Savage (Bass for Def Leppard)

1968: Nate Mendel (Bass for Foo Fighters)

1978: Nelly Furtado (Singer)

1978: Brian Chase (Drums for Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs)

1981: Britney Spears (Singer)

Events

1959: Bobby Darin is the subject of this week's episode of NBC'S This Is Your Life.

1964: Ringo Starr checks into the University College Hospital in London to have his tonsils removed.

1967: Jimmie Rodgers is found with a fractured skull in his car on the San Diego Freeway, the result of a "mysterious assualt." He recovers fully, but his career never does.

1969: In Bristol, England, George Harrison joins the Delaney and Bonnie and Friends tour as a guitarist, making this the first tour of a Beatle since 1966.

1969: Cindy Birdsong of the Supremes is kidnapped by a maintenance worker in her Hollywood apartment, who, while holding a knife to her throat, forces her to tie up her two visiting friends. He then forces her into a car and drives toward Long Beach, but the singer jumps from the car and escapes. The kidnapper was arrested in Las Vegas four days later.

1971: Taj Mahal performs for the men on death row at Wilmington State Penitentiary.

1973: The Who and their companions are jailed overnight in Montreal following $6000 worth of hotel destruction inflicted after their show at the Forum.

1979: Singers Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge are granted a divorce.

1979: Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand's ‘You Don't Bring Me Flowers’ was at No.1 on the US singles chart. A radio station engineer had spliced together Neil's version with Barbra's version and got such good response, the station added it to their play list. When Neil Diamond was told about it, he decided to re-record the song with Streisand herself.

1983: MTV aired the full 14-minute version of Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' video for the first time.

1986: Jerry Lee Lewis checks into the Betty Ford Clinic for addiction to painkillers.

1988: Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, and Willie Nelson appeared on "Geraldo" to discuss "Sex on the Road."

1991: The US Supreme Court rules that the Shirelles, Gene Pitney and B.J. Thomas are owed $1.2 million in unpaid royalties.

1996: Adam Duritz (Singer for Counting Crows) severed a ligament and tore cartilage in his knee after he fell during a concert at the Beacon Theatre in New York. Duritz underwent orthoscopic surgery during the band's Christmas break.

2000: Thieves broke into the London home Madonna shares with Guy Ritchie. The raiders forced their way in through a basement door then took a set of car keys before loading up Guy Ritchie's car with some of the couple's possessions and driving off.

2002: Oasis singer Liam Gallagher was arrested and charged with assault after he Kung-Fu kicked a police officer. The incident happened at the Bayerischer hotel in Munich, the singer lost his two front teeth in the brawl and an Oasis minder was knocked out cold.