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1962 Craig Reid & Charlie Reid (of The Proclaimers) are born in Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland.

1960 Elvis Presley is officially discharged from active duty in the US Army. He will be on reserve for 4 more years.

1958 Andy Gibb is born in Manchester, England, but is raised in Redcliffe, Australia. His older brothers, Barry, Robin, and Maurice, form the Bee Gees.

1956 Teena Marie is born Mary Christine Brockert in Santa Monica, California.

1955 Elvis Presley makes yet another appearance on the Shreveport radio show Louisiana Hayride, which is this time also carried over the TV airwaves by local station KWKH, making this Presley's first television appearance.

1952 Alan Clark (keyboardist for Dire Straits) is born in Great Lumley, England.

1951 Rock guitar distortion is invented when Willie Kizart plays "Rocket 88" using an amp that was damaged when it fell out of the van transporting him and the other members of Ike Turner's band to their recording session in Memphis.

1948 "Electric Avenue" singer Eddy Grant, founder of the UK pop group The Equals, is born in Plaisance, British Guiana.

1947 Child star Eddie Hodges, who introduces the song "Gary, Indiana" in the Broadway musical The Music Man and stars opposite Frank Sinatra in the 1959 film A Hole In The Head, is born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

1946 English performer Murray Head is born in London.

1938 Paul Evans is born in Queens, New York.

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America Meets the Osbournes

2002

MTV launches its new reality television show, The Osbournes, which chronicles the domestic life of heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne and his family. In its first season, it becomes the most-viewed series on MTV.

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