| 103 | years ago | 1922 | Trumpeter Al Hirt is born in New Orleans. “Jumbo” grows up to be a bugler in World War II, a Bourbon Street club owner, and a recording artist, with 18 albums in the Billboard Top 200, including the Top 10 albums Honey In The Horn (his first million-seller), Cotton Candy, and Sugar Lips. |
| 88 | years ago | 1937 | Mary Travers of Peter, Paul & Mary is born. |
| 83 | years ago | 1942 | Johnny Rivers is born in New York City. But Baton Rouge becomes his hometown. |
| 82 | years ago | 1943 | Joni Mitchell is born in Fort McLeod, Alberta, Canada. |
| 74 | years ago | 1951 | Singer Nick Gilder is born. |
| 65 | years ago | 1960 | Tommy Thayer, lead guitarist for the American hard rock band Kiss, as well as the former lead guitarist for the band Black 'n Blue, is born. |
| 61 | years ago | 1964 | The Marvelettes' Too Many Fish in the Sea enters the Hot 100, where it will make it up to #25. |
| 61 | years ago | 1964 | The Beach Boys' Dance, Dance, Dance enters the Hot 100 where it stays for 11 weeks and peaks at #8. It's the groups seventh and last chart entry this year and the fourth to make the Top 20. |
| 57 | years ago | 1968 | The Doors are banned in Phoenix after Jim Morrison tells the audience to stand up. The local authorities were wary of Morrison's intentions because he had recently mooned an audience. |
| 56 | years ago | 1969 | The Rolling Stones open their first U.S. tour in three years in Denver, Colorado. In those three years, the Stones have been the almost constant hero-villains of public controversy over their drug busts, censorship battles, and reportedly uncoventional sex lives. The tour is already a media event. |
| 55 | years ago | 1970 | MGM Records President Mike Curb drops 18 acts from his roster in a move to discredit musicians who “expolit and promote hard drugs through music.” Among the acts dropped are such alleged “Drug advocates” as Connie Francis, the Cowsills, and the Judy Garland Estate -- but not Eric Burdon. |
| 51 | years ago | 1974 | Rolling Stone reports Ted Nugent has won the National Squirrel-Shooting Archery Contest by picking off a squirrel at 150 yards. Nugent also wiped out 27 more of the small mammals with a handgun during the three day event. |
| 37 | years ago | 1988 | John Fogerty wins his self-plagarism court battle with Fantasy Records. The label claimed Fogerty copied his song, Run Through The Jungle when writing The Old Man Down The Road. |
| 34 | years ago | 1991 | Frank Zappa is diagnosed with prostate cancer. |
| 34 | years ago | 1991 | Actor Paul Reubens, a.k.a. Pee Wee Herman, pleads no contest to charges of indecent exposure. He had been arrested in Sarasota, Florida for exposing himself in a theatre. |
| 19 | years ago | 2006 | Britney Spears files for divorce from Kevin Federline just weeks after giving birth to the couple’s second child. |
| 13 | years ago | 2012 | Counting Crows end a long absence from New Orleans and perform at the Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts in Armstrong Park. |