Folk and blues barritone Odetta (Gordon) born in Birmingham, Alabama.
1947
Burton Cummings of the Guess Who is born.
After years together as singing sweethearts, Dale Evans (Francis Smith) and Roy Rogers, wed.
1961
The newly formed Beach Boys play their first series of concerts at California's Long Beach Auditorium.
1969
Pete Townsend's Indian mystic Meher Baba dies. The song "Baba O'Riley" relates to him.
1970
Paul McCartney instigates procedings to dissolve the Beatles.
1976
The Cars make their live debut in New Hampshire.
1978
The Winterland Theater in San Francisco is closed down by promoter Bill Graham. The last performances were given by the Greatful Dead and the Blues Brothers.
1982
Max's Kansas City, the NYC hangout for groups like the Velvet Underground, closes.
1984
Rick Allen, drummer for the metal band Def Leppard, is badly injured in a car accident. He would lose his left arm due to those injuries.
1985
Rick Nelson, the singer who grew up on television in his father Ozzie's show, "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet", is killed in a plane crash in Texas. He was 45. Also killed in the crash were his fiancˇe Helen Blair and five members of his Stone Canyon Band. It was suspected that the crash was caused by a torch being used to freebase cocaine in the plane's cabin.
