Last Month | Yesterday | Tomorrow | Next Month | Every Month   May 19 1900   Blood, Sweat & Tears trombonist Jerry Hyman born in Brooklyn. 1925   Black power advocate and civil rights leader Malcolm X born Malcolm Little in Omaha, NE. Musically Malcom inspires a slew of emerging rap acts including Public Enemy, a great score by Terence Blanchard for the film biography, and the Anthony Davis opera, The Life and Times of Malcolm X. 1941   Eric Burdon, lead singer for the Animals, born in Newcastle, UK. 1945   Who guitarist Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend born in Chiswick, London. After meeting Roger Daltrey and John Entwistle in a coffee bar , the formed the Detours, then became the High Numbers with the addition of drummer Keith Moon. 1952   Mannequin and vocalist Grace Jones born. 1954   Classical composer and avant-garde rock forefather, Charles Ives dies in New York at the age of 79. 1956   Human League/ Heaven 17 bandmember Martyn Ware born in the UK. 1960   Alan Freed and eight others are charged by a federal grand jury with commercial bribery, better known as payola. 1969   Tenor sax legend Coleman Hawkins dies of pneumonia, age 69, in NYC. 1976   Keith Richards crashes his Bentley in Newport Pagnell, UK. He is charged with possession of drugs after certain substances are found inside the auto. 1979   Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Denny Laine, and Mick Jagger perform at the wedding reception of Eric Clapton and Patti Boyd.