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    1966-The Supremes hit #1 with You Keep Me Hanging On.

    1986-MTV announces plans to give away a town in Texas. The MTV town is given away on January 1 1987.

    1988-Bon Jovi hits #1 with Bad Medicine.

    2007-Neil Diamond confesses at Caroline Kennedy's 50th birthday party that the song Sweet Caroline was inspired by her.

    2007-Brian Mays was named chancellor of John Moores University in Liverpool.
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    1969 Rod Stewart releases his first solo album, entitled 'An Old Raincoat Won’t Ever Let You Down' in the U.K. and 'The Rod Stewart Album' in the U.S.

    1981 'Re-ac-tor,' Neil Young's 16th and final album for Reprise Records – until his return to the label in 1988 – is released.

    1983 Spandau Ballet hits #29 in the US with "Gold".
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    1961 Bob Dylan begins recording his first, self-titled, album.

    1975
    Earth, Wind and Fire hits #1 with "Shining Star".

    1994 David Crosby of the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash receives a liver transplant in Los Angeles.
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    1965-The Supremes hit #1 with I Hear A Symphony.

    1971-The Theme From Shaft by Isaac Hayes hits #1.

    1976-Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot hits #2.
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    1965 The Rascals' debut single, "I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore," is released.
    It is credited to the Young Rascals, as are all of their records through 1967.

    1981
    Queen's collaboration with David Bowie, "Under Pressure," tops the U.K. charts. Surprisingly, it only reaches #29 in the U.S.

    2000 'Road Rock Volume 1,' a live album credited to Neil Young, Friends & Relatives, is released.
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    1960 Are You Lonesome Tonight? from Elvis Presley was a hit.

    1963 The Beatles second British album, "With The Beatles" is released.

    1975 Alice Cooper hits #35 "Welcome to My Nightmare".

    1976 Jerry Lewis is arrested for drunk driving in Memphis. Later, at three a.m., he appears at Graceland, Elvis Presley's residence, brandishing a pistol and demanding to see Elvis. He is handcuffed and taken to jail.

    1976 The self-titled debut album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers is released. It contains “Breakdown” (#40), their first Top Forty hit.

    1987 (I've Had) The Time of My Life (Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes) was a hit.

    2006 Fleetwood Mac's Mick Fleetwood becomes a U.S. citizen in Los Angeles.
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    I could have sworn Are You Lonesome Tonight was later than 1960. According to Wikipedia it is indeed that old.

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    1968-Mary Hopkins hits #3 with Those Were The Days.


    1993 -Geffen Records and MTV unleash "The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience," the duo's recording debut.
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    1986 You Give Love a Bad Name (Bon Jovi) was a hit.


    1991 Genesis hit #4 in the US with 'We Can't Dance'.
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    1972 ABC-TV's "In Concert" program debuts with Chuck Berry and Blood, Sweat & Tears.

    1985 Separate Lives (Phil Collins & Marilyn Martin) was a hit.

    1991 Freddie Mercury of Queen dies of AIDS-related causes at his home in London.

    1994 Tom Jones hosts the first annual MTV European Music Awards live at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany. Viewers in more than 240 million homes witness the presentation of awards in eight categories such as Best Group, Breakthrough Artist and Best Song.

    2006 Roger Daltrey of the Who guests on CBS-TV's "CSI".
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