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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.

1943 Tobe Hooper (director, Poltergeist, the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, ‘Salem’s Lot, Lifeforce) is born. He dies in August 2017.
1947 Al Capone, Chicago gangster and Elliot Ness nemesis, dies at age 48.
1949 The first Emmy Awards are presented.
1961 John F. Kennedy holds the first televised presidential news conference.
1970 The movie Patton, starring George C. Scott and Karl Malden, opens.
1971 Charles Manson and three female members of his “family” are found guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit murder (their victims included actress Sharon Tate) and seven counts of murder in the first degree. They are sentenced to life imprisonment.
1981 After being held hostage for 444 days in Iran, 52 Americans finally arrive home.
1984 AC/DC‘s Flick Of The Switch is certified gold.
1992 “Mysterious Ways” by U2 peaks at Number Nine on the pop chart.
1994 The Meat Puppets release their commercial breakthrough album, Too High To Die.
1994 After being accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy, Michael Jackson settles a civil lawsuit out of court. The alleged victim and his family are rumored to reap millions. Prosecutors later drop all charges.
1996 In Rolling Stone magazine’s annual Reader’s Poll, Live is named Artist Of The Year, while Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness by Smashing Pumpkins earns Album Of The Year.
1997 After falling to Number Two the week prior, Soundgarden‘s “Blow Up The Outside World” regains the top spot on Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
1999 The Blair Witch Project is shown for the first time at the Sundance Film Festival.
2005 Former Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin‘s new solo project, the Jimmy Chamberlin Complex, issues its debut album, titled Life Begins Again.
2005 The Metallica DVD Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster is released.
2006 Metallica performs at a private party at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, following the premiere of the movie The Darwin Awards.
2006 Motley Crue gets a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.
2006 Seattle grunge act Candlebox announces that they are reuniting for a three-month summer tour.
2007 Nickelback makes Forbes magazine’s list of the Top 10 moneymakers in the music business, landing at Number Nine with earnings in 2006 of $74.1 million. Other rock acts on the list include the Rolling Stones, who are Number One for the second year in a row with a take of $150.6 million, Bon Jovi at Number Eight with $77.5 million, and the Dave Matthews Band at Number 10 with $60.4 million.
2016 Panic! At The Disco scores the first Number One debut of the band’s career on the Billboard 200 album chart, with fifth studio disc Death Of A Bachelor selling 190,000 copies in its first week of release to land at the top of the sales survey.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS:

  • Alicia Keys (R&B singer-songwriter) (38)
  • Mia Kirshner (actress, The L Word, Not Another Teen Movie) (44)
  • Terry Chimes (drummer, the Clash) (64)
  • Gregory Sierra (actor, Sanford And Son, Barney Miller, Honey, I Blew Up The Kid, Hot Shots! Part Deux, A Low Down Dirty Shame) (78)

And that’s what happened today in Rock ‘N’ Roll…

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