1939: Frank Sinatra made his first record, singing "From the Bottom of My Heart" and "Melancholy Mood" with the Harry James Orchestra.

1956: Dick Clark debuted as host of Bandstand on a Philadelphia TV station. The name was changed to American Bandstand when it moved to ABC.

1964: The Supremes released their first hit, "Where Did Our Love Go."

1968: Guitarist Eric Clapton announced the breakup of Cream. The band played a farewell concert later in the year.

1972: The State Department criticized Jane Fonda for making anti-war radio broadcasts in Hanoi, Vietnam.

1979: A Chicago disc jockey held a "disco demolition" between games of a baseball doubleheader at Comiskey Park. The second game was called off because of damage to the field.

1985: Playboy and Penthouse magazines went on sale with nude photos of Madonna.

1990: The movie Ghost was released.

1995: The Grateful Dead played its last concert with Jerry Garcia, at Chicago's Soldier Field.

"You can lose yourself in the work that she's doing and you're not sort of sitting there, thinking about her life and what she ate for breakfast." Mandy Moore, on Reese Witherspoon, whose career she would like to emulate

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