| 95 | years ago | 1931 | Sea of Love singer Phil Phillips is born. |
| 81 | years ago | 1945 | Walt Parazaider of the band Chicago is born. |
| 66 | years ago | 1960 | Sam Cooke kicks off his first tour of the West Indies with a concert in Montego Bay, Jamaica. In the next two weeks, Cooke will set attendance records everywhere he appears. |
| 62 | years ago | 1964 | Billboard reports Beatle records have claimed 60-percent of the singles market. |
| 54 | years ago | 1972 | Carole King wins Grammys for Album of the Year for Tapestry and Record Of The Year for It's Too Late. Carly Simon wins the Grammy for Best New Artist. |
| 54 | years ago | 1972 | Derrick of Jimmie’s Chicken Shack is born. |
| 46 | years ago | 1980 | Quincy Jones gets a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame on his 52nd birthday. |
| 45 | years ago | 1981 | Eric Clapton is admitted to United Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota after a serious attack of bleeding ulcers. Clapton is forced to cancel a 60-date tour in the United States. |
| 43 | years ago | 1983 | Hanson's Taylor Hanson is born. |
| 35 | years ago | 1991 | Legendary songwriter Jerome “Doc” Pomus dies in New York of cancer. He wrote many, many hits, including A Teenager In Love for Dion and the Belmonts and the Drifters' Save The Last Dance For Me. |
| 34 | years ago | 1992 | About 40,000 people attend Farm Aid Five in Irving, Texas. The show is hosted by Willie Nelson and features performances by John Mellencamp, Neil Young, and Paul Simon. |
| 34 | years ago | 1992 | A Jay and the Americans concert on Long Island is interrupted by a bomb threat. No bomb is found. |
| 17 | years ago | 2009 | Coldplay, the recently reunited Midnight Oil, and Kylie Minogue attract tens of thousands to concerts in Sydney and Melbourne to benefit victims of Australia's recent deadly wildfires, as well as flooding in Queensland. |
| 15 | years ago | 2011 | New Orleans' Mac Rebennack, a.k.a. “Dr. John,” is inducted into Cleveland's Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame at a ceremony in New York City. He joins the Alice Cooper Band, Neil Diamond, Darlene Love, Tom Waits, Jac Holzman, Art Rupe, and Leon Russell in the Class of 2011 Inductees. |