1960 Eddie Cochran is laid to rest at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Cypress, California, six days after his untimely death in a car accident.
1960 Thrash metal singer Paul Baloff (of Exodus) is born in San Francisco, California.
1960 Elvis Presley scores his first #1 of the '60s (and 13th of his career) when "Stuck on You" hits the top spot in America.
1955 The UN's commission on narcotics releases a report stating "definite connection between increased marijuana smoking and that form of entertainment known as bebop and rebop."
1955 David Sikes (bass player for Boston, Giuffria) is born near Cambridge, England, but will be raised in California.
1950 Steve Ferrone (drummer for Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, The Average White Band) is born in Brighton, England.
1949 Baroque pop keyboardist Michael Brown (of The Left Banke) is born Michael David Lookofsky in New York to jazz violinist Harry Lookofsky.
1946 Ronnie Gilbert (bass guitarist for Blues Magoos) is born.
1945 Stu Cook (bass guitarist for Creedence Clearwater Revival) is born in Oakland, California.
1945 Bjorn Ulvaeus (of ABBA) is born in Gothenburg, Sweden.
1944 Michael Kogel (lead singer of Los Bravos) is born in Berlin, Germany.
1932 Jazz tenor saxophonist Willis "Gator" Jackson is born in Miami, Florida.
1923 Lyricist Jerry Leiber, who will go on to pen several Elvis Presley hits with composing partner Mike Stoller, is born in Baltimore, Maryland.
1923 Blues guitarist Albert King is born on a cotton plantation in Indianola, Mississippi.
A jury rules that Michael Bolton's 1991 hit "Love Is a Wonderful Thing" plagiarizes The Isley Brothers 1966 song of the same name and awards $5.4 million in damages, the largest ever in a music plagiarism case.
Read more2006 Bruce Springsteen releases We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, a collection of songs popularized by Pete Seeger. The album brings Seeger into the spotlight, drawing attention to his work as a musicologist and scion of folk music. "I've managed to survive all these years by keeping a low profile," Seeger says. "Now my cover's blown."
2002 30-year-old Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes (of TLC) dies in a car accident in La Ceiba, Honduras, after swerving to avoid an oncoming vehicle and losing control. The only passenger fatally injured, she's thrown from the car and dies instantly.
1999 It's Joe DiMaggio Day at Yankee Stadium, where Paul Simon performs "Mrs. Robinson," which contains the classic line, "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?"
1992 "Jump" by Kris Kross hits #1 in the US, where it stays for eight weeks. Kris Kross is the rap duo of Chris Kelly and Chris Smith, who are both 13. The track is produced by Jermaine Dupri, who goes on to supply beats for another youngster: Lil Bow Wow.
1987 U2's fifth album, The Joshua Tree, hits #1 in America, giving the band their rock star bona fides in that country (they've been huge in their native Ireland for years). It holds the top spot for an impressive nine weeks, finally dethroned by Whitney Houston's Whitney.
1970 The Jackson 5 bump The Beatles ("Let It Be") off the top spot in America with "ABC."
1917 Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald is born in Newport News, Virginia.
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