Music Events:

• 1963 - The Beatles form Northern Songs Publishing Company.


• 1986 - In honor of the 20th anniversary of The Monkees premiering on television, MTV broadcasts "Pleasant Valley Sunday," a 22-hour marathon of Monkees episodes.


• 1998 - In Los Angeles, California, Stevie Wonder is honored as the 1999 MusiCares Person of the Year.


• 2005 - The pop punk group blink-182 announced that they would be taking an indefinite hiatus, but did not completely become in-active, according to frontman Tom DeLonge.


• 2005 - Brian Welch, guitarist of KoЯn, leaves the band due to his rebirth into Christianity.

Musician Birthdays:

• 1817 - Niels Wilhelm Gade - Composer


• 1870 - Charles Tournemire - Composer


• 1896 - Nacio Herb Brown - Songwriter


• 1927 - Guy Mitchell - Singer


• 1961 - Lowell Liebermann - Composer


• 1977 - James Blunt - Musician

Musician Deaths:

• 1903 - Hugo Wolf
- Composer

• 1938 - Miguel Llobet
- Composer

• 1961 - Nick LaRocca
- Musician

• 1976 - Florence Ballard
- Singer

• 1983 - Sir Adrian Boult
- Conductor

• 1985 - Efrem Zimbalist
- Musician

• 2007 - Ian Wallace
- Drummer