1907 – The opera “The Merry Widow” opened in New York City, NY.

1908 – Composer Howard Ferguson was born.

1908 – A “Saturday Evening Post” advertisement offered a chance to buy a two-sided record from Columbia.

1921 – Composer Sir Malcolm Arnold was born.

1938 – Jan Savitt’s orchestra recorded “Quaker City Jazz.”

1957 – “Jailhouse Rock”, the Elvis Presley film, premiered.

1958 – Buddy Holly recorded his last studio session. Holly and the Crickets recorded “True Love Ways,” “Moondreams,” “It Doesn’t Matter Anymore,” and “Raining in my Heart.”

1961 – Bob Dylan recorded “Bob Dylan,” his first album. He was 20 years old when he did the recording for Columbia Records. The cost to produce the session was $400.

1962 – Cliff Richard appeared on the “Ed Sullivan Show.”

1964 – The movie musical “My Fair Lady” made its world premier in New York.

1965 – The Kingsmen and the Dave Clark Five appear on “Shindig!”

1966 – The Who appeared on Britain’s “Ready Steady Go!”

1971 – Mick and Bianca Jagger’s daughter Jade was born in Paris.

1975 – Elton John received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1992 – The erotic photograph book, “Sex,” was released by Madonna. The first run of 500,000 copies sold out.

1992 – Elton John files a $35 Million lawsuit accusing a reporter from the TV show “Hard Copy” of falsely stating that he had moved to Atlanta to be near an AIDS treatment center.

1992 – Benjamin Storm Keough was born to Lisa Marie Presley and her husband Danny Keough.

1992 – Katherine Diana was born. She was the first child of Hank Williams Jr. and his fourth wife Mary Jane.

1995 – Shannon Hoon (Blind Melon) died of a cocaine overdose at the age of 28.

1996 – Jay Bargieri, a former executive with EMI Records, announced the launch of the first Internet record label. The record label, Jay-Bird Records, is the first of its kind.

1998 – Coolio (Artis Ivey) plead not guilty to concealed weapon and marijuana possession charges in Torrance, CA. He had been arrested the previous month.

1998 – Alice Cooper filed suit against KISS members Paul Stanley and Bruce Kulick alleging their song “Dreamin’” sounds too much like the song “Eighteen” by Cooper.

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