On This Day In History

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1916
HMS New Zealand fights at Jutland
In the misty North Sea on the last day of May 1916, 250 warships from Britain’s Royal Navy and Germany’s High Seas Fleet clashed in the First World War’s greatest and bloodiest sea battle.


Mona Blades and the orange Datsun car she was reportedly last seen in
1975
Mona Blades vanishes
Eighteen-year-old Mona Blades was last seen sitting in the back seat of an orange Datsun station wagon. Her body was never found and her disappearance has never been explained.



In Music History

2025-On the Hot 100, 37 songs are from Morgan Wallen's I'm the Problem album, breaking a record he set two years earlier when 36 songs from his One Thing at a Time album made the chart at the same time.

2024-Charli XCX releases a remix of her popular song "360," featuring dance-pop artist Robyn and rapper Yung Lean, both of Sweden. Charli and Robyn, who is 13 years her senior, met while they were touring the same festivals in Australia and became good friends.

2019-Psychedelic-music legend and frontman for the 13th Floor Elevators, Roger Kynard "Roky" Erickson passes away at 71 years old in his home in Austin, Texas.

2016-Alicia Keys announces that she will no longer wear makeup, embracing the #nomakeup movement.More

2007-Rob Grill, lead singer of The Grass Roots, is arrested for illegal possession of prescription painkillers at his home in Mount Dora, Florida.

2006-Karen Fairchild and Jimi Westbrook of Little Big Town get married in a quiet ceremony but don't go public with the news until two months later, surprising fans who didn't know they were a couple.

2005-Strawberry Field (no s), the Liverpool orphanage which inspired The Beatles' famous song, is closed by the Salvation Army after almost seventy years.

2004-Rock guitarist Robert Quine, known for collaborations with Lou Reed, Marianne Faithfull, and Tom Waits, commits suicide by heroin overdose at age 61.

2003-50 Cent's second single, "21 Questions," tops the chart for the first of four weeks. Featuring Nate Dogg on the chorus, the song explores 50's romantic side, as he asks a girl if she would be there for him through thick and thin.

2000-Soul singer Johnnie Taylor dies of a heart attack at age 66.

1998-Geri Halliwell (Ginger Spice) announces that she is leaving Spice Girls, releasing a statement saying: "Sadly I would like to confirm that I have left the Spice Girls. This is because of differences between us. I'm sure the group will continue to be successful and I wish them all the best... PS, I'll be back." Halliwell was planning to leave the group in September at the end of their world tour, but grows frustrated and leaves early. The group continues as a quartet, but splits up in 2000. In 2007, they reunite with Halliwell back on board.

1996-Bass singer Elsbeary Hobbs (of The Drifters) dies from throat and lung cancer in Manhattan, New York at age 59.

1993-Jon Bon Jovi's wife, Dorothea Hurley, gives birth to their first child, a daughter named Stephanie Rose.

1991-Randy Travis marries his manager, Lib Hatcher, who was his court-appointed legal guardian when Randy was 17 and she was 35.

1991-Azealia Banks is born in New York City.

Five Genesis-related Acts Share Space In Hot 100
1986
Genesis enter the Hot 100 with "Invisible Touch," joining four acts by current or former members of the group on the chart.

1985-The Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) sends its first letter to the RIAA requesting a ratings system for albums and concerts. The group is led by Tipper Gore, the wife of Senator Al Gore, so the record industry takes it seriously, and cuts back on their metal budgets. The end result is warning stickers on albums containing offensive lyrics.

1983-After a break in which David Byrne and Jerry Harrison release solo albums and Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth form Tom Tom Club, Talking Heads return with their fifth album, Speaking In Tongues. It contains their biggest hit, "Burning Down The House."

1980-Fall Out Boy drummer Andy Hurley is born in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin.

1980-The disco group Lipps, Inc. goes to #1 in America with "Funkytown," a tribute to New York City.

1976-Tom Waits begins a two-week stint performing at Ronnie Scott's Club in Soho, London, England. The club is run by Pete King, and the experience inspires Waits to write "The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (An Evening with Pete King)."

1975-Freddy Fender's "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" hits #1 in America.

1974-Gordon Lightfoot's Sundown album is certified Gold.

1971-Badfinger record "Day After Day."

1968-While recording vocals for "Revolution," John Lennon does some improvised ranting that is later used in the head-scratching "Revolution 9."

1967-Big Brother & the Holding Company film a scene in the Richard Lester movie Petulia.

1965-Steve White (drummer for The Style Council) is born in Southwark, London, England.

1964-The family-friendly Dave Clark Five go on the Ed Sullivan Show for the first time, performing "Glad All Over." They're a hit with the host, who has them on 18 more times.

1964-Darryl McDaniels, the DMC of Run-DMC, is born in Harlem, New York City. He creates a new rap style by trading off lines with his fellow MC Joseph Simmons (Run). They also become fashion icons, with gold chains, fedoras and sneakers with no shoelaces.

1962-Pop singer Corey Hart is born in Montréal, Québec, Canada.

1961-Chuck Berry opens the Berryland amusement park, complete with guitar-shaped swimming pool, in Wentzville, Missouri, outside of St. Louis.

1954-Vicki Sue Robinson ("Turn The Beat Around") is born in New York.

1952-Karl Bartos (of Kraftwerk) is born in Berchtesgaden, Germany.

1947-Junior Campbell (of Marmalade) is born William Campbell Jr. in Glasgow, Scotland.

1940-Augie Meyers (of the Sir Douglas Quintet) is born in San Antonio, Texas.

1938-Johnny Paycheck is born Donald Eugene Lytle in Greenfield, Ohio. His stage name comes from a boxer who was knocked out by Joe Louis.

1938-Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul and Mary) is born in Manhattan, New York.

1938'-60s pop singer Lenny Welch is born in New York.

1931-Jazz guitarist Dick Garcia is born in New York City.

1930-Clint Eastwood is born in San Francisco, California. The actor/director also dabbles in music, releasing an album of Cowboy Favorites in 1959 and composing scores for several of his films, including Mystic River, Gran Torino, and Grace is Gone.





Featured Events

2014-The trustee for Randy California, leader of the band Spirit who died in 1997, sues Led Zeppelin, claiming a song California wrote called "Taurus" was stolen for the intro to "Stairway To Heaven." After a legal odyssey that includes testimony from Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin prevails in 2020.

2014-Michael Jackson becomes the first artist with Top 10 hits in five consecutive decades on the Hot 100 as "Love Never Felt So Good" reaches at #9.

Priest Rules In Heavy Metal Parking Lot
1986-Jeff Krulik and John Heyn film the parking-lot antics of fans tailgating at a Judas Priest concert in Landover, Maryland. The result is Heavy Metal Parking Lot, a 16-minute film that captures the energy and absurdity of heavy metal culture in the '80s.More

"Got To Get You Into My Life" Brings Back The Beatles
1976-Ten years after it appeared on The Beatles' Revolver album, Capitol Records issues "Got To Get You Into My Life" as a single in America.More

1976-The Who set the record for "World's Loudest Rock Band" when their show in London measures 126 decibels. Concerned about hearing loss, Guinness later stops certifying the record.

1961-Jimi Hendrix enlists in the Army and is stationed at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, as a member of the 101st Airborne Division. He signs up for three years, but is honorably discharged a little over a year later, ostensibly because he hurt his ankle in a parachute jump, but really because he is a lousy soldier, constantly thinking about or playing his guitar.

1956-Buddy Holly sees the John Wayne film The Searchers. Wayne's line, "That'll be the day," inspires him to write a song with that title.

1948-Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham is born in Redditch, Worcestershire, England.

1976 The Who set a new record for the loudest performance by a rock band at 120 decibels during a concert at Charlton Athletic Football Ground.

1977- The BBC banned the Sex Pistols song "God Save The Queen" due to its anti-royalist theme, despite efforts to ban it.

1980-Disco and funk group Lipps Inc hit No.1 in the US with "Funkytown" for the first of four consecutive weeks.

1980- The theme song "Suicide is Painless" from the 1970 film "MAS*H" reached No.1 on the UK Singles chart for the first of three consecutive weeks.

1980- Singer-songwriter Paul McCartney started a two-week stint at number one in the UK on this day with his second studio solo album "McCartney II".

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1533 – Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.

1934 – Nissan Motor Company founded in Tokyo.

1943 – A passenger flight from Lisbon to London is shot down by German fighter planes, killing all aboard, including actor Leslie Howard.

1944 – BBC Radio broadcasts coded message to warn French Resistance that D-Day is imminent.

1958 – Charles de Gaulle becomes prime minister of France.

1960 – New Zealand's first official television transmission begins at 7.30pm. The evening's programming includes a live interview with a visiting British ballerina, and a performance by the Howard Morrison Quartet.

1968 – American writer and lecturer Helen Keller, dies aged 87.

1974 – The Heimlich manoeuvre for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.

1980 – Cable News Network (CNN) makes its debut in the US.

1994 – South Africa rejoins the Commonwealth after an absence of 33 years.

2001 – Nepal's crown prince Dipendra shoots and kills his parents and six other royal family members before shooting himself.

2002 – Disgraced former South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje is killed in a plane crash.

2009 – An Air France jet carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris runs into thunderstorms and disappears over the Atlantic Ocean.



Birthdays

Cherry Raymond, NZ broadcaster (1925-2006); Marilyn Monroe, US actor (1926-62); Pat Boone, US singer (1934-); Morgan Freeman, US actor (1937-); Ronnie Wood, UK guitarist, The Rolling Stones (1947-); Gaylene Preston, NZ film-maker (1947-); Lorraine Moller, NZ athlete (1955-); Jason Donovan, Australian actor-singer (1968-); Heidi Klum, German model (1973-); Ben Smith, NZ rugby player (1986-).




In Music History

2019-Tyler, The Creator's offbeat album Igor debuts at #1 in the US, beating the far more traditional and trendy Father Of Asahd by DJ Khaled, the heavy favorite. Igor goes on to win the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album.

2013-American Idol alums Diana DeGarmo and Ace Young get married at Los Angeles' Luxe Sunset Boulevard hotel. DeGarmo was a runner-up to Fantasia Barrino in Season 3, while Young was a finalist in Season 5.

2008-A fire at Universal Studios Hollywood destroys thousands of master tapes controlled by Universal Music Group, including recordings by Joni Mitchell, Elton John, B.B. King, Neil Diamond, Nirvana and Eminem. The extent of the loss is not revealed until years later.

2007-Tony Thompson (lead singer of Hi-Five) dies at age 31 after accidentally inhaling a toxic amount of freon.

2007-Contemporary musicians record their own versions of songs from The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's album to mark 40 years since it was released. Acts including Oasis, Travis, The Fray, Kaiser Chiefs, Razorlight, Bryan Adams and The Magic Numbers all work with Geoff Emerick - the engineer in charge of the original 1967 sessions - using the original analogue 4-track equipment to demonstrate the techniques employed for the recording at Abbey Road studios in 1967.

2006-Spanish singer and actress Rocio Jurado dies of pancreatic cancer at age 59.

2006-The UK Albums chart turns 50 years old, and in a survey by the book of British Hit Singles and Albums and NME, Definitely Maybe by Oasis is voted the greatest album of all time. The Beatles come in second and third place with Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Revolver; OK Computer by Radiohead is fourth and (What's the Story) Morning Glory? by Oasis comes in fifth.

2005-White Stripes singer Jack White marries his girlfriend, British model Karen Elson, in a canoe on the Amazon in Brazil.

2005-Crazy Frog's "Axel F" hits #1 on the UK singles chart.

2003-Slipknot bass player Paul Gray is arrested after colliding with another car in his hometown of Des Moines, Iowa. Gray, who dies from an overdose on May 24, 2010, is charged with possession of marijuana, cocaine and drug paraphernalia, as well drunk-driving.

2003-Staind's 14 Shades Of Gray hits #1 on the US albums chart. It's the meat in the sandwich of three chart-topping albums for the group, following Break The Cycle (2001) and preceding Chapter V (2005).

2002-Eminem, still without an American chart-topper, lands his third UK #1 hit with "Without Me," where he takes shots at a number of soft targets including Chris Kirkpatrick, Limp Bizkit and Moby.

2001-Rapper Jamal "Shyne" Barrow is sentenced in a Manhattan court to 10 years in prison for his part in a 1999 nightclub shooting.

2001-The movie Moulin Rouge!, directed by Baz Luhrmann, opens in theaters. There's lots of music in the film, including covers of "Nature Boy" by David Bowie, "Diamond Dogs" by Beck, and "Lady Marmalade" by Missy Elliott, Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya, and Pink, which goes to #1 in America. Kylie Minogue makes an appearance as the Green Fairy.

2000-The film Honest, starring three of the All Saints, is pulled by cinemas after a disastrous showing at the box office.

2000-The film Honest, starring three of the All Saints, is pulled by cinemas after a disastrous showing at the box office.

2000-Mambo musician Tito Puente, who helped popularize Afro-Cuban and Caribbean music in the '50s, dies at age 77 following heart valve surgery.

Ja Rule Releases Debut Album
1999-Ja Rule releases his debut album, Venni Vetti Vecci, featuring the hit single "Holla Holla."More

Brad Paisley Releases Debut Album
1999-Brad Paisley releases his debut album, Who Needs Pictures, which features his first pair of #1 country hits: "He Didn't Have To Be" and "We Danced."More

1999-Dido releases her debut album, No Angel, in America. It takes off at the end of 2000 after Eminem samples her song "Thank You" on his hit "Stan."

1999-Napster, a file-sharing service that lets users download songs for free, goes online. It shuts down in 2001 amid a raft of lawsuits, but not before upending the music industry, which sees a steep decline in sales of CDs.

1998-Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots is arrested for heroin possession in New York the day he is supposed to do a solo show.

1997-At age 58, Kenny Rogers gets married for the fifth time, this time to his production assistant Wanda Miller. The couple have two children.

1996-Baddiel and Skinner and The Lightning Seeds' "Three Lions," the official song of the England Football team, hits #1 on the UK singles chart.

1995-Alan Wilder leaves Depeche Mode.

1992-Model Rachel Hunter gives birth to Rod Stewart's daughter Renee.

1991-Seal's self-titled debut album starts a 3-week run at #1 on the UK albums chart.

1991-Sting appears on the first airing of a new Soviet TV rock show called Rock Steady.

1991-David Ruffin, who sang lead on the The Temptations' classics "My Girl" and "Ain't Too Proud To Beg," dies from an adverse reaction to cocaine at age 50. Family members suspect foul play when Ruffin's money belt - which held over $40,000 in proceeds from the group's tour - turns up empty.

1990-Mariah Carey makes her national TV debut, performing "Vision Of Love" on The Arsenio Hall Show. The song enters the Hot 100 the next day and goes to #1 eight weeks later.

1987-Sub Pop Records issues Soundgarden's first single, "Hunted Down"/"Nothing to Say."

1985-Sting releases his first solo album, The Dream of the Blue Turtles. Tracks include "Moon Over Bourbon Street" (inspired by the novel Interview With The Vampire) and "Russians," a song that looks at the Cold War from the perspective of the USSR.

1985-The Prince album Around The World In A Day goes to #1 in the US, where it stays for three weeks. Hits from the album include "Raspberry Beret" and "Pop Life."

1985Bruce Springsteen kicks off the European leg of his Born In The U.S.A. world tour at Slane Castle in Dublin, Ireland.

A-ha Release Debut Album
1985-A-ha release their debut album, Hunting High and Low, including their breakthrough hit, "Take On Me."More

1984-R&B singer Nate Nelson (of The Flamingos, The Platters) dies at age 52 of heart disease.

1981-The first issue of the heavy metal magazine Kerrang is published as a special pull-out by UK weekly music paper Sounds, with AC/DC on the front cover.

1979-Jimmy Buffett and his wife Jane welcome their first child, daughter Savannah Jane.

1979-The Police, supported by The Cramps, appear at the Odeon Theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland.

1977-Bob Marley and The Wailers play the first of four nights at the Rainbow Theatre in London. There are six nights booked at the Rainbow, but the last two shows are called off because of a serious toe injury Marley sustained in a friendly soccer game with French journalists just before the tour's start in Paris. Subsequently the tour's second leg in the United States would be postponed and then canceled.

1977-Billy Joel ends a US tour with a concert at Carnegie Hall.

1975-On his 28th birthday, guitarist Ronnie Wood plays his first gig with the Rolling Stones when they open their Tour Of The Americas in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is later named a full-fledged member of the band.

1974-Alanis Morissette is born, along with twin brother Wade, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

1973-Former Soft Machine drummer Robert Wyatt breaks his spine after attempting to leave a party by climbing down a drainpipe and falling three stories. It leaves Wyatt permanently crippled and confined to a wheelchair.

1971-The two-room shack in Tupelo, Mississippi, where Elvis Presley was born is opened to the public as a tourist attraction.

1969-ohn Lennon and Yoko Ono record "Give Peace A Chance" to close out their "bed-in" in Montreal.

1969-Bass guitarist Damon Minchella (of Ocean Colour Scene) is born in Ince-in-Makerfield, Lancashire, England.

1968-Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson" hits #1 on the Hot 100. The song was written for the movie The Graduate and titled after the character played by Anne Bancroft.

1968-Jason Donovan is born in Malvern, Melbourne, Australia. After finding fame on the Australian soap opera Neighbours, he'll hit the top of the UK charts in a duet with co-star Kylie Minogue: "Especially For You."

1967-David Bowie releases his self-titled debut album, David Bowie, which bares little resemblance to his future work.

1967-Roger Sanchez is born in Queens, New York. The DJ/music producer will gain notoriety with his dance remixes, including his Grammy Award-winning spin on No Doubt's "Hella Good."

1967-Fairport Convention make their live debut, performing at St. Michael's Hall, Golders Green.

1965-Art Garfunkel graduates from Columbia University in New York.

1964-The Rolling Stones make their first trip to the United States, arriving on British Airways Flight 505 for their first American tour.

1963-Lesley Gore's "It's My Party" hits #1 a few weeks after her 17th birthday.

1963-Mike Joyce (drummer for The Smiths) is born in Fallowfield, Manchester, England.

1961-Elvis Presley's "Surrender" hits #1 on the UK singles chart.

1960-Jesse Johnson (guitarist of The Time) is born in Rock Island, Illinois.

1960-The Cure bass player Simon Gallup is born in Surrey, England.

1959-Johnny Horton's "Battle of New Orleans," about a real battle in the War of 1812, hits #1 on both the country and pop charts in the US.

1959-The music-critique show Juke Box Jury debuts on the BBC. Each week, four guest judges vote recent songs either a "hit" or "miss." The show lasts until 1967.

1959-Alan Wilder of Depeche Mode is born in London.

1958-Private Elvis Presley completes basic Army training at Ft. Hood, Texas, earning a two-week furlough.

1957-Sam Cooke records "You Send Me."

1956-Doris Day signs a five-year recording contract with Columbia Records worth $1 million.

1953-Ronnie Dunn of Brooks & Dunn is born Ronald Gene Dunn in Coleman, Texas.

1952-Punk rock guitarist John Ellis (of The Vibrators) is born in Kentish Town, London, England.

1950-Tom Robinson of Cafe Society and Tom Robinson Band is born in Cambridge, England. In the '70s, he becomes one of the first openly gay rock musicians and an advocate for gay rights.

1950R&B singer Charlene is born Charlene Marilynn D'Angelo in Hollywood, California.

1948-The Chicago-based blues musician Sonny Boy Williamson is murdered during a robbery at age 34. A different musician based in the South who has been imiating him continues to use the name and becomes the best known Sonny Boy Williamson after writing songs like "One Way Out" and "Help Me" that are widely recorded.

1947-Guitarist Ron Wood is born in London. He goes on to join The Faces and The Rolling Stones.

1945-Linda Scott, known for her hit 1961 single "I've Told Ev'ry Little Star," is born Linda Joy Sampson in Queens, New York.

Pat Boone Is Born
1934-Pat Boone (birth name: Charles Eugene Boone) is born in Jacksonville, Florida.More

1931-Noël Coward's classic "Mad Dogs And Englishmen" is performed for the first time in public by Beatrice Lillie in The Third Little Show at the Music Box Theatre, New York.

1921-Nelson Riddle is born in Oradell, New Jersey. He'll become famous as the orchestrator and arranger behind countless hits for Capitol Records artists like Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Dean Martin, Peggy Lee, and - decades later - Linda Ronstadt.

1915-Country singer Johnny Bond, known for his 1947 hit "Divorce Me C.O.D.," is born Cyrus Whitfield Bond in Enville, Oklahoma.





Featured Events

2017-Thanks to the song by Eminem, the word "stan" is added to the Oxford American Dictionary, defined as "an overzealous or obsessive fan of a particular celebrity."

Blink-182 Explode With Enema Of The State
1999-Blink-182 spin immaturity into gold (or should we say, Platinum) with their third album, Enema Of The State, which catapults the pop-punk trio to stardom with hit singles like "What's My Age Again?" and "All The Small Things."More

1993-10,000 Maniacs become the first act to appear twice on MTV Unplugged. The network has a policy against return engagements, but when they learn that Natalie Merchant will be leaving the band, they book them.More

1985-The innovative computer-animated video for Dire Straits' "Money For Nothing" debuts on MTV, which is very meta because the refrain in the song (sung by Sting), is "I want my MTV." It wins Best Video at the VMAs and helps the song go to #1 in America.

1981-Brandi Carlile is born in the tiny town of Ravensdale, Washington. After dropping out of high school, she cuts her teeth performing in the Seatle music scene and puts out her first album in 2005. As her music gets more refined, her audience grows, and by 2019 she's a consistent Grammy winner with a legion of fans.

1976T-he Runaways release their eponymous debut album. Billed as the first all-female hard-rock band, the disc has little domestic success, peaking at #194, but the band are hugely successful in Japan, hitting the #1 spot with their single "Cherry Bomb."

1974-The UK music magazine NME publishes its list of the 100 Greatest Albums. The Top 3:

#3: The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds
#2: Bob Dylan's Blonde On Blonde
#1: The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper

1972-Aretha Franklin's live album Amazing Grace, a collection of spirituals recorded at a church in January, is released. Anchored by Franklin's stunning rendition of "Amazing Grace," it becomes her best-selling album.




Here are some notable occurrences on this date:

1972 The Eagles released their debut album, "Eagles," which included hit singles like "Take It Easy" and "Peaceful Easy Feeling."

1974- A live concert at London's Rainbow Theatre featuring Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Brian Eno, and Nico was recorded and later released as the album "June 1, 1974."

1999- Napster, the peer-to-peer file-sharing service, was launched, changing the way music was distributed and marketed.

2024- The OUTLOUD Music Festival opened in West Hollywood, highlighting queer artists and performers in the first event of Pride month itself.

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Wairuna in Wellington Harbour, c. 1913-1915
1917
New Zealand steamer captured by the Wolf
The steamer Wairuna, en route from Auckland to San Francisco, was captured by the German raider Wolf and later sunk near the Kermadec Islands. The crew of 42 was taken prisoner.

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A smiling Bruce McLaren in his racing overalls
1970
Motor racing driver Bruce McLaren dies
In 1958 Bruce McLaren was the first recipient of the Driver to Europe award, which enabled promising Kiwis to race against the world’s best.


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2017Luke Combs, who majored in criminal justice at Appalachian State University, releases his debut album, This One's For You. Music suits him: He wins the CMA for New Artist Of The Year and becomes a top concert draw.

2013Taylor Swift poses for photos with KYGO radio DJ David Mueller before her concert in Denver. She later accuses him of putting his hand up her dress, and Mueller is fired. In 2015, he sues her, but Swift countersues and wins a sexual assault case against him. "He grabbed my bare ass," she says in her testimony.

2011Pink and her husband, Carey Hart, welcome their first child, a daughter named Willow Sage.

2011Jazz pianist/composer Ray Bryant (of The Ray Bryant Combo) dies at age 79.

2010After being awarded the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, Paul McCartney sings "Michelle" to First Lady Michelle Obama at a White House performance.

2008Bo Diddley dies of heart failure at age 79.

2006Vince Welnick (keyboardist for The Tubes, Grateful Dead) commits suicide at age 55 after a long battle with depression.

2006Jackson Browne, Dar Williams and Pete Seeger play a hayloft in Garrison, New York, to kickstart Orleans founder John Hall's congressional campaign.More

2003A painting of Kylie Minogue wearing gold hot pants causes tempers to fray among drivers in Brighton. Artist Simon Etheridge put up the almost life-size picture in his own Art Asylum gallery as part of a Festival and since then motorists have caused regular traffic hold-ups as they stopped to take a second look.

2002S Club 7 member Hannah Spearitt announces she is quitting the group two months after her boyfriend and band member Paul Cattermole had left the group.

2002Pop Idol winner Will Young's version of The Doors' 1967 classic "Light My Fire" hits #1 on the UK singles chart.

2002The wedding ring that Paul McCartney had given his fiancée Heather Mills ends up thrown out of the window of the hotel where the couple is staying in Miami. Hotel staff use metal detectors to find the $25,000 ring the next day. Despite the quarrel, Paul and Heather go ahead with the wedding.

2002Rockabilly singer-songwriter Boyd Bennett (of the Rockets), known for the '50s hits "Seventeen" and "My Boy, Flat Top," dies of a lung ailment at age 77.

2000Western swing bandleader Adolph Hofner dies less than a week before his 84th birthday.

1999Junior Braithwaite (of Bob Marley's Wailers) is gunned down in front of a fellow musician's home in Kingston, Jamaica. Junior, age 47, is the third Wailer to be murdered, following Peter Tosh and Carlton Barrett's 1987 deaths.


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1998Lynyrd Skynyrd release their fourth live album, Lyve from Steel Town.

199850 Cent makes his major-label debut, dropping a verse on the Onyx song "React." Over the next few years, he gets shot nine times, appears on the 8 Mile soundtrack, and releases his Dr. Dre-produced hit single, "In Da Club."

1997Jazz trumpeter Adolphus "Doc" Cheatham dies at age 91.

1995Stone Roses guitarist John Squire smashes his collarbone in a cycling accident, causing the band to pull out of major gigs.


1993Aerosmith appear at the Landon Arena in Kansas, the first night on their 169-date Get A Grip world tour.

1993Jamiroquai kick off a 13-date UK tour at Royal Holloway College in Egham.

1992Freedom Williams quits C and C Music Factory and files a $10 million fraud and breach of contract suit in New York against the group.

1990Soul II Soul's Vol. II (A New Decade) starts a 3-week run at #1 on the UK album chart.


1990Mariah Carey makes the Hot 100 for the first time when her debut single, "Vision Of Love," enters at #73. In August, the song goes to #1, as do her next four singles.

1987Spanish classical guitarist Andres Segovia dies at age 94.

1986Blues singer ZZ Ward is born Zsuzsanna Ward outside of Philadelphia.

1986Randy Travis releases his debut album, Storms Of Life. Thanks to the #1 Country hits "On The Other Hand" and "Diggin' Up Bones," it goes on to sell over 3 million copies, establishing Travis as a star.


1984Wham!'s "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go" hits #1 on the UK singles chart.

1984Joe Perry and Brad Whitford return to Aerosmith, reuniting their original lineup as they kick off their Back In The Saddle Tour in Concord, New Hampshire. Their comeback starts in earnest two years later when they all get sober and the rap reworking of "Walk This Way" takes off.

It's Safe To Dance
1983The 12-inch remix of "The Safety Dance" by Men Without Hats goes to #1 on the Billboard Dance chart. MTV begins playing the huzzah-worthy video, and the song soon rises up the Hot 100.


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1981Prince makes his live British debut at The Lyceum Ballroom in London. He does not play the UK again for five years.

1980Fabrizio Moretti (drummer for The Strokes) is born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

1979Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff" goes to #1 in the US, where it stays for three weeks.

1978Bruce Springsteen releases Darkness On The Edge Of Town. It's his first album in almost three years due to a legal dispute with his ex-manager Mike Appel.

1976Tim Rice-Oxley (keyboardist for Keane) is born in Oxford, England.

1973Electric Light Orchestra begin their first US tour, a 40-date trek kicking off in San Diego.

1973The Wings album Red Rose Speedway hits the top of the albums chart in the US and "My Love" starts a four-week run as the #1 single on the Hot 100.

1972Former teen idol Dion performs in a reunion concert with The Belmonts at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

1972Pink Floyd release their seventh album, Obscured By Clouds, in the UK. It is released in America on June 17.

1970Dominic Greensmith (original drummer for Reef) is born in England.

1970Cypress Hill lead rapper B-Real is born Louis Freese in Los Angeles, California.

1969Jazz bassist Albert Stinson dies from a drug overdose at 24.

1966The Who kick off a 10-date European tour at the Grona Lund in Stockholm, Sweden.

1965Jeremy Cunningham (bass guitarist for The Levellers) is born in Cuckfield, Sussex, England.

1964The day after arriving in America for their first US tour, The Rolling Stones appear on American TV for the first time when they are interviewed on The Les Crane Show. When Crane asks if they are excited to be making their first US TV appearance, Keith Richards sarcastically replies, "Yeah, it knocks me out."


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1962Thor Eldon Jonsson (guitarist for The Sugarcubes) is born in Iceland.

1962Ray Charles' "I Can't Stop Loving You" hits #1 for the first of five weeks.

1960Tony Hadley (lead singer of Spandau Ballet) is born in Islington, London, England.

1960Bobby Darin plays the Copacabana in New York for the first time.


1958Alan Freed, who popularized R&B music by playing it for a white audience, moves from WINS in New York to WABC. Freed put on a lot of concerts featuring the artists he played, and WINS had suspended him over a show in Boston where a riot broke out.

1958Barry Sadler joins the US Air Force (he's later a Green Beret in the US Army).

1957Johnnie Ray's "Yes Tonight Josephine" hits #1 on the UK singles chart.

1955Michael Steele (bass guitarist for The Bangles) is born Susan Nancy Thomas in Pasadena, California. She is an early member of The Runaways, an all-girl punk rock group.


1952Pete Farndon (bassist for The Pretenders) is born in Hereford, England.

1951Steve Brookins (drummer for .38 Special from 1974-1987) is born.

1945The Les Brown Orchestra with Doris Day goes to #1 in America with "Sentimental Journey."

1945Soul singer Chubby Tavares (of Tavares) is born Antone Lee Tavares in Providence, Rhode Island.


1941R&B singer William Guest (of Gladys Knight & The Pips) is born in Atlanta, Georgia.

1941The Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts is born Charles Robert Watts in London.

1937Jimmy Jones, known for the 1960 rock and roll hit "Handy Man," is born in Birmingham, Alabama.

1936Doo wop singer Otis Williams (of The Charms), not to be confused with The Temptations member of the same name, is born in Cincinnati, Ohio.

1932R&B singer Sammy Turner, known for the 1959 hit "Lavender-Blue," is born Samuel Black in Paterson, New Jersey.

1857Composer Edward Elgar is born in Worcester, England.

Whitney Houston Releases Hit-Filled Second Album1987
Whitney Houston's second album, Whitney, is released. It contains four #1 hits, including the enduring "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)."

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2020The music industry recognizes "Blackout Tuesday" in response to the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. Using the hashtag #TheShowMustBePaused, many record labels and artists cease operations, while broadcasters and streaming services change their programming in support of efforts to address racism and injustice on a wide scale, and more specifically to end police brutality against African Americans.More

2018BTS become the first K-pop band to top the US albums chart when Love Yourself: Tear debuts at #1.

Muscle Shoals Sound Studios Added To National Historic Register
2006Muscle Shoals Sound Studios is added to the National Historic Register.More


2002Eminem's The Eminem Show hits #1 on both the UK and US album charts.

2001A cover of the chart-topping 1974 Labelle hit "Lady Marmalade" by Christina Aguilera, Missy Elliott, Pink, Mya and Lil' Kim takes the song back to the top spot, making Lil' Kim the first female rapper to appear on a Hot 100 #1 hit.

1989Rolling Stones bass player Bill Wyman, 52, marries 18-year-old Mandy Smith in a 15-minute civil ceremony held at a registry office in Suffolk, England. The only witnesses are Smith's sister and Wyman's son. A proper celebration takes place three days later.More


1944Marvin Hamlisch is born in New York City. The composer will not only win a Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Chorus Line in 1975, but will snag multiple Emmy, Grammy, Tony, and Academy Awards for his work for stage and screen (The Way We Were, The Sting).


Notable Album Releases
1978: Thin Lizzy released their acclaimed live album Live and Dangerous, featuring performances from London, Philadelphia, and Toronto, which became a commercial success and is considered one of the greatest live albums of all time.
1
1972: Pink Floyd released Obscured by Clouds, serving as the soundtrack for the film La Vallée and peaking at No.6 in the UK.
2
1978: Bruce Springsteen released his fourth studio album Darkness on the Edge of Town via Columbia Records.
1
1973: Paul McCartney and Wings’ Red Rose Speedway topped the Billboard 200, while the single My Love reached No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
2
2012: Adam Lambert’s Trespassing reached No.1 in the US, and Fun featuring Janelle Monáe topped the UK Singles chart with We Are Young.
1
2016: Ariana Grande’s Dangerous Woman reached No.1 in the UK.
1
2018: BTS scored their first No.1 album on the US Billboard 200 with Love Yourself: Tear.
1
2022: Harry Styles’ Harry’s House became the No.1 album in the UK.
1


3 Sources
Chart-Topping Singles
1962: Ray Charles’ cover of Don Gibson’s I Can’t Stop Loving You hit No.1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and topped charts in Australia, Sweden, and the UK.
1
1966: Frank Sinatra’s Strangers in the Night reached No.1 on the UK Singles Chart and topped charts worldwide.
2
1975: David Bowie’s single Fame, featuring John Lennon, became his first US No.1 hit.
1
1979: Donna Summer’s disco hit Hot Stuff began a three-week run at the top of the Billboard Hot 100.
1
1984: Wham! scored their first UK No.1 with Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, which also topped charts internationally.
1


4 Sources
Significant Performances and Milestones
1976: Paul McCartney and Wings performed to 67,100 fans in Seattle, setting a record for the largest indoor concert attendance at the time.
1
1981: Prince played his first UK show at London’s Lyceum Theatre.
1
1962: Island Records released its first single, Twist Baby by Owen Gray, marking the beginning of a label that would later sign Bob Marley, U2, and Amy Winehouse.
1

1 Source
Births and Deaths
1904: Jazz trumpeter Valaida Snow, known as the “Queen of the Trumpet,” was born.
1
1930: Singer-songwriter Jimmy Jones, famous for Handy Man, was born.
1
1932: Singer Sammy Turner, known for Lavender Blue and Always, was born.
1
1941: William Guest, founding member of Gladys Knight & the Pips, was born.
1
2008: Bo Diddley (Ellas Otha Bates), influential in bridging blues and rock ‘n’ roll, passed away at age 79.
2
2011: Jazz pianist Raphael “Ray” Bryant died at age 79.
1


2 Sources
Other Notable Events
1967: Capitol Records released The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in the US with identical track listings to the UK version, topping charts for 15 weeks in the US and 22 weeks in the UK.
1
1992: Ringo Starr’s second All-Starr Band debuted in concert, featuring notable musicians like Joe Walsh and Todd Rundgren.
1
2000: Joni Mitchell completed her Both Sides Now Tour of America in Camden, New Jersey.
1
2010: Paul McCartney received the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize at the White House.
1

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Wairuna in Wellington Harbour, c. 1913-1915
1917
New Zealand steamer captured by the Wolf
The steamer Wairuna, en route from Auckland to San Francisco, was captured by the German raider Wolf and later sunk near the Kermadec Islands. The crew of 42 was taken prisoner.

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A smiling Bruce McLaren in his racing overalls
1970
Motor racing driver Bruce McLaren dies
In 1958 Bruce McLaren was the first recipient of the Driver to Europe award, which enabled promising Kiwis to race against the world’s best.


In Music History
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2017Luke Combs, who majored in criminal justice at Appalachian State University, releases his debut album, This One's For You. Music suits him: He wins the CMA for New Artist Of The Year and becomes a top concert draw.

2013Taylor Swift poses for photos with KYGO radio DJ David Mueller before her concert in Denver. She later accuses him of putting his hand up her dress, and Mueller is fired. In 2015, he sues her, but Swift countersues and wins a sexual assault case against him. "He grabbed my bare ass," she says in her testimony.

2011Pink and her husband, Carey Hart, welcome their first child, a daughter named Willow Sage.

2011Jazz pianist/composer Ray Bryant (of The Ray Bryant Combo) dies at age 79.

2010After being awarded the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, Paul McCartney sings "Michelle" to First Lady Michelle Obama at a White House performance.

2008Bo Diddley dies of heart failure at age 79.

2006Vince Welnick (keyboardist for The Tubes, Grateful Dead) commits suicide at age 55 after a long battle with depression.

2006Jackson Browne, Dar Williams and Pete Seeger play a hayloft in Garrison, New York, to kickstart Orleans founder John Hall's congressional campaign.More

2003A painting of Kylie Minogue wearing gold hot pants causes tempers to fray among drivers in Brighton. Artist Simon Etheridge put up the almost life-size picture in his own Art Asylum gallery as part of a Festival and since then motorists have caused regular traffic hold-ups as they stopped to take a second look.

2002S Club 7 member Hannah Spearitt announces she is quitting the group two months after her boyfriend and band member Paul Cattermole had left the group.

2002Pop Idol winner Will Young's version of The Doors' 1967 classic "Light My Fire" hits #1 on the UK singles chart.

2002The wedding ring that Paul McCartney had given his fiancée Heather Mills ends up thrown out of the window of the hotel where the couple is staying in Miami. Hotel staff use metal detectors to find the $25,000 ring the next day. Despite the quarrel, Paul and Heather go ahead with the wedding.

2002Rockabilly singer-songwriter Boyd Bennett (of the Rockets), known for the '50s hits "Seventeen" and "My Boy, Flat Top," dies of a lung ailment at age 77.

2000Western swing bandleader Adolph Hofner dies less than a week before his 84th birthday.

1999Junior Braithwaite (of Bob Marley's Wailers) is gunned down in front of a fellow musician's home in Kingston, Jamaica. Junior, age 47, is the third Wailer to be murdered, following Peter Tosh and Carlton Barrett's 1987 deaths.


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1998Lynyrd Skynyrd release their fourth live album, Lyve from Steel Town.

199850 Cent makes his major-label debut, dropping a verse on the Onyx song "React." Over the next few years, he gets shot nine times, appears on the 8 Mile soundtrack, and releases his Dr. Dre-produced hit single, "In Da Club."

1997Jazz trumpeter Adolphus "Doc" Cheatham dies at age 91.

1995Stone Roses guitarist John Squire smashes his collarbone in a cycling accident, causing the band to pull out of major gigs.


1993Aerosmith appear at the Landon Arena in Kansas, the first night on their 169-date Get A Grip world tour.

1993Jamiroquai kick off a 13-date UK tour at Royal Holloway College in Egham.

1992Freedom Williams quits C and C Music Factory and files a $10 million fraud and breach of contract suit in New York against the group.

1990Soul II Soul's Vol. II (A New Decade) starts a 3-week run at #1 on the UK album chart.


1990Mariah Carey makes the Hot 100 for the first time when her debut single, "Vision Of Love," enters at #73. In August, the song goes to #1, as do her next four singles.

1987Spanish classical guitarist Andres Segovia dies at age 94.

1986Blues singer ZZ Ward is born Zsuzsanna Ward outside of Philadelphia.

1986Randy Travis releases his debut album, Storms Of Life. Thanks to the #1 Country hits "On The Other Hand" and "Diggin' Up Bones," it goes on to sell over 3 million copies, establishing Travis as a star.


1984Wham!'s "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go" hits #1 on the UK singles chart.

1984Joe Perry and Brad Whitford return to Aerosmith, reuniting their original lineup as they kick off their Back In The Saddle Tour in Concord, New Hampshire. Their comeback starts in earnest two years later when they all get sober and the rap reworking of "Walk This Way" takes off.

It's Safe To Dance
1983The 12-inch remix of "The Safety Dance" by Men Without Hats goes to #1 on the Billboard Dance chart. MTV begins playing the huzzah-worthy video, and the song soon rises up the Hot 100.


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1981Prince makes his live British debut at The Lyceum Ballroom in London. He does not play the UK again for five years.

1980Fabrizio Moretti (drummer for The Strokes) is born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

1979Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff" goes to #1 in the US, where it stays for three weeks.

1978Bruce Springsteen releases Darkness On The Edge Of Town. It's his first album in almost three years due to a legal dispute with his ex-manager Mike Appel.

1976Tim Rice-Oxley (keyboardist for Keane) is born in Oxford, England.

1973Electric Light Orchestra begin their first US tour, a 40-date trek kicking off in San Diego.

1973The Wings album Red Rose Speedway hits the top of the albums chart in the US and "My Love" starts a four-week run as the #1 single on the Hot 100.

1972Former teen idol Dion performs in a reunion concert with The Belmonts at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

1972Pink Floyd release their seventh album, Obscured By Clouds, in the UK. It is released in America on June 17.

1970Dominic Greensmith (original drummer for Reef) is born in England.

1970Cypress Hill lead rapper B-Real is born Louis Freese in Los Angeles, California.

1969Jazz bassist Albert Stinson dies from a drug overdose at 24.

1966The Who kick off a 10-date European tour at the Grona Lund in Stockholm, Sweden.

1965Jeremy Cunningham (bass guitarist for The Levellers) is born in Cuckfield, Sussex, England.

1964The day after arriving in America for their first US tour, The Rolling Stones appear on American TV for the first time when they are interviewed on The Les Crane Show. When Crane asks if they are excited to be making their first US TV appearance, Keith Richards sarcastically replies, "Yeah, it knocks me out."


Page 41...345
1962Thor Eldon Jonsson (guitarist for The Sugarcubes) is born in Iceland.

1962Ray Charles' "I Can't Stop Loving You" hits #1 for the first of five weeks.

1960Tony Hadley (lead singer of Spandau Ballet) is born in Islington, London, England.

1960Bobby Darin plays the Copacabana in New York for the first time.


1958Alan Freed, who popularized R&B music by playing it for a white audience, moves from WINS in New York to WABC. Freed put on a lot of concerts featuring the artists he played, and WINS had suspended him over a show in Boston where a riot broke out.

1958Barry Sadler joins the US Air Force (he's later a Green Beret in the US Army).

1957Johnnie Ray's "Yes Tonight Josephine" hits #1 on the UK singles chart.

1955Michael Steele (bass guitarist for The Bangles) is born Susan Nancy Thomas in Pasadena, California. She is an early member of The Runaways, an all-girl punk rock group.


1952Pete Farndon (bassist for The Pretenders) is born in Hereford, England.

1951Steve Brookins (drummer for .38 Special from 1974-1987) is born.

1945The Les Brown Orchestra with Doris Day goes to #1 in America with "Sentimental Journey."

1945Soul singer Chubby Tavares (of Tavares) is born Antone Lee Tavares in Providence, Rhode Island.


1941R&B singer William Guest (of Gladys Knight & The Pips) is born in Atlanta, Georgia.

1941The Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts is born Charles Robert Watts in London.

1937Jimmy Jones, known for the 1960 rock and roll hit "Handy Man," is born in Birmingham, Alabama.

1936Doo wop singer Otis Williams (of The Charms), not to be confused with The Temptations member of the same name, is born in Cincinnati, Ohio.

1932R&B singer Sammy Turner, known for the 1959 hit "Lavender-Blue," is born Samuel Black in Paterson, New Jersey.

1857Composer Edward Elgar is born in Worcester, England.

Whitney Houston Releases Hit-Filled Second Album1987
Whitney Houston's second album, Whitney, is released. It contains four #1 hits, including the enduring "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)."

Read more

2 JUNE
Featured Events
Music Industry Takes Stand Against Racism On "Blackout Tuesday"
2020The music industry recognizes "Blackout Tuesday" in response to the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. Using the hashtag #TheShowMustBePaused, many record labels and artists cease operations, while broadcasters and streaming services change their programming in support of efforts to address racism and injustice on a wide scale, and more specifically to end police brutality against African Americans.More

2018BTS become the first K-pop band to top the US albums chart when Love Yourself: Tear debuts at #1.

Muscle Shoals Sound Studios Added To National Historic Register
2006Muscle Shoals Sound Studios is added to the National Historic Register.More


2002Eminem's The Eminem Show hits #1 on both the UK and US album charts.

2001A cover of the chart-topping 1974 Labelle hit "Lady Marmalade" by Christina Aguilera, Missy Elliott, Pink, Mya and Lil' Kim takes the song back to the top spot, making Lil' Kim the first female rapper to appear on a Hot 100 #1 hit.

1989Rolling Stones bass player Bill Wyman, 52, marries 18-year-old Mandy Smith in a 15-minute civil ceremony held at a registry office in Suffolk, England. The only witnesses are Smith's sister and Wyman's son. A proper celebration takes place three days later.More


1944Marvin Hamlisch is born in New York City. The composer will not only win a Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Chorus Line in 1975, but will snag multiple Emmy, Grammy, Tony, and Academy Awards for his work for stage and screen (The Way We Were, The Sting).


Notable Album Releases
1978: Thin Lizzy released their acclaimed live album Live and Dangerous, featuring performances from London, Philadelphia, and Toronto, which became a commercial success and is considered one of the greatest live albums of all time.
1
1972: Pink Floyd released Obscured by Clouds, serving as the soundtrack for the film La Vallée and peaking at No.6 in the UK.
2
1978: Bruce Springsteen released his fourth studio album Darkness on the Edge of Town via Columbia Records.
1
1973: Paul McCartney and Wings’ Red Rose Speedway topped the Billboard 200, while the single My Love reached No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
2
2012: Adam Lambert’s Trespassing reached No.1 in the US, and Fun featuring Janelle Monáe topped the UK Singles chart with We Are Young.
1
2016: Ariana Grande’s Dangerous Woman reached No.1 in the UK.
1
2018: BTS scored their first No.1 album on the US Billboard 200 with Love Yourself: Tear.
1
2022: Harry Styles’ Harry’s House became the No.1 album in the UK.
1


3 Sources
Chart-Topping Singles
1962: Ray Charles’ cover of Don Gibson’s I Can’t Stop Loving You hit No.1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and topped charts in Australia, Sweden, and the UK.
1
1966: Frank Sinatra’s Strangers in the Night reached No.1 on the UK Singles Chart and topped charts worldwide.
2
1975: David Bowie’s single Fame, featuring John Lennon, became his first US No.1 hit.
1
1979: Donna Summer’s disco hit Hot Stuff began a three-week run at the top of the Billboard Hot 100.
1
1984: Wham! scored their first UK No.1 with Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, which also topped charts internationally.
1


4 Sources
Significant Performances and Milestones
1976: Paul McCartney and Wings performed to 67,100 fans in Seattle, setting a record for the largest indoor concert attendance at the time.
1
1981: Prince played his first UK show at London’s Lyceum Theatre.
1
1962: Island Records released its first single, Twist Baby by Owen Gray, marking the beginning of a label that would later sign Bob Marley, U2, and Amy Winehouse.
1

1 Source
Births and Deaths
1904: Jazz trumpeter Valaida Snow, known as the “Queen of the Trumpet,” was born.
1
1930: Singer-songwriter Jimmy Jones, famous for Handy Man, was born.
1
1932: Singer Sammy Turner, known for Lavender Blue and Always, was born.
1
1941: William Guest, founding member of Gladys Knight & the Pips, was born.
1
2008: Bo Diddley (Ellas Otha Bates), influential in bridging blues and rock ‘n’ roll, passed away at age 79.
2
2011: Jazz pianist Raphael “Ray” Bryant died at age 79.
1


2 Sources
Other Notable Events
1967: Capitol Records released The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in the US with identical track listings to the UK version, topping charts for 15 weeks in the US and 22 weeks in the UK.
1
1992: Ringo Starr’s second All-Starr Band debuted in concert, featuring notable musicians like Joe Walsh and Todd Rundgren.
1
2000: Joni Mitchell completed her Both Sides Now Tour of America in Camden, New Jersey.
1
2010: Paul McCartney received the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize at the White House.
1