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The White Stripes postpone their Japanese tour after doctors tell Jack White not speak or sing for the next two weeks to rest his ailing vocal chords.
The White Stripes
Jack White
The principal of Lemoore Union High School in Lemoore, Calif., cancels the remainder of the year's school dances - inculding the prom - after objections are raised to the student's "freak dancing."
A Los Angeles court awards Courtney Love custody of her daughter Frances Bean Cobain. Frances was put in the care of Kurt Cobain's mother following Love's 2003 OD.
Courtney Love
Kurt Cobain
Gospel singer Willie Neal Johnson dies from stroke complications in his hometown of Tyler, Texas. He was 65.
Bryan Gregory, founding guitarist with the Cramps, dies in Anaheim, Calif. He had suffered a heart attack weeks earlier and never fully recovered.
The Cramps
Christians gather outside the Arlington Theater in Santa Barbara, California to pray for the soul of Marilyn Manson, who is performing inside. They also distributed pizza, soda and cookies to gig-goers.
Marilyn Manson
Def Leppard have some personal effects stolen from their tour bus in Kelowna, Canada. The thief made off with nearly $5000 worth of the band's personal items, including videotapes belonging to singer Joe Elliott.
Def Leppard
Joe Elliot
James Brown receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
James Brown
Anton Karas, whose speedy fingers worked the zither on the chart-topping theme to The Third Man, dies in Vienna.
Anton Karas
The litigation between Beatles, Apple, Allen Klein and ABKCO is declared settled in court.
The Beatles
The legendary bluesman Howlin' Wolf dies at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Hines, Ill.
Howlin' Wolf
The trial over Paul McCartney's move to dissolve the Beatles partnership begins today in London's High Court. Ringo testifies, "Paul behaved like a spoilt child."
Paul McCartney
Ringo Starr
The Beatles
The reclusive Bob Dylan appears on the banjo picker Earl Scruggs' Fanfare Show. The duo performs "East Virginia Blues" and "Nashville Skyline Rag."
Bob Dylan
Earl Scruggs
In New Delhi, India, the General Secretary for the Movement for the Spiritual Regeneration (not, we suspect, a real government office) announces that the Beatles are coming to India to study transcendental meditation. George Harrison is currently in Bombay recording the soundtrack to Wonderwall.
George Harrison
The Beatles
American promoter Sid Bernstein telephones Beatles manager Brian Epstein to propose the Fab Four play Shea Stadium.
The Beatles
Singer Shawn Colvin is born in Vermillion, S.D. Her "Sunny Came Home" won Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year in 1998.
Shawn Colvin
Chic vocalist Luci Martin - that's Chic the band - is born.
Chic
Percussionist Cyril Neville of the Meters is born in New Orleans.
Cyril Neville
Songwriter Jim Croce ("Time in a Bottle") is born in Philadelphia.
Jim Croce
Actor Sal Mineo is born in New York. As well as starring in The Gene Krupa Story and Rock Pretty Baby, Sal scored a top 10 hit in 1957 with "Start Movin' (In My Direction)."
Sal Mineo
Rockabilly performer Ronnie Hawkins, former employer of the Band, is born in Huntsville, Ark.
Ronnie Hawkins
The Band
 
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