1994Justin Bieber is born in London, Ontario, Canada.
1993Q magazine publishes an interview with Sting and Bob Geldof where Sting explains how his sex lasts for hours through the benefits of yoga.More
1985Ford licenses The Beatles "Help!" for a commercial, marking the first time one of their songs is used in a TV ad.
1973Pink Floyd release Dark Side Of The Moon. The album debuts at an inauspicious #95 on the US Albums chart, but becomes far and away the album with the most weeks on the tally, thanks in large part to a run from 1977-1988 when it never leaves.
1927Harry Belafonte is born in Harlem, New York, but at age 8 moves to Jamaica (his mother's birthplace) with his family. The Belafontes move back to New York in the early stages of World War II; in the '50s, Harry becomes a top entertainer, his career buoyed by the calypso craze.
2012On Justin Bieber's 18th birthday, he appears on The Ellen Degeneres Show, where his manager presents him with a Fisker Karma luxury electric car worth about $100,000.
2004Warner Music Group leaves parent company Time Warner for the first time, bought out as a separate entity by investors led by former Universal Music head Edgar Bronfman Jr.
2002Shirley Jones of the Partridge Family files for divorce from her husband, actor Marty Ingalls (she later withdraws the petition).
1995Soundgarden win two Grammy Awards: Best Hard Rock Performance for "Black Hole Sun" and Best Metal Performance for "Spoonman."
1995Tony Bennett wins the Album Of The Year Grammy award for MTV Unplugged, taken from his acoustic performance on the network.
1994Ozzy Osbourne wins Best Metal Performance with Vocal for "I Don't Want to Change the World" from his album No More Tears.
1994The Bodyguard soundtrack wins the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, with "I Will Always Love You" taking Record of the Year. Frank Sinatra receives a Living Legends Award and Aretha Franklin gets a Lifetime Achievement Award. Branford Marsalis and Bruce Hornsby take Best Pop Instrumental Performance for their song "Barcelona Mona," which was penned for the Barcelona Olympics.
1991Director Oliver Stone's biopic The Doors, starring Val Kilmer, opens in Los Angeles.
1987Kesha Sebert is born in Los Angeles. Using the stage name "Ke$ha" (she drops the $ in 2014), she becomes a pop superstar when her first album Animal tops the US chart in 2010.
1986Mr. Mister's "Kyrie" hits #1 in America. The refrain "Kyrie eleison" is Greek for "Lord, have mercy."
1984Two days after losing to Michael Jackson at the Grammy Awards, Prince records "When Doves Cry," programming the drums and playing every instrument himself (including the bass, which he decides to take out).
1981NBC airs Elvis And The Beauty Queen, starring Don Johnson as Elvis Presley. The TV special tells the story of his last years and his affair with Linda Thompson.
1979The Coca-Cola Company introduces Mello Yello as a competitor to Pepsi's Mountain Dew in the urine-colored soda category. Donovan hopes they will use his song "Mellow Yellow" in their advertising, but the company declines.
1977Bob Dylan's wife, Sara Lowndes - the "Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands" - files for divorce. The couple have been separated for years.
1975Elvis Presley wins a Grammy for Best Inspirational Performance for his live version of "How Great Thou Art."
Jim Morrison Arrested In Miami
1969
Jim Morrison of The Doors is arrested on stage at a Miami show after allegedly exposing himself to the audience.
Police charge Morrison with lewd and lascivious behavior and public drunkenness. He is convicted and sentenced to jail, but dies while the case is under appeal.
Whether or not Morrison really exposed himself is unclear; his bandmate Ray Manzarek claims that he just took his shirt off and waved it in front of his crotch to taunt the audience.
In 2010, the governor of Florida decides that it's best to let this one go, and grants Morrison a posthumous pardon.
Whether or not Morrison really exposed himself is unclear; his bandmate Ray Manzarek claims that he just took his shirt off and waved it in front of his crotch to taunt the audience.
In 2010, the governor of Florida decides that it's best to let this one go, and grants Morrison a posthumous pardon.
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