What happened on October 3
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194581 yrs ago
Ten-year-old Elvis sings in public for the first time
At a fair and dairy show in Mississippi he sang the sentimental dog song "Old Shep". He later remembered finishing only fifth in the contest.
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196858 yrs ago
Beatles cut "Savoy Truffle" basic track for the White Album
George Harrison's song was started at Trident Studios rather than Abbey Road. The band added overdubs over the next 11 days, including a saxophone part.
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197749 yrs ago
CBS airs Elvis in Concert, weeks after his death
The special was filmed on his last tour, and 24.1 million people watched it. It was the most-watched program on TV that week.
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199234 yrs ago
Sinéad O'Connor tears up the Pope's photo on SNL
After an a cappella version of Bob Marley's "War" with new lyrics about child abuse, she ripped up the photo and told viewers to 'fight the real enemy'. The Catholic Church's abuse scandal became public nearly a decade later.
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20251 yrs ago
Taylor Swift releases The Life of a Showgirl
It moved just over 4 million album-equivalent units in its first US week, the biggest week on record in Luminate's data.
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194185 yrs ago
Chubby Checker, king of the Twist, is born
"The Twist" reached No. 1 twice, in 1960 and again in 1961. In 2008 Billboard named it the most popular single in the history of the Hot 100.
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195472 yrs ago
Blues guitar hero Stevie Ray Vaughan is born in Dallas
David Bowie saw him at Montreux and hired him to play on Let's Dance, the same year Vaughan's debut Texas Flood came out. He went on to lead the blues revival of the 1980s.
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196957 yrs ago
Gwen Stefani is born in Fullerton, California
She fronted No Doubt on "Don't Speak" before going solo. Her single "Hollaback Girl" was the first US download to sell more than a million copies.
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197551 yrs ago
Brooklyn MC Talib Kweli is born
With Mos Def he formed Black Star in 1997, and their 1998 album is a landmark of conscious rap. The duo got back together for a new album in 2022.
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193195 yrs ago
Danish composer Carl Nielsen dies in Copenhagen
He was not widely known outside Denmark in his lifetime. Leonard Bernstein's 1962 recording of his Fifth Symphony helped bring his six symphonies into the international concert repertoire.
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196759 yrs ago
Woody Guthrie dies after years of Huntington's disease
He wrote "This Land Is Your Land" in 1940 as a reply to Irving Berlin's "God Bless America", which he found too complacent.
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