- 1979: Led Zeppelin’s In Through the Out Door was No. 1 on the US album chart. Six versions of the cover were released, each depicting the same bar scene photographed from one of six different angles.
- 1991: Michael Jackson gave away the bride at Elizabeth Taylor’s seventh wedding, held at Jackson’s Neverland Ranch. The groom was construction worker Larry Fortensky, whom Taylor would divorce in 1997.
- 2004: Brittaney Spears threw a full cup of soda on a photographer. The paparazzo was was waiting to take pictures of the singer and her new husband outside a subway take-away shop in Malibu, California.
- 2011: Starships’s “We Built This City” was named ‘the worst song of the 1980s’ in a poll by Rolling Stone. ‘The Final Countdown’ by Swedish band Europe came in second and “Lady In Red” by Chris de Burgh was third. Also making the top 5 were Wham!’s ‘Wake Me Up (Before You Go Go)’ and ‘The Safety Dance’ by Men Without Hats.
- 2020: American singer-songwriter Johnny Nash died of natural causes at age 80. He is best known for his 1972 hit ‘I Can See Clearly Now.’ Primarily a reggae and pop singer, he was one of the first non-jamaican artists to record reggae music in Kingston.
