| 82 | years ago | 1944 | Former Supreme Mary Wilson is born. |
| 79 | years ago | 1947 | David Gilmour, guitar player for Pink Floyd, is born. |
| 69 | years ago | 1957 | The doo-wop quartet the Diamonds make their pop chart debut with Little Darlin', their biggest hit. It reaches #2 on the pop chart and #3 R&B. |
| 60 | years ago | 1966 | Beatles fans in the U.K. give British Prime minister Harold Wilson a petition with 5,000 signatures asking that Liverpool's Cavern Club be reopened. |
| 56 | years ago | 1970 | The Beatles' album Hey Jude goes gold. On the same day, Charles Manson releases an album, Lie, to finance his defense in the Tate-LeBianca murder case. The album cover is a mock-up of the Life magazine cover photo of Manson, with the “F” taken out of Life. The album features Look At Your Game Girl, a song later covered by Guns N' Roses. |
| 53 | years ago | 1973 | John Lennon's visa extension is canceled by the New York Office of the Immigration Department, five days after it was granted. |
| 53 | years ago | 1973 | The group War, out from under the shadow of former leader Eric Burdon, receives its second gold single of the week for Cisco Kid, four days after The World is a Ghetto did likewise. |
| 51 | years ago | 1975 | Led Zeppelin is awarded a gold record for Physical Graffiti. |
| 51 | years ago | 1975 | The Average White Band, all-white Scots playing black-sounding funk music, earns its first gold record for the instrumental Pick Up the Pieces, which hits #1 on the pop chart last month. |
| 50 | years ago | 1976 | Fleetwood Mac's Rhiannon is released. |
| 50 | years ago | 1976 | Britain's EMI Records re-releases all 22 British Beatles singles and adds a bonus when it also puts out Yesterday, never before a 45 in the U.K. All 23 records hit the chart at the same time. |
| 44 | years ago | 1982 | Billboard points out that Dick Clark has donated the podium he stood behind on the original American Bandstand to the national museum at the Smithsonian. |
| 44 | years ago | 1982 | The Go-Go's debut LP, Beauty and the Beast, released last July, starts a seven-week run at #1. |
| 44 | years ago | 1982 | Willie Nelson's Always on my Mind enters the pop chart at #88. The original was recorded in 1972 by Elvis Presley. Nelson's version will reach #1 on the country chart and win a Grammy for Song of the Year. |
| 37 | years ago | 1989 | Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler and wife Theresa become parents to daughter Chelsea Anna. |
| 37 | years ago | 1989 | Smokey Robinson's autobiography Inside My Life is released. |
| 22 | years ago | 2004 | David Crosby is arrested in New York on marijuana and felony gun possession charges. The illegal items were in luggage he forgot to take with him when he checked out of a Times Square hotel after performing with his band CPR at a college in Wayne, New Jersey a few hours earlier. Police were waiting when he returned to pick up the bag. |
| 20 | years ago | 2006 | New Orleans singer King Floyd, who had a national 1971 Top 10 hit called Groove Me, dies of complications from a stroke and diabetes. |
| 19 | years ago | 2007 | New Orleans jazz trumpet great Wynton Marsalis releases his CD entitled From the Plantation to the Penitentiary. On the song Where Y’All At, he delivers a sort of rap chant. It criticizes ’60s radicals and idealists who have lost their revolutionary slant. Overall, he says it’s his most political album in years. |
| 15 | years ago | 2011 | Herman “Roscoe” Ernest, longtime drummer for Dr. John, dies of cancer in his New Orleans home at the age of 59. |