1953
Tom Petty is born in Gainesville, FL
1963
In Birmingham, England, the Beatles record a performance for ABC’s Thank Your Lucky Stars
1969
The Who play the first of six nights at New York’s Fillmore East, playing the entirety of their Tommy rock opera
1971
Calvin Broadus aka Snopp Dogg is born
1977
While flying from Greenville, South Carolina to Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s chartered Convair 240 aircraft crashed in a Mississippi swamp. The plane was carrying 24 passengers and 2 crew members. The band members on board were: Allen Collins, Cassie Gaines, Steve Gaines, Leslie Hawkins, Billy Powell, Artimus Pyle, Gary Rossington, Ronnie Van Zant, and Leon Wilkeson.
In addition to the pilot (Walter McCreary) and co-pilot (William Gray), Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines, and Dean Kilpatrick (Skynyrd’s road manager) were killed.
Steve Gaines was 28. Cassie Gaines and Ronnie Van Zant were 29.
1979
Bob Dylan performs three songs from his religiously inclined Slow Train Coming album. Observers report he’s gone gospel.
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