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September, 8

  • 1999 Bad Boy Entertainment mogul Sean “Puffy” Combs pleads guilty to reduced assault charges in New York Criminal Court and is sentenced to a one-day anger management class. Combs had been facing up to seven years in prison for assaulting Interscope Records executive Steve Stoute.
  • 1999 To promote Apple/EMI’s Sept. 14 release of the Beatles’ “Yellow Submarine” album, a Eurostar cross-Channel train custom-designed with artwork from the animated film leaves London’s Waterloo Station at 11:57 a.m. GMT for Paris.
  • 1998 Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell proclaims the week of Sept. 8-13 as “Garth Brooks Week” during a formal ceremony at the First Union Center, and presents Brooks with a personalized replica of the Liberty Bell.
  • 1998 Virgin Publishing releases the “1,000 Greatest Albums Of All Time.” Beatles albums take four out of the top five spots: “Revolver” tops the list, followed by “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” and “The Beatles” (known as the White Album), with “Abbey Road” at No. 5. Only Nirvana’s &ldqro;Nevermind” which nabs the fourth spot, breaks the Fab Four’s dominance.
  • 1996 In a second round of emergency operations, rapper Tupac Shakur has his right lung removed at University Medical Center near Las Vegas, Nevada. Shakur was shot four times in a drive-by ambush the night before.
  • 1974 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “I Shot the Sheriff,” Eric Clapton. The song is a remake of Jamaican Bob Marley’s reggae version.
  • 1960 David Steele of Fine Young Cannibals is born.
  • 1952 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “You Belong to Me,” Jo Stafford.
  • 1946 Freddie Mercury of Queen is born in Zanzibar, Tanzania.
  • 1932 Country & western singer Patsy Cline is born Virginia Hensley in Winchester, Va. Her songs “I Fall to Pieces” and “She’s Got You” reach No. 1 on Billboard’s country singles chart. She dies in a 1963 plane crash.