1958 Sheb Wooley's Purple People Eater hit the top of the pop charts and stayed there for six weeks.

1967 Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell made their debut as a duo on the R&B chart with Ain't No Mountain High Enough.

1972 The Rolling Stones began their Exile On Main Street tour, with Stevie Wonder as the opening act.

1973 The James Bond movie Live And Let Die opened.

1987 I Want Your Sex by George Michael was banned by the BBC.

1990 Seinfeld made its debut as The Seinfeld Chronicles on NBC.

1990 Mariah Carey made her network TV debut on the Arsenio Hall Show, performing Vision Of Love.

1996 Game-show host Ray Combs hanged himself in the mental ward of a hospital. Combs hosted The New Family Feud. He was 40.

1998 Saturday Night Live actor Phil Hartman was shot to death by his wife, Brynn, who then killed herself. Hartman was 49.

2005 Singer Jack White of the White Stripes married model Karen Elson in Brazil.

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