1956 Billboard makes their periodic albums chart a weekly feature, with Belafonte by Harry Belafonte. at #1 The chart lists anywhere from 15-30 spots, but is gradually expanded, and in 1967 it grows to 200. The chart goes through several name changes before settling on The Billboard 200 in 1992.
1951 Dougie Thomson (bassist for Supertramp) is born in Glasgow, Scotland.
1949 Nick Lowe is born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England.
1948 Lee Oskar (harmonica player for War) is born in Copenhagen, Denmark.
1947 Mike Kellie (drummer for Spooky Tooth) is born in Birmingham, England.
1946 Colin Petersen (drummer for The Bee Gees) is born in Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia.
1945 Billboard publishes its first albums chart, with just 10 positions. The first #1 is Nat King Cole's A Collection Of Favorites. The chart is published irregularly until 1956, when it becomes a weekly feature.
1937 Soul musician Billy Stewart is born in Washington, D.C.
1922 Dave Appell (leader of The Applejacks) is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1916 After a German U-boat torpedoes the SS Sussex, a passenger ferry crossing the English Channel, Spanish composer Enrique Granados drowns while attempting to rescue his wife.
1912 Novelty singer Nervous Norvus (Jim Drake) is born in Memphis. He has a hit with "Transfusion" in 1956.
1786 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491. Beethoven hears the work in rehearsal and remarks in admiration to a colleague that "[we] shall never be able to do anything like that."
1721 Johann Sebastian Bach dedicates his Brandenburg Concertos to Christian Ludwig, the margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt. Bach wrote the pieces for the margrave to gain extra support for his work.
Elvis Presley goes to the Memphis Draft Board and enters the United States Army.
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2000 Jack and Meg White of The White Stripes get divorced three months before releasing their second album, De Stijl. Despite the split, their musical partnership continues until 2011.
1979 Disco is still going strong as the Bee Gees' "Tragedy" hits #1 in the US.
1973 A fan shouting "Leather!" jumps on stage and bites Lou Reed in the butt during a concert in Buffalo. The fan is ejected and Reed is left with a sore posterior.
1972 The Godfather opens in theaters. Musically significant because the character Johnny Fontane is supposedly based on Frank Sinatra, and because "Godfather of..." becomes a common musical honorific.More
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