2000 Customs officials at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport seize a shipment of Kenny Chesney’s single, “I Lost It.” The CD promotion singles are assembled with a package that includes “English water.” On the cover, Chesney, dressed in a black suit and black hat, appears to be partially immersed in a pool of water.
1998 Sheena Easton files for divorce from her husband of 11 months, documentary director Timothy Delarm, citing irreconcilable differences.
1997 Chrissie Hynde, founder and front woman of the Pretenders is married to Colombian sculptor Lucho Brieva, in a civil ceremony at Marylebond Registry Office in London.
1979 Chuck Berry is sentenced to four months in jail for income tax evasion.
1979 Boston Pops conductor Arthur Fiedler dies at the age of 84. He began his association with the Boston Pops Orchestra about 1915 as a viola player. He was conductor from 1930 until his death.
1975 Premiere of “Gladys Knight & the Pips” summer series on NBC-TV.
1967 Bobbie Gentry records “Ode to Billie Joe” at a Hollywood studio.
1954 Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys is born in Northumberland, England. The group’s first big single is “West End Girls,” a No. 1 song in 1986.
1947 Balladeer Arlo Guthrie is born in Coney Island, N.Y., the son of folk singer Woody Guthrie. His most famous song is the 18-minute Thanksgiving tale “Alice’s Restaurant.”