Happy Birthday: The late Keith Moon-drummer for The Who born in 1946. Dean DeLeo-guitarist for Stone Temple Pilots born in 1961.
1969: The Rolling Stones’ “Honky Tonk Women” hits #1 in America for the first of four weeks.
1970: Lou Reed plays his last gig with The Velvet Underground and returns home to Long Island to work at his dad’s his accounting firm, where he stays for two years before signing a solo deal.
1989: The Cars’ Ric Ocasek marries longtime girlfriend Paulina Porizkova on the Caribbean island of St. Bart’s. They would separate in 2018.
2007: Queen guitarist, Brian May, completed his Doctorate in astrophysics at Imperial College in London.