Happy Birthday: Ian Anderson, singer and flautist for Jethro Tull, born in 1947.
1968: Cream topped the Album Chart for the first and only time with “Wheels of Fire”.
1984: Red Hot Chili Peppers release their self-titled debut album, The album failed to make the top 200 by one spot.
1985: Nine months after its release, Bryan Adam’s “Reckless” album finally reaches number one on the album chart. This was Adams’ first and only number one album in the U.S.
2005: The Rolling Stones launch their Bigger Bang tour with a show in Toronto. The two-year tour sets a record, taking in about $558 million (U2’s would break this record in 2011).
Remember Columbia House? The mail order music club that originally offered customers eight albums for a dollar? They filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on this day in 2015.