| 61 years ago (1956) | Elvis begins work on his first movie, Love Me Tender. |
| 61 years ago (1956) | The Five Satins make their debut on the R&B charts with a song they recorded in a New Haven, Connecticut church basement, In The Still of the Night. |
| 59 years ago (1958) | Former Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid is born. |
| 56 years ago (1961) | Debbi Peterson of The Bangles is born. |
| 56 years ago (1961) | Tears For Fears member Roland Orzabal and Bangles drummer Debbie Peterson are born. |
| 54 years ago (1963) | Singer Tori Amos is born. |
| 53 years ago (1964) | Martha & The Vandellas' Dancing In The Streets is released. |
| 53 years ago (1964) | Liberty Records reports the album, The Chipmunks Sing The Beatles is selling 25,000 copies a day. |
| 51 years ago (1966) | Jerry Lee Lewis is signed to play Iago in Catch My Soul, a rock version of Shakespeare's Othello. |
| 49 years ago (1968) | Cynthia Powell Lennon sues John Lennon for divorce on the grounds of adultery. She came back from a vacation and found Yoko Ono living in the Lennon's London home. |
| 48 years ago (1969) | The Beatles film a film short for The Long and Winding Road. |
| 47 years ago (1970) | Creedence Clearwater Revival's Cosmo's Factory LP hits #1, a position it would hold for nine weeks. |
| 47 years ago (1970) | Derek and the Dominoes begin work on their first and only studio album, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. |
| 47 years ago (1970) | Elton John signs to MCA Records. |
| 47 years ago (1970) | Elvis Presley announces the six date itinerary of his first tour since 1958. |
| 44 years ago (1973) | Howie Dorough of Backstreet Boys is born. |
| 40 years ago (1977) | Peter Frampton plays the first of three sold out shows at Madison Square Garden. |
| 39 years ago (1978) | Simple Plan’s Jeff Stinco is born. |
| 38 years ago (1979) | Led Zeppelin releases what turns out to be their last album together, In Through The Out Door. |
| 30 years ago (1987) | Bruce Springsteen hops on stage with Levon Helm during Helm's show at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, N.J. They do Up On Cripple Creek and Little Richard's, Lucille. |
| 30 years ago (1987) | Suzanne Vega's Luka peaks at #3 on the pop chart. |
| 25 years ago (1992) | Sting marries his girlfriend of 10 years, Trudi Styler. |
| 19 years ago (1998) | Elton John, playing the second of two shows at the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim, is joined on stage by comedian Jim Carrey. They perform Rocket Man as a duet. |
| 9 years ago (2008) | Sporty Spice of The Spice Girls, Melanie Chisolm announces she's pregnant at age 34. She will be the last of the Spice Girls to become a mother. The father is her partner of six years, Thomas Starr. |