| 85 | years ago | 1941 | Folk singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie is born. |
| 80 | years ago | 1946 | Jerome Geils, guitar player for the J. Geils Band, is born. |
| 76 | years ago | 1950 | Steely Dan's singer/bassist Walter Becker is born. |
| 75 | years ago | 1951 | Randy California, guitarist with Spirit, is born. |
| 63 | years ago | 1963 | Ian Brown of Stone Roses is born. |
| 61 | years ago | 1965 | The Supremes enter the pop and R&B charts with Stop! In the Name of Love, which reaches #1 on the pop chart and #2 R&B. It's their fourth straight release to hit #1 on the Hot 10. |
| 59 | years ago | 1967 | Kurt Cobain of Nirvana is born in Hoquaim, Washington. |
| 57 | years ago | 1969 | Goodbye Cream, a film of Cream's November 26, 1968 farewell concert at London's Royal Albert Hall, opens in Baltimore to small crowds and very negative critical response because of poor sound quality and “arty” editing. |
| 57 | years ago | 1969 | The film Candy premieres featuring Ringo Starr in his first non-musical roll. |
| 56 | years ago | 1970 | John Lennon's Instant Karma is released in the U.S. The following day it enters the U.K. pop chart where it will remain for six weeks, rising as high as #. |
| 55 | years ago | 1971 | Marvin Gaye's What's Going On and Santana's Oye Como Va are release. |
| 52 | years ago | 1974 | Cher files for separation from Sonny Bono after 10 years of marriage. |
| 51 | years ago | 1975 | Backstreet Boy Brian Littrell is born. |
| 50 | years ago | 1976 | Kiss' arrival at the pinnacle of their U.S. stardom is noted with the placing of their footprints on the sidewalk outside Hollywood's Grauman's Chinese Theater. |
| 44 | years ago | 1982 | Rocker Pat Benatar and her guitarist, Neil Geraldo, are married on the Hawaiian island of Maui. It's Benatar's second trip to the altar. |
| 44 | years ago | 1982 | Genesis' Abacab peaks at #26 on the chart. They got the name for the song from the chord progression of the tune -- A-B-A-C-A-. |
| 30 | years ago | 1996 | Rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg and a bodyguard are found not guilty of first-degree murder. The jury deadlocks on voluntary manslaughter charges and a mistrial is declared. |
| 29 | years ago | 1997 | Ben and Jerry's introduces a new flavor, Phish Food, named after the rock group Phish. It contains chocolate ice cream, marshmallows, caramel and fish-shaped fudge. |
| 28 | years ago | 1998 | The first of two concerts honoring the late Nicolette Larson is held at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Artists performing at the shows included Crosby, Stills and Nash, Joe Walsh, Carole King, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, and Jimmy Buffett. The four hour concert featured CS&N performing The Beatles. |
| 28 | years ago | 1998 | Bob Dylan's Time Out Of Mind LP came out on top as 1997's best album of the year in the Village Voice's annual poll of U.S. pop music critic. |
| 28 | years ago | 1998 | Elton John plays the first of two shows at The Great Western Forum. |
| 21 | years ago | 2005 | Aerosmith's Steven Tyler announces that he and his wife of 17 years, Teresa, are separating. “We’re just a family trying to work through a difficult time. A little privacy and sensitivity--for Teresa, my children, and myself --would be nice,” asks Tyler. Chelsea, 16, and Taj, 13, are their children. Steven is also Dad to model Mia Tyler, 26, and actress Liv Tyler, 27 from previous relationships. |
| 21 | years ago | 2005 | John Raitt, father of singer Bonnie Raitt, and the robust baritone who created the role of Billy Bigelow in the original New York production of Carousel and sang with Doris Day in the movie Pajama Game, dies at the age off 88 from complications of pneumonia at his Pacific Palisades home. |
| 21 | years ago | 2005 | Sandra Dee, the 1960s teen idol who attracted huge audiences with films such as Gidget and The Restless Years and was once married to pop singer Bobby Darin, dies at age 62. Complications from kidney disease are the cause. |
| 18 | years ago | 2008 | A woman convicted of stalking Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington is sentenced to two years in a Phoenix prison where she will likely receive mental health care. She had used her work computer at the Sandia National Laboratories to track and harass Bennington and hjs wife. |