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Charts
1966 : Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass become the first act with four albums in the Top 10 simultaneously. Alpert's albums spent more weeks at #1 in 1966 than The Beatles. |
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Band Dynamics (1)
Births (15)
| 1912 : Herbert Mills |
| 1917 : Lou Monte |
| 1928 : Serge Gainsbourg |
| 1938 : Warner Mack |
1939 : Marvin Gaye is born Marvin Pentz Gay in Washington, DC.
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| 1941 : Leon Russell |
| 1943 : Glen Dale (The Fortunes) |
| 1946 : Kurt Winter (The Guess Who) |
| 1947 : Emmylou Harris |
| 1947 : Future Country star legend Emmylou Harris is born in Birmingham, Alabama to Walter and Eugenia Harris. Her father Walter was a marine, reported missing in 1952 when Emmylou was five. He spent ten months as a prisoner of war. |
| 1952 : Dave Bronze (Procol Harum) |
| 1952 : Leon Wilkerson (Lynyrd Skynyrd) |
| 1953 : David Robinson (The Cars) |
| 1961 : Keren Jane Woodward (Bananarama) |
| 1967 : Greg Camp (Smash Mouth) |
Charts (5)
| 1966 : Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass become the first act with four albums in the Top 10 simultaneously. Alpert's albums spent more weeks at #1 in 1966 than The Beatles. |
| 1969 : Frank Sinatra's My Way enters the charts. |
| 1971 : Janis Joplin's LP Pearl hits #1. |
| 1977 : Fleetwood Mac's LP Rumours hits #1. |
| 2006 : Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy makes history by becoming the U.K.'s first-ever No. 1 single to top the chart solely on download sales. |
Concerts and Festivals (3)
| 1800 : Opus 21: Symphony No. 1 in C major by Ludwig van Beethoven is first performed in Vienna for Baron Gottfried Van Swieten. |
| 1957 : Elvis Presley appears for the first time outside the United States, performing at the Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. This and a show the next day in Ottawa would be the only Elvis concerts ever given outside the US. |
| 2011 : LCD Soundsystem play their final ever gig at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The show lasts four hours and features Arcade Fire and Reggie Watts. |
Deaths (5)
| 1987 : Buddy Rich |
| 1998 : Robert Pilatus of Milli Vanilli dies at age 32 after overdosing on a combination of drugs and alcohol. |
| 2003 : Edwin Starr |
| 2004 : Paul Atkinson (The Zombies) |
| 2009 : Freddie Everett |
Incidents (1)
| 1967 : An overzealous audience member throws a smoke bomb onto the stage at The Rolling Stones concert at the Town Hall in Vienna, Austria, leading to a riot and the arrest of 154 fans. |
Miscellaneous (2)
| 1970 : Janis Joplin get tattoos on her wrist and heart, the one on her chest reading "One For The Boys." |
| 1997 : After 32 years, Joni Mitchell is reunited with her first daughter, Kilauren Gibb. Joni gave the child up for adoption at the start of her career. |
Movies (1)
| 2008 : The Martin Scorsese-directed Rolling Stones film Shine A Light hits theatres as Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Jack White hit Rolling Stone's cover. |
Recordings (5)
| 1942 : Glenn Miller, "American Patrol" |
| 1956 : Johnny Cash, I Walk The Line |
| 1964 : The Beach Boys, I Get Around |
| 1965 : Freddie & the Dreamers, "Do The Freddie" |
| 1967 : The Beatles finish recording their Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. |
Releases (4)
| 1964 : Elvis Presley, Kissin' Cousins |
| 1971 : Ringo Starr, It Don't Come Easy |
| 1973 : The Beatles, The Beatles 1962-1966, The Beatles 1967-1970 |
| 1977 : Stevie Wonder, Sir Duke |
TV, Radio, Press (2)
| 1993 : Roberta Flack guest stars as herself on today's episode of ABC-TV's Loving. |
| 1993 : The London press announces that the son of Rolling Stones bass player Bill Wyman is engaged to the mother of Bill's ex-wife Mandy Smith. The engagement is called off a few months later, but is fun tabloid fodder while it lasts. |
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