History Lesson

53 Actress Rosanna Arquette
52 Actor Antonio Banderas
44 NHL forward Alex Andrievski
40 Actress Angie Harmon
39 Actor Justin Theroux

1821 Missouri became the 24th state in the United States.

1846 The Smithsonian Institution was established in Washington, D.C., from funds left by British scientist James Smithson.

1948 Candid Camera with Allen Funt debuted on television.

2002 Lisa Marie Presley married actor Nicolas Cage at a resort in Hawaii. The marriage was Presley's third. She was married previously to musician Danny Keough and pop star Michael Jackson. Cage filed for divorce four months later.

History Lesson

55 Actress Melanie Griffith
44 Actress Gillian Anderson (The X-Files)
44 Actor Eric Bana
27 Actress Anna Kendrick

1980 AC/DC scored their first UK No.1 album with 'Back In Black'. It was the first AC/DC album recorded without former lead singer Bon Scott, (who died on 19 February 1980 at the age of 33), and was dedicated to him. The album has sold an estimated 49 million copies worldwide to date, making it the second highest selling album of all time, and the best selling hard rock or heavy metal album, as well as the best selling album ever released by a band.

1994 During an Oasis gig at The Riverside in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, guitarist Noel Gallagher was hit in the face by a man who had jumped on the stage. Noel refused to carry on playing and after leaving the stage a mob of over 300 people attacked the bands bus as they were leaving.

SOUNDWAVE 2013

METALLICA, LINKIN PARK, ANTHRAX, A PERFECT CIRCLE, DUFF MCKAGAN'S LOADED, THE OFFSPRING, FOZZY, BLINK-182 and STONE SOUR are among the confirmed bands for next year's Soundwave festival in Australia, set to take place in late February/early March. Read more HERE

STAIND Live & in HD

The first official live CD from STAIND, "Live From Mohegan Sun", was made available on July 10, and will be followed by the DVD and Blu-ray release on August 14. This concert was recorded and filmed in high definition at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Montville, Connecticut on November 25, 2011. STAIND will co-headline this summer's Rockstar Energy Uproar Festival tour, which begins on August 17 in Bonner Springs, Kansas. STAIND plans to go on hiatus after completing the touring cycle for its self-titled seventh album, according to Billboard.com. But Lewis says that the band is not breaking up, telling The Pulse Of Radio that it's just time for a breather.

"Live From Mohegan Sun" track listing:
  01. Eyes Wide Open
  02. Falling
  03. Right Here
  04. Throw It All Away
  05. Spleen
  06. Fade
  07. Failing
  08. So Far Away
  09. Crawl
  10. For You
  11. Paper Wings
  12. Outside
  13. Not Again
  14. It's Been Awhile
  15. Mudshovel
  16. Something To Remind You

DAILY WTF: She's Sharp

A Pennsylvania woman with severely sunburned buttocks last night stabbed her boyfriend with a large steak knife after he slapped her rear end while she was doing the dishes in her home, cops report. The 24 year old is facing an assortment of criminal charges and is being held in lieu of $25,000 bond. According to police, the woman was cleaning the dishes when her boyfriend, “slapped her in the buttocks.” The man told cops that he did this as a “joke” since he “was aware [she] had sunburn in the area.” The woman, however, did not find this amusing and followed the man into the living room where she stabbed him once in the abdomen and twice in the shoulder. This arrest was not her first cutlery-related incident. She was busted in 2008 after allegedly stabbing a man with a fork during an argument over diapers. Once a cutter, always a cutter ?!? Read more HERE

History Lesson

91 Actress Esther Williams
75 Actor Dustin Hoffman
51 Guitarist The Edge of U2
51 Drummer Rikki Rockett of Poison
39 Singer Scott Stapp of Creed

1981 MTV broadcast its first stereo concert with REO Speedwagon who performed in Denver, Colorado, having just released the album Hi Infidelity

1992 A riot broke out during a Guns N' Roses and Metallica gig at Montreal stadium when Metallica's show was cut short after singer James Hetfield was injured by pyrotechnics. Guns N' Roses took the stage but frontman Axl Rose claimed that his throat hurt, causing the band to leave the stage early. The cancellation led to a riot by the audience who overturned cars, smashed windows, looted local stores and set fires.

1996 Kiss appeared at the Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati, Ohio on their 192 date Alive World Tour. During this show a fan threw his fake leg on stage, which all the members signed and handed back to him.