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Born on this day in history: 1767 - Andrew Jackson (7th President of the US) 1912 - Lightnin' Hopkins (blues great; died 1982) 1928 - Carl Smith (country singer, father of Carlene Carter) 1933 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Supreme court justice) 1933 - Cecil Taylor (avant garde jazz pianist) 1935 - Judd Hirsch (actor, TV's Taxi, Dear John) 1935 - Jimmy Swaggart (minister, "I have sinned!" Cousin of Jerry Lee Lewis) 1940 - Phil Lesh (bass player, ex-Grateful Dead) 1941 - Mike Love (vocalist-lyricist, The Beach Boys) 1944 - Sly Stone (born Sylvester Stewart, of the Family Stone) 1946 - Howard Scott (singer-guitarist, War) 1947 - Ry Cooder (guitarist) 1948 - Stephen Nisbett (Steel Pulse drummer) 1954 - Craig Wasson (actor, Dressed To Kill) 1955 - Dee Snider (singer, Twisted Sister) 1957 - Park Overall (actress, TV's Empty Nest) 1959 - Fabio (long-haired romance novel cover model and butter substitute salesman) 1959 - Renny Harlin (movie director, Die Hard 2) 1962 - Terence Trent D'Arby (singer, Wishing Well) 1963 - Bret Michaels (singer, Poison) 1964 - Rockwell (singer, "Somebody's Watching Me") 1968 - Mark McGrath (singer, Sugar Ray) 1972 - Mark Hoppus (bass player, Blink-182) 1977 - Joseph Hahn (D.J. for Linkin Park) On this day in music history: 1945 - Billboard magazine began listing a top albums chart. The first #1 was The Nat King Cole Trio. 1955 - Elvis Presley signed a management deal with Colonel Tom Parker. 1956 - The Lerner and Lowe musical My Fair Lady opened on Broadway. 1958 - Elvis was drafted into the Army. He was treated just like any other soldier: regulation haircut, regulation uniform. 1966 - Herb Alpert's Taste Of Honey won the Grammy for Record of the Year. Frank Sinatra's September Of My Years was the Album of the Year, and Best New Artist was Tom Jones. 1969 - Singer Tommy Roe started a four-week run at number one with "Dizzy." 1972 - Robert W. Morgan of radio station KHJ/Los Angeles played Donny Osmond's "Puppy Love" for 1-1/2 hours straight--leading police to raid the station because listeners had called them in, fearing that a revolution had taken place. 1974 - The Emerson, Lake and Palmer movie Pictures At An Exhibition premiered in Los Angeles, California. 1975 - Led Zeppelin's double album, Physical Graffiti, was at #1. It was their first release on their own custom record label, Swan Song. 1975 - The number one single in the country was "Black Water" by The Doobie Brothers. It was the first of two for the band. 1976 - KISS released Destroyer. 1986 - Starship was at number one with "Sara." 1989 - The Rolling Stones signed a nearly $102 million deal to play 50 shows in the U.S. It was the largest contract in rock history. 1990 - A New Kids on the Block pay-per-view concert was seen in 13.7 million homes. 1999 - Relatives of Buddy Holly filed a suit against MCA Records for allegedly hoarding royalty payments, forging contracts and illegally producing albums without the consent of the family. 1999 - Guitarist Jeff Beck kicked off his U.S. tour at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. in support of his current album, Who Else! 1999 - Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel thanked their mothers, Paul McCartney mourned the loss of his wife, Linda, and all three took part in an incredible jam session the night they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame. 2004 - A federal judge denied Axl Rose's request for a restraining order to block the release of a Guns N' Roses greatest hits collection. Rose sued because he said he had not approved the album. Universal Music Group said that they had every right to release the album since Rose had not delivered the contracted album Chinese Democracy. On this day in history: 44 BC - Roman Emperor Julius Caesar was assassinated. 1493 - Christopher Columbus returned to Spain, concluding his first voyage to the Western Hemisphere. 1875 - John McClosky, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York, was named the first American Cardinal by Pope Pius The Ninth. 1903 - Judge Roy Bean died. 1942 - The world's biggest gorilla died at the San Diego Zoo. Mbongo weighed 670 pounds. 1963 - The United States proposed a "hotline" communications system between Moscow and Washington in an effort to prevent war. 1964 - Elizabeth Taylor married her fifth husband, Richard Burton, in Montreal. She became Elizabeth Taylor Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher Burton. After they divorced, she ended up marrying - and divorcing - him again. 1975 - Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis died near Paris. He was 69. 1994 - Burt Reynolds was mugged as he left a bookstore. He injured his arm, but his hairpiece was fine. 1998 - Dr. Benjamin Spock, noted baby doctor, died in San Diego at the age of 94. 1998 - 60 Minutes aired an interview with former White House employee Kathleen Willey, who said President Clinton made unwanted sexual advances towards her in 1993. Clinton denied the charges. 2001 - Actress Ann Southern died at age 92. 2002 - In Texas, Andrea Yates received a life sentence for drowning her five children on June 20, 2001. 2002 - U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell told the Associated Press that the U.S. would stand by a 24-year pledge not to use nuclear arms against states that don't have them. |
