Former drummer for Bruce Springsteen’s E-Street Band Mas Weinberg begins his new job as the bandleader for Late Night With Conan O’Brien, NBC-TV’s new show (1993)

The FCC band “payola,” a controversial practice by which artists pay DJs to play their songs, as a result of the scandal involving Dick Clark and DJ Alan Freed among others (1960)

Peter Cetera of Chicago is born (1944)

The B-52’s play their first show ever in Idaho. They perform “Private Idaho,” for which the state had inspired the song (2011)

David Bowie arrives at Cook Islands to begin filming his role in the movie Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1982)

Due to a rash of stage-rushing incidents at recent Rolling Stones concerts, the Empire Club in Liverpool hires two dozen rugby players to act as a human shield. However, this didn’t stop the 5,000 fans. They washed right over all of the rugby players (1954)