| 111 | years ago | 1915 | Guitar pioneer Les Paul is born. |
| 92 | years ago | 1934 | Jackie Wilson is born. |
| 85 | years ago | 1941 | Jon Lord, keyboardist for Deep Purple, is born. |
| 68 | years ago | 1958 | Jerry Lee Lewis, with the help of his producer Sam Phillips, take out a full-page ad in Billboard Magazine to explain about his second divorce and third marriage to his 14 year old cousin Myra. |
| 59 | years ago | 1967 | The Monkees play the Hollywood Bowl. |
| 59 | years ago | 1967 | Dean Felber of Hootie & the Blowfish is born. |
| 57 | years ago | 1969 | Guitarist Mick Taylor joins The Rolling Stones as Brian Jones' replacement. |
| 56 | years ago | 1970 | Bob Dylan receives an honorary doctorate of music degree from Princeton University. |
| 55 | years ago | 1971 | Paul McCartney's Ram LP goes gold. |
| 54 | years ago | 1972 | Columbia Records, in particular John Hammond, signs Bruce Springsteen. |
| 44 | years ago | 1982 | James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt and Jackson Browne appear at another Peace Week benefit. This one's at the Nassau Coliseum on Long Island, N.Y. |
| 34 | years ago | 1992 | Ben Vereen is nearly killed in an accident near his home in Malibu. Vereen was wandering on Pacific Coast Highway when he was struck by a car driven by producer David Foster. |
| 32 | years ago | 1994 | TLC's Lisa “Left-Eye” Lopes sets fire to the mansion of her boyfriend, Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Andre Rison. |
| 20 | years ago | 2006 | The animated feature film Cars is released featuring Cheech Marin of Cheech & Chong as one of the voices. At a promotional press tour a few days earlier, Cheech said there'll be no future joint efforts with Tommy Chong. Cheech said, “I'm real comfortable leaving Cheech & Chong right where it is. I was a big Laurel & Hardy fan when I was a kid. I used to watch them on TV all the time, and then one time I saw a Laurel & Hardy film they made when they were a lot older and it creeped me out. I just never wanted to do that.” |
| 17 | years ago | 2009 | Coldplay rocks the New Orleans Arena. Snow Patrol and Howling Bells open. |