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On This Day in Eagle Classic Hitstory...

July 14

1912
Folk singer Woody Guthrie (Woodrow Wilson Guthrie) is born. Guthrie's 1947 recording of "This Land Is Your Land" receives a Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1990.

1961
A report from Billboard says "The Twist" teenage dance craze is being picked up by the adult crowd in Philadelphia.

1969
Bob Dylan makes a surprise appearance with The Band at the Mississippi River Rock Festival. He performs three numbers.

1973
The Everly Brothers decide to call it quits. The Everlys end things with a concert at Knott's Berry Farm. The show is stopped by entertainment director Bill Hollingshead because he felt Don was having a poor performance. Phil got angry, smashed his guitar and walked off the stage. Don performs the third set solo and announces their break-up to the audience.

1987
Rocker Steve Miller gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1988
Singer Michael Jackson begins his first British tour at Wembley Stadium in London.

1989
Cyndi Lauper releases the first closed-captioned video - "My First Night Without You."

1992
Australian-born singer and actress Olivia Newton-John announces she has breast cancer. Her publicist says doctors expect a full recovery.

1995
George Michael announces he's settled his long running dispute with Sony and has been released from his contract. He signed a contract with Dreamworks SKG label who allegedly pays Sony $40 million.

1998
Arista Records president Clive Davis hosts a party in Central Park for Sarah McLachlan, whose album Surfacing, has just gone triple platinum.

1998
Mariah Carey uses her celebrity status to try to help police find a missing 13-yearold girl. The Grammy award-winning singer joins the family of Christina Williams at a Beverly Hills, Calif., hotel to tape a public service announcement about the girl who was apparently abducted a month earlier while walking her dog. Carey volunteered her services after learning that the missing girl from Seaside, Calif., was a fan. Sadly, the case ends in tragedy when the girl's remains are found seven months after her disappearance.

2000
Rapper Dr. Dre (Andre Young) files a federal lawsuit against the city of Detroit, two police department officials, and a top city aide for alleged violation of his First Amendment rights. Police earlier in the month stopped him from showing an eightminute video, featuring partially nude women and a staged liquor store robbery during a concert at Detroit’s Joe Louis Arena. The video is cut after authorities tell the rapper and tour promoters that they would be arrested if the show went ahead with the video’s screening.

2003
Skip Battin, former bassist for the Byrds and other notable country-rock bands of the '70s and '80s, dies near Palm Springs, Calif., of complications from Alzheimer's disease. He is 69.

2005
Jeannette Sliwinski, 23, a self-proclaimed suicidal woman, rams her vehicle into another car, killing the three musicians inside: Silkworm drummer Michael Dahlquist, John Glick of The Returnables, and Douglas Meis of The Dials. In her trial, which starts on October 15, 2007, she pleads guilty by insanity and is sentenced to eight years in prison. Upon hearing of the results, members of all three bands who had lost members are quoted as saying words failed them.

2005
Pioneering African-American country artist Big Al Downing dies at a hospital near his home in Leicester, Mass. Downing, 65, is felled by complications from Leukemia, with which he had been recently diagnosed.