22 July

Pick a Day

22 JULY

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2021 Megan Thee Stallion is one of three cover models on the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, along with Naomi Osaka and Leyna Bloom. SI puts singers on the cover the next two years: Ciara in 2022 and Kim Petras in 2023.

2014 Weezer release "Back to the Shack," the lead single from Everything Will Be Alright in the End.

2010 Electric blues guitarist Phillip Walker, known for his 1959 hit single "Hello My Darling," dies of heart failure at age 73.

2009 At Trae Day, an event commemorating the second anniversary of the day Houston rapper Trae was presented with a proclamation by the city of Houston, and featuring performances by Rick Ross, Trae, Rich Boy, Rocko, GS Boyson, six people get shot on the campus of Texas Southern University as a gang-related shooting starts raining in the parking lot, leading to a stampede of people who are mostly running for safety.

2008 Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor foots the bill for the band's seventh studio album, The Slip, which is released digitally on their website for free with the tag, "This one's on me." Fans wanting a physical copy, however, will have to shell out their money for a limited-edition two months later. (NIN also did this four months earlier with the free digital release of Ghosts I-IV, an album made up of almost entirely instrumental, unnamed tracks).

2005 Eugene Record (lead singer of Chi-Lites) dies of cancer at age 64.

2002 Jazz singer Marion Montgomery dies of lung cancer at age 67. A non-smoker, the "Maybe the Morning" singer blamed her illness on the second-hand smoke she regularly ingested while working in nightclubs.

1996 Donovan has to cancel a North American tour when he is denied entry to the US because of a 1966 marijuana possession conviction.

1987 Morris Albert is found guilty of plagiarizing the 1956 French composition "Pour Toi" on his hit "Feelings." Louis Gasté, the composer of "Pour Toi," is added to the writers credit.

1977 Shaken by the deaths of his sister Rhonda and good friend Freddie Prinze, Tony Orlando says on stage at a show in Cohasset, Massachusetts, "This is my last day as a performer." He spends some time recovering, and returns to the stage in November.

1973 Larry Finnegan dies of a brain tumor at age 34. Known for the 1962 hit "Dear One."

1973 Daniel Jones (instrumentalist of Savage Garden) is born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England, but will be raised in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

1972 The Who release "Join Together."

1971 The Doors' L.A. Woman album is certified Gold.

1969 Aretha Franklin, struggling with the breakup of her marriage, is arrested for causing a disturbance in an incident at a Detroit parking lot.

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Little Richard Comes Out With Famous Quote

1979

Little Richard, who has been preaching of his salvation throughout the United States, makes his famous statement, "If God can save an old homosexual like me, he can save anybody."

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