2014
Blues guitarist and singer B.B. King’s last live performance, at the House of Blues in Chicago.
2008
2004
1997
Gordie Howe, 69, plays in 7th decade, with IHL’S Detroit Vipers.
1992
Sinead O’Connor rips up a picture of Pope John Paul II on “Saturday Night Live”
1986
Ground-breaking ceremonies held for SkyDome, Toronto’s 56,000 seat stadium built on vacant railway land on Front Street.
1981
1974
1955
“Mickey Mouse Club” premieres
1945
Elvis Presley made his first ever-public appearance in a talent contest at the Mississippi Alabama Dairy Show singing ‘Old Shep’, Elvis was 10 years old at the time.
1893
1872
Bloomingdale’s department store in NY opens.