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1944 Mike Curb, founder of Curb Records and head of the Mike Curb Congregation, is born in Savannah, Georgia.
1926 Lee Dorsey, known for his 1961 hit "Ya Ya," is born Irving Lee Dorsey in New Orleans, Louisiana. He befriends future rock and roll legend Fats Domino before moving to Portland, Oregon, at age 10.
1871 Verdi's opera Aida, set in Egypt, debuts at the Khedivial Opera House in Cairo.
"Silent Night" Debuts In Austria
1818A church choir in Austria introduces a new Christmas song for their Midnight Mass: "Stille Nacht!" better known as "Silent Night."
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1988 Hair metal reaches its apogee as Poison's power ballad "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" hits #1 in the US. It stays for three weeks.More
1987 Roger Waters cuts a deal with his former Pink Floyd bandmates, ending a long legal standoff over whether or not the band can continue without him. David Gilmour and Nick Mason are allowed to use the name Pink Floyd, but Waters gets the copyright on The Wall concept. Gilmour and Mason have already released the album A Momentary Lapse of Reason as Pink Floyd.
1978 Björn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Fältskog of ABBA announce they are separating and getting a divorce.
1971 Ricky Martin is born Enrique Martin Morales in San Juan, Puerto Rico.More
1945 Lemmy (lead singer for Motörhead) is born Ian Fraser Kilmister in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. He would earn the nickname Lemmy from his classmates.
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