Births
1939: Frankie Avalon (Pop Singer)
1949: Kerry Livgren (Guitar for Kansas)
1951: Dee Dee Ramone (Douglas Colvin) (Bass for The
Ramones)
1961: James Gandolfini (Tony Soprano)
1962: Joanne Catherall (Vocals for The Human
League)
1967: Ricky Bell (Singer for New Edition & Bell
Biv DeVoe)
1969: Cappadonna (Darryl Hill) (Rapper in Wu-Tang
Clan)
1974: Xzibit (Alvin Nathaniel Joiner ) (Rapper)
Events
1955: CBS-TV's popular variety show Toast Of The
Town is renamed what many people had been calling it all along, The Ed
Sullivan Show.
1956: Rock shows are banned at the US Naval Station
in Newport, RI after a fight breaks out during a Fats Domino concert.
1957: The Big Record, CBS-TV's answer to American
Bandstand, premieres with host Patti Page and guests Billy Ward & the
Dominoes and Tony Bennett.
1960: Teen idol Frankie Avalon turns 21, making him
an adult and therefore eligible to claim the over $600,000 he earned while
underage.
1967: The Beatles journey to the Raymond Revue bar
in London to film the notorious "striptease" scene in Magical Mystery
Tour. Accompanying stripper Jan Carson is the Bonzo Dog (Doo-Dah) Band, playing
a song called "Death Cab For Cutie."
1969: Tiny Tim announced on "The Tonight
Show" to Johnny Carson his engagement to Miss Vicki Budinger. Carson asked
the two to be married on the show. They made TV history with the wedding on
December 17, 1969.
1970: Jimi Hendrix asphyxiated in his own vomit,
mainly red wine which had filled his airways and he died at age 27.
1971: The ill-fated Bobby Sherman sitcom Getting
Together premieres on ABC-TV.
1977: All 4 Kiss members release solo albums.
1980: The tenth anniversary of Jimi Hendrix'
untimely death is marked by a multimedia event, featuring Experience members
Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell, held at the Paradise Club in Amsterdam.
1981: Gary Numan took off on a round the world trip
in a single engine Cessna plane. The attempt ended after he was forced to land
in India, where local police arrested him.
1983: For an MTV publicity stunt to promote KISS'
new album, Lick It Up, the band appear in public for the first time
without makeup.
1993: Garth Brooks went to No.1 on the US album
chart with 'In Pieces'. The album spent 25 weeks on the chart and sold over 6m
copies.
1998: Reba McEntire receives a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1999: The governor of Tennessee, Donald K.
Sundquist, declares today Carl Perkins Day in honor of its native son.
2004: Britney Spears married dancer Kevin Federline
during a private ceremony in Los Angeles. Federline had two daughters from his
previous relationship with actress Shar Jackson.
2006: Willie Nelson's tour bus is stopped near
Lafayette, LA, and Nelson, along with four members of his band, are arrested
for possession of marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms.
2006: Echo And The Bunnymen singer Ian McCulloch
was convicted of committing a breach of the peace by shouting, swearing and
threatening Gary Duncan and his girlfriend Juliet Sebley backstage at Glasgow
Barrowlands in Scotland. A court was told that McCulloch had lost his temper
when he discovered the two fans in a toilet cubicle inside his private dressing
room.
2008: The Village People are honored with a star on
the Hollywood Walk Of fame at 6529 Hollywood Blvd.
2009: Leonard Cohen collapsed on
stage during a concert in Valencia in Spain and was taken to hospital. He was
later discharged after doctors told him he had food poisoning. Cohen was in the
middle of singing his song Bird On The Wire when he fainted, prompting the band
to stop playing and rush to help him.
