1945 – Born on this day, Rod Argent, keyboards, The Zombies
1949 – Born on this day, Jim Lea, bass, piano, violin, Slade
1949 – Born on this day, Alan White, drummer, Plastic Ono Band and Yes
1963 – Born on this day, Chris Degarmo, Queensryche
1964 – Touring Australia, The Beatles arrived in Melbourne and were greeted at the airport by over 5,000 fans.
1968 – Pink Floyd appeared at the Midsummer Ball, University College London, Bloomsbury
1969 – Mick Taylor is introduced to the media as the new guitarist in the Rolling Stones during a photo call in London’s Hyde Park.
1970 – Derek and the Dominoes played their first gig when they appeared at London’s Lyceum.
1980 – Peter Gabriel scored his first UK No.1 album with his third solo release ‘Peter Gabriel’.
1982 – The Pretenders fire bass player Pete Farndon. Two days later the band’s guitar player, James Honeyman-Scott, dies. Farndon dies of a drug overdose in 1983.
1986 – Three fans died during an Ozzy Osbourne gig at Long Beach Arena, California after falling from a balcony.
1986 – Queen scored their 5th UK No.1 album with ‘A Kind Of Magic’, featuring the single ‘One Vision’.
1995 - Police in Columbus, OH received 20 complaints of noise that a Ted Nugent concert was too loud. Nugent didn’t turn down the volume because he was within the legal noise limits.
1995 – Irish rock great Rory Gallagher dies at age 47 in London from complications following a liver transplant.
2001 – Charlie Daniels opens the Charlie Daniels Museum in downtown Nashville.
2002 – Mick Jagger became a Sir when he was knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours
2003 – Bryan Adams, Iggy Pop and Paul Weller all appeared at a weekend festival at The Isle Of Wight.
2016 - Henry McCullough, who played guitar for Paul McCartney's band, Wings, passed away at the age of 72.
2017 - The National Music Publishers Association announced at their annual meeting in New York that from here on, Yoko Ono would receive song writing credit on John Lennon's "Imagine".
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