On This Date In Music

1969 - Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Proud Mary" hits No. 2 on the Hot 100, where it stays for three weeks. It's the first of five CCR singles to reach the runner-up spot on the chart without ever hitting No. 1.

1969 - ”Happy Birthday" becomes the first song to be sung in outer space when the astronauts on Apollo IX sing it to celebrate the birthday of the director of NASA space operations, Christopher Kraft.

1971 - Radio Hanoi, which is a propaganda radio station set up by the North Vietnamese army to broadcast to American troops serving in Vietnam, goes on the air with a recording of Jimi Hendrix' version of The Star-Spangled Banner.

1974 - Rising from the ashes of Free and Mott the Hoople, the newly formed Bad Company play their first live gig, at Newcastle City Hall in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.

1975 - Olivia Newton-John's "Have You Never Been Mellow" hits No. 1 in the US.