1949 – Ronnie James Dio is born in Portsmouth, N.H.
1952 – Memphis producer and Sun Studios owner Sam Phillips records the last of five sessions with bluesman Howlin’ Wolf.
1954 – Memphis’ WHBQ plays Elvis Presley’s “That’s All Right (Mama)” for the first time.
1964 – An estimated 200,000 people lines the route the Beatles take to a civic reception in Liverpool, England, where their film A Hard Day’s Night has its premiere in the North of England.
1965 – The Rolling Stones have their first American No. 1 with “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.”
1966 – On The Ed Sullivan Show tonight, Ed plays host to those naughty Rolling Stones.
1968 – After they burn an American flag onstage, the Nice (“America”) are banned from London’s Royal Albert Hall.
1969 – Rolling Stone Brian Jones is buried in the Priory Road Cemetery in Cheltenham, England, following a funeral attended by the Rolling Stones minus Mick Jagger, who is in Australia filming Ned Kelly.
1972 – Harry Nilsson releases his Son of Schmilsson album, featuring contributions from George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
1975 – Cher files for divorce from Gregg Allman a mere 10 days after they were married.
1979 – Chuck Berry is sentenced to four months in jail for income tax evasion.
1984 – Huey Lewis & the News sing the national anthem at the All-Star baseball game In San Francisco.
1986 – Jerry Garcia slips into a diabetic coma.
1993 – Bob Seger marries Juanita Doricott.
1994 – Guitarist Scott Ian of Anthrax marries Debbie Leavitt.
1997 – Chrissie Hynde marries Lucho Brieva, an artist from Colombia who is 14 years her junior.
2010 - A US judge drastically reduced a $675,000 US verdict against a Boston University graduate student charged with illegally downloading and sharing 30 songs.
2011 - A pub in Dundee, Scotland called Lennon's Bar was forced to change the name of the venue and remove all Beatles memorabilia after Yoko Ono threatened legal action for copyright infringement.
2015 - John Fogerty filed a breach of contract lawsuit against two of his former Creedence Clearwater Revival band mates, Stu Cook and Doug Clifford, alleging that the pair were not honouring their earlier agreement that the name could only be used when the pair appeared on stage together.
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