| 94 | years ago | 1932 | Carl Perkins is born. |
| 70 | years ago | 1956 | Singer Nat King Cole is beaten up by a group of racial segregationists in Birmingham, Alabama. |
| 68 | years ago | 1958 | Bill Haley and the Comets open their first tour of South America in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The month-long junket will take them to Sao Paulo, Montevideo and Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. |
| 62 | years ago | 1964 | Capitol and Vee Jay Records settle their feud out of court over the rights to recordings by The Beatles. Capitol wins. |
| 61 | years ago | 1965 | The Rolling Stones make their first live appearance on British TV's Ready Steady Go! |
| 60 | years ago | 1966 | Percy Sledge's When A Man Loves A Woman is released. |
| 60 | years ago | 1966 | Jr. Walker and the All Stars' (I'm A) Roadrunner is released. |
| 56 | years ago | 1970 | Paul McCartney announces the breakup of The Beatles. |
| 53 | years ago | 1973 | Paul McCartney releases My Love, a ballad which will be the biggest hit of his solo career thus far. It goes to #1 for four weeks. |
| 52 | years ago | 1974 | At Charley's Place in Harvard Square, MA, Bruce Springsteen meets rock critic and former manager Jon Landau. |
| 45 | years ago | 1981 | The Sam Goody record chain and a top company executive are convicted of trafficking in pirated tapes. |
| 38 | years ago | 1988 | Brook Benton dies due to complications of spinal meningitis. He was 56 years old. Also passing away on this date is Dave Prater, of Sam & Dave, in a car accident. He was 50 years old. |
| 37 | years ago | 1989 | Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman announces he's to marry 19 year old Mandy Smith. He reveals the two have been dating for 6 years. |
| 37 | years ago | 1989 | Alabama is named artist of the decade by the Academy of Country Music. |
| 34 | years ago | 1992 | Comedian Sam Kinison is killed when a pickup truck slams into his car on a desert road between L.A. and Las Vegas. The 17 year old driver of the car is arrested. |
| 29 | years ago | 1997 | Songwriter Laura Nyro dies at her home in Danbury, Connecticut of ovarian cancer. Nyro wrote numerous hit songs including Eli's Coming for Three Dog Night, And When I Die for Blood, Sweat & Tears and Stoned Soul Picnic for the Fifth Dimension. Nyro was 49. |
| 29 | years ago | 1997 | A&M Records issues a press release stating that the members of Soundgarden have mutually and amicably decided to disband. |
| 23 | years ago | 2003 | Bob Walker, New Orleans radio's “Oldies King,” retires after 38 years in radio, most of it at WTIX, where his career began in 1965. When “quittin’ time” came, Bob was spinning oldies during afternoon drive time at WTIX-FM in New Orleans. His retirement lasts only a couple of years, though. With sidekick Sgt. T-Ben Boudreaux, he returns to afternoon drive at WTIX-FM following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 as his way of helping the city get back to normal. |
| 15 | years ago | 2011 | Lady Gaga brings her elaborate stage show to the New Orleans Arena. |
| 14 | years ago | 2012 | Rolling Stones' guitarist Ron Wood says the band will celibrate its 50th reunion later this month with a trip to the recording studio to “throw some ideas around.” He makes the comments at a press conference for his New York art exhibit enititled “Faces, Time and Places.” It features his own paintings, some of which depict the Stones. |