Happy Birthday: Bob Dylan is born Robert Allen Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota in 1941
Happy Birthday: Rich Robinson-guitarist for The Black Crowes born in 1969
1977 – Emerson, Lake & Palmer kick off their huge 11-month tour with a 70-piece orchestra, 63 roadies, a choir and a karate instructor for drummer Carl Palmer in Louisville, Kentucky. The tour is a financial disaster for the band.
1979 – The three members of Genesis sell tickets to their own benefit concert as they work the Box Office at the at the Roxy in Los Angeles.
1994 – Poison singer Bret Michaels crashes his Ferrari into a telephone pole in Burbank, CA. Michaels suffered many injuries including a broken thumb, nose & collarbone, he lost four teeth, cracked his sternum, & received a hairline fracture of his upper jawbone.
2004 – An auction of Bruce Springsteen’s birth certificate is shut down on eBay by the Boss’s legal team.