Happy Birthday to Mike McCready-guitarist for Pearl Jam born in 1966
1971: Chicago became the first American rock group to perform at Carnegie Hall in New York.
1980: R.E.M. performed live for the first time at a friend’s birthday party held in a converted Episcopal church in Athens, GA.
1993: Construction began on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.
1994: Kurt Cobain of Nirvana dies at the age 27. His body isn’t discovered until three days later when an electrician enters to install an alarm.
1997: Aerosmith topped the album charts with their album Nine Lives.
2002: Alice In Chains frontman Layne Staley dies at the age of 34.