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2000 Rapper Dr. Dre (Andre Young) files a federal lawsuit against the city of Detroit, two police department officials, and a top city aide for alleged violation of his First Amendment rights. Police earlier in the month stopped him from showing an eight-minute video, featuring partially nude women and a staged liquor store robbery during a concert at Detroit’s Joe Louis Arena. The video is cut after authorities tell the rapper and tour promoters that they would be arrested if the show went ahead with the video’s screening.

1998 Arista Records president Clive Davis hosts a party in Central Park for Sarah McLachlan, whose album “Surfacing,” has just gone triple platinum.

1998 Mariah Carey uses her celebrity status to try to help police find a missing 13-year-old girl. The Grammy award-winning singer joins the family of Christina Williams at a Beverly Hills, Calif., hotel to tape a public service announcement about the girl who disappeared a month earlier while walking her dog. Carey volunteered her services after learning that the missing girl from Seaside, Calif., was a fan.

1993 The U.S. Postal Service releases stamps honoring four Broadway musicals. The 29-cent stamps feature scenes from “My Fair Lady,” “Porgy and Bess,” “Show Boat” and “Oklahoma!” and are issued in first day ceremonies in New York’s Times Square.

1992 Australian-born singer and actress Olivia Newton-John announces she has breast cancer. Her publicist says doctors expect a full recovery.

1984 Phillippe Wynne of the Spinners dies of a heart attack at the age of 43. The group’s only No. 1 song was “Then Came You,” a million-selling collaboration with Dionne Warwick. The group also had two million-selling No. 2 songs, “The Rubberband Man” and “Working My Way Back to You/Forgive Me, Girl.”

1973 The Everly Brothers break up during mid-performance at a show at Knott’s Berry Farm in Anaheim, Calif.

1950 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “Mona Lisa,” Nat King Cole. The song, which tops Billboard’s pop chart for eight weeks, is featured in the film “Capt. Carey, U.S.A.,” sells more than 3 million copies. The song receives a Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1992.

1941 Guitarist Spencer Davis is born in Wales. He forms the R&B/rock quartet the Spencer Davis Group in 1963 with brothers Steve and Muff Winwood and Peter York. The group’s two top 10 songs are “Gimme Some Lovin’ ” and “I’m a Man.”

1912 Folk singer Woody Guthrie (Woodrow Wilson Guthrie) is born. Guthrie’s 1947 recording of “This Land Is Your Land” receives a Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1990.