TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS:
- Reggie Jackson (Hall of Fame Major League Baseball player) (66)
- Bill Macy (actor, Maude's Walter Findlay) (90)
- Brooks Robinson (Baseball Hall-of-Famer) (75)
- Tina Fey (writer and actress, Saturday Night Live, Mean Girls, 30 Rock) (42)
- Jack Johnson (Hawaiian-born singer) (37)
- Chow Yun Fat (actor, The Replacement Killers, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Bulletproof Monk) (57)
- Rick Wakeman (keyboardist, Yes) (63)
- George Strait (country singer) (60, disputed)
1963…Jackie DeShannon sang "Rock-A-Bye Your Baby" and "Just In Time" as she made her network TV debut on CBS' "The Jackie Gleason Show."
1964…During a Rolling Stones tour, a riot broke out at the Chantingall Hotel in Hamilton, Scotland, when more than 4,000 fans with forged tickets crashed the gates at the band's show.
1964…In London, the Animals recorded "The House Of The Rising Sun" in one take.
1966…At EMI's Abbey Road Studios in London, the Hollies recorded "Bus Stop," which became their first Top 10 hit in North America.
1966…Bruce Springsteen stepped into a recording studio for the first time, to record with his garage band the Castiles at Mr. Music in Brick Town, New Jersey. They cut two Springsteen songs, "Baby I" and "That's What You Get." The songs were recorded directly to disc. Seven or eight test pressings were made.
1967…The Jimi Hendrix Experience continued their first European tour with a concert at Stadthalle in Offenbach, Germany.
1967…It was announced that the Beatles had been selected to represent the UK on "One World," the first global satellite broadcast, to air on June 25. The band was commissioned to write a song for the event. John Lennon's "All You Need Is Love" was the composition that was chosen.
1967…Stevie Wonder released the single "I Was Made To Love Her."
1968…In Santa Clara, California, the Doors, the Steve Miller Band, Jefferson Airplane, and the Grateful Dead performed at the Northern California Rock Festival.
1969…The 5th Dimension sang "Up-Up And Away," "Working On A Groovy Thing," and "Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In" on CBS-TV's "The Ed Sullivan Show."
1978…The movie "The Buddy Holly Story," starring Gary Busey in the title role, with Don Stroud, Charles Martin Smith, Conrad Janis, Neva Patterson, and Maria Richwine, had its world premiere in Dallas.
1981…Diana Ross left the Motown label after 20 years and signed a $20 million contract with RCA.
1988…As part of their Tango In The Night Tour, Fleetwood Mac played the first of six sold-out nights at Wembley Arena in London.
1988…Michael Clarke, the original drummer for the Byrds, was given permission by a Tampa court to use the band's name for his own touring group.
1988…Six weeks after being charged with assaulting his wife with intent to murder, James Brown spent the night in jail on charges of drug possession and fleeing from police.
2000…Madonna's boyfriend Guy Ritchie was arrested after allegedly kicking and punching a 20-year-old male fan outside her London home.
2002…CBS aired Barry Manilow's TV special "Ultimate Manilow," a concert filmed at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood.
2003…June Carter Cash's funeral was held at the First Baptist Church in Hendersonville, Tennessee, with an estimated 2,000 mourners including her husband Johnny Cash who was in a wheelchair, Rosanne Cash, Carlene Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Hank Williams, Jr., Marty Stuart, Tom T. Hall, Rodney Crowell, Trisha Yearwood, Connie Smith, Ricky Scaggs, Jane Seymour, and Robert Duvall. Emmylou Harris, Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers, the Oak Ridge Boys, and Sheryl Crow performed gospel songs at the service.
2004…The Moody Blues' original bass player (Go Now) Clint Warwick died of liver disease at age 63.
2005…Gordon Lightfoot made a triumphant return to the stage at Massey Hall in Toronto, two years after he nearly died from an abdominal aneurysm. Greeted by a standing ovation, he quipped, "Sorry I'm late."
2010…John Fogerty Day was declared in Los Angeles as the Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman was honored by Broadcast Music International (BMI).
2011…At the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills, California, John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for the 1967 Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" sold at auction for $237,132.
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