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Band Dynamics
1970 : Amid rising tensions, Paul McCartney quits The Beatles, which dissolves the band. The group members are all working on solo projects at the time. |
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Awards and Honors (2)
| 1962 : Henry Mancini wins the Best Original Song Academy Award for Moon River from Breakfast At Tiffany's. |
| 1984 : Cher, for her performance in Silkwood, loses the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award to Linda Hunt (in The Year Of Living Dangerously). Cher would win for Best Actress three years later for her role in Moonstruck. |
Band Dynamics (2)
Births (11)
| 1887 : Florence Beatrice Price |
| 1932 : Carl Perkins |
| 1941 : Kaye Adams |
| 1943 : Terry Knight |
| 1944 : Gene Parsons (The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers) |
| 1945 : Emil Stucchio (The Classics) |
| 1948 : Dave “Chico” Ryan (The Happenings, Sha Na Na, Bill Haley & His Comets) |
| 1950 : Peter Wood, later of Roger Waters' backing group, The Bleeding Heart Band, is born. |
| 1969 : Kevin Martin (Candlebox) |
| 1977 : Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance) |
| 1987 : Jesse McCartney |
Certifications and Milestones (1)
| 1860 : An unknown woman sings "Au Claire De La Lune" to Parisian inventor Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville, who makes the first known and oldest surviving recording of the human voice. |
Concerts and Festivals (4)
| 1953 : Elvis Presley performs at the L.C. Humes High School talent contest, singing "Keep Them Cold, Icy Fingers Off Of Me" (he gets the most applause and is allowed to sing an encore of "Til I Waltz Again With You"). |
| 1985 : Frankie Goes To Hollywood opens a European tour in Copenhagen and spends the rest of the year in tax exile from the United Kingdom. |
| 1999 : Faith Hill’s “This Kiss” tour, the country singer’s first solo outing, kicks off in Minneapolis. |
| 2008 : Elton John gives a fund-raising concert for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign at New York's Radio City Music Hall. |
Deaths (5)
Debuts (2)
| 1969 : King Crimson makes its debut performance at the Speakeasy in London. |
| 1973 : Queen makes its debut performance at the Marquee Theater in London. |
Incidents (1)
| 1966 : Jeff Beck collapses onstage at a Yardbirds concert in France. Said their drummer Jim McCarty: "You never really quite knew what was going to happen with him." |
Legal Issues (1)
| 1964 : Capitol Records reaches an out-of-court settlement with Vee-Jay Records over Beatles records it claims the latter did not have the right to release. |
Marriages and Breakups (1)
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