| 81 | years ago | 1945 | Mickey Dolenz, drummer with The Monkees, is born. |
| 80 | years ago | 1946 | Former Eagles and Poco bassist Randy Meisner is born. |
| 78 | years ago | 1948 | “Little” Peggy March is born. |
| 68 | years ago | 1958 | Singer Gary Numan is born. |
| 64 | years ago | 1962 | The Beatles make their television debut, appearing on the BBC program Teenager's Turn to play Roy Orbison's Dream Baby. |
| 58 | years ago | 1968 | Bill Graham, owner of the Fillmore, San Francisco's legendary rock ballroom, opens the Fillmore east in an abandoned movie theater on Second Avenue and Sixth Street in New York City. The opening bill features Albert King and Tim Buckley and Big Brother and the Holding Company. |
| 56 | years ago | 1970 | Diana Ross opens an eleven date cabaret engagement in Framingham, Massachusetts, her first outing as a solo performer. |
| 53 | years ago | 1973 | Paul McCartney pleads guilty to charges of growing marijuana outside his Scottish countryside farm and is fined $240. Paul claims a fan gave him the seeds and he didn't know what they would grow. |
| 53 | years ago | 1973 | Grateful Dead keyboardist and founding member Ron Pigpen McKernan dies of a stomach hemorrhage in Madera, California. He was just 27. |
| 50 | years ago | 1976 | Former Spooky Tooth singer Gary Wright is awarded a gold record for Dream Weaver. |
| 48 | years ago | 1978 | Steely Dan's sixth album, Aja becomes their first album to be certified platinum. Two weeks later, their second album, Countdown to Ecstasy will be certified gold, five years after its release. |
| 47 | years ago | 1979 | In one of the first public acknowledgements of the hard times beginning to hit the record industry, Rolling Stone magazine reports that due to the “skyrocketing costs of producing, promoting, and supporting a new album, now put at between $350,000 and $500,000,” labels will start limiting their new releases. |
| 39 | years ago | 1987 | Bob Seger finishes what he says is his last tour ever at Detroit's Joe Louis Arena. Of course, it wasn't his last tour. |
| 33 | years ago | 1993 | Singer Billy Eckstine dies in Pittsburgh at age 78. |
| 33 | years ago | 1993 | Beavis and Butthead premieres on MTV as a series. The two mutant characters had previously appeared on another MTV program, Liquid Television. |
| 21 | years ago | 2005 | Jeremy B. Russell of Blue Cheer dies in Arizona at the age of 60 from myelodisplasia. |