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Awards and Honors
1987 : The second class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is announced, and it includes the first woman: Aretha Franklin. The Coasters, Eddie Cochran, Bo Diddley, Marvin Gaye, Bill Haley, Clyde McPhatter, Rick Nelson, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, Smokey Robinson, and Jackie Wilson also enter. |
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Awards and Honors (1)
| 1987 : The second class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is announced, and it includes the first woman: Aretha Franklin. The Coasters, Eddie Cochran, Bo Diddley, Marvin Gaye, Bill Haley, Clyde McPhatter, Rick Nelson, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, Smokey Robinson, and Jackie Wilson also enter. |
Band Dynamics (1)
| 1970 : Davy Jones announces that he's leaving The Monkees, essentially dissolving the group, which had dwindled to a duo. |
Births (6)
Certifications and Milestones (2)
Charts (3)
Concerts and Festivals (2)
| 1956 : Elvis Presley plays a show at the Von Theater in Booneville, MS, where he is advertised as "The Folk Music Fireball." |
| 1974 : Bob Dylan begins a 6-week tour in Chicago with The Band, who do double duty: backing Dylan and then playing their own set. In July, the double album Before The Flood is released, featuring highlights from the shows. |
Deaths (2)
| 1980 : Amos Milburn |
| 1995 : Byron MacGregor |
Health Issues (1)
| 2008 : Britney Spears suffers from a mental breakdown in Beverly Hills, where she refuses to hand over her sons Jayden James and Sean Preston to their father, Kevin Federline. Britney is eventually taken to L.A.'s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center via ambulance and is admitted as a "special needs" patient. |
Legal Issues (1)
| 1968 : 30,000 copies of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Two Virgins album are confiscated at New Jersey's Newark Airport. (The full-frontal nudity of the duo on the cover violated the state's obscenity laws.) |
Miscellaneous (2)
| 1967 : Declaring himself a conscientious objector, The Beach Boys's Carl Wilson refuses to be sworn in after receiving an induction notice from the US Army. |
| 1981 : David Bowie finishes his Broadway run as the title character in the play The Elephant Man. |
Recordings (2)
| 1940 : Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra, "The Southland Shuffle" |
| 1957 : Fats Domino, I'm Walking |
TV, Radio, Press (3)
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