1866 - Composer Erik Alfred-Leslie Satie was born. 

1923 - Composer Peter Mennin was born. 

1933 - Jimmie Rodgers began recording a series of 24 songs. He died nine days later at the age of 35. 

1958 - "Jerry Lee Lewis Day" was held in his hometown of Farriday, LA. 


1963 - Joan Baez headlined the first Monterey Folk Festival in California. 

1967 - "Don't Look Back", a documentary on Bob Dylan's 1965 British tour, premiered in San Francisco, CA. 

1971 - The musical "Godspell" opened in New York City and ran for 2,124 performances. 

1975 - Mick Jaggar (Rolling Stones) put his hand through a window at Gorman's restaurant on Long Island. 


1975 - Elton John’s "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy" album was released. It was the first album to be certified amillion-seller on its first day of release. 

1978 - The movie "Thank God It's Friday" premiered in Los Angeles. 

1980 - Peter Criss left KISS to pursue a solo career. 

1993 - Barry Manilow appeared on the CBS-TV's "Murphy Brown." 

1995 - Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Fats Domino appeared together for the first time in Sheffield, London. 

1999 - No Doubt sued the clothing manufacturer No Fear with the claim that the companies clothing items that had the "No Doubt" name on them infringe on the bands copyrighted service mark. 

2000 - The Eagles filed suit against the "Hotel California" restaurant in Dallas, TX, alleging trademark violations. 

1929 - Paul Whiteman and his orchestra backed Bing Crosby recorded "Sposin’." 

1946 - The Irving Berlin musical, "Annie Get Your Gun," opened at New York’s Imperial Theatre for the first of 1,147 performances. 

1965 - The Rolling Stones appeared with Chuck Berry on the television show "Hollywood A-GO-GO." 


1965 - The Beach Boys appeared on the "The Ed Sullivan Show" and performed "Help Me Rhonda." 

1966 - The Beach Boys album "Pet Sounds" was released. 

1968 - Tony Joe White recorded "Polk Salad Annie." 

1969 - Jack Cassady (Jefferson Airplane) was arrested for possession of marijuana at the Royal Orleans Hotel in New Orleans. 

1969 - Pete Townsend (Who) was arrested onstage after mistakenly kicking a New York police officer. 

1970 - Randy Bachman left the Guess Who. 

1970 - Marty Balin (Jefferson Airplane) was arrested for marijuana possession and for contributing to the deliquency of minors in Bloomington, MN. 

1980 - Dr. George C. Nichopoulous was indicted in Memphis on 14 counts of overprescribing drugs to Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and nine other patients. 

1981 - Martin Chambers (Pretenders) married Tracy Atkinson. 

1983 - The television special "Motown 25: Yesterday, Today and Forever" aired. It was a taping of the first time that Michael Jackson performed the moonwalk for a live audience. 


1984 - Prince's "When Doves Cry" was released. 

1986 - Caitlin O'Riordan (Pogues) and Elvis Costello were married. 

1991 - Ray Charles was inducted into the Atlanta Celebrity Walk. 

1992 - Weird Al Yankovic's "Smell Like Nirvana" hit #35 in the U.S. 

1998 - Keith Richards (Rolling Stones) fell off a chair while reaching for a book in his Connecticut home and injured his chest and ribs. A few concert dates were cancelled. 


1999 - Paul Brandt and Claudia Church leave for Bosnia to entertain U.S. troops there. 

2000 - The Artist announced that he was reclaiming the name "Prince" since his contract with Warner-Chappell had expired. The contract officially ended on December 31, 1999. 

2000 - The "What My Heart Has Seen" exhibition opened at the Catto Gallery in London. The art is the work of Tony Bennett. 

2000 - The Britney Spears album "Oops!..I Did It Again" was released. 

1813 - Composer Stephen Heller was born. 

1567 - Composer Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi was born. 

1938 - Guy Lombardo and his orchestra recorded "Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride." 

1957 - Elvis Presley inhaled a cap on one of his teeth. He had to be taken to a Los Angeles hospital to have it removed from his lung.


1970 - "Close to You," the Carpenter’s second album, was released. 

1971 - Two short films by John Lennon were shown at the Cannes Film Festival in France. 


1974 - Bill Wyman (Rolling Stones) released his first solo album, "Monkey Grip." It was the first solo effort by a member of the Rolling Stones. 


1984 - Nils Lofgren replaced "Miami" Steve Van Zandt in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. 


1985 - Prince released the single "Raspberry Beret." 

1994 - Sting and Nancy Wilson received honorary doctorates from the Berklee College of Music in Boston. 

1995 - Scott Weiland (Stone Temple Pilots) was arrested for trying to buy drugs in a motel parking lot in Pasadena, CA. 

1998 - Sony and Cher received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 

2009 - Eminem released his 5th studio album "Relapse."