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Births
1949 : Billy Joel is born in Hicksville, New York.
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Awards and Honors (1)
| 1967 : "Damita Jo Day" is held in her home town on Austin, TX. |
Births (20)
Charts (2)
Concerts and Festivals (5)
| 1958 : The influential DJ Alan Freed starts a package tour featuring Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers and Screamin' Jay Hawkins. |
| 1959 : Wayne Newton, then 16 years old, makes his Vegas debut at the Freemont Hotel. He would quickly become a Vegas Star and a regular on the Strip. |
| 1964 : Chuck Berry makes his UK stage debut at London's Astoria Theatre, with The Animals, Nashville Teens, and The Swinging Blue Jeans opening for him. |
| 1974 : Bruce Springsteen gets a huge career boost when he opens for Bonnie Raitt at her Boston Arena show. Playing his full two-hour set at Raitt's insistence (rare for an opening act), Bruce is so impressive that Rolling Stone's Jon Landau writes in Boston's The Real Paper, "I saw rock and roll future, and its name is Bruce Springsteen. And on a night when I needed to feel young, he made me feel like I was hearing music for the very first time." Landau went on to become Springsteen's manager and producer. |
| 1998 : Brian Wilson plays his first ever solo concert (no Beach Boys) at a show in St. Charles, Illinois. |
Deaths (4)
| 1707 : Dietrich Buxtehude |
| 1968 : George Dewey Hay |
| 1979 : Eddie Jefferson |
| 1998 : Lester Butler |
Innovations (1)
| 2005 : The music video for Stevie Wonder’s "So What The Fuss" is issued with a descriptive audio track by Busta Rhymes for the visually-impaired. |
Marriages and Breakups (1)
| 2005 : Kenny Chesney and Renee Zellweger get married. The union last just 4 months, but provides inspiration for Chesney's song I'm Alive. |
Miscellaneous (2)
| 1963 : The Rolling Stones sign their first management contract with Andrew Loog Oldham's management company Impact, agreeing to license their UK output to Decca. |
| 2006 : Britney Spears confirms that she and her husband, rapper and dancer Kevin Federline, are expecting their second child together. |
Recordings (2)
| 1939 : Glenn Miller, "Stairway To The Stars" |
| 1966 : The Beatles, For No One |
TV, Radio, Press (2)
| 1992 : Bruce Springsteen performs live on network TV for the first time when he's the musical guest on Saturday Night Live, hosted that week by Joe Pesci. |
| 2010 : Cyndi Lauper is the ninth contestant booted off season 9 of The Celebrity Apprentice. |
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