



1876 - Eight baseball teams began the inaugural season of the National League. In the first game Boston beat Philadelphia 6-5.
1914 - Babe Ruth made his pitching debut with the Baltimore Orioles.
1915 - The New York Yankees wore pinstripes and the hat-in-the-ring logo for the first time.
1945 - The Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Detroit Red Wings, 2-1 in Game Seven of the Stanley Cup finals.
1982 - The Atlanta Braves ended their 13-game winning streak to start the season. It was the longest streak of wins at the beginning of the season in major league baseball history.
1994 - Michael Moorer became the first left-handed heavyweight champion.
2010 - The NFL Draft was aired in prime time for the first time. !st>!st>!st>!st>!st>!st>!st>!st>!st>!st>!st>!st>!st>!st>!st>!st>!st>!st>
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| 1950's |
Frampton comes alive! Humble Pie guitarist and ‘70s flash-in-the-pan, Peter Frampton, is born. 1950 Singer Paul Carrack is born in Sheffield, England. The keyboardist-singer-songwriter is in Ace, Squeeze and Mike + The Mechanics. 1951 |
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| 1960's |
One of the landmark Rock songs, “Wild Thing” by the Troggs, is released in the U.S. on both the Fontana and ACTO labels. 1966 Wallace Snowcroft, President of the U.K.’s National Federation of Hairdressers, is distressed about the "long hair" trend. He has the harshest words for the Rolling Stones. "One of them looks as if he has a feather duster on his head." Had to be talking about Keith or maybe Mick. 1964 With Andy Warhol producing, the Velvet Underground start recording their debut, "Velvet Underground & Nico." 1966 The Who give the first complete performance of their Rock opera “Tommy.” The show is in Dolton, England. 1969 The rooftop of Apple Records is famous for The Beatles’ last performance. But it is also where John Winston Lennon changes his name to John Ono Lennon in a short ceremony. 1969 |
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| 1970's |
Fulfilling a sentence from a '77 Canadian drug bust, Keith Richards, and friends, perform a benefit concert for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. 1979 Vocalist-composer-guitarist-pianist, Daniel Johns (Silverchair), has a birthday. 1979 |
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| 1980's |
The J. Geils Band release their most successful album to date, “Love Stinks” featuring the humorous title track. 1980 A rough year for Eric Clapton. Hospitalized earlier in the year for bleeding ulcers, Clapton suffers broken ribs and a lacerated shin in a Seattle car accident. 1981 |
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| 1990's | Offspring’s “Ixnay On The Hombre” goes platinum. It’s the group’s first album for Columbia Records. 1997 | |
| 2000's |
Country legend Loretta Lynn gets introduced by her producer, Jack White (White Stripes), at a release party for her new CD, “Van Lear Rose.” 2004 Ozzy Osbourne is interviewed on IFC's Henry Rollins Show. 2006 Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington throws a party to celebrate the 11th anniversary of the Club Tattoo shops he co-owns. The Tempe, AZ., event features performances by Bennington's Bucket of Weenies side group, Linkin Park Rapper Mike Shinoda's Fort Minor Project, and Story Of The Year. 2006 Tom Petty is a special guest at ASCAP's (the performing-rights organization) I Create Music Expo. Petty is interviewed and takes questions from musicians and composers. 2006 Whitesnake rolls out "Good To Be Bad." 2008 Tokyo Police Club present their full-length debut “Elephant Shell.” Prior to the hard copy release, tracks were available through iTunes. 2008 Atreyu's ‘07 album, "Lead Sails Paper Anchor" is reissued in the CDVU+ format. The disc has a cover of Faith No More's "Epic" as well as footage from three live performances, profiles of the band members, behind-the-scenes tour clips and a guitar lesson from Atreyu axeman Dan Jacobs. 2008 A documentary DVD about The Doors' ‘67 self-titled debut is out. There are interviews with the group's surviving members. The DVD is part of the Classic Albums series. 2008 Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora pleads no contest to a drunken-driving charge stemming from an arrest the previous month in Laguna Beach, CA. A related DUI count is dropped as part of the deal, which calls for the guitarist to pay penalties totaling $1,600, attend an alcohol-education class and undergo three years' probation. 2008 3 Doors Down frontman Brad Arnold performs at the Nashville4Africa benefit concert in Music City. The event raises money for African charities. 2009 Elton John ends his Red Piano residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas following five years of on-and-off performances. "I really have enjoyed every single moment of this engagement," John tells the audience during his final set. 2009 Heart's Ann and Nancy Wilson receive the 2009 Founders Award the ASCAP’s 26th annual Pop Music Awards in L.A. The performing rights organization’s president Marilyn Bergman describes the Wilsons as "music trailblazers" whose "success and influence helped pave the way for other female artists." 2009 A reunited Poco performs in Santa Ynez, CA. Bassist Timothy B. Schmit, now with The Eagles, joins in. "I decided this would be the [right] time," says Schmit. The Poco lineup also includes singer-guitarist (and Buffalo Springfield co-founder) Richie Furay. Poco plays the Stagecoach Festival in Indio, CA, four days later. 2009 |
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