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- 2000 A family emergency forces Sonic Youth’s husband-and-wife tandem Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon to scrap the band’s opening set for Pearl Jam at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md.
- 1999 Bassist Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue is arrested at a show in Raleigh, N.C., on charges of inciting a riot at a Greensboro concert in October 1997. Sixx is charged with felony rioting and three misdemeanor charges of inciting a riot, assault, and disorderly conduct.
- 1999 The Virgin Megastore Web site gets more than it bargained for over the Labor Day weekend, when a half-price sale forces the site to temporarily shut down for most of the day, after being clogged by customers in record-breaking numbers.
- 1978 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “Boogie Oogie Oogie,” A Taste of Honey. The group wins a Grammy as best new artist.
- 1970 Al “Blind Owl” Wilson of Canned Heat dies in Topanga Canyon, Calif., at age 27.
- 1966 “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet” television series ends after 14 years.
- 1942 Al Jardine of the Beach Boys is born in Lima, Ohio.
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