Join Gunner as he goes over all the important Rock dates in history weekdays at 3:50. Relive all the chart-topping moments, milestones, bad breakups and first times again.

There will be no hall pass today. Here’s what happened today in Rock N’ Roll.

1969 Jimi Hendrix is arrested for possession of heroin at Toronto International Airport and released on $10,000 bail.

1977 Van Halen signs their first contract with Warner Bros. Records.

2000 The Offspring‘s Smash is certified six-times platinum for sales of over six million copies.

2000 In San Mateo, California, Metallica delivers over 60,000 pages of information to Napster’s corporate offices, listing more than 1.4 million copyright violations of 95 Metallica songs and recordings by 335,435 distinct Napster users.

2003 Twisted Sister plays the first of three shows at U.S. military bases in South Korea.

2003 Metallica shoots their MTVicon tribute show, with Avril LavigneSum 41Snoop DoggStaindKorn, and Limp Bizkit, among others.

2005 With Teeth, the first new Nine Inch Nails album since 1999’s The Fragile, is released.

2006 Godsmack‘s fourth album, IV, debuts at Number One on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of more than 211,000 copies.

Today’s Birthdays

Josey Scott (ex-lead singer, Saliva) (46)

Paul Banks (lead singer, Interpol) (40)

And that’s what happened today in Rock.

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