| 83 | years ago | 1943 | Graham Nash, guitarist and vocalist for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, is born. |
| 63 | years ago | 1963 | Duke Records releases Bobby “Blue” Bland's That's the Way Love Is, his second R&B #1 and third Top Forty single. |
| 55 | years ago | 1971 | George Harrison's All Things Must Pass his first LP as an ex-Beatle, hits #1 in the U.S. The album contains two hits, What Is Life? and My Sweet Lord. |
| 51 | years ago | 1975 | U.S. District Court Judge Richard Owen rules in New York, John Lennon and his lawyers will have access to Department of Immigration files pertaining to his deportation case. Its allows the former Beatles to look into whether the government's case against him is from his 1968 British drug conviction or from his anti-establishment comments during the years of the Nixon administration. |
| 47 | years ago | 1979 | The trial of ex-Sex Pistol, Sid Vicious for the October 1978 murder of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen, opens in New York City. Vicious won't live to hear a verdict as he will die shortly of a heroin overdose. |
| 46 | years ago | 1980 | Larry Williams, who had hit songs like Dizzy Miss Lizzy and Bony Maronie is found dead in his Los Angles home of a gunshot wound to the head. It is never resolved whether his death was a murder or suicide. He was 45 years old. |