Happy Birthday: Billy Gibbons-guitarist for ZZ Top born in 1949
1966 – Jimi Hendrix’ first single is released: “Hey Joe.”
1979 – The original four members of Kiss play for the last time together before their first “breakup.”… They would reunite in 1996
1983 – The Who issue a statement that they are breaking up and calls their previous tour their “Farewell Tour.”
1984 – Dusty Hill of ZZ Top is shot in the stomach when his girlfriend pulls off his boot and his .38-caliber derringer falls out and discharges. The bullet is designed not to exit, but to do internal damage, which is bad news; he makes it to the hospital where doctors remove most of it, but fragments remain in his back.
1989 – Billy Joel tops the US album charts ‘Storm Front’.
1993 – MTV debuts Nirvana’s ‘Unplugged’ session. The show features fourteen-songs including six covers.