1986 Pat Boone appears on the "Beach Blanket Bounty" episode of the NBC show The Fall Guy.
1986 Charlotte Church is born in Cardiff, Wales.
1983 Rick Wakeman of Yes has his first child, a daughter named Jemma. The mother is Wakeman's girlfriend, Nina Carter.
1983 Performing in Cleveland on the ninth date of a 48-date US tour, Adam Ant collapses on stage with torn cartilage in his knee; he returns after being seen by a doctor and finishes on one leg.
1982 Murray The K dies at age 60. As a disc jockey in New York City, he held showcase concerts featuring many top acts - Stevie Wonder, The Lovin' Spoonful and The Supremes were just a few of the artists to play his revues. He also was an early champion of The Beatles, hyping the band when they came to America and calling himself "The Fifth Beatle."
1981 The Australian composer Ron Grainer, best known for writing the "Doctor Who Theme," dies at age 58.
1980 Janet Vogel of The Skyliners ("Since I Don't Have You") commits suicide at age 37.
1977 Neil Diamond plays a televised concert at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles. The show is released as the live album Love At The Greek.
1976 The Four Seasons hit #1 in the UK with "December 1963 (Oh What a Night)." It's the only UK #1 for the group, who also topped the American charts with the song, where it was their fifth #1.
1974 Kool and the Gang's "Jungle Boogie" is certified Gold.
1970 Sublime bass player Eric Wilson is born in Long Beach, California.
1964 The Rolling Stones release their first single in America, a cover of the Buddy Holly song "Not Fade Away."
1963 General Public/The English Beat toaster Ranking Roger (real name: Roger Charlery) is born in Birmingham, England.
1962 Mudhoney singer/guitarist Mark Arm is born Mark McLaughlin, at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in Lompoc, California.
1958 Gibson's "Flying V" guitar goes on the market, retailing for $247.50. Early adopters include Lonnie Mack and Albert King.
Johnny Cash gets out of the hospital, where he is treated for pneumonia, and makes it to the Grammy Awards that night, where he wins for Best Male Vocal Country Performance for "Solitary Man" - his 10th Grammy.
Read more1995 Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band perform live together for the first time in seven years, playing the new song "Murder Incorporated" at a club in New York City.
1987 Twenty-six years after becoming a hit in America, Ben E. King's "Stand By Me" goes to #1 in the UK following its release in the movie of the same name.
1984 Bill Wyman of The Rolling Stones meets 13-year-old Mandy Smith at the Lyceum in London. They get married five years later, when he is 52 and she is 18.
1981 REO Speedwagon's ninth album, Hi Infidelity, goes to #1 in America, displacing John Lennon's Double Fantasy.More
1977 At a concert stop at the Nassau Coliseum, every member of Kiss has some blood drawn. It's not for the Red Cross: the blood will be mixed with ink used to print the first Kiss comic book, which appears in June. The process from bloodletting to print is notarized for authenticity.
1970 The Jackson 5 perform their #1 hit "I Want You Back" and their new single, "ABC," on American Bandstand. It's their first appearance on the show; frontman Michael tells host Dick Clark he likes the weather in Los Angeles (it's much warmer than their hometown of Gary, Indiana) and digs The Beatles.
1933 Nina Simone is born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina, where she begins playing the piano at age 3.
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