| On this day, July 14th |
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| 1912 - | Folk singer Woody Guthrie (Woodrow Wilson Guthrie) is born. Guthrie's 1947 recording of "This Land Is Your Land" receives a Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1990. | |
| 1973 - | Clarence White, (born Clarence LeBlanc) guitarist for the bands The Byrds and the Kentucky Colonels is tragically killed by a drunken driver while loading his equipment in his car following a spur-of-the moment reunion gig with the Colonels. | | | 2003 - | Skip Battin, former bassist for the Byrds and other notable country-rock bands of the '70s and '80s, dies near Palm Springs, Calif., of complications from Alzheimer's disease. He is 69. Battin appeared on the Byrds' 1970-71 albums "Untitled," "Byrdmaniax" and "Farther Along."
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| 1950 - | No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: "Mona Lisa," Nat King Cole. The song, which tops Billboard's pop chart for eight weeks, is featured in the film "Capt. Carey, U.S.A.," sells more than 3 million copies. The song receives a Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1992.
| | | 1960 - | No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: "I'm Sorry," Brenda Lee. | |
| 1989 - | At The Peach Festival, South Carolina, 432 guitarists broke the world record for the most guitarists appearing in unison for the longest period of time, when they performed 'Louie Louie' for 30 minutes. | | | 1992 - | Australian-born singer and actress Olivia Newton-John announces she has breast cancer. Her publicist says doctors expect a full recovery.
| | | 2000 - | Rapper Dr. Dre (Andre Young) files a federal lawsuit against the city of Detroit, two police department officials, and a top city aide for alleged violation of his First Amendment rights. Police earlier in the month stopped him from showing an eight-minute video, featuring partially nude women and a staged liquor store robbery during a concert at Detroit's Joe Louis Arena. The video is cut after authorities tell the rapper and tour promoters that they would be arrested if the show went ahead with the video's screening.
| | | 2005 - | A bus carrying performers bound for the Denver stop on the Eminem/50 Cent Anger Management tour crashes into two tractor-trailers on I-70 near Odessa, Miss. Among the injured are rapper Stat Quo, who was briefly hospitalized and then released, and Eminem's DJ, Alchemist, who recovers at a hospital in Kansas City, Mo.
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