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Charts
1985 : When Part Time Lover tops the charts, Stevie Wonder becomes the artist with the longest time between #1 hits at 22 years (The Beach Boys would later break it with Kokomo). This song also sets a record by going to #1 on four different Billboard charts. |
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Awards and Honors (5)
| 1964 : Brenda Lee gives a Royal Command Performance for Queen Elizabeth II in London, along with Cliff Richard and Cilla Black. |
| 1968 : Cream is presented with a platinum album for Wheels Of Fire at the Madison Square Garden stop of their farewell tour. |
| 2001 : With three awards each, Gorillaz's Clint Eastwood and Fatboy Slim's Weapon Of Choice are the big winners of the 2001 Billboard Music Video Awards. |
| 2006 : Justin Timberlake and Gnarls Barkley each win several trophies at the 13th annual MTV Europe Music Awards, held in Copenhagen. Timberlake, who also serves as host and performer at the event, wins for best male and best pop. Gnarls Barkley wins best song for their international smash Crazy. |
| 2006 : Surprising no one, Shakira is the big winner at the seventh annual Latin Grammy Awards, taking home four statues during the ceremony at Madison Square Garden. The Colombian pop star wins song and record of the year awards for La Tortura, a duet with Spaniard Alejandro Sanz. She also receives trophies for female pop vocal album and album of the year for her Spanish-language Fijacion Oral, Vol. 1. |
Births (16)
Charts (9)
| 1955 : Tennessee Ernie Ford's Sixteen Tons enters the charts |
| 1955 : Julie London's "Cry Me A River" enters the charts |
| 1963 : Peter, Paul and Mary's LP In The Wind hits #1 |
| 1971 : No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves by Cher |
| 1974 : Stevie Wonder's You Haven't Done Nothin' hits #1 |
| 1974 : Three Dog Night's "Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues)" enters the charts |
| 1974 : Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's LP So Far hits #1 |
| 1981 : No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: Private Eyes by Hall & Oates |
| 1985 : When Part Time Lover tops the charts, Stevie Wonder becomes the artist with the longest time between #1 hits at 22 years (The Beach Boys would later break it with Kokomo). This song also sets a record by going to #1 on four different Billboard charts. |
Concerts and Festivals (3)
| 1974 : George Harrison begins the first-ever solo tour by a Beatle when he performs the first night of his "Dark Horse" tour in Vancouver, BC. The tour, which is plagued by Harrison's laryngitis, is a disaster. |
| 2005 : Depeche Mode cancels its planned North American tour opener at Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.'s BankAtlantic Center due to power outages and curfew limitations in the area stemming from Hurricane Wilma. |
| 2007 : Led Zeppelin's latest reunion concert is postponed when guitarist Jimmy Page breaks his pinky finger. |
Deaths (5)
| 1887 : Jenny Lind |
| 1966 : Mississippi John Hurt |
| 1986 : Desi Arnaz |
| 1991 : Mort Shuman dies of cancer. |
| 2001 : Buddy Starcher |
Debuts (2)
| 1936 : Adele Dixon sings "Television" on the first ever broadcast of the BBC entertainment programme, Variety. |
| 1978 : David Cassidy's infamous flop cop TV drama David Cassidy: Man Undercover debuts on NBC, the first of only ten episodes. |
Health Issues (1)
| 1994 : Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's David Crosby is hospitalized after suffering liver failure; he's fortunate enough to find a donor for a transplant. |
Incidents (1)
| 1956 : A riot breaks out at Fats Domino's show in Fayetteville, NC, with police resorting to tear gas to break up the unruly crowd. Fats jumps out of a window to avoid the melee; he and two other band members are slightly injured. |
Innovations (1)
| 1920 : KDKA in Pittsburgh becomes the first commercially licensed radio station in the United States. They are not the first station on the air, but the first to get the broadcast license. With consumers unsure of the benefits of radio, the station announces results of the Harding-Cox presidential election, getting the news to those with a radio much faster than everyone who had to wait for the morning paper. |
Legal Issues (3)
| 1984 : Marvin Gay Sr., father of singer Marvin Gaye (who added the e when he joined Motown) is found guilty of manslaughter in the shooting death of his son, but courts rule the action was taken in self-defense, and the elder Gay is given five years' probation. |
| 1994 : Ruth Tyrangiel, former girlfriend of Bob Dylan, sues for $5 million palimony, claiming the singer reneged on his promise to marry her after she helped with his business affairs and also with his songwriting. |
| 2000 : Whitney Houston's lawyers appear on her behalf in a Kona, Hawaii, courtroom to defend her in a marijuana possession case that stems from a January, 2000, incident at Keahole-Kona International Airport in Hawaii. It is decided that the case will be dismissed in three months if Houston stays out of trouble until then. |
Miscellaneous (1)
| 1998 : Atlantic Records launches an online music video service, Instavid. The channel, located at www.atlantic-records.com, utilizes RealNetworks RealSystem G2 technology to present clips, which are synchronized with links to artist sites and retailer Total E. |
Movies (3)
| 1962 : Elvis Presley film Girls! Girls! Girls! premieres. |
| 1969 : The Rolling Stones quasi-documentary Sympathy For The Devil, directed by Jean-Luc Godard, premieres in San Francisco. |
| 1979 : The Who's musical film Quadrophenia, featuring a small part played by Sting, opens in US theaters. |
Recordings (2)
| 1967 : The Beatles, Hello Goodbye |
| 1973 : Bob Dylan, "Never Say Goodbye" |
Releases (6)
| 1963 : The Beach Boys, "Be True To Your School" |
| 1968 : Stevie Wonder, For Once In My Life |
| 1971 : Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Volume 2 |
| 1973 : Ringo Starr, Ringo |
| 1982 : Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five release the early rap classic "The Message." |
| 2004 : The Rolling Stones, Live Licks |
TV, Radio, Press (7)
| 1963 : Dion performs "Donna The Prima Donna" on the British TV show Ready Steady Go!, but gets irritated when audience members dance around him. He walk out on the show even though he is slated for another song. |
| 1963 : Reviewing The Beatles' concert the night before in Cheltenham, England, the British paper Daily Mirror uses the headline "Beatlemania!" effectively inserting the phrase into the popular consciousness for the first time. |
| 1966 : Paul Revere and the Raiders appear on tonight's "Dizzoner the Penguin" episode of ABC-TV's Batman. |
| 1973 : CBS airs the Barbra Streisand television special Barbra Streisand And Other Musical Instruments, featuring special guest Ray Charles. |
| 1995 : The syndicated R&B dance show Soul Train celebrates its 25th year on the air with guest appearances by Al Green, Diana Ross, Bill Withers, and Patti Labelle. |
| 1998 : President Clinton gives his first in-depth interview since the White House sex scandal to Black Entertainment Television talk show host and political commentator Tavis Smiley on the network's "BET Tonight with Tavis Smiley." |
| 2007 : A right of passage for any up-and-coming British musical act, Laura Marling makes her debut on Later…with Jools Holland, performing the songs “Ghosts” and “New Romantic” before a live studio audience. The former Squeeze founder’s late night music variety show has become an institution in the UK, and many other networks rebroadcast it around the world. |
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