Born:
DEAN MARTIN
GEORGE EZRA
PRINCE
TOM JONES
This happened:
In 1964, during their first US tour The Rolling Stones were booed off stage in San Antonio, Texas.
In 1971, Carole King’s Tapestry went Gold. It remained on the charts for three years.
In 1975, Elton John’s Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy entered the US album chart at #1 — the first album ever to enter the Billboard 200 chart at #1 — and remained there for seven weeks.
In 1987, David Bowie played a concert in West Berlin, Germany, with the speakers pointing towards the nearby Berlin Wall, where thousands of young East Berliners stood on the other side and listened.
In 1993, Ground was broken for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.
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