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#otd 1985 Michael Jackson is presented with a special Presidential Humanitarian Award by Ronald Reagan. The award is for his work against drunk drivers and was used when he gets into legal troubles

#otd 2017 Todd Rundgren makes the commencement speech at Berkeley College of Music. He criticizes the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and says he will never attend the show. A promise he kept when he is inducted in 2021

#otd 1967 The Bee Gees appear on Top of the Pops for the first time performing the song New York Mining Disaster 1941 (Have You Seen My Wife, Mr Jones)

#otd 1998 Beach Boy Brian Wilson plays his first ever solo show

#otd 2022 Bono and the Edge of U2 make a surprise appearance at an underground station turned bomb shelter in Kiev, Ukraine. They play an acoustic set for the terrified citizens in support of the country which is at war with Russia

#otd 2008 British tabloids are aghast when 13 year-old Hannah Bond dies. They blame emo band My Chemical Romance for inciting death from their current album The Black Parade. The band refute the claim and in response lead the fans to a chant of 'Fuck the Daily Mail'

#otd 1997 The Rock and Roll of Fame ceremony is held in Cleveland for the first time. Previously it was held in New York

#otd 1968 Buffalo Springfield play their last concert together. Members Stephen Stills and Neil Young go on to form Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, and other members Richie Furay and Jim Messina formed the band Poco. They have a reunion tour in 2011 after many failed attempts

#otd 1968 Steppenwolf made their TV debut on American Bandstand, performing Born to be Wild

#otd 2013 The San Francisco Giants host Metallica night. Drummer Lars Ulrich throws out the first pitch and guitarists James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett perform the national anthem, with their guitars of course

#otd 1989 Despite being told they were committing commercial suicide, The Cure release Disintegration. Containing the hits Lovesong and Lullaby the album becomes the biggest selling of their career

#otd 1955 convinced by Mudder Waters, Chess records signs a young guitarist by the name of Chuck Berry

#otd 1983 Manfred Mann re-forms to help celebrate the 25th anniversary of The Marquee Club in London.

#otd 1975 On American Service Radio, White Christmas is played signalling to the troops in Vietnam that Saigon has fallen and time to evacuate

#otd 2002 For the first time in almost 40 years no British acts were on the Billboard Hot 100. The last time this happened was pre-Beatlemania

#otd 1999 At Yankee Stadium, it's Joe DiMaggio day! So New York native Paul Simon performs Mrs Robinson which includes the line Where Have Gone, Joe DiMaggio?

#otd 1968 In one of music's what if, a then unknown David Bowie gets rejected by the Beatles newly formed record label Apple records. They sent a letter to the singer saying he's not what they are looking for right now.

#otd 1965 Life magazine runs a cover story on Frank Sinatra. At 22 pages, it's the longest in their history

#otd 1978 While on his Bat out of Hell tour, Meat Loaf falls off the stage and hurts his knee. He has to have surgery but completes the tour performing from a wheelchair while it's healing

#otd 1993 Lou Pearlman holds auditions in Florida for the Backstreet Boys. He was inspired by New Kids on the Block, when they hired a jet from him