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1973 Rapper Nas is born Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York.

1973 Donny Osmond's "The Twelfth Of Never" is certified Gold.

1970 Stevie Wonder marries his first wife, the Motown demo singer and songwriter Syreeta Wright (their collaborations include Stevie's "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" and The Spinners' "It's A Shame"). They divorce in 1972.

1970 Craig Montoya (bassist for Everclear) is born in Spokane, Washington.

1969 Genesis take the stage for the first time, playing at the cottage owned by leader Peter Gabriel's former Sunday School teacher.

1968 Roy Orbison loses two of his three sons - Roy Jr. (age 10) and Tony (age 6) - when his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee, burns down. Orbison was on tour in Europe at the time.

1968 Rolling Stone reports that The Who's Pete Townshend is working on a "rock opera" about a boy who is deaf, dumb, and blind. This ends up being their album Tommy.

1968 The Archies Saturday morning cartoon TV show debuts.

1967 The Rolling Stones part ways with their longtime manager Andrew Loog Oldham. The group assumes management duties themselves.

1964 The Bing Crosby Show sitcom, starring the title singer, premieres on ABC (it lasts one season).

1963 Pete Seeger, who has been blacklisted from network TV after being found in contempt by the the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1955, agrees to appear on the ABC variety show Hootenanny but refuses when the network asks him to sign a loyalty oath.

1959 Morten Harket, lead singer of the synthpop group a-ha, is born in Kongsberg, Norway.

1955 Little Richard records "Tutti Frutti" in New Orleans for Specialty Records. Originally "Tutti Frutti, Good Booty," a female lyricist at the label rewrites it to take out the prurient references.

1955 Keyboardist/saxophonist Steve Berlin (of Los Lobos) is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1954 Barry Cowsill (drummer, then bassist for The Cowsills) is born in Newport, Rhode Island.

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Madonna Steals The Show At The First MTV Video Music Awards

1984

At the very first MTV Video Music Awards, Madonna performs "Like A Virgin" in a white wedding gown accessorized by her famous "Boy Toy" belt.

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