Birthday Highlight:

Bob Marley was born today in 1945. The Jamaican singer-songwriter is the most successful, influential and iconic of all reggae stars; an ambassador of reggae and highly revered in his native Jamaica, where his birthday is celebrated as a national holiday.

Also, Today In:

1958 - George Harrison joined Liverpool band The Quarrymen. The band's lineup included John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Len Garry, Eric Griffiths and John Lowe. Fast-forward to ...

1981 - A New York Post headline proclaimed "Surviving Beatles Plan New Album As Lennon Tribute." This, as we know, never came to pass. The rumor got started when word got out that Ringo was in Montserrat working with Paul McCartney on his Tug Of War album. George Harrison was nowhere near the scene. The record did contain McCartney's tribute to his late songwriting partner, John Lennon — the song, "Here Today."

1982 - The J. Geils Band started a six-week run at No.1 on the U.S. singles chart with "Centerfold", the band's only No. 1 single. On this same day, their album Freeze-Frame started a four-week run at No.1 on the U.S. album chart.

1987 - Rocker Joan Jett made her acting debut, co-starring with Michael J. Fox, in the motion picture Light Of Day. Jett and Fox play a sister and brother who perform in a rock band, The Barbusters, in Cleveland, Ohio. In his review for the Chicago Sun-Times, critic Roger Ebert gave the film three-and-a-half out of four stars and called out Jett's "most surprisingly good performance."

1990 - More than 200 women filed suit against Chuck Berry when they learned that he had allegedly been secretly videotaping them while they used the bathroom at a restaurant he owned.

Birthdays:

Natalie Cole is 65

Rick Astley is 49