2000 Clancy Can, a thoroughbred owned by Toby Keith, finishes first in the sixth race at the Oaklawn Jockey Club in Hot Springs, Ark. Considered a longshot, the three-year-old pays $32.70 to win in the six-furlong race featuring horses that had never won a race before.
1999 Country singer George Jones walks out of the hospital 13 days after a near fatal traffic accident. Jones, 67, thanks Vanderbilt University Medical Center doctors and nurses before climbing aboard his tour bus for the ride home to a Nashville suburb.
1999 Spanish rock act Dover plays its first U.S. concert.
1993 Drummer Jeff Ward of the industrial rock band Low Pop Suicide is found dead at his home in Chicago. The 30-year-old drummer is believed to have committed suicide. Ward had also worked with the bands Lard, Revolting Cocks, Ministry and Nine Inch Nails.
1982 Randy Rhoads, the lead guitarist for heavy metal star Ozzy Osbourne, is killed when the plane in which he is flying buzzes Osbourne’s tour bus and crashes into a house in Leesburg, Fla. He is 25.
1974 Jefferson Airplane is re-named Jefferson Starship.
1971 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “Me and Bobby McGee,” Janis Joplin. The song is the second posthumous No. 1 song of the rock era, reaching the top of the charts almost six months after Joplin’s death.
1968 Donovan (“Mellow Yellow”) travels to India to study transcendental meditation under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
1957 Elvis Presley buys his Graceland estate in Memphis, Tenn.
1894 Comedienne Moms Mabley is born in Brevard, N.C. Thirteen of her comedy albums make Billboard’s pop album chart.
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