- 1966: Member of Parliament Tom Drilberg asked Britian’s House of Commons to officially “deplore” the action of a magistrate who’d earlier called the Rolling Stones “complete morons who wear filthy clothes”
- 1979: The Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” was released. While it was not the first single to feature rapping, it is generally considered to be the song that first popularized hip-hop in the United States and around the world. The song’s opening lyric “I said a hip-hop, the hippie, the hippie to the hip-hop hop” is world renowned
- 1996: Pearl Jam played the first night on their “No Code” tour at the Key Arena in Seattle, Washington. Because of the band’s refusal to play in Ticketmaster’s venue areas, they were forced to use alternative ticketing companies for the show which fans complained were to be out-of-the-way and hard to get to
