According to Ron Smith's book "Eight Days A Week: Births, Deaths And Events Each Day In Oldies History" (available here: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/eight-days-a-week-ron-smith/1100441248?ean=9780983373704) ...
1958 - Elvis Presley records "Hard Headed Woman"
1961 - The Supremes sign with Motown Records
1967 - The Rolling Stones perform a cleaned-up "Let's Spend Some Time Together" on CBS-TV's "Ed Sullivan Show" (at Ed's request)
1967 - Roy Orbison's "The Fastest Guitar Alive" movie (with Sam The Sham) premiers in New York City
1967 - The Buckinghams begin recording "Don't You Care"
1971- Chase records "Get It On"
1974 - "Happy Days" (with the original theme of Bill Haley's "Rock Around The Clock" debuts on ABC-TV
1977 - Linda McCartney is voted one of the ten "Most Watchable Women" by The Bachelors Club
1982 - Harry Casey (KC of KC and the Sunshine Band) is partially paralyzed in a Hialeah, Florida auto crash (recovery takes a year)
1988 - Davy Jones guests on ABC-TV's "Sledge Hammer"
1994 - Harry Nilsson dies of a heart attack
2010 - Charlie Daniels suffers a mild stroke while snowmobiling in Durango, Colorado
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