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1926 Jazz trombonist Urbie Green is born in Mobile, Alabama.

1923 Blues singer Jimmy Witherspoon is born in Gurdon, Arkansas.

1923 A fourteen-year-old clarinet player named Benny Goodman lands his first professional gig, playing for a cruise ship operating on Lake Michigan near Chicago.

1921 Country singer Webb Pierce is born in West Monroe, Louisiana. Known for the popular 1955 cover "In the Jailhouse Now."

1907 Jazz musician Benny Carter is born in Harlem, New York.

1857 Composer/pianist Cécile Chaminade is born in Paris, France.

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Beatles Cross Abbey Road, Creating World's Most Famous Crosswalk

1969

The Beatles shoot the photo for their Abbey Road album cover at the crosswalk outside Abbey Road studios, where they are recording. Fans find many nested clues in the shot of the four band members walking in stride across the street, fuelling rumors that Paul McCartney is dead.

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