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In Music History
1955 Reggie Calloway (of the R&B duo Calloway) is born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1954 Richard Finch (composer and former bass guitarist for KC & The Sunshine Band) is born in Indianapolis, Indiana, but is raised in Hialeah, Florida.
1953 Robin Zander (lead singer of Cheap Trick) is born in Beloit, Wisconsin.
1950 Danny Federici (organist, accordionist for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band) is born in Flemington, New Jersey.
1950 Bill Cunningham (original bass guitarist/keyboardist for The Box Tops) is born in Memphis, Tennessee.
1948 Anita Pointer (of The Pointer Sisters) is born in Oakland, California.
1940 Pop singer Joe Dowell is born in Bloomington, Indiana, but grows up in Bloomington, Illinois.
1938 Eugene Church (lead singer of the Fellows) is born in St. Louis, Missouri. Known for the 1958 R&B hit "Pretty Girls Everywhere."
1910 Jazz guitarist Jean "Django" Reinhardt is born in Belgium.
Rock Hall Inducts First Class
1986The first inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame include Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and Fats Domino.
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1998 The Spice Girls movie Spice World hits theaters in America.More
1988 At age 16, Tiffany becomes the youngest female singer with a #1 album in the US when her self-titled debut tops the chart.
1984 Boy George and Annie Lennox appear on the cover of Newsweek under the headline, "Britain Rocks America - Again."More
1977 Carole King's Tapestry sets a new record: 302 weeks on the Billboard albums chart.
1966 Police arrest Jim Morrison for kissing a young woman, but the charges are really just a way for them to get to the bottom of a suspected murder that supposedly occurred weeks before.More
1965 Petula Clark's "Downtown" climbs to #1 on the Hot 100, making her the first UK female singer to reach the summit on the US singles chart since Vera Lynn in 1952.
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