2000 Trace Adkins seriously injures two fingers on his left hand while working on his property in Middle Tennessee. Moving some rocks to correct an erosion problem, Adkins dislodges a 400-pound boulder. The stone runs over his hand, crushing his middle and index fingers. Adkins drives himself to the emergency room.
2000 Jose Feliciano and salsa musician Willie Colon are among 34 new inductees to the International Latin Music Hall Of Fame at a ceremony in New York. Harry Belafonte and guitarist Ry Cooder receive Special Recognition Awards.
1999 Three of Tammy Wynette’s daughters file a $50 million lawsuit blaming the country star’s death on negligence by her husband and her doctor.
1999 The online song-lyric auction Hits Under the Hammer comes to a close, with sales exceeding expectations. The British-organized auction, at www.icollector.com, raises nearly $67,000 for the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy and Norwood Ravenswood children’s charities. The highest bid goes to the lyrics for “Please” by U2’s Bono, at $3,600.
1998 British rock drummer Colin “Cozy” Powell dies in a car crash near Bristol, England. He is 50. Powell, who emerged from the ‘60s beat scene, came to greater attention in 1971 in the Jeff Beck Group.
1995 Tracy Byrd wins two Country Dance Music Awards for his “Watermelon Crawl.”
1985 An estimated 5,000 radio stations around the globe simultaneously play “We Are the World.” The song is recorded by a collection of recording artists, USA for Africa, to raise money to feed starving people in Africa and the United States.
1984 Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” wins Best Female Video at the second annual American Video Awards.
1981 Bob “The Bear” Hite of Canned Heat dies of a heart attack in Venice, Calif. at the age of 36.
1941 Electric violinist David LaFlamme is born in Salt Lake City.
1928 Tony Williams, lead singer of the Platters, is born.
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