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Featured Events
2002Return of the King: 25 years after his death, Elvis Presley has a #1 album in 17 countries - including the United States - when Elv1s 30 No. 1 Hits makes its debut.
1995(What's the Story?) Morning Glory is released, and goes on to make worldwide stars of the British rock band Oasis. The epic "Champagne Supernova" - exclusively released as a single in the US - goes on to reach #1 on the Modern Rock chart.
1982"Jack And Diane," a little ditty about two American kids growin' up in the heartland, hits #1 in America. It's the first and only #1 on the tally for John Cougar, who later reverts to his real name, John Mellencamp.
1954Elvis Presley bombs at the Grand Ole Opry, which does not approve of his take on traditional country music. The Opry's talent director, Jim Denny, famously tells Presley he should go back to driving a truck. Elvis swears never to return.
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In Music History
2014Rita Coolidge's sister Priscilla Coolidge is found dead in her Thousand Oaks, California, home. She is the victim of a murder-suicide perpetrated by her husband, Michael Seibert. Priscilla, who was once married to Booker T. of Booker T. & the MG's, performed with her daughter - Laura Satterfield - and Rita in the Native American music trio Walela.
2012The Mumford & Sons single "Babel" becomes the highest-selling debut single of the year, officially, with 600,000 copies sold.
2010On Season 7 of The X Factor (UK), One Direction perform as a group for the first time, singing a cover of "Torn" for judge Simon Cowell at his villa in Marbella, Spain. The guys had been eliminated as soloists and tried their luck as a group. They finish the competition in third place.
2009Esquire announces Kate Beckinsale as their Sexiest Woman Alive with a video of the actress set to the song "Goodbye Hollywood" by Jet.More
200455-year-old Billy Joel marries Katie Lee, his third wife. She becomes a writer and TV personality while married to Joel, a union that lasts five years.
2003For the third year in a row, Radioheadtakes the "best act in the world today" honors at the Q Awards in London. Q Magazinehated on their Hail to the Thief album, however, so the band refused to appear.
2003The Del McCoury Band wins top honors at the 14th annual International Bluegrass Music Awards in Louisville, Kentucky. The group takes home the Entertainer of the Year award for the eighth time. Band members Mike Bub and Jason Carter win in the instrumentalist categories for Bassist and Fiddler of the Year, respectively.
2002At the 2002 Jammy Awards, Trey Anastasio picks up two awards; his band Phish wins one.
2001Jazz baritone saxophonist Manny Albam, also a composer, arranger and conductor, dies of cancer in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, at age 79.
2000Paul Anka files papers to end his 37-year marriage to former fashion model Anne de Zogheb.
1999David Bowie offers a virtual guided tour of the controversial art show "Sensation: Young British Artists From The Saatchi Collection," at www.davidbowie.com. The show includes Damien Hirst's shark suspended in formaldehyde (titled "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living") and Tracey Emin's tent (titled "Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995").
1998Country singer Gene Autry dies of lymphoma in Studio City, California, at age 91.
1998Paul McCartney does an anonymous Q&A on the official site of his ambient duo The Fireman to promote their new album, Rushes.
1997Juanita L. Evans files suit against Wu-Tang Clan members RZA and Method Man, rapper Redman, and a Pennsylvania university and its student government. Evans claims that she was distracted by Redman and therefore did not see Method Man when he leaped off stage and landed on her. Evans was knocked unconscious.
1992Madonna's racy "Erotica" video, featuring footage from the making of her Sex book, debuts on MTV.
1D Tweet Makes History
2011
Louis Tomlinson of One Direction sends a tweet to his bandmate Harry Styles that becomes the second-most-retweeted in history.
After Styles says in a video interview, "My first real crush was Louis Tomlinson," Tomlinson sends this tweet:
"Always in my heart @Harry_Styles . Yours sincerely, Louis,"
1D fans become aflutter with the thought of Harry and Louis in love, and retweet it like crazy. The tweet becomes kind of a historical archive, a remnant from the early days of Twitter and an innocent time when the guys actually tweeted each other. The retweets keep coming, and in 2015 it passes Barack Obama's "Four more years" tweet to take second place behind the Ellen Degeneres Oscar selfie.
"Always in my heart @Harry_Styles . Yours sincerely, Louis,"
1D fans become aflutter with the thought of Harry and Louis in love, and retweet it like crazy. The tweet becomes kind of a historical archive, a remnant from the early days of Twitter and an innocent time when the guys actually tweeted each other. The retweets keep coming, and in 2015 it passes Barack Obama's "Four more years" tweet to take second place behind the Ellen Degeneres Oscar selfie.
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