The number one single today in 1955 was banned by ABC Radio stations because it was allegedly in bad taste:

The number one album today in 1961 wasn’t a music album — Bob Newhart’s “The Button Down Mind Strikes Back!”

The number one album today in 1965 was “Beatles ’65”:

The number one album today in 1969 was the Beatles’ “White Album”:

Today in 1973, the Rolling Stones canceled their planned Japanese tour because Mick Jagger couldn’t get a Japanese visa due to a 1969 drug conviction.

The number one country single today in 1976:

The number one British single today in 1976:

A non-music anniversary today in 1984: The Experimental Aircraft Association moved its headquarters to Oshkosh.

The number one single today in 1988:

The number one British single today in 2005, 48 years after its first release:

Birthdays begin with Bill Cowsill of the Cowsills:

Joan Baez:

Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin and the Honeydrippers:

Scott Engel of the Walker Brothers:

David Johansen, or Buster Poindexter …

… was born one year before Crystal Gayle:

Haddaway asks …

Lance Hoppens of Orleans:

Dave Matthews:

Steve Harwell of Smash Mouth:

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