2016 - 73-year-old Mick Jagger became a father for the 8th time when his girlfriend, 29-year-old Melanie Hamrick, gave birth to the couple's son.
2014 - Metallica became the first band to perform a concert on all seven of Earth's continents.
2004 - Dimebag Darrell is shot dead on stage while performing with his band Damageplan at Alrosa Villa in Columbus, Ohio.
2003 - Ozzy Osbourne was injured in an all-terrain vehicle accident in England. His injuries included a fractured left collarbone, eight fractured ribs and stable fracture to one of the vertebrae in his neck.
2000 - Sting received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2000 - A plaque to commemorate the 20th anniversary of John Lennon's death was unveiled outside his childhood home in Liverpool.
1995 - The Grateful Dead announce their breakup four months after the death of founding member Jerry Garcia.
1984 - Nicholas "Razzle" Dingley (of Hanoi Rocks) dies in a drunk-driving accident in Redondo Beach, California.
1980 - John Lennon mixes Yoko Ono's "Walking On Thin Ice" at the Record Plant studio in New York.
1979 - The Styx ballad "Babe," which Dennis DeYoung wrote for his wife, hits #1 in America.
1977 - Blondie failed to appear for a concert and riot breaks out in Brisbane, Australia.
1971 - Reginald Dwight legally changes his name to Elton Hercules John.
1971 - 1969 - Testifying at his trial for possesionJimi Hendrix claims that he has now "outgrown" drugs when testified at his trail for possession of heroin and hashish in the Toronto Supreme Court, where the jury found him not guilty after eight hours of deliberations.
1967 - Traffic release their debut album, Mr. Fantasy.
Birthdays
- Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen was born in Hackney, London, England in 1957.
- Gregg Allman (of The Allman Brothers Band) was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1947.
- Jim Morrison was born James Douglas Morrison in Melbourne, Florida in 1943.
- Sammy Davis, Jr. was born Samuel George Davis Jr. in New York City in 1925.