1902 The Gibson Mandolin guitar company was formed.
1940 Lanny Ross records “Moonlight And Roses.”
1953 Stan Freberg’s “St. George And The Dragonet” hits #1.
1954 Longtime Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth is born in Bloomington, Indiana.
1956 Elvis Presley’s “Love Me Tender” entered the U.S. chart for a 19 week stay, peaking at No. 1 for 5 weeks.
1959 The Quarry Men played at the Casbah Coffee Club, Liverpool
1960 Larry Verne’s novelty song “Mr. Custer” hits #1 in America.
1963 Little Richard, The Everly Brothers, Bo Diddley, The Rolling Stones, Micky Most, The Flintstones and Bob Bain all appeared at The Gaumont, Wolverhampton, England.
1964 The Beatles appeared at De Montfort Hall in Leicester
1964 The Olympic Games open in Tokyo, inspiring the song “Tokyo Melody.”
1969 King Crimson releases In the Court of the Crimson King
1970 Neil Diamond’s “Cracklin’ Rosie” hits #1, where it will stay for one week.
1970 Black Sabbath were at No. 1 on the U.K. chart with their second album Paranoid.
1973 Rod Stewart &The Faces and Rory Gallagher appeared at San Diego Sports Arena, San Diego. California.
1975 The only Deep Purple studio album to feature guitarist Tommy Bolin, Come Taste the Band, is released
1983 Wham! played in Aberdeen, Scotland.
1987 Whitesnake went to No. 1 on the U.S. singles chart with “Here I Go Again”, a No. 9 hit in the U.K.
2000 Britney Spears played Wembley Arena, London
2006 Sting releases Songs From the Labyrinth, an album of 16th-century lute songs.
2009 Pop singer Stephen Gately (of Boyzone), age 33, dies of a congenital heart defect in Majorca, Spain.
2009 Pearl Jam went to No. 1 on the U.S. album chart with Backspacer, the group’s ninth studio album.
2011 Lana Del Rey releases her first single, “Video Games,” a song inspired by two fractured relationships.
2014 Taylor Swift was named Billboard’s Woman of the Year 2014, making her the first artist to receive the award twice
2015 Tenor saxophone player Steve Mackay who worked with the Stooges, Violent Femmes, Snakefinger, Commander Cody and others died at the age of 66.
