1998 History’s great thumbpicking guitarists have their day when Grandpa Jones, Merle Travis, Chet Atkins, Ike Everly, Kennedy Jones, Arnold Shultz, Lightnin’ Chance, Mose Rager and Laverda Rager are named charter inductees in the National Thumb Pickers Hall of Fame.
1995 Peter, Paul and Mary release their 17th album, “LifeLines.”
1992 Country music singer Lee Greenwood marries Kimberly Payne, who was Miss Tennessee of 1989. The 50-year-old Greenwood marries the 24-year-old former beauty queen in Nashville, Tenn. It is his fifth marriage and her first.
1981 Musician Eddie Van Halen marries actress Valerie Bertinelli of TV’s “One Day at a Time.”
1970 Paul McCartney announces he will not record with John Lennon again.
1966 Final broadcast of TV’s “Hullabaloo” music series. Guests include Lesley Gore and Paul Anka.
1961 Bob Dylan has his first live performance in New York at Gerde’s Folk City, where he opens for bluesman John Lee Hooker.
1957 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “All Shook Up,” Elvis Presley. Billboard ranks the single as the No. 1 song of 1957, the second year in a row that Elvis has the top single of the year.
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