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Britney Spears marries her childhood pal Jason Allen Alexander in Las Vegas at 5:30 AM. Her record label say the singer "took a joke too far." The pair later file for an annulment.
Britney Spears
Willie Nelson debuts his anti-war song ""What Ever Happened to Peace on Earth" at a fundraiser for Democratic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich.
Willie Nelson
Kevin MacMichael, guitarist with '80s hit-makers Cutting Crew ("(I Just) Died in Your Arms") dies aged 51.
Cutting Crew
The Clash's Joe Strummer is cremated. The funeral procession takes his remains past the Elgin pub in West London, where The Clash played some of their earliest gigs.
Joe Strummer
The Clash
Vanilla Ice is arrested and spends the night in jail in Broward County, Florida after a fight with his wife in his truck.
Vanilla Ice
Spirit guitarist Randy California drowns off the coast of Hawaii's Molokai Island trying to save his 12-year-old son from the undertow. He was 45.
Randy California
Spirit
Simple Minds singer Jim Kerr marries singer-actress Patsy Kensit in London at the Kensington & Chelsea Registry Office. Fights break out between the couple's bodyguards and the paparazzi, with two innocent bystanders being knocked to the ground in the scuffle.
Simple Minds
Bob Dylan and the Band kick off a six-week tour at Chicago Stadium. It's Dylan's first American tour in eight years.
Bob Dylan
The Band
John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Unfinished Music, Vol. 1: Two Virgins arrives at Newark Airport in New Jersey. However, the shipment of 30,000 copies of the album is confiscated by police, who object to what they call the "pornographic" picture of the naked couple on the front cover.
John Lennon
Yoko Ono
Hullabaloo airs clips of the Beatles performing "Day Tripper" and "We Can Work It Out."
The Beatles
Tonight on TV's The Jack Paar Show, the talk show host airs a clip of a Beatles concert in Bournemouth, England. It's the Fab Four's first major TV exposure in the United States.
The Beatles
Guitarist Raymond McGinley of Scotland's Teenage Fanclub is born.
Teenage Fanclub
The Beatles begin their first headlining tour in Scotland at the Two Red Shoes Ballroom in Elgin. The promoter bills them as "The 'Love Me Do' Boys - The Beatles."
The Beatles
George Martin, who produced most of the Beatles' most memorable recordings, is born in London.
George Martin
The Beatles
 
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