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.

1931 Rock promoter Bill Graham is born. He dies in 1991.
1935 Elvis Presley is born. He dies in 1977.
1941 Monty Python’s Flying Circus member Graham Chapman is born. He dies in 1989.
1942 Stephen Hawking (English astrophysicist, author of A Brief History Of Time, confined to a wheelchair because of Lou Gehrig’s Disease) is born. He dies in March 2018.
1947 Legendary singer, songwriter and actor David Bowie is born. He dies in January 2016.
1966 Mother Love Bone singer Andrew Wood is born. He dies in 1990.
1968 Jacques Cousteau‘s first undersea special airs on American television.
1974 Kiss plays the last-ever show at the Fillmore East in New York City. The venue, which had been closed, was reopened for the night for the media-only event.
1979 The Canadian government names Rush “Official Ambassadors Of Music.”
1981 Actor Matthew Beard (the Little Rascals‘ Stymie) dies at age 56.
1991 Sixteen-year-old Jeremy Wade Delle, distraught over being scolded for skipping school, puts the barrel of a .347 Magnum in his mouth and pulls the trigger in front of his English class in Richardson, Texas. The incident is the inspiration for Pearl Jam‘s song “Jeremy.”
1991 Def Leppard guitarist Steve Clark dies at age 30.
1992 President George Bush collapses during a state dinner in Tokyo and vomits on the Japanese prime minister’s lap.
1993 Elvis Presley stamps go on sale on what would have been Presley’s 58th birthday.
1993 Michael Jordan scores his 20,000th career point.
1994 An injured Nancy Kerrigan watches as Tonya Harding skates to her second National Championship. Kerrigan couldn’t compete because of an attack on her knee two days previously that is later connected to Harding’s husband.
1998 Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in which six people were killed, is sentenced to life imprisonment.
2000 The Red Hot Chili Peppers begin a sold-out Japanese tour with a three-night stand at the legendary Budokan in Tokyo.
2001 Creed‘s Human Clay beats out releases from Britney Spears and ‘N Sync for Favorite Pop/Rock Album at the American Music Awards.
2001 The Chemical Brothers win an American Music Award for Best Techno Act.
2001 Aerosmith receives the International Award Of Achievement at the American Music Awards.
2001 Karen Jane McNeil, who was previously arrested for stalking Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose outside the rocker’s Malibu home, is apprehended for the same reason and jailed on $150,000 bail.
2002 The Black Crowes announce that the band is “taking a hiatus,” and that frontman Chris Robinson is working on a solo project. They have since reunited.
2002 Wendy’s founder Dave Thomas dies at age 69.
2007 Korn confirms that it is working with veteran rock drummer Terry Bozzio on its eighth studio album. Bozzio, best known for his work with Frank Zappa and Missing Persons, sits in for Korn drummer David Silveria, who is on hiatus.
2007 Van Halen is confirmed as one of the 2007 inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, along with R.E.M.Patti Smith, the Ronettes, and Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five.
2008 Marilyn Manson announces that bassist Twiggy Ramirez, a member of his band from 1994 to 2002, has rejoined the group after stints with A Perfect Circle and Nine Inch Nails. Ramirez is dismissed from the band again in late 2017 amid allegations of rape.
2014 It is reported that vinyl record sales increased 32% in 2013, while CD sales declined 14.5%.

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

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