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Miscellaneous
1981 : The Broadway musical Dreamgirls, which is based on The Supremes, opens on Broadway. It would later be made into a hit movie starring Beyoncé and Jennifer Hudson. |
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Births (14)
Certifications and Milestones (1)
| 1975 : The Silver Convention's "Fly, Robin, Fly" is certified gold. |
Charts (7)
| 1950 : Phil Harris' "The Thing" hits #1 |
| 1957 : Sam Cooke's You Send Me hits #1 |
| 1967 : The Monkees' Daydream Believer hits #1 |
| 1967 : American Breed's Bend Me Shape Me enters the pop charts |
| 1967 : The Monkees' Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones album hits #1 |
| 1972 : The Temptations' Papa Was A Rolling Stone hits #1 |
| 1978 : Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond's "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" hits #1 |
Concerts and Festivals (2)
| 1969 : In Bristol, England, George Harrison joins the Delaney and Bonnie and Friends tour as a guitarist, making this the first tour of a Beatle since 1966. |
| 1971 : Taj Mahal performs for the men on death row at Wilmington State Penitentiary. |
Deaths (7)
Health Issues (3)
| 1964 : Ringo Starr checks into the University College Hospital in London to have his tonsils removed. |
| 1974 : Ravi Shankar is hospitalized after suffering chest pains while touring with George Harrison. |
| 1986 : Jerry Lee Lewis checks into the Betty Ford Clinic for addiction to painkillers. |
Incidents (2)
| 1967 : Jimmie Rodgers is found with a fractured skull in his car on the San Diego Freeway, the result of a "mysterious assault." He recovers fully, but his career never does. |
| 1969 : In intruder kidnaps Cindy Birdsong of The Supremes, who forces her to tie up her two companions and get in a car with him. Birdsong escapes by jumping out of the car, and the man is arrested four days later in a bizarre case that made national headlines. The intruder turned out to be a maintenance man at Birdsong's apartment building. |
Legal Issues (3)
| 1973 : The Who and their companions are jailed overnight in Montreal following $6,000 worth of hotel destruction inflicted after their show at the Forum. |
| 1991 : The US Supreme Court rules that The Shirelles, Gene Pitney and B.J. Thomas are owed $1.2 million in unpaid royalties. |
| 2011 : Police in Arkansas find the Country singer Mindy McCready hiding in a closet two days after she kidnapped her 5-year-old son from her mother, who was living with the child in Florida. McCready, who did not have custody of her son, was 7 months pregnant with twins at the time. |
Marriages and Breakups (1)
| 1979 : Singers Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge are granted a divorce. |
Miscellaneous (1)
| 1981 : The Broadway musical Dreamgirls, which is based on The Supremes, opens on Broadway. It would later be made into a hit movie starring Beyoncé and Jennifer Hudson. |
Recordings (1)
| 1962 : Andy Williams, "Can't Get Used To Losing You" |
Releases (2)
TV, Radio, Press (1)
| 1957 : Al Priddy, a disc jockey at the Portland, Oregon radio station KEX, is fired for playing the Elvis Presley version of White Christmas, which the station has banned, their program manager saying it "desecrates the Spirit of Christmas and transgresses the composer's intent." The story makes national news, but it turns out to be a brilliant publicity stunt - Priddy was back on the air two weeks later, with the station claiming letters were pouring in to support the DJ. As part of the stunt, Priddy recorded the GM calling in to "fire" him for playing the song, and played the conversation on his show before he left. |
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