History Highlight:

Today in 2000, The Cars' singer and bass player Benjamin Orr died of cancer at home in Atlanta at the age of 53. Orr had been the voice on a number of the band's biggest hits, including "Let's Go," "Drive," "Moving In Stereo" and "Just What I Needed."

Also, Today In:

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 and came in second.

1964 -, The Animals' first self-titled album featuring "The House of The Rising Sun" entered the album charts.

1967 - American singer/songwriter Woody Guthrie died after suffering from Huntington's Chorea disease.

1992 - Sinead O'Connor tore up a photograph of the Pope in front of an Saturday Night Live audience in protest of the Vatican's stance on abortion. It effectively ended O'Connor's career.

Birthdays:

Lindsey Buckingham is 64 today.

Chubby Checker is 72 today.