1999 Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland, on probation for a 1997 heroin case, is arrested and faces a hearing for failing to provide a urine sample to his live-in drug treatment center.
1998 A multimedia exhibit featuring more than 250 covers from Rolling Stone magazine and artifacts from the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame kicks of a free tour of U.S. colleges at New York University in New York.
1996 Singer and Guitarist, Buster Benton dies at the age of 64.
1988 The Beach Boys, the Beatles, the Drifters, Bob Dylan and the Supremes are among those inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
1987 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “At This Moment,” Billy Vera & the Beaters. The song takes off after being featured in several episodes of the NBC-TV show “Family Ties.”
1977 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “I Wish,” Stevie Wonder. The song is the first single from the album “Songs in the Key of Life,” which is only the third album to debut at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Pop Albums chart.
1965 Alan Freed, the disc jockey who coined the term “rock ‘n’ roll,” dies.
1960 Elvis Presley is promoted to sergeant in the U.S. Army.
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