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Beyonce tops the U.S. singles chart for a fourth week with her Pink Panther theme, "Check On It." The highest new entry is Pink's "Stupid Girls" at No. 24.
Beyoncé
P!nk
Kid Rock is arrested in Nashville on charges that he punched a DJ at a nightclub. Rock was in town to attend the funeral of country songwriter Merle Kilgore ("Ring of Fire").
Kid Rock
Merle Kilgore
3 Doors Down top the charts with their third album, Seventeen Days. The second highest new entry comes from R&B singer Brian McKnight, whose Gemini bows at No. 4.
3 Doors Down
Brian McKnight
Sir Paul McCartney telephones British tabloid The Sun to deny reports of a rift between his second wife Heather Mills and his daughter Stella McCartney. "I'm sick of people saying Heather and Stella don't get on," he says. "The truth is they do."
Paul McCartney
R&B singer Doris Troy, best known for her 1963 hit "Just One Look", dies in her sleep in Las Vegas. She was 64.
Doris Troy
Mark Oliver is sentenced to 15 months in a young offenders' institution after pleading guilty to handling stolen goods. The goods in question? Luggage belonging to Posh Spice of the Spice Girls.
Spice Girls
Los Angeles County Superior Court throws out the $10 million lawsuit against singer George Michael that followed his 1998 arrest on charges of lewd behavior in a Los Angeles public restroom. Beverly Hills cop Marcelo Rodrigues claimed that Michael had slandered him in a video for his single "Outside."
George Michael
Backstreet Boys Kevin Richardson and Brian Littrell announce they are getting engaged to their respective girlfriends. Young hearts around the world snap in two.
Backstreet Boys
Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood, Ian McLagen, and Kenny Jones reunite as the Faces to perform "Stay With Me" and "Sweet Little Rock 'n' Roller" at the Brit Awards. Bill Wyman fills in for Ronnie Lane, who is suffering from multiple sclerosis.
Rod Stewart
Bill Wyman
Faces
Mick Jagger lands in Japan but doesn't have the proper papers to let him into the country. He spends the night in a Tokyo airport hotel before the mix-up is resolved.
Mick Jagger
Billy Vera, who wrote the Family Ties theme, gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Billy Vera
Congratulations to Pat Benatar and Neil Geraldo, who become the proud parents of a daughter, Haley, today.
Pat Benatar
The Rolling Stones are sued by the Hell's Angel accused of stabbing Meredith Hunter at Altamont in 1969. Alan David Pasaro alleges that the Stones have invaded his privacy by including footage of the fatal attack in their documentary Gimme Shelter.
The Rolling Stones
"Please Please Me" becomes the Beatles' first U.K. No. 1.
The Beatles
Soul singer James Ingram is born in Akron, Ohio. He scored his biggest hit when he dueted with Patti Austin on 1982's "Baby Come to Me."
James Ingram
Patti Austin
 
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