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| 1904 | | Crooner Bing (Harry Lillis) Crosby born in Tacoma, WA. |
| 1933 | | Mothers of Invention sax and drummer John Lee (Bunk) Gardner born. |
| 1935 | | Link Wray born. |
| 1943 | | Original Animals guitarist Hilton Valentine born. |
| 1944 | | Argent vocalist John Verity born. |
| 1945 | | Doo wop singer Randy Cain (Four Guys, who became the Delfonics after Cain was drafted) is born in Philadelphia. |
| 1945 | | Steppenwolf organist Goldy McJohn born. |
| 1946 | | Singer Lesley Gore ("It's My Party") born. |
| 1948 | | One of the many Gatlin Brothers, Larry, born in Odessa, TX. |
| 1951 | | Joe Callis of the Human League born. |
| 1957 | | Disgraceful and disgraced Senator Joseph McCarthy dies. |
| 1961 | | Bruce Robert Howard, known as Dr. Robert of the Blow Monkeys, born. |
| 1979 | | Following the primiere of the film, Quadrophenia, based on the Who LP of the same name, the band plays its first public gig since the death of Keith Moon. |
| 1980 | | Pink Floyd's single "Another Brick In the Wall" (with lyrics like "we don't need no education, we don't need no thought control, we don't need your dark sarcasm") is banned by the South African government after Black school children adopt it as their anthem. |
| 1993 | | For Women, a British Cosmo-like magazine, publishes a shoping list of their most wanted musical centerfolds, and the prices they will pay for the nude photos. The list was published when members of the rock band Oasis refuse to strip at any price. Other refusenicks include Michael Hutchence of INXS ($48,000) and low on the list ex-Pogue, Shane MacGowan. |
| 1995 | | At a party Kurt Cobain od's. It is becoming a familiar parlor trick. |
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