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In Music History
1941 Herman Santiago (of Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers) is born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and raised in Manhattan, New York.
1938 Bob Hope's film The Big Broadcast of 1938 debuts in New York. The film introduces Hope's signature song, "Thanks For The Memory."
1934 Rock guitarist Clyde "Skip" Battin (of Skip and Flip) is born in Gallipolis, Ohio.
1927 The "first great voice of the air," Jessica Dragonette, makes her radio debut on Cities Service Concerts.
1914 Country singer Pee Wee King, co-writer of "Tennessee Waltz," is born Julius Frank Anthony Kuczynski in Abrams, Wisconsin.
Rolling Stones Rock 1.5 Million In Rio
2006A week before Carnival, the Rolling Stones play a free concert to an estimated 1.5 million people at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro.
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1974 Kiss release their debut, self-titled album, featuring "Strutter" and "Cold Gin."
1965 Dr. Dre is born Andre Romelle Young in Compton, California. He becomes a member of the controversial rap group N.W.A. and co-founds the hot LA rap label Death Row Records, which boasts Tupac Shakur as its star artist.
1954 John Travolta is born in Englewood, New Jersey.More
1947 Styx founder Dennis DeYoung is born in Chicago, where his neighbors are future bandmates Chuck and John Panozzo.
1933 Yoko Ono is born in Tokyo, Japan. She becomes an artist in New York City's downtown scene and meets future husband John Lennon at one of her exhibits in the mid-'60s.
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