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Incidents
1971 : During a Frank Zappa concert, the Montreaux Casino in Switzerland catches fire when someone fires a flare gun, inspiring Deep Purple's "Smoke On The Water." Deep Purple were there to record their album Machine Head the following day. |
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Awards and Honors (1)
| 1988 : Carole King and Gerry Goffin receive a Lifetime Achievement award from the US National Academy of Songwriters. |
Births (12)
| 1907 : Connee Boswell |
| 1927 : Andy Williams is born in Wall Lake, Iowa. |
| 1927 : Ferlin Husky |
| 1931 : Jaye P. Morgan |
| 1940 : John Cale (Velvet Underground) |
| 1945 : Paul Nicholas |
| 1948 : Ozzy Osbourne is born John Michael Osbourne in Birmingham, England. He would become the lead singer of Black Sabbath. |
| 1949 : Mickey Thomas (Jefferson Starship) |
| 1951 : Nicky Stevens (Brotherhood of Man) |
| 1952 : Duane Roland (Molly Hatchet) |
| 1971 : Montell Jordan |
| 1979 : Daniel Bedingfield |
Certifications and Milestones (6)
| 1968 : The O'Kaysions' "Girl Watcher" is certified gold |
| 1968 : The Grass Roots' Midnight Confessions is certified gold |
| 1968 : The Crazy World of Arthur Brown's Fire is certified gold |
| 1968 : Aretha Franklin's Aretha Now album is certified gold |
| 1968 : Iron Butterfly's In-a-Gadda-da-Vida album is certified gold |
| 1968 : Cream's Fresh Cream album is certified gold |
Charts (5)
| 1960 : Elvis Presley's Are You Lonesome Tonight? hits #1 |
| 1966 : The New Vaudeville Band's "Winchester Cathedral" hits #1 |
| 1966 : Paul Revere and the Raiders' "Good Thing" enters the pop charts |
| 1977 : Linda Ronstadt's Simple Dreams album hits #1 |
| 1977 : After a record 29 weeks at #1 on Billboard's album chart, Fleetwood Mac's Rumours is replaced by Linda Ronstadt's Simple Dreams LP. |
Concerts and Festivals (1)
| 1925 : George Gershwin premieres his "Concerto In F," the first jazz concerto for piano and orchestra, at New York City's Carnegie Hall. Gershwin is also the featured soloist on flugelhorn. |
Deaths (1)
| 2000 : Newsboys' former bassist, Kevin Mills, is killed in a motorbike accident. He was 32. |
Debuts (1)
| 1966 : The Monkees make their stage debut in Honolulu, HI. |
Incidents (5)
| 1965 : Keith Richards gets an electric shock and is knocked unconscious when his guitar makes contact with his microphone during the song "The Last Time" at a Rolling Stones show in Sacramento. |
| 1971 : During a Frank Zappa concert, the Montreaux Casino in Switzerland catches fire when someone fires a flare gun, inspiring Deep Purple's "Smoke On The Water." Deep Purple were there to record their album Machine Head the following day. |
| 1976 : It's a Spinal Tap moment for Pink Floyd when during the shoot for their Animals album cover, a 40-foot inflatable pig being photographed at Battersea Power Station breaks free. Pilots in the London area are warned of a pig loose in the skies, which reaches a height of 18,000 feet before coming down in Kent. |
| 1976 : Bob Marley is shot in the upper arm when intruders storm his house in Kingston, Jamaica attempting to assassinate the singer. The attack was motivated by politics, as elections in Jamaica were days away and Marley was seen as supporting the ruling party. Marley made a full recovery and never had the bullet removed, as he was told that the operation could cause him to lose movement in his fingers. |
| 1979 : Before The Who concert this evening at Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum, eleven people are trampled to death and dozens are injured in a rush for "festival" (i.e., unreserved) seating. The resulting controversy (and lawsuits) force promoters to rethink the practice. |
Legal Issues (1)
| 1966 : Having been convicted of heroin and marijuana possession, Ray Charles is given a five-year suspended sentence and fined $10,000. |
Marriages and Breakups (1)
| 1721 : Johann Sebastian Bach marries Anna Magdalena Wilcken. |
Miscellaneous (3)
| 1960 : The Lerner and Loewe play Camelot, featuring Richard Burton and Julie Andrews, opens at the Majestic Theatre in New York City. |
| 1961 : The Beatles meet Brian Epstein for the first time, at his Liverpool record store, NEMS. Later, at six that afternoon, they meet again to discuss Brian's management of the group. |
| 1980 : Photographer Annie Leibovitz takes the last known photos of John Lennon and Yoko Ono together at their apartment in New York's Dakota building. |
Recordings (1)
| 1944 : Frank Sinatra, "Old Man River" |
Releases (2)
| 1965 : The Beatles, Rubber Soul (UK) |
| 1973 : Ringo Starr, "You're Sixteen" |
TV, Radio, Press (2)
| 1967 : The Supremes guest star on "Tennessee" Ernie Ford's TV special. |
| 1968 : A TV special simply called Elvis airs on NBC, drawing a huge audience and revitalizing the career of Elvis Presley. Footage from two June concerts makes up most of the special, which pays tribute to Bobby Kennedy with the closing number, If I Can Dream. |
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