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Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora and Heather Locklear announce they are splitting after 11 years of marriage.
Bon Jovi
Richie Sambora
Country behemoth Kenny Chesney's Be As You Are knocks the Game's rap CD, The Documentary off the No. 1 spot in the US albums chart. The second highest new entry is LeAnn Rimes' This Woman, in at No. 3.
Kenny Chesney
Game
LeAnn Rimes
Michael Jackson's child molestation trial is adjourned early after 4000 potential jurors are whittled down to a final 250. Experts say jury selection could take up to a month.
Michael Jackson
Linkin Park's Chester Bennington visits southern Thailand to assess the damage left by the 2004 tsunami. He visits two elementary schools and helps paint a house with other foreign travellers.
Linkin Park
Chester Bennington
Roll another fat one! Jam band extraordinaire Phish go back into the studio to record the follow-up to 2002's Round Room.
Phish
Courtney Love announces plans to publish her diaries. Her agent says, "The book features Courtney's legendary writings that have been whispered and wondered about for years but that no one has ever seen. They're like the literary equivalent of Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series."
Courtney Love
Hole
Natalie Maines, singer with the Dixie Chicks ("Landslide"), announces she is expecting her second child. She and actor Adrian Pasdar also have a son, Slade.
Dixie Chicks
Not only does Jennifer Lopez hold down the No. 1 album spot on the charts with J. Lo, she also has the No. 1 movie in the country with The Wedding Planner.
Jennifer Lopez
Ted Nugent learns he isn't getting the key to Detroit after city elders tell the mayor about some of the guitarist's more controversial views. "I have no negative feelings whatsoever," says the Nuge. "He's got to do what he's got to do, and I've got to do what I've got to do."
Ted Nugent
Bob Dylan plays a special corporate gig for 250 employees of Nomura Securities International, Inc. at Phoenix's Biltmore Hotel.
Bob Dylan
REO Speedwagon's 10th album, Hi Infidelity, goes platinum.
REO Speedwagon
A large gathering of London punks remember Sid Vicious by participating in a march from the borough of Chelsea to the famed Hyde Park. The parade was to have been led by the musician's mother, but she was in the hospital after suffering an overdose the previous evening.
Sid Vicious
NBC premieres a new music series called Midnight Special, hosted by Helen Reddy.
Helen Reddy
An organ explodes in San Francisco, injuring the hands of Emerson, Lake & Palmer's keyboard player, Keith Emerson. It was all part of the stage act, but the explosives in the instrument went off prematurely.
Keith Emerson
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Coretta Scott King, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, and Sammy Davis Jr. attend the funeral of gospel singer Mahalia Jackson. A telegram sent by President Richard Nixon is read. The ceremony ends with Aretha Franklin singing "Precious Lord, Take My Hand."
Mahalia Jackson
Aretha Franklin
Sammy Davis Jr.
To headline its '60s retrospective feature, today's issue of Look magazine uses a classic Beatles quote: "I read the news today, oh boy."
The Beatles
Yoko Ono obtains a divorce from her first husband, Tony Cox, and gains custody of her daughter, Kyoko.
Yoko Ono
In Bradford, England, the Beatles embark on their first tour of the U.K. as part of a package including Helen Shapiro, Danny Williams, Kenny Linch, Kestrels, and the Red Price Orchestra.
Helen Shapiro
The Beatles
Tonight Fats Domino appears on The Perry Como Show, performing "Blue Monday" and "Blueberry Hill." Both songs were R&B No. 1's.
Fats Domino
Perry Como
Atlantic Records signs the Los Angeles doo-wop group the Coasters. The group goes on to have a string of classic Top 10 hits, including "Searchin'," "Yakety Yak," and "Charlie Brown," all written by the incomparable team of Leiber and Stoller.
Leiber & Stoller
The Coasters
Derek Shulman, who formed the prog rock outfit Gentle Giant, is born in Glasgow, Scotland. He later worked as an A&R man for PolyGram Records and signed Bon Jovi.
Bon Jovi
Gentle Giant
Graham Nash, singer/songwriter with the Hollies and CSNY, is born in Blackpool, England.
Graham Nash
The Hollies
Jazz saxophonist Stan Getz is born in Philadelphia as Stan Gayetzsky. With his 1964 smash "The Girl From Ipanema," he brought bossa nova to the masses.
Stan Getz
 
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