- 1964– During a US tour, The Beatles appeared at the Municipal Stadium in Kansas City. The band was paid $150,000 for the show, which was more than any other act had ever been paid for a live show. Tickets cost $4.50.
- 1969– Media on both sides of the Atlantic were running stories that said Paul McCartney was dead. He was supposedly killed in a car accident in Scotland on November 9th, 1966, and that a body double had been taking his place for public appearances. In fact, McCartney and his girlfriend where on vacation in Kenya at the time.
- 2004– Israeli police arrested two of Madonna’s bodyguards after they assaulted photographers waiting for the singer outside her hotel. Madonna was in Israel with 2,000 other students of Kabbalah, the ancient Jewish tradition of mystical interpretation of the Bible.
- 2007– Barry Manilow cancelled his plans to appear on the TV talk show “The View” because he did not want to be interviewed by its conservative co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck, an opponent of abortion and supporter of the Iraq War. Manilow had requested to speak only with co-host Joy Behar, Barbara Walters or Whoopi Goldberg, but the shows producers refused to comply with what they called Manilow’s “completely disrespectful demands.”
