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.

1880 Actor-comedian W.C. Fields is born. He dies in 1946.
1918 John Forsythe (actor, the voice of Charlie on the Charlie’s Angels TV series and movies, Dynasty) is born. He dies in 2010.
1933 German president von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as chancellor.
1949 Tommy Ramone (real name Thomas Erdelyi; former drummer, the Ramones) is born. The last surviving member of the original lineup of the band, he dies in July 2014.
1958 Actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward are married.
1964 The movie Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb, starring Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Slim Pickens, and James Earl Jones, opens.
1977 “Walk This Way” by Aerosmith peaks at Number 10 on the pop chart, where it stays for two weeks.
1977 Actor-comedian Freddie Prinze (Chico And The Man) dies at age 22.
1979 Teenager Brenda Spencer took the rifle her father gave her for Christmas and used it to shoot into an elementary school across from her San Diego home. One adult and eight children were wounded, and two men lost their lives trying to protect the kids. When asked why she did it, she says, “Because I don’t like Mondays.” This inspires Bob Geldofto write “I Don’t Like Mondays” for the Boomtown Rats.
1993 President Bill Clinton orders the military to stop asking recruits about their sexual orientation, as the first step toward lifting the ban against homosexuals in the armed forces.
1994 Nirvana‘s “All Apologies” tops the Billboard Modern Rock chart.
1996 Korn‘s self-titled 1992 debut album is certified gold.
1997 311‘s self-titled third album is certified double platinum.
1998 A top tobacco company executive admits for the first time, under oath to Congress, that cigarettes are dangerous.
2001 Garbage files suit against Universal Music Group in California Superior Court, in order to end its relationship with the company. Garbage charges UMG with using “wrongful, monopolistic, and strong-arm tactics” to keep the multi-platinum band on its roster.
2002 The Concert For New York DVD is released.
2002 Linkin Park kicks off its first Projekt Revolution tour, which also features Cypress Hill, Adema, and DJ Z-Trip, in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
2002 George W. Bush delivers his first post-9/11 State of the Union address, in which he labels Iraq, Iran and North Korea an “axis of evil.”
2003 Whitesnake plays its first show in more than 12 years in Jacksonville, Florida, on a bill with the Scorpions and Dokken.
2006 A graphic two-minute commercial from People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals (PETA), featuring Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor, is posted online. Reznor appears in and narrates the spot, which shows graphic footage of dogs and cats being tortured, killed and skinned for the Chinese fur industry.
2007 Chris Daughtry announces that guitarist Jeremy Brady has parted ways with the Daughtry band.
2014 More than 100,000 people sign a petition to deport Canadian citizen Justin Bieber from America. The campaign follows his arrest earlier in the month for drunk driving and driving without a valid license.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS:

• Oprah Winfrey (talk show host) (65)
• Eddie Jackson (bassist, Queensryche) (58)
• Handsome Dick Manitoba (singer, the Dictators) (65)
• Heather Graham (actress, Swingers, Boogie Nights, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, The Hangover) (49)
• Tom Selleck (actor, Magnum, P.I., Three Men And A Baby) (74)
• Edward Burns (actor/director, She’s The One, Saving Private Ryan, 15 Minutes, One Missed Call) (51)
• Sara Gilbert (actress, Roseanne, 24) (44)
• Katharine Ross (actress, The Graduate, Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, the original The Stepford Wives, Donnie Darko) (79)
• Isabel Lucas (actress, Transgformers: Revenge of the Fallen, The Pacific, Daybreakers) (34)

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

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