| 81 | years ago | 1945 | Singer Carly Simon is born. |
| 74 | years ago | 1952 | Split Enz singer Tim Finn is born. |
| 63 | years ago | 1963 | Singer George Michael is born. |
| 59 | years ago | 1967 | The Beatles record All You Need Is Love live on the Our World program, which is broadcast worldwide. |
| 57 | years ago | 1969 | Mick Taylor makes his first concert appearance with The Rolling Stones. He replaced Brian Jones. |
| 49 | years ago | 1977 | The Emotions Best Of My Love hits #1 on the R&B charts. It does the same thing on the pop charts two months later. |
| 44 | years ago | 1982 | The Rolling Stones make their first British concert appearance in six years. It's the first of two dates at London's Wembley Stadium where 140,000 show up to hear them play. |
| 42 | years ago | 1984 | Prince releases his Purple Rain LP. |
| 42 | years ago | 1984 | Backup singer Patti Scialfa joins Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band just four days before the start of the Born In The U.S.A. tour is to begin. |
| 34 | years ago | 1992 | Planners of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame hold a sneak preview of memorabilia that is to go on display for the public the next day. Among the items is one of Janis Joplin's favorite necklaces. The display is held at a Cleveland museum because the Hall Of Fame has yet to be built. |
| 34 | years ago | 1992 | Twenty-five years after leaving high school, Billy Joel gets his diploma. In 1967, the piano man overslept and missed his English and Gym finals. |
| 31 | years ago | 1995 | Pearl Jam cancels their tour because of an ongoing feud with Ticketmaster. They contend that the ticket giant holds a monopoly and charges fans too big of a surcharge on concert tickets. |
| 22 | years ago | 2004 | Jive Records confirms that Kentwood, Louisiana native and singer Britney Spears, age 22, has become engaged to her 26-year-old dancer boyfriend, Kevin Federline. He had been involved with actress Shar Jackson of TV's Moesha. Those two have a two-year-old daughter and another baby due the following month. Britney had married childhood friend Jason Alexander as a “joke that went too far” in Las Vegas six months previously. That marriage was annulled after just a few days. Britney's new fiancé appeared in the movie You Got Served, and was a backup dancer for yet another Britney boyfriend, N*Sync's Justin Timberlake. |
| 22 | years ago | 2004 | Concert promoters announce that Elton John will make his first-ever appearances in China in the coming September. Shows at Shanghai's Grand Stage are expected to lead to a full tour of China within the next two years. Whitney Houston, The Backstreet Boys, and Britney Spears are also planning imminent shows in China. |
| 20 | years ago | 2006 | Elvis Costello and his wife, jazz singer Diana Krall, announce that they are expecting a child in December, just in time for their third anniversary. Costello is touring with New Orleans songwriter and pianist Allen Toussaint, supporting their album, The River in Reverse. |
| 17 | years ago | 2009 | Michael Jackson, King of Pop, dies of cardiac arrest in his Los Angeles home at the age of 50. |
| 16 | years ago | 2010 | The Canadian progressive rock trio Rush receives the 2,412th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, drawing praise for their values and loyalty. |