Today in 1969, David Bowie launched “Space Oddity” …

… and the Rolling Stones released “Honky Tonk Woman”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8142QzZXO28

The number one song, alone, today in 1987:

Birthdays begin with Thurston Harris, who did one of the versions of …

Bonnie Pointer is one of the Pointer sisters, but she was only briefly one of the Pointer Sisters:

Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi:

Suzanne Vega: