1967 - Jimi Hendrix signed his first American record contract with Reprise
Records.
1968 - Pete Townshed and Karen Astley were married.
1971 - Peter Cetera (Chicago) was beaten up by four men at a Chicago
Cubs-Dodgers baseball game. The men objected to the length of Cetera's
hair. Cetera underwent four hours of emergency surgery.
1992 - Aerosmith donated $10,000 to support "Corporal Politics," a
controversial art exhibition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
1996 - The Metallica single "Until It Sleeps" was released world-wide,
excluding North America, where it was released the next day.
1998 - Tommy Lee (Motley Crue) started serving a 6-month sentence for
felony spousal abuse.