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In Music History
1955 Elvis Presley plays at the Odessa Senior High School in Odessa, Texas. A young Roy Orbison is in the audience.
1952 James Ingram is born in Akron, Ohio.
1949 Lyn Paul of The New Seekers is born Lynda Susan Belcher in Wythenshawe, Manchester, England.
1942 Shep Fields and His Orchestra record "Jersey Bounce."
1934 Herbie and Harold Kalin (of the pop duo Kalin Twins) are born in Port Jervis, New York.
1931 Otis Blackwell, composer of the seminal rock 'n roll tunes "Great Balls of Fire" and "All Shook Up," and the R&B sizzler "Fever," is born in Brooklyn, New York.
1918 Patty Andrews (lead singer of The Andrews Sisters) is born in Mound, Minnesota.
1916 Bill Doggett, composer of the hit R&B instrumental "Honky Tonk," is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1901 Orchestra leader Wayne King, who has a #1 hit with "Dream A Little Dream Of Me" in 1931, is born in Savanna, Illinois.
Bob Dylan Finally Lands A #1 Album
1974Planet Waves becomes the first Bob Dylan album to reach #1 in the US.
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2011 Lady GaGa's "Born This Way" makes history, becoming the Billboard Hot 100 chart's 1000th number one. "It is a tremendous honor," GaGa tells Billboard. "To be the 1000th number one on Billboard. I would be silly not to say this is the greatest honor of my career."
2007 Britney Spears shaves her head at a hair salon, then gets some fresh ink at a tattoo parlor. It's the beginning of a public meltdown for Spears, who filed for divorce from Kevin Federline months earlier and is negotiating custody arrangements for their two children.
1990 The day before he turns 18, Billie Joe Armstrong drops out of high school. A week later, he releases the first album with his band Green Day: 39/Smooth.
1990 The Weeknd is born Abel Tesfaye in Toronto.
1935 Sonny Bono is born in Detroit. He finds success as a producer and record executive before marrying Cher, with whom he forms the duo Sonny & Cher. He is elected to Congress in California, where he serves until the time of his death.
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