1940 – Glenn Miller recorded “Make Believe Ballroom Time” in New York.
1962 – The Beatles debuted on the British charts with the single “Love Me Do”. The song will peak at number four.
1969 – Muddy Waters was seriously injured and three people were killed in a traffic accident near Chicago.
1975 – The first episode of the show was broadcast “Saturday Night Live” with George Carlin as guest host. Janis Ian performed the songs “At Seventeen” and “In the Winter”. Billy Preston played “Nothing from Nothing” and “Fancy Lady”.
1990 – Nirvana had her first concert with David Grohl on drums.
1995 – Tupac Shakur he was released from Clinton Correctional Prison on $1.4 million bail posted by Suge Knight.
1997 – Elton John took first place on the Billboard Hot 100 with the song “Candle in the Wind 97”, a reinterpretation of his 1974 hit. While the original song was dedicated to Marilyn Monroe, this version was a tribute to his late friend, Princess Diana, and was performed at her funeral a few weeks earlier after her tragic death.
2005 – Rolls Royce Silver Shadow from 1974 that belonged To Freddie Mercury it was put up for auction on eBay by his sister Kashmira Cooke, who inherited the car from him.
2009 – S albumom „Love Is the Answer“, Barbra Streisand she became the first female artist in America to have a No. 1 album in five different decades.
2014 – Concert film “One Direction: Where We Are – The Concert Film” was released in cinemas. The worldwide screening ended the next day and broke the record for the most profitable event cinema production with a net income of 15 million dollars.
2016 – British artist Rod Stewart he became Sir Rod Stewart when the Duke of Cambridge knighted him at Buckingham Palace.
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