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.

1885, Mark Twain‘s The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn was first published.
1895, The real “Gipper,” George Gipp, the Notre Dame running back who Ronald Reagan portrayed in Knute Rockne All American, was born. He died on December 14th, 1920, after getting a throat infection during one of his final college football games. He was 25.
1919, Actor Jack Palance (Shane, Young Guns, Batman, Tango & Cash, City Slickers Iand II) was born. He in 2006 at age 87.
1929, The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences announced the names of the winners of its first Academy Awards on the back page of its Bulletin. A ceremony was held three months later.
1930, Pluto, possibly the ninth planet in our solar system, was discovered by Claude W. Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona.
1948, Doobie Brothers drummer Keith Knudsen is born. He dies in 2005.
1971, The Grateful Dead kicks off a six-show run at The Capitol Theater in Port Chester, New York. During the shows, the audience is asked to participate in an experiment on Extra-Sensory Perception (ESP). Drummer Mickey Hart takes a leave of absence from the band after the first show, to deal with personal issues related to his father’s theft of over $150,000 from the group while he managed them. Hart doesn’t return to full-time duty until June 1976.
1972, The California Supreme Court struck down the state’s death penalty, calling it “cruel and unusual punishment.” Among those whose lives the ruling spared was Charles Manson.
1974, Kiss‘s self-titled debut album is released.
1988, Anthony Kennedy was sworn in as a U.S. Supreme Court justice.
1994, at the Norway Winter Games, American speedskater Dan Jansen finally won an Olympic gold medal, after attempts that went back to the 1988 Olympics.
2001, Race car driver Dale Earnhardt died in a final-lap crash at the Daytona 500. He was 49.
2001, veteran FBI agent Robert Philip Hanssen was arrested and accused of spying for Russia for more than 15 years.
2003, One hundred ninety-eight people were killed and 147 injured in Daegu, South Korea, when a fire swept through two packed subway trains after a man lit a container of flammable liquid. The man, Kim Dae-han, had a history of mental illness, and told police he wanted to commit suicide in a crowded place. He was convicted of murder and arson and sentenced to life in prison.
2012, Kateri Tekakwitha was canonized, becoming the first Native American saint.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS:

Matt Dillon (actor, The Flamingo Kid, Wild Things, The Outsiders, There’s Something About Mary, Crash) (55)
Toni Morrison (Nobel Prize-winning novelist) (88)
Yoko Ono (widow of ex-Beatle John Lennon) (86)
Dennis DeYoung (former singer-keyboardist, Styx) (72)
Robbie Bachman (drummer, Bachman-Turner Overdrive) (66)
Irma Thomas (blues singer) (78)
Molly Ringwald (actress, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink, The Secret Life of the American Teenager) (51)
Cybill Shepherd (actress-model, Taxi Driver, Moonlighting, Chances Are) (69)
John Travolta (actor, Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Pulp Fiction, Broken Arrow, Face/Off, The Punisher) (65)
Vanna White (Wheel Of Fortune hostess) (62)
Greta Scacchi (actress, Presumed Innocent, Brideshead Revisited) (59)
Juice Newton (singer) (67)
Ike Barinholtz (actor, The Mindy Project, Eastbound & Down, MADtv) (42)

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

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