| 84 years ago (1940) | Frank Zappa, guitarist and vocalist, is born. |
| 78 years ago (1946) | Carl Wilson, guitar player for the Beach Boys, is born. |
| 58 years ago (1966) | The Beach Boys receive three gold-record citations for the single Good Vibrations, which hit #1 eleven days ago and the albums Little Deuce Coupe and Shut Down, Vol. 2. |
| 57 years ago (1967) | The Rolling Stones album, Their Satanic Majesties Request is released by London Records in the U.S. |
| 56 years ago (1968) | Crosby, Stills and Nash perform together in public for the first time. |
| 55 years ago (1969) | Diana Ross gives her last performance as a member of the Supremes on The Ed Sullivan Show. |
| 54 years ago (1970) | In what will become quite the photo-op, Elvis Presley goes to the White House to volunteer his services to President Nixon on fighting the nation's drug problems. He gives Nixon a chrome-plated Colt .45 while Tricky Dick gives him a Narcotics Bureau badge. |
| 54 years ago (1970) | Three new albums are certified gold: Traffic's reunion album, John Barleycorn Must Die, the original British studio recording of Jesus Christ Superstar and Judy Collins' In my Life. |
| 52 years ago (1972) | Rolling Stone magazine announces the death of Memphis guitarist Ray Jackson, conposer of the hits Who's Makin' Love and I Don't Want to Be Right. He died of burns suffered in a freak fire at his home. He was 31. |
| 50 years ago (1974) | The Doobie Brothers' Black Water is released. |
| 45 years ago (1979) | The Eagles, Chicago, and Linda Ronstadt perform at a benefit show for the presidential campaign for California governor Jerry Brown, who also happens to be Ronstadt's boyfriend. The show at the San Diego Sports Arena is followed-up by a similar show at the Addin Theater in Las Vegas. The two shows bring in over $450,000. |
| 35 years ago (1989) | Carlos Santana and his wife Debbie become parents to daughter Angelica Faith. |
| 32 years ago (1992) | Blues guitarist Albert King dies of a heart attack. |
| 20 years ago (2004) | Lenny Kravitz releases his Baptism album. |
| 19 years ago (2005) | It's reported that Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant has secured a $60,000 donation for a Carefree, Arizona-based charitable organization that aids nomadic people in drought-stricken West Africa. He had committed proceeds from a four-song CD by his band, Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation, but it failed to generate the royalties he had expected. The 57-year-old rocker made an appeal to PAR Charitable Trust, a small grant-making organization, which agreed to make up the financial gap needed to build and operate school dorms for 200 children for three years. |