There has never been a decent No 1 hit on this date
Birthdays
1946 Paul Atkinson (Zombies)
1946 Ruth Pointer (Pointer Sisters)
1953 Ricky Wilson (B52s)
1955 Derek Longmuir (Bay City Rollers)
1955 Bruce Willis (The Return of Bruno)
1959 Terry Hall (Colour Field)
1964 Tracy Chapman
Deaths
1976 Gary Thain (Uriah Heep)
1976 Paul Kossof (Free)
1982 Randy Rhodes (guitar of Ozzy Osbourne)
Other
1957 Elvis Presley buys the Memphis mansion Graceland from Mrs. Ruth Brown-Moore
1958 Cadence label releases Link Wray’s Rumble
1960 South Pacific returns to top of UK LP chart for a further nineteen weeks
1970 Rolling Stone magazine reveals that opening lyrics to John Lennon’s Come Together were written by Chuck Berry for You Can’t Catch Me – ‘Here come old flat top, he come groovin’ up slowly
Iman was an honorary Bay City Roller