1955 - Chuck Berry's song "Maybellene" is copyrighted in Berry's name alone, but Alan Freed's name is added as a form of payola.
1964 - U.S. President Lyndon Johnson invites The Four Seasons to play at the White House.
1969 - The Rolling Stones put on a free concert in London's Hyde Park, a tribute to their founding member Brian Jones, who died two days earlier.
1983 - Suicidal Tendencies release their self-titled debut album. The album spawns Suicidal Tendencies' biggest hit to date, "Institutionalized."
1994 - Hootie & the Blowfish release their debut album, Cracked Rear View, the best-selling album in the history of Atlantic Records.
Today's birthdays include...The Band's Robbie Robertson (77); Hugh Anthony Cregg III aka Huey Lewis (70); MC, multi-instrumentalist, producer, actor/filmmaker Robert Fitzgerald Diggs, better known as Wu-Tang Clan leader RZA (51); and Cardigans drummer Bengt Lagerberg (47).
