1541 – Composer Hernando de Cabezon was born.

1907 – Oscar Hammerstein announced a plan for five opera houses in New York.

1936 – Charles Hardin Holley, later Buddy Holly, was born in Lubbock, TX. His name was misspelled on his first record contract and he decided to leave it that way.

1940 – Artie Shaw and his orchestra recorded “Temptation”.

1969 – The half hour Saturday morning cartoon “The Beatles” aired its last show. The show had debuted on September 25, 1965.

1975 – The Guess Who play their final concert in Montreal.

1975 – Steve Anderson set a record for picking a guitar. Anderson, at age 22, picked for 114 hours, 7 minutes. He broke the old record by more than four hours.

1976 – Paul McCartney commemorated Buddy Holly’s 40th birthday with the inauguration of “Buddy Holly Week” in Britain.

1978 – Sid Vicious performed at Max’s Kansas City, New York City punk club.

1978 – Keith Moon, drummer for The Who, died in London after overdosing on Hemenephirin at the age of 31. He was taking the prescription drug to help him with alcohol. He was replaced in The Who by Kenney Jones (from the Faces).

1979 – Gary Numan released his LP “The Pleasure Principle.”

1986 – Michael Nesmith joined the other original Monkees on stage for the first time since the band disbanded.

1987 – Pink Floyd began their “A Momentary Lapse Of Reason” tour despite threats to sue by former member Roger Waters.

1990 – “Street Scene” opened at the New York State Theatre.

1996 – Tupac Shakur and Marion “Suge” Knight are shot while in Las Vegas after a Mike Tyson fight. Shakur died six days later.

2000 – Timothy Commerford (Rage Against the Machine) was arrested and charged with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. Commerford had climbed a scaffold during the MTV Music Awards delaying the show 20 minutes.

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