2005 - Elton John became one of the first Britons to take advantage of his country's new Civil Partnership Act. The 58 year-old Pop star and his longtime friend, Canadian filmmaker David Furnish, 43, tied the knot in a civil ceremony at the Guildhall in Windsor, on the first day that the new law took effect.
1979 - The Eagles, Chicago and Linda Ronstadt performed at a benefit show for the presidential campaign for California governor Jerry Brown, who also happens to be Ronstadt's boyfriend.
1968 - Crosby, Stills & Nash perform together on stage for the first time.
1968 - Janis Joplin makes her solo concert debut in Memphis at an event for the Stax/Volt record label.
1968 - Traffic's self-titled album enters the charts.
1940 - Frank Zappa is born in Baltimore, Maryland.