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23 DECEMBER

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1999 Cristin Keleher, an unemployed musician in Hawaii, breaks into George Harrison's Maui home and makes herself at home, ordering pizza, drinking root beer, doing laundry, and calling her mother before authorities arrive to arrest her. She is eventually charged with breaking and entering and theft, and serves four months. "I thought I had a psychic connection with George," she says.

1996 Two weeks after his divorce from Playboy Playmate Brandi Brandt is finalized, Mötley Crüe bass player Nikki Sixx marries Baywatch star Donna D'Errico.

1964 Eddie Vedder is born Edward Severson III in Evanston, Illinois (Vedder is his mom's maiden name). He gets the gig fronting Pearl Jam by writing lyrics and singing on an instrumental demo tape his soon-to-be bandmates compiled. Those three songs make it to their debut album, Ten, and one of them, "Alive," becomes one of their best-known songs.

1964 After appearing on the TV show Shindig! where they perform their Christmas hit "Little Saint Nick," The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson has a nervous breakdown on a flight to Houston, where they begin a two-week tour. Wilson decides to stop performing, and Glen Campbell replaces him on the tour.

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