1813 – Composer Giuseppe Fortunino Frencesco Verdi was born.

1835 – Composer Charles-Camille Saint-Saens was born.

1931 – Russ Columbo’s “Prisoner of Love” was recorded.

1958 – Eddie Cochran recorded “C’mon Everybody.”

1959 – Bobby Darin became the youngest performer to headline the Sands Hotel’s Copa Room in Las Vegas, NV. Johnny Mathis held the previous record (he had been 23).

1964 – The Rolling Stones cancelled the planned tour in South Africa because of an anti-apartheid embargo by the British Musicians’ Union.

1966 – John Lennon met Yoko Ono for the first time at an Indica Gallery in London’s West End.

1966 – The Rolling Stones recorded their first live album “Got Live if You Want It.”

1967 – Doc Severinsen replaced Skitch Henderson as musical director of “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.”

1971 – Van Morrison’s “Wild Night” was released.

1974 – Quincy Jones gets his first gold record for “Body Heat.”

1978 – David Bowie’s “Stage” album was released by RCA Records.

1979 – Styx released “Babe.”

1980 – John Lennon released “Starting Over” on his 40th birthday. It was his first record in five years.

1985 – A 2½-acre garden memorial was dedicated to John Lennon by his widow Yoko Ono. The memorial in New York City’s Central Park is called Strawberry Fields.

2002 – The Bon Jovi album “Bounce” was released.

2003 – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II made Sting a CBE (Commander of the British Empire).

2003 – Joe Strummer’s last album, “Streetcore,” was released posthumously. Strummer had died of a heartattack on December 22, 2002.

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