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.

1783 Britain declares a formal end to hostilities with its former colonies, the United States Of America.
1789 Electors unanimously choose George Washington as the first U.S. President.
1902 Aviator Charles A. Lindbergh, the first man to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic, is born. He dies in 1974.
1923 Actor Conrad Bain (Mr. Drummond on Diff’rent Strokes) is born. He dies in January 2013.
1940 George A. Romero (horror director, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Creepshow, Land of the Dead, Diary of the Dead) is born. He dies in July 2017.
1967 “Hey Joe” by the Jimi Hendrix Experience peaks at Number Six on the U.K. pop chart.
1974 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst is kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
1989 Guns N’ Roses place two records — Appetite For Destruction and the acoustic EP G N’ R Lies — in the Top Five of the Billboard album chart.
1994 English band Blur finishes recording their classic Parklife album.
1997 Bush‘s Razorblade Suitcase album is certified double platinum.
1997 Sublime‘s self-titled album is certified platinum.
1997 No Doubt‘s Tragic Kingdom disc is certified six-times platinum for sales of over six million copies.
1997 A civil jury in Santa Monica, California, finds O.J. Simpson liable for the deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman.
1998 Microsoft chairman Bill Gates gets hit in the face with a cream pie as he arrives for a meeting with government and business leaders in Brussels, Belgium.
1999 Four plainclothes police officers in New York City shoot unarmed immigrant Amadou Diallo 41 times in front of his Bronx home during a nighttime search for a rape suspect.
2000 Scream 3 opens in theatres nationwide.
2001 Singer-guitarist Paul Stanley announces that drummer Eric Singer will wear Peter Criss‘s makeup in Kiss.
2002 Kiss singer-bassist Gene Simmons gets into a name-calling fight with a National Public Radio (NPR) host Terry Gross when he says, “If you’re going to welcome me with open arms, you also have to welcome me with open legs.”
2003 Doors drummer John Densmore files a lawsuit against Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger to get them to stop using the name “The Doors” for their new band with Cult singer Ian Astbury. Manzarek and Krieger lose the case.
2003 The soundtrack to the Ben Affleck superhero movie Daredevil, featuring songs from Nickelback, Fuel, Hoobastank, Drowning Pool with Rob Zombie, and an unknown band calledEvanescence, is released.
2003 Courtney Love is taken into police custody in London after allegedly being disruptive and creating a disturbance during a flight from Los Angeles earlier that day. She is released after nine hours of interrogation and a stern lecture.
2005 It is reported that Sevendust has selected former Snot and Amen guitarist Sonny Mayo as the replacement for original axeman Clint Lowery.
2006 Staind steps in at the last minute to replace 3 Doors Down as headliners of the Bud Bowl 2006 concert at Tiger Stadium in Detroit after 3 Doors Down vocalist Brad Arnold is injured in a one-car accident three nights earlier.
2007 An official statement confirms that original singer David Lee Roth is back in Van Halen, with plans afoot for the band to tour that summer. However, the trek is postponed until the fall while guitarist Eddie Van Halen goes through rehab.
2013 Fall Out Boy announces that it is ending a four-year hiatus with the release of a new album titled Save Rock And Roll on May 7th.
2013 Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl begins a week-long stint as the guest host on Chelsea Handler‘s E! talk show Chelsea Lately.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS:

• Noodles (a.k.a. Kevin Wasserman, guitarist, the Offspring) (56)
• Rick Burch (bassist, Jimmy Eat World) (44)
• Henry Bogdan (ex-bassist, Helmet) (58)
• Alice Cooper (71)
• Gabrielle Anwar (actress, Burn Notice, Scent Of A Woman, The Three Musketeers, Things To Do In Denver When You’re Dead) (49)
• Dan Quayle (former vice president) (72)
• Natalie Imbruglia (singer/actress; former wife of Silverchair frontman Daniel Johns) (44)
• Lawrence Taylor (NFL football Hall of Famer) (60)
• Oscar De La Hoya (boxer) (46)
• Julia Ormond (actress, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Sabrina, First Knight, Legends of the Fall) (54)
• Rob Corddry (actor/comedian, The Daily Show, Hot Tub Time Machine, Ballers) (48)

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

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