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.

1969 Doors frontman Jim Morrison surrenders to the FBI in Los Angeles to answer charges of indecent exposure filed against him following a show in Miami.

1987 U2 opens a national tour in Tempe, Arizona, and denounces Arizona’s non-recognition of Martin Luther King Day.

1993 The Jimmy Page/David Coverdale album, appropriately titled Coverdale/Page, enters the album chart at Number Five.

1995 Van Halen celebrates Balance being certified double platinum and the sale of more than 60 million albums total at the Museum Of Flying in Santa Monica, California.

2002 Alice Cooper hosts a discussion and question-and-answer session at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame And Museum in Cleveland, Ohio.

2003 Linkin Park‘s second album, Meteora, debuts at Number One on the Billboard Top 200 album chart, selling more than 811,000 copies in its first week of release.

2005 Former Alice In Chains bassist Mike Starr is arrested in Seattle, Washington on charges of vandalizing a car.

2005 Part-time Queens Of The Stone Age vocalist Mark Lanegan misses his second show in a row, in Detroit, leading the band to announce that he has left the tour due to “exhaustion.”

2007 Chevelle releases its fourth major label album, titled Vena Sera.

2008 Stone Temple Pilots announced that they will play an ambitious schedule of 65 shows in 2008 as the band returns from a seven-year live hiatus.

And that’s what happened today in Rock.

Birthdays

  • Sebastian Bach (actor and former lead singer, Skid Row) (50)
  • Mike Ness (singer/guitarist, Social Distortion) (56)
  • Jamie Hewlett (British comic book artist and co-creator of cartoon band Gorillaz) (50)
  • Amanda Bynes (actress, What I Like About YouWhat A Girl WantsHairspray) (32)
  • Jennie Garth (actress, Beverly Hills, 90210What I Like About You) (46)
  • Adam Scott (actor, Parks and RecreationStep BrothersParty Down) (45)
  • Eddie Murphy (actor-comedian, Saturday Night Live48 Hrs.Trading Places, the Beverly Hills Cop movies, The Nutty Professor I and IIDoctor Dolittle I and IINorbit, the Shrek movies) (57)
  • David Hyde Pierce (actor, FrasierNixonA Bug’s Life) (59)
  • Alec Baldwin (actor, BeetlejuiceThe Hunt For Red OctoberGlengarry Glen RossThe Departed30 Rock; brother of William, Steven, and Daniel Baldwin; former husband of Kim Basinger) (60)
  • Matthew Goode (actor, Match Point, The Lookout, A Single Man, Leap Year, Watchmen, Brideshead RevisitedStoker) (40)
  • Cobie Smulders (actress, How I Met Your MotherThe AvengersCaptain America: The Winter SoldierThe Avengers: Age Of Ultron) (36)
  • Doris Day (actress, Calamity JanePlease Don’t Eat The Daisies; trademark song “Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera),” which she introduced in the 1956 film The Man Who Knew Too Much) (96)

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