Births:
1952: Tommy Ramone (Thomas Erdelyi) (Drummer for The Ramones)
1961: Eddie Jackson (Bass for Queensryche)
1981: Jonny Lang (Blues Singer & Guitarist)
1982: Adam Lambert (Singer)
Events:
1961: After performing in New York, Bob Dylan visits the home of a friend in East Orange, NJ, and meets his idol, Woody Guthrie.
1967: Jimi Hendrix makes his UK stage debut, performing at London's Saville Theatre. In the audience is a young Brian May, future guitarist for Queen.
1968: The Doors appeared at The Pussy Cat A Go Go, Las Vegas.
After the show singer Jim Morrison taunts a security guard in the parking lot by pretending to smoke a joint, resulting in a fight. The police arrive who arrest Morrison and charge him with vagrancy, public drunkenness, and failure to possess sufficient identification.
1972: Smokey Robinson left The Miracles.
1975: After girlfriend Linda Thompson wakes up and finds him struggling to catch his breath, Elvis Presley is admitted to Memphis' Baptist Hospital for "a liver problem," which in reality is an attempt by Presley's personal physician "Dr. Nick" to curtail his growing addiction to prescription medication.
1979: Emerson, Lake and Palmer announce their breakup, the first of many.
1979: 16-year-old Brenda Spencer killed two people and wounded nine others when she fired from her house across the street onto the entrance of San Diego's Grover Cleveland Elementary School. Spencer fired the shot's from a .22-caliber rifle her father had given her for Christmas. When asked why she did it, she answered 'I don't like Mondays.' The Boomtown Rats went on to write and recorded a song based on the event.
1980: Jimmy Durante died of pneumonia at age 86.
1983: Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks marries Warner Brothers promo man Kim Anderson in Los Angeles. The marriage would last just over a year.
1992: Willie Dixon died of heart failure in Burbank, California at age 76.
1994: Tragedy strikes Mary Wilson of the Supremes when her Jeep hits the curb near Los Angeles and flips, injuring her and killing her 14-year-old son.
1996: Garth Brooks refused to accept his American Music Award for Favorite Overall Artist. Brooks said that Hootie and the Blowfish had done more for music that year than he did.
2001: A court rules the P-Funk mastermind George Clinton is not eligible for royalties on songs sampled by rappers, George having sold the rights to the songs off years before.
2004: Claiming bigamy on her part, James Brown annuls his marriage to third wife Tommie Rae Brown.
2010: Sly Stone sues former manager Jerry Goldstein for $50 million dollars in what he claims are unpaid royalties.
