Singer Nina Simone (Eunice Waymon) born in North Carolina.
1938
Swamp pops leading songwriter, Bobby Charles ( Robert Charles Guidry) born in Abbeville, Louisiana. Hits include "Later Alligator" and probably his best known song via Fats Domino, "Walking to New Orleans". Charles performs on the Band's Last Waltz record and film, and his song, "I Don't Know Why but I Do" is performed by Clarence "Frogman" Henry on the Forrest Gump soundtrack.
1943
Promoter and Record Company Executive David Geffen Born in NYC.
1949
Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads and Casual Gods born.
1952
Jean Jacques Burnel of the Strangles born.
1961
Ranking Roger (Roger Charlery) of the English Beat and General Public, born.
1966
Malcolm X assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in NYC by Norman 3X Butler and Thomas 15X Johnson.
1969
James Dean Bradfield of the Manic Street Preachers born.
1976
Sex Pistols get their first print review ever in UK paper New Musical Express.
Florence Ballard of the Supremes dies penniless in Detroit.
1980
Reggae singer Jacob "Killer" Miller is killed in a motorcycle accident in Jamaica. Jacob was the main man in the pre-Cops Inner Circle Band.
1982
Famed disc jockey and the self proclaimed "Fifth Beatle" because his live coverage of so much of their first US tour, Murray "The K" Kaufman dies of cancer.
1990
At the Dublin Film Festival singer Sinead O'Connor debuts as an actress on a made for TV movie. She plays a schoolgirl.
1992
While on tour in England, Pearl Jam's bus is stopped by a youth gang in Manchester who rob the boys at knife point.
1998
The von Trapp family goes to court in Vermont where they settled after the war. Until now the family had operated a lodge on 2,200 acres, and traded stock only within the family on this business and 80% of the royalties to just about anything to do with "The Sound of Music." When they decided to go public, minority shareholders in the corporation who objected were bought out, and the suit revolved around the low buyout price. Them Hills Are Alive with the Sound of Money.
