Music History for
December 21
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1810 - Composer Ludwig Schuncke was born.

1850 - Composer Zdenek Fibich was born.

1955 - LaVern Baker recorded "Jim Dandy".

1960 - Elvis Presley was inducted into the Los Angeles Indian Tribal Council coinciding with the opening with his movie "Flaming Star."

1967 - The Rolling Stones album, "Their Satanic Majesties Request" was released.
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1968 - Crosby, Stills and Nash performed together in public for the first time.

1968 - Janis Joplin gave her first solo performance in Memphis, TN.

1969 - Diana Ross gave her last performance as a member of the Supremes on "The Ed Sullivan Show."

1970 - Elvis Presley went to the White House to volunteer his services to U.S. President Nixon on fighting the nation's drug problems. He gave Nixon a chrome-plated Colt .45 and Tricky Dick gave Elvis a Narcotics Bureau badge.

1971 - Martha & the Vandellas disbanded.

1976 - "Barry Manilow on Broadway" opened for a two-week run in New York.

1992 - David Crosby was a guest on ABC-TV's "Roseanne."

1996 - Tony Bennett was rushed to a hospital for an emergency operation for an erupted hernia. Bennett was just arriving at the White House for a holiday dinner with U.S. President and Mrs. Clinton when he fell ill.

1993 - Shaquille O'Neal's "I Know I Got Skillz" single was certified Gold by the RIAA.

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