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Marriages and Breakups
1989 : Rolling Stone Bill Wyman secretly marries 19-year-old Mandy Smith - a marriage that would last 17 months. Wyman's 28-year-old son is the best man, and the other four Stones attend. |
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Awards and Honors (1)
| 2006 : Muscle Shoals Sound Studios at 3614 Jackson Highway is added to the National Historic Register. The studio opened in 1969 when the musicians from the nearby FAME studios left to do it themselves. Many famous acts, including Paul Simon, Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Rolling Stones recorded there in the '70s. It switched hands in 1978 and was eventually abandoned, but in 1999 Noel Webster bought it and reopened the studio. |
Band Dynamics (2)
| 1992 : Freedom Williams quits C and C Music Factory. |
| 2002 : S Club 7 member Hannah Spearitt announces she is quitting the group two months after her boyfriend and band member Paul Cattermole had left the group. |
Births (18)
| 1857 : Edward Elgar |
| 1932 : Sammy Turner |
| 1936 : Otis Williams (The Charms) |
| 1937 : Jimmy Jones |
1941 : Charlie Watts, (Charles Robert Watts) in London, England; raised in Islington, London, England.
Drummer
(The Rolling Stones) |
| 1941 : William Guest (Gladys Knight & The Pips) |
| 1944 : Marvin Hamlisch |
| 1950 : Chubby Tavares (Tavares) |
| 1951 : Steve Brookins (.38 Special) |
| 1952 : Pete Farndon (The Pretenders) |
| 1954 : Michael Steele (The Bangles) |
| 1960 : Tony Hadley (Spandau Ballet) |
| 1962 : Thor Eldon Jonsson (The Sugarcubes) |
| 1965 : Jeremy Cunningham (The Levellers) |
| 1970 : B-Real (Cypress Hill) |
| 1970 : Dominic Greensmith (Reef) |
| 1976 : Tim Rice-Oxley (Keane) |
| 1980 : Fabrizio Moreti (The Strokes) |
Charts (12)
| 1954 : No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: Kitty Kallen's Little Things Mean a Lot |
| 1957 : Johnnie Ray's Yes Tonight Josephine hits #1 on the UK singles chart. |
| 1962 : Ray Charles' I Can't Stop Loving You starts a five week run at #1 on the US singles chart. |
| 1966 : Frank Sinatra's Strangers in the Night hits #1 on the UK singles chart. |
| 1973 : Paul McCartney's Red Rose Speedway hits the top of the album chart in the US and My Love starts a four week run as the #1 single on the US chart. |
| 1975 : No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: John Denver's Thank God I’m a Country Boy |
| 1979 : Donna Summer's Hot Stuff starts a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart. |
| 1984 : Wham!'s Wake Me Up Before You Go Go hits #1 on the UK singles chart. |
| 1985 : No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: Tears For Fears' Everybody Wants To Rule The World |
| 1990 : Soul II Soul's Vol. II (A New Decade starts a three week run at #1 on the UK album chart. |
| 2002 : Pop Idol winner Will Young's version of The Doors 1967 classic Light My Fire hits #1 on the UK singles chart. |
| 2002 : Eminem's The Eminem Show hits #1 on both the UK and US album charts. |
Concerts and Festivals (11)
| 1960 : Bobby Darin plays the Copacabana in New York for the first time. |
| 1964 : The first U.S. Rolling Stones concert is held, at the Manning Bowl, a high school in Lynn, Massachusetts. |
| 1966 : The Who kick off a 10-date European tour at the Grona Lund in Stockholm, Sweden. |
| 1972 : Former teen idol Dion performs in a reunion concert with The Belmonts at Madison Square Garden in New York City. |
| 1973 : Electric Light Orchestra begin their first US tour, a 40-date trek in San Diego, CA. |
| 1976 : Paul McCartney and Wings set a new world record when they perform in front of 67,100 fans in Seattle, the largest attendance for an indoor crowd. |
| 1981 : Prince makes his live British debut at The Lyceum Ballroom, London, (he will not play the UK again for five years). |
| 1982 : Haircut 100 kick off an 8-date UK tour at The Manchester Apollo. |
| 1984 : Aerosmith play at the Capitol Theater in Concord, New Hampshire, the first night on their 59 date North American Back In The Saddle Tour. |
| 1993 : Jamiroquai kick off a 13-date UK tour at Royal Holloway College, Egham. |
| 1993 : Aerosmith appear at the Landon Arena in Kansas, the first night on their 169 date Get A Grip world tour. |
Deaths (8)
Incidents (3)
| 1995 : Stone Roses guitarist John Squire smashes his collarbone in a cycling accident causing the band to pull out of major gigs. |
| 2002 : The wedding ring that Paul McCartney had given his fiancée Heather Mills ends up thrown out of the window of the hotel where the couple is staying in Miami. Hotel staff use metal detectors to find the $25,000 ring the next day. Despite the quarrel, Paul and Heather go ahead with the wedding. |
| 2003 : A painting of Kylie Minogue wearing gold hot pants causes tempers to fray among drivers in Brighton. Artist Simon Etheridge, put up the almost life-size picture in his own Art Asylum gallery, as part of a Festival and since then motorists had caused regular traffic hold-ups as they stopped to take a second look. |
Legal Issues (1)
| 1992 : Freedom Williams quits C and C Music Factory and files a $10 million fraud and breach of contract suit in New York against the group. |
Marriages and Breakups (1)
| 1989 : Rolling Stone Bill Wyman secretly marries 19-year-old Mandy Smith - a marriage that would last 17 months. Wyman's 28-year-old son is the best man, and the other four Stones attend. |
Miscellaneous (3)
| 1953 : Elvis Presley leaves IC Humes High School in Memphis, TN. |
| 1958 : Barry Sadler joins the U.S. Air Force (he's later a Green Beret in the U.S. Army). |
| 1999 : Backstreet Boys surpass Garth Brooks’ first-week sales record of 1.08 million, when Millennium sells over 1.13 million in its first week. |
Movies (1)
| 1964 : Production begins on the movie, Ferry Cross The Mersey, starring Gerry & the Pacemakers and Cilla Black. |
Releases (2)
| 1962 : Owen Gray, Twist Baby |
| 1966 : The Rolling Stones, Aftermath |
TV, Radio, Press (2)
| 1958 : Alan Freed, who popularized R&B music by playing it for a white audience, moves from WINS in New York to WABC. Freed put on a lot of concerts featuring the artists he played, and WINS had suspended him over a show in Boston where a riot broke out. |
| 1964 : The Rolling Stones make their American TV debut on the Les Crane Show on WABC-TV in New York City. |
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