2002 – Pop singer Jewel breaks a collarbone and a rib, and suffers bumps and bruises when she is thrown from a horse at the Texas ranch of her boyfriend, rodeo star Ty Murray.
2001 – Tim McGraw celebrates the release of his new Curb album, “Set This Circus Down” with free performances in New York and Nashville. With his band the Dancehall Doctors, the artist plays a five-song acoustic set at New York’s South Street Seaport, then takes a chartered flight to Nashville where he and the band entertain fans in a circus tent set up in a downtown area known as the Gulch.
2001 – As part of their 35th birthday celebration, The Bee Gees release their latest album, “This is Where I Came In.”
2000 – Limp Bizkit announces details of its planned 24-date “Back To Basics” tour. Kicking off July 4 and ending Aug. 6, the tour _ with rappers Cypress Hill in tow _ is to play multiple night stands in 3-5,000-capacity venues in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, San Francisco, and Seattle.
1998 – Douglas Springsteen, the mill hand and ex-prison guard who inspired his son Bruce’s songs “Adam Raised a Cain,” “Independence Day,” “My Hometown,” “Mansion on the Hill” and “My Father’s House” dies in Belmont, Calif.
1996 – Stone Temple Pilots bassist Robert DeLeo makes the national announcement on the Westwood Radio One Network that Stone Temple Pilots’ lead singer Scott Weiland is in drug rehab and is unable to perform. The band had scheduled several free performances, which are canceled due to Weiland’s unplanned absence.
1984 – Jerry Lee Lewis marries his sixth wife, 22-year-old Kerrie McCarver.
1977 – Talking Heads begins its first European tour, supporting the Ramones.
1963 – No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “I Will Follow Him,” Little Peggy March. Peggy is 15 years old when the song hits the top, making her the youngest female singer ever to have a No. 1 single.
1961 – Bob Dylan earns a $50 session fee playing harmonica on Harry Belafonte’s “Midnight Special.”
1942 – Barbra Streisand is born in Brooklyn, N.Y. She ties Katharine Hepburn in 1968 for the Best Actress Oscar for her debut film role in “Funny Girl.” Her biggest hits are “Love Theme from `A Star Is Born’ (Evergreen),” “The Way We Were” and “Woman in Love.” Each tops Billboard’s Hot 100 for three weeks. She is presented with a Grammy Legends Award in 1992.
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