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Hard rockers Disturbed top the U.S. albums chart with Ten Thousand Fists. The second highest debut is Have a Nice Day by reformed hair metal band Bon Jovi.
Disturbed
Bon Jovi
Beyonce Knowles tears her hamstring while rehearsing for a TV special on Destiny's Child's reunion album Destiny Fulfilled. Her doctors recommend she rest for a week.
Beyoncé
Destiny's Child
Madonna tops the New York Times bestseller list with her children's book, The English Roses.
Madonna
50 Cent purchases a 52-room castle in Farmington, Conn., that used to belong to bankrupt boxer Mike Tyson.
50 Cent
The Sadler's Wells Theatre in London witnesses the premiere of Ballet for Life, a dance in tribute to Queen's Freddie Mercury. "I think it's a terrific piece of work - very moving, very striking, and a very stirring night," said an overcome Roger Taylor, although he admitted that at first the idea seemed to him "very bizarre." One critic describes the show as "gibberish."
Freddie Mercury
Queen
Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Charles H. Solomon sets January 2 as the trial start date for Sean "Puffy" Combs, who was charged with criminal possession of a firearm after a shooting incident in December 1999.
Diddy
The Virginia Military Institute's Professor Gordon Ball nominates Bob Dylan for the Nobel Literature Prize.
Bob Dylan
Outside a Boston bar, a gunman opens fire on Bobby Brown's car. The former New Edition star escapes injury, but his sister's fiance is shot in the head and killed.
Bobby Brown
New Edition
While other countries struggle under the weight of Bryan Adams' No. 1 "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You," the singer is awarded the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia.
Bryan Adams
Miles Davis dies of AIDS in Santa Monica, Calif. The jazz pioneer was 65.
Miles Davis
AC/DC play the Tushino Air Field outside Moscow. Singer Brian Johnson tells the audience, "Opera and ballet did not cut the ice in the Cold War years. They used to exchange opera and ballet companies and circuses, but it takes rock 'n' roll to make no more Cold War."
AC/DC
Brian Johnson
A British tabloid reports that Elton John's mansion is guarded by Rottweiler dogs with their larynxes removed so they can't bark. John later successfully sues the newspaper for libel.
Elton John
Stevie Ray Vaughan collapses while on tour in Europe as years of substance abuse finally catch up with him. The remaining 13 dates of the tour are canceled.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
George Harrison is sued by his record company, A&M, for not delivering his album 33 1/3 on time. Cut the brother some slack - he was suffering from hepatitis. Ironically, the final product contains "This Song," a tune about Harrison's "My Sweet Lord"/"He's So Fine" legal debacle.
George Harrison
The Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane play a free concert at San Francisco's Lindley Park, attracting 40,000 people. It's the first Grateful Dead performance in a year.
Jefferson Airplane
The Grateful Dead
Who is David Bowie? New York wants an answer, and his first concert at Carnegie Hall is a sellout. His publicist receives 400 requests for 100 press passes.
David Bowie
Rock DJ Dewey Phillips dies in Millington, Tenn. The King of Memphis radio is widely considered to be the first DJ to mix records by blacks and whites on the same show. He also introduced to the world to Elvis Presley with the first spin of "That's All Right Mama."
Dewey Phillips
Elvis Presley
Janis Joplin announces via her manager, Albert Grossman, that she's leaving Big Brother & the Holding Company next month. Why? She and the band "weren't growing together anymore."
Janis Joplin
Big Brother & the Holding Company
Pop songwriter Nacio Herb Brown ("Singin' in the Rain") dies in San Francisco at age 68.
Murray the K plays his way into "fifth Beatle" status after he's handed a copy of "She Loves You." Its airing on his New York radio show is allegedly the first time the Beatles made the American airwaves.
The Beatles
Dore Records releases "To Know Him Is to Love Him" by the Teddy Bears. The No. 1 single launches the career of composer, singer, and arranger Phil Spector, then a tender 18 years old.
Phil Spector
Bassist Nick St. Nicholas of Steppenwolf is born in Hamburg. His name has in no way inspired Spinal Tap.
Steppenwolf
Spinal Tap
 
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