1896 - Frank Seaman opened the National Gramophone Company.
1961 - The then unknown Beatles and Gerry & the Pacemakers joined together for a one-time show in Litherland, England, billing themselves as the Beatmakers.
1966 - The Yardbirds arrived in New York for their first U.S. tour. Jeff Beck would only last two shows.
1967 - Jim Reeves, Red Foley, Steve Sholes and Joe Frank were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
1968 - Peter Frampton, 18, guested with the Small Faces in London.
1979 - ABBA opened a European tour in Gothenburg, Sweden
1991 - Oasis played their first show with Noel Gallagher in the group in Manchester, England.
1995 - George Jones and Tammy Wynette reunited at the Grand Ole Opry to perform the only full concert as a duo in Nashville.
1997 - Vince Gill paid tribute to the late John Denver at the Grand Ole Opry.
1998 - George Martin retired from the music business (at least for awhile).
2000 - Robbie Williams was found guilty of plagiarizing his song Jesus Was a Camper Van from both Woody Guthrie's I Am the Way and a parody by Loudon Wainwright III.
2004 - Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic of Nirvana appear in public together for the first time at a rally for presidential candidate John Kerry.
2005 - Bono dined with President George W. Bush at the White House.
2006 - Keith Urban checked himself into the Betty Ford Clinic.
2007 - Johnny Marr became a professor at the University of Salford in Manchester, England.
Marriages
2012 - Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel
Recorded
1958 - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee
1965 - Third Christmas Record - Beatles
1967 - Hello, Goodbye - Beatles
Released
1967 - I Second That Emotion - Smokey Robinson & the Miracles (single)
1979 - Prince - Prince
1993 - Vs. - Pearl Jam
1999 - Keith Urban - Keith Urban (first U.S. released album after 1991 Australian album of the same name and 1997 album with The Ranch)
2011 - Mylo Xyloto - Coldplay
Awards
2000 - International Bluegrass Music Awards
Entertainer of the Year - Del McCoury Band
Vocal Group - IIIrd Tyme Out
Instrumental Group - Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder
Female Vocalist - Rhonda Vincent
Male Vocalist - Dudley Connell
Song of the Year - Murder on Music Row by Larry Cordele & Larry Shell
Album of the Year - The Grass is Blue - Dolly Parton
Instrumental Recorded Performance, Recorded Event- Bluegrass Mandolin Extravaganza - David Grisman, Ronnie McCoury, Sam Bush, Frank Wakefield, Bobby Osborne, Jesse McReynolds, Ricky Skaggs & Buck White
Gospel Performance - Winding Through Life - Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
Emerging Artist - Nickel Creek
Banjo - Jim Mills
Guitar - Bryan Sutton
Fiddle - Ronnie Stewart
Bass - Missy Raines
Dobro - Rob Ickes
Mandolin - Ronnie McCoury
Hall of Fame - Doc Watson, Lance LeRoy
2005 - ASCAP Awards London
Songwriter of the Year - Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens)
Song of the Year - The First Cut is the Deepest (Yusuf Islam)
Broadcasts
1954 - Ozark Jubilee (ABC) - Final broadcast
Number Ones – U.S. Singles
1940 - Only Forever - Bing Crosby (9 weeks)
1974 - Nothing From Nothing - Billy Preston (1 week)
Birthdays
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