1999 The Web site Lycos begins a new search service that offers easy access to a half-million high quality recordings. The search service finds titles that use MP3, an easy-download technology. Such files alarm the recording industry, since many of the songs are illegal copies made by those who sell or give them away online.
1992 Nirvana’s album, “Nevermind” goes to the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Album chart for the second time.
1986 Diana Ross marries Norwegian millionaire Arne Naess in Geneva.
1977 The film “Genesis in Concert” premieres in London, with Princess Anne in attendance.
1969 Joni Mitchell makes her Carnegie Hall debut.
1964 The governor of Indiana declares the Kingsmen’s hit “Louie Louie” to be pornographic and asks the state’s radio stations not to play it.
1952 Rick James is born in Buffalo, N.Y. Among his R&B hits are “Cold Blooded,” which tops Billboard’s Black Singles chart for six weeks in 1983, and “Super Freak.”
1937 Don Everly (Isaac Donald Everly) of the Everly Brothers is born in Brownie, Ky. The duo has four No. 1 hit singles.
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