2003 - David Lee Roth injured himself while doing a very fast, complicated 15th-century samurai move onstage.
1998 - "Use Your Illusion I" and "Use Your Illusion II" were released simultaneously by Guns N' Roses.
1997 - Fleetwood Mac begin their first tour in 20 years.
1994 - Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots marries his first wife, Janina Castaneda.
1991 - Instead of releasing a double album, which they decide would be too expensive for fans, Guns N' Roses issue both Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion IIon the same day.
1984 - "Missing You" by John Waite hits #1 in America.
1982 - Pink Floyd's seminal double album The Wall makes it to the big screen as a feature-length musical.
1978 - Queen stage a bicycle race with 65 naked models at Wimbledon stadium in England to provide the video and cover art for their "Bicycle Race" single.
1973 - Billy Joel records "Piano Man."
1967 - The Doors appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show.
1967 - Keith Moon of The Who rigs his bass drum to explode at the end of "My Generation" during the group's appearance on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, but he doesn't realize that the stage crew has already set the charge. The resulting explosion cuts Moon's leg, singes Pete Townshend's hair, and startles fellow guests Bette Davis and Mickey Rooney.
1964 - Charles Finley, who owns the Kansas City Athletics baseball team, pays The Beatles $150,000 to play a show at his Municipal Stadium.