1954 Rosemary Clooney’s “This Ole House” hits #1
1961 Jimmy Dean’s “Big Bad John” hits #1 for the first of five weeks
1963 The Beatles played two shows at the ABC Cinema in Northampton.
1964 Joe Tex records “Hold What You’ve Got.”
1965 Fontella Bass performs her hit “Rescue Me” on the ABC-TV program Shindig!
1965 Jefferson Airplane performs at the San Francisco Mime Troupe benefit, notable because it’s the first show put on by the soon-to-be-legendary promoter Bill Graham.
1966 The Who played at the Kongresshalle, Cologne supported by The Lords.
1967 Bob Dylan records “All Along the Watchtower,” “John Wesley Harding,” “As I Went Out One Morning,” “I Pity The Poor Immigrant” and “I Am A Lonesome Hobo.”
1970 Aerosmith performed their first gig when they played at Nipmuc Regional High School in Mendon, Massachusetts
1975 The Sex Pistols made their live debut at St Martin s School Of Art in central London
1976 Blue Oyster Cult landed their biggest hit as “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” peaked at No. 12 in the U.S.
1982 R.E.M. appeared at Tupelo’s Tavern, New Orleans, Louisiana.
1984 U2 played at Glasgow Barrowlands in Scotland 1986 R.E.M. played at Felt Forum New York City supported by The Feelies
1990 Madonna releases “Justify My Love,” which stirred controversy when MTV banned the video.
1995 The Charlatans played at the Aberdeen Beach Ballroom
1995 Queen release Made In Heaven, an album pieced together from recordings made before Freddie Mercury’s 1991 death. It debuts at #1 in the UK.
2000 Madonna played at New York’s Roseland Ballroom.
2002 Usher appears on the revived TV series The Twilight Zone, playing a police officer in the episode “To Protect and Serve.”
2003 Metallica performed at Yoyogi Taiikukanin Tokyo, Japan
2014 Taylor Swift’s album 1989 debuted at No. 1 on America’s Billboard albums chart, selling 1.287 million copies in its first week.
