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Concerts and Festivals
2005 : Pink Floyd perform Comfortably Numb at the Live 8 London concert, reforming with band members Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Rick Wright (who died in 2008). |
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Awards and Honors (1)
| 2001 : Liverpool renames its airport after native son John Lennon. |
Band Dynamics (3)
Births (11)
Charts (1)
| 1988 : No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: Michael Jackson's Dirty Diana |
Concerts and Festivals (2)
| 1981 : Bruce Springsteen plays the first of 6 sold out shows at the new Byrne Arena in New Jersey. His average show lasts 28 songs. |
| 2005 : Pink Floyd perform Comfortably Numb at the Live 8 London concert, reforming with band members Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Rick Wright (who died in 2008). |
Incidents (3)
| 1962 : A broken ankle in a parachute jump gets Jimi Hendrix an honorable discharge from the Army. |
| 1962 : Jimi Hendrix is honorably discharged from the Army after breaking his ankle in a parachute jump. |
| 1991 : At a Guns N' Roses show in St. Louis, Axl Rose gets mad when he sees someone in the crowd taking pictures, and he leaves the stage, announcing, "Thanks to the lame ass security, I'm going home." A riot follows, and the band's equipment is destroyed. |
Legal Issues (1)
| 1980 : Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart and Bob Weir are arrested and charged with inciting a riot at San Diego Sports Arena to break up a drug bust. |
Movies (1)
| 1958 : Elvis Presley's fourth movie, King Creole, opens while The King is serving in the Army. Elvis gets surprisingly good reviews for his acting. |
Releases (1)
TV, Radio, Press (2)
| 1955 : The Lawrence Welk Show premieres on ABC-TV. |
| 1967 : Rick Nelson stars in the short-lived (it lasts three months) TV series, Malibu U on ABC. |
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