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WDKX.com » Blog » Today In Black Music History - 12.10.08
Dec 10th 2008 7:14 am
Today In Black Music History - 12.10.08
by Dean


1949 - Fats Domino cut eight tracks during his first recording session at Cosimo Matassa�s J&M Studios.

1967 - Otis Redding, at age 26, was killed when his tour plane crashed into a Wisconsin lake. Redding's tour band, the "Bar-Kays," was also killed.

1972 - Roberta Flack and two members of her backup band are injured in a car accident while driving into Manhattan.

1990 - The first Billboard Music Awards took place. Janet Jackson was the big winner with eight trophies.

1995 - Darren Robinson (formerly with the Fat Boys) died unexpectedly at the age of 28.

2002 - In Los Angeles, CA, the Oakwood Postal Station was renamed the Nat King Cole Post Office. U.S. President George W. Bush had signed the act for the change on October 30, 2002.

2003 - Bobby Brown was charged with battery three days after he allegedly hit his wife Whitney Houston.