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1999 Continuing her awards streak, multiplatinum recording artist Lauryn Hill nabs four trophies at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards – one short of her output at the Grammys earlier in the year.

1999 Nine Inch Nails makes their first-ever appearance at a televised honors show when they perform at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards.

1998 Lucio Battisti, considered Italy’s greatest contemporary singer/songwriter, dies in Milan. He is 55. A recluse since 1976, he is thought to have had a liver ailment.

1998 Pioneer synth-pop band Depeche Mode begins its first concert outing in five years in Helsinki. The week prior, the band plays several warm-up gigs in Estonia, Latvia, and Russia including a Sept. 5 show in Moscow’s Red Square.

1998 German rapper/producer Moses Pelham apologizes for his alleged broadcast incitement to assault Viva TV host Stefan Raab. “I regret the consequences that this joke has had,” says Pelham.

1998 Bushwick Bill (Richard Shaw), a former member of Rap-A-Lot Records rap act the Geto Boys, sues the label, a division of Virgin Records’ Noo Trybe, for an alleged assault by three employees. The suit alleges that Shaw was attacked August 28 after attending a performance at a Houston comedy cafe by label employees who told the rapper that he would not be allowed to break his recording contract, then pulled a gun and punched, hit, and kicked him. Shaw is a 3-foot, 8-inch dwarf.

1997 Bluesman Junior Wells slips into a coma after suffering a heart attack four days earlier. The harmonica player and singer, 62, had been undergoing treatment in a Chicago Hospital for lymphoma.

1996 After a career that spanned 56 years on the Grand Ole Opry and a tireless reputation for touring and guarding his bluegrass progeny all the way to New England and beyond, Bill Monroe, the “Father of Bluegrass,” dies at the age of 84 in a nursing home in Springfield, Tenn., where he was being treated following a stroke earlier in the year.

1995 Singer Chynna Phillips, the daughter of Mamas and Papas stars Michelle and John Phillips, marries actor William Baldwin. Phillips’ former Wilson Phillips partners, Beach Boys’ offspring Carnie and Wendy Wilson, are also there.

1982 Al Green and Patti LaBelle open on Broadway in the gospel musical “Your Arms Too Short to Box with God.”

1979 Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens) marries Fouzia Ali at Kensington Mosque in London.

1956 Elvis Presley appears on CBS-TV’s “Toast of the Town.” The show is watched by about one-third of the U.S. public. Host Ed Sullivan is ill and Charles Laughton fills in.

1946 Keyboardist Billy Preston (“Will It Go Round in Circles”) is born in Houston.

1941 Otis Redding is born in Dawson, Ga. His biggest hit, the No. 1 song “(Sitting on) The Dock of the Bay,” is recorded three days before he is killed in a 1967 plane crash.