Births
1951: Kevin Cronin (Lead Vocals & Rhythm Guitar for REO Speedwagon)
1964: Matthew Sweet (Singer & Guitarist)
1966: Tommy Stinson (Bass for The Replacements)
1982: William Pierce Butler (Synthesiser, Bass, Guitar & Percussion for Arcade Fire)
Events
1964: The Beatles spent the afternoon recording 'Eight Days A Week' at Abbey Road studios in London. Late evening was spent at The Ad Lib Club, London, partying with The Ronettes and Mick Jagger.
1967: Jimi Hendrix performs on the new BBC 1 radio show Top Gear, with Stevie Wonder, who was visiting the studios, sitting in on drums for a jam called (appropriately enough) "Jammin'" and a version of Stevie's "I Was Made To Love Her."
1967: Pink Floyd appeared at the Miss Teenage Brighton Contest, Top Rank Suite, Brighton, England, playing the musical interlude during the contest.
1974: Country artist Marty Robbins hits a wall at 160 mph to avoid hitting other drivers in the National 500 stock car race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. Robbins sustains two broken ribs and a broken tailbone, and requires 37 facial stitches.
1977: Rod Stewart is named in a $15 million "palimony" suit by actress Britt Eklund.
1978: ABBA songwriter / musician Benny Anderson marries fellow band vocalist Anni-Frid Lyngstad in Sweden. The marriage lasts three years. (The group's other male-female pair had been married in 1971.)
1978: The Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger apologizes to activist Jesse Jackson, who raised a public outcry over the lyrics of the Stones' recent song "Some Girls," specifically the line "black girls just want to get ------ all night." Jagger refuses calls to change the lyrics.
1980: With the disco craze officially over, The Bee Gees file a $200 million mismanagement lawsuit against longtime manager Robert Stigwood and his label RSO Records, one that would within the year be settled out of court.
1980: John Lydon (Johnny Rotten of The sex Pistols) was arrested by Irish police for assault after a pub brawl in Dublin.
1991: The Fox TV network airs the special Ray Charles: 50 Years Of Music, featuring guests Stevie Wonder, Willie Nelson, Paul McCartney, Randy Travis, Michael Bolton, and more.
1991: Michael Jackson gives Elizabeth Taylor away to Larry Fortensky during her eighth wedding, held at Jackson's California ranch, Neverland.
1994: Glenn Frey (Guitar for Fleetwood Mac) underwent colon surgery.
1996: Faith Hill and Tim McGraw were married in Rayville, Louisiana, the day of his Swampstock benefit concert. In attendance: Mark Collie, Tracy Lawrence, Mark Chesnutt and Jeff Carson.
2000: Manhattan Supreme Court sentenced rapper Busta Rhymes to five years probation after pleading guilty to a gun possession charge.
2002: Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones donates $200,000 to the school he once attended in Dartford, England, for musical instruments and a band director. The resultant musical center is named after the singer.
2006: Before Game Three of baseball's AL Divisional Playoff in Detroit, MI, the Four Tops sing the US national anthem.
2007” Bruce Springsteen was being sued for $850,000 by a man who claimed he backed out of a contract to buy a horse. Springsteen and his wife Patti Scialfa were both named in legal documents filed in Florida by Todd Minikus. He claimed the couple pulled out of a deal to pay $650,000 for a horse, named Pavarotti.
