This Day in Rock – January 7

Posted By: Staff January 7, 2019 @ 3:46 pm Rock History

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.

1978 Alive II by Kiss peaks at Number Seven on the album chart, where it stays for two weeks.
1990 Italy’s famous leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public after it’s deemed unsafe because it could possibly topple over. After renovations are done, the Tower reopens to tourists in December 2001.
1994 Singer Liam Gallagher walks offstage during an Oasis concert in Glasgow, Scotland, after losing his voice.
1999 For the second time in history, an impeached American president goes on trial before the Senate. President Bill Clinton is eventually acquitted of perjury and obstruction of justice charges.
2000 Megadeth receives gold album awards in Los Angeles for their eighth studio disc, Risk.
2002 33-year-old drummer Jon Lee of the Welsh band Feeder is found dead in his Miami home, of an apparent suicide.
2003 Coldplay announces plans to donate a tenth of its earnings to charity, according to reports by several British publications.
2004 Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson and his then wife, actress Kate Hudson, become parents when their son Ryder Russell Robinson is born in Los Angeles.
2005 Dimebag Hardware, a clothing line inspired by late Damageplan and Pantera guitarist “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott, announces its official launch.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS:

Nicolas Cage (actor, Honeymoon In Vegas, Leaving Las Vegas, Con Air, National Treasure, Kick-Ass, Ghost Rider, Mandy; nephew of Francis Ford Coppola) (55)
Jeremy Renner (actor, The Hurt Locker, The Town, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, The Avengers, The Bourne Legacy, American Hustle, Avengers: Age Of Ultron, Wind River, Avengers: Endgame) (48)
Dustin Diamond (actor, Saved By The Bell‘s Screech) (42)
Katie Couric (former anchor, The CBS Evening News) (62)
David Caruso (actor, NYPD Blue, C.S.I. Miami) (63)
Jann S. Wenner (founder and publisher of Rolling Stone magazine) (73)
Donna Rice (former model who became famous for her affair with married Colorado senator and Democratic presidential candidate Gary Hart) (61)
Linda Kozlowski (actress, the Crocodile Dundee movies) (61)
Blue Ivy Carter (daughter of rapper Jay Z and R&B singer Beyonce) (7)