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1961 The Crystals release their single “Oh Yeah, Maybe Baby.” The No. 20 hit is the first release on the Philles label, run by producer Phil Spector.
1963 With the final mix by George Martin of “Money (That’s What I Want),” work finishes on With the Beatles, the group’s second album.
1964 No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “Baby Love,” The Supremes. The group is the first from Motown Records to have two No. 1 hits.
1966 Pink Floyd sign with their new managers Peter Jenner and Andrew King.
1967 Rolling Stones leader Brian Jones, already deep in drug addiction, pleads guilty in a London court to possession of cannabis and not guilty to possession of cocaine and methedrine. He spends the night in Wormwood Scrubs prison and is released on bail the next day after being sentenced to nine months, a sentence which will eventually be suspended.
1967 Pink Floyd and the Sopwith Camel perform at San Francisco’s Fillmore in a benefit for the radio station KPFA. The same day they appear on The Pat Boone Show. Madcap singer Syd Barrett refuses to answer Pat’s questions during the program.
1970 A Miami court sentences Doors leader Jim Morrison to six months in prison and a fine of $500 for allegedly exposing himself during a concert there in March of the previous year. The case is still on appeal when Morrison dies the following July.
1970 Davy Jones guest-stars as himself in tonight's "The Teen Idol" episode of ABC-TV's Make Room For Granddaddy.
1972 Elton John becomes the first rock star since the Beatles to perform for Queen Elizabeth II at her annual Royal Command Variety Performance in London.
1973 On their first visit to the UK, The Osmonds are mobbed by 10,000 fans at London's Heathrow Airport.
1974 Upon learning that her husband, funk-rocker Sly Stone, has abducted their 14-month-old son Sylvester Bubb
Ali Stewart, wife Kathy Silvia files for divorce.
1976 Led Zeppelin announces that they will embark on another world tour. However, the tour is later postponed due to Robert Plant’s tonsillitis.
1977 Poet Allen Ginsberg visits his old friend Bob Dylan and the two tape several interviews together.
1978 KISS' ill-advised live-action kiddie movie KISS Meet The Phantom Of The Park premieres on NBC-TV. Their career would never fully recover.
1979 Bianca Jagger, Mick's first wife, is granted a divorce after eight years of marriage.
1982 Paul Weller announces he’s breaking up the Jam. Ballsy move.
1984 Barry Manilow beats Diana Ross' old Radio City Music Hall record of $1.8 million with his series of sold-out concerts there.
1984 Acclaimed soprano Linda Ronstadt finally stars in her first opera -- a production of "La Boheme" at New York's Public Theatre.
1988 Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Seattle megagroup Nirvana, smashes his very first guitar.
1995 The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announces its upcoming induction of David Bowie, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Pink Floyd, The Shirelles, Jefferson Airplane, Little Willie John, and the Velvet Underground.
1997 All three of the Bee Gees walk off the set of Clive Anderson's BBC-TV talk show All Talk after Anderson disparages their disco era and refers to them as "tossers."
1998 KISS, both with their signature makeup and without, appear on tonight's "...Thirteen Years Later" episode of Fox-TV's Millennium.
1998 David Bowie kicks off a contest on his Web site Bowienet.com, asking users to help him finish writing the lyrics for the song “What’s Really Happening.” All references to laughing gnomes are immediately discarded, and the eventual winner is 20-year-old Alex Grant.
2001 Songstress Barbra Streisand releases her first holiday album in 34 years, Christmas Memories. The album is the artists’ first studio release since 1999′s “A Love Like Ours.”
2002 Run-DMC DJ Jam Master Jay (Jason Mizell) is shot dead in the Jamaica section of Queens, N.Y. Two suspects are reportedly buzzed into Mizell’s area recording studio where the rap pioneer is in a waiting room. He was 37.
2003 Lionel Richie divorces his second wife, Diane Alexander.
2005 Willie Nelson holds a fundraiser on his Austin ranch and golf course to raise money for his old pal and Texas gubernatorial candidate, the writer-songwriter-gadfly Kinky Friedman. Also in attendance: Jesse “The Body” Ventura.
2007 After losing the top spot to Nirvana's Kurt Cobain the year before, Elvis Presley once again tops Forbes Magazine's list of highest-earning dead celebrities. John Lennon is second on the list; fellow ex-Beatle George Harrison is fourth
