-Sax player Cannonball Aderley is born in Tampa, Flor.
1941
-Bassist Les Braid of Swinging Blue Jeans is born in Liverpool, England
-Signe Anderson is born in Seattle. She was the original lead vocalist for Jefferson Airplane before Grace Slick came along
1942
-Bassist Lee Dorman of Iron Butterfly is born in St. Louis
1960
-Mitch Dorge, drummer with Crash Test Dummies, is born
1962
-An early Beatles press call does not go too well. After meeting the band members, The Daily Mirror's Peter Jones decides they are a nothing group
1963
-The Rolling Stones play at the Great Pop Prom at London's Royal Albert Hall
1964
-2 years on and things have changed for the Beatles. They're so popular at Cleveland's Public Auditorium, they leave the stage for 15 minutes so the hysterical crowd can calm down
-Bassist Naomi Yang of Galaxie 500 is born
1969
-Jon Lord's ego is indulged as Deep Purple record Concerto for Rock Band and Orchestra with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at London's Royal Albert hall.
-Ed Sullivan makes his own stab at music stardom with his recording The Sulli-Gulli. It fails to chart
1974
-Uriah Deep's Gary Thain is nearly electrocuted
1976
-Ringo Starr releases his solo album Ringo's Rotogravure. Despite no one knowing what that is, it goes to #28, due to an appearance by John Lennon and Paul McCartney
1978
-Bob Dylan gives his never ending tour a dry run. He kicks off his 62 date American tour in Augusta, Maine
1979
-Bob Dylan releases his Slow Train Coming album
1980
-Pianist Bill Evans, dies at age 61 in New York
1991
-Bob Dylan and Kinky Friedman perform "Sold American" on Chabad Telethon
2000
-A songwriting duo for Celine Dion claim that Mariah Carey's Thank God I Found You sounds too much like one of their songs and file suit in California.
2003
-Johnny Cash is buried next to his wife June Carter in Hendersonville, Tenn.
-Billy Corgan announces his post-Smashing Pumpkins project Zwan are no more
-Madonna publishes her first kid's book The English Roses.
2004
-Madonna arrives in Tel Aviv, Israel for Rosh Hashanah
-Alan Jackson tops U.S. album charts with What I Do.
-Johnny Ramone dies in his sleep in L.A. at age 55 after battling prostate cancer
2006
-The Knack sue Run-DMC after sampling their "My Sharona" on the hit "It's Tricky".
