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.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS:
- Hayley Williams (lead singer, Paramore) (30)
- Timothee Chalamet (actor, Beautiful Boy, Call Me By Your Name) (23)
- Olivia Cooke (actress, Thoroughbreds, Ready Player One, The Quiet Ones) (25)
- Terry Bozzio (drummer, Frank Zappa, Missing Persons, Korn) (68)
- Gerard Depardieu (actor, Green Card, The Man In The Iron Mask) (70)
- John Amos (actor, Good Times, Roots, Coming To America, Die Hard 2, The West Wing, The District) (79)
- Eva LaRue Callahan (actress, CSI: Miami) (52)
- Cokie Roberts (ABC News correspondent/anchor) (75)
ON THIS DAY:
1822 Chemist Dr. Louis Pasteur, who discovered the food preservation process known as “pasteurization” and a rabies vaccine, is born. He dies in 1895.
1932 Radio City Music Hall opens in New York City.
1968 Apollo 8, the first manned mission to orbit the moon, successfully returns to Earth with a nighttime splashdown.
1969 Led Zeppelin II by Led Zeppelin hits Number One on the album chart, where it spends a total of seven weeks.
1971 CBS debuts the Sonny & Cher Show.
1975 Actress Heather O’Rourke (Poltergeist‘s Carol Ann) is born. She dies in 1988.
1979 The Clash and Ian Dury coheadline the second of four concerts for the people in Kampuchea at London’s Hammersmith Odeon.
1983 Van Halen releases its final album with lead singer David Lee Roth, 1984.
2000 The movie Traffic, starring Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro, Don Cheadle and Catherine Zeta-Jones, opens in selected cities.
2001 U2 frontman Bono is named European of the Year for his work on behalf of debt relief.
2006 Korn releases the Family Values Tour 2006 CD and DVD, featuring live tracks from Deftones, Stone Sour, Flyleaf, 10 Years and the headliners, as well as Korn doing a mash-up of “Shoots And Ladders” and “Wicked” with Deftones singer Chino Moreno, Stone Sour’s Corey Taylor joining Korn for “Freak On A Leash,” and a performance of U2‘s “Pride (In The Name Of Love)” by Flyleaf with singer Richard Patrick from Army Of Anyone.
2007 Marilyn Manson‘s divorce from burlesque dancer and model Dita Von Teese is officially finalized in Los Angeles Superior Court.
2009 Metallica‘s 1991 self-titled fifth album, commonly known as “the black album,” surpasses Shania Twain‘s 1997 record, Come On Over, as the best-selling CD since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking albums sales in May 1991. It hits total sales of 15,490,000 copies, eclipsing Come On Over‘s total of 15,487,000.
2016 Actress and screenwriter Carrie Fisher, beloved to generations as Princess Leia in the Star Wars movies, dies at 60 after suffering a massive heart attack on a flight from London to Los Angeles.
And that’s what happened today in Rock ‘N’ Roll…
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