1920: Norma Dolores Egstrom was born -- as Peggy Lee, she got "Fever"
1926: Miles Davis was born -- he died in 1991
1948: Stevie Nicks was born
1949: Hank Williams Jr. was born -- on that day, we doubt he was ready for some football
1962: "Stranger On The Shore" was at #1 on the US singles charts for Acker Bilk
1964: Marianne Faithful recorded "As Tears Go By" (written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards) with Jimmy Page on guitar and John Paul Jones on bass
1966: "Paint It, Black" was at #1 on the UK singles charts for The Rolling Stones -- the record company (Decca) added the comma and it was the first #1 song to feature a sitar
1966: The Beatles recorded "Yellow Submarine" at Abbey Road Studios in London -- that's John Lennon blowing bubbles in a bucket of water and yelling, "Full speed ahead"
1969: John and Yoko started their eight-day "bed in" (room 1742 of The Hotel La Reine Elizabeth, Montreal, Canada) for "world peace" -- there, they recorded "Give Peace A Chance"
1972: Day #1 of the "The Great Western Express" (a UK festival) featuring Humble Pie, Joe Cocker, The Faces, Slade, Ry Cooder, Don McLean and others ... with an appearance by Monty Python
1973: "Frankenstein" is at #1 on the US singles charts for The Edgar Winter Group
1996: Fireman arrived at a fire at Eric Clapton's home to find Clapton trying to save his guitar collection
2002: "At Home With The Osbournes" was first shown on MTV in the UK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vefJAtG-ZKI
