1802 Composer Wilhelm Bernard Molique was born.
1911 Jazz drummer “Papa” Jo Jones is born Jonathan David Samuel Jones in Chicago, Illinois.
1939 Judy Garland, 16, records “Over The Rainbow” for the movie The Wizard of Oz.
1940 Artie Shaw records “Stardust.”
1944 Folk singer Judee Sill is born in Studio City, California
1949 David Hope (bass guitarist for Kansas) is born in Topeka, Kansas
1950 The Frank Sinatra Show debuted.
1953 Tico Torres (drummer for Bon Jovi) is born Hector Juan Samuel Torres in New York.
1960 Elvis Presley records “Flaming Star.”
1961 The Platters, Del Shannon, The Drifters, Brook Benton, U.S. Bonds, Dee Clark, The Clefftones and Curtis Lee all appeared at Wichita Forum, Kansas.
1964 The Beatles appeared on Shindig! The show was taped in London and included the songs “I’m a Loser,” “Kansas City,” and “Boys.”
1966 Johnny Kidd dies in a car accident near Lancashire, England, at age 30.
1967 R&B singer Toni Braxton is born in Severn, Maryland.
1968 Thom Yorke (lead singer/songwriter for Radiohead) is born in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England.
1971 Michael Jackson releases “Got To Be There.”
1978 The Buzzcocks appeared at The Liverpool Empire, England.
1978 Merle Haggard marries his third wife: Leona Williams, a bass player and singer with Loretta Lynn.
1978 The Rolling Stones play their new single “Beast Of Burden” on Saturday Night Live.
1982 Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page was given a 12-month conditional release following a cocaine possession conviction.
1984 Big Country kicked off an 11 date UK tour at The Glasgow Apollo.
1984 KISS played at Newcastle City Hall supported by a new band called Bon Jovi
1987 Exodus releases their second studio album, Pleasures of the Flesh.
1995 Alanis Morissette went to No. 1 on the U.S. album chart with Jagged Little Pill
1999 Backstreet Boys and Korn are multiple winners at the inaugural ARTIST direct Online Music Awards at the House of Blues in West Hollywood.
1999 Garth Brooks released an album as “Chris Gaines”
2008 Spotify launched. The most-streamed song for October was “Viva La Vida” by Coldplay; for all of 2008 it was “Human” by The Killers.
2014 Weezer release their ninth studio album, Everything Will Be Alright in the End
2016 The Rolling Stones played the first night of the Desert Trip festival, at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California.
2017 Cardi B hits #1 in the US with “Bodak Yellow”