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June, 12

  • 2000 Top acts donate personal items to an online auction to benefit the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN), the counseling service founded in 1994 by Tori Amos. Items up for bid include an autographed piano bench from Amos, original artwork from Joni Mitchell, an autographed guitar from matchbox twenty, and material form Alanis Morissette, Christina Aguilera, Shania Twain, Kid Rock, Metallica, Suger Ray and Enrique Iglesias.
  • 2000 The third George Strait Country Music Festival wraps with a sold-out show at Houston’s Enron Field, after grossing about $22 million from only 10 stadium dates.
  • 2000 R&B singer Bobby Brown is sentenced to 75 days in a Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., jail for probation violation stemming from a 1998 drunken driving sentence.
  • 1999 American R&B singer Terence Trent D’Arby joins brothers John, Tim and Andrew Farriss, Kirk Pengilly and Garry Beers for INXS’ second public performance since Michael Hutchence’s suicide on November 22, 1997.
  • 1998 Following the warm reception to Aretha Franklin’s impromptu performance of Puccini’s “Nessun Dorma” at 1998’s Grammy Awards, Arista Records releases her version of the opera song as the B-side to her current single, “Here We Go Again.”
  • 1998 John Fogerty cancels the first date of his U.S. tour because it conflicts with Game 5 of the NBA Finals, in which the Chicago Bulls face the Utah Jazz. Fogerty claims “When we realized just what this day might mean to the folks in Chicago, it only made sense to postpone the show. Besides, it gives the band and me a chance to catch the game, too.”
  • 1996 Pipe Major, MacKenzie John dies at the age of 74.
  • 1995 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “I Swear,” All-4-One.
  • 1994 Bandleader Cab Calloway suffers a stroke at his Westchester, N.Y., home. The 86-year-old is later moved to a nursing home and dies Nov. 18.
  • 1988 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “Together Forever,” Rick Astley.
  • 1977 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “Dreams,” Fleetwood Mac.
  • 1965 All four of the Beatles are named to receive MBE’s in Queen Elizabeth’s Birthday Honors List.
  • 1943 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “Taking a Chance on Love,” Benny Goodman Orchestra. Steve Allen portrays the King of Swing in the 1955 film “The Benny Goodman Story.”