1939 – Artie Shaw and his band recorded “Deep Purple.”
1955 – The Dave Brubeck Quartet appeared for the first time at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
1957 – The Crickets recorded a cha-cha version of “Maybe Baby.”
1969 – Paul McCartney and Linda Eastman were married.
1969 – George Harrison and his wife Patti were arrested in Esher, Surrey. The charge was cannabis resin possession after authorities found 120 joints in their house.
1974 – Nilsson and John Lennon were ejected from the Troubador Club in Los Angeles for heckling the Tom Smothers’ comedy act.
1991 – The R.E.M. album “Out of Time” was released.
1996 – KISS released the album “MTV Unplugged.”
1998 – Cathay Pacific Airways announced that it had banned Liam Gallagher of Oasis after an incident on a flight from Hong Kong to Australia.
1998 – Korn served a cease-and-desist demand to a Michigan assistant principal, the high school and the school district who suspended a student for wearing a T-shirt that had the band’s name on it.
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