History Highlight:

Country music legend Hank Williams was born today in 1923. Regarded as one of the most significant country music artists in history, Williams recorded 35 singles (five released posthumously) that would place in the Top 10 of the Billboard Country & Western Best Sellers chart, including 11 that ranked number one.
The songs he wrote and recorded have been covered by numerous artists, and have been hits in various genres including pop, gospel, and blues. He has been inducted into multiple music halls of fame.

Also, Today In:

1967 - In the wake of their great success in the Summer Of Love, The Doors were invited to appear on Ed Sullivan's Sunday night variety program. Sullivan asked Jim Morrison to omit or alter the lyric, "Girl, we couldn't get much higher" in "Light My Fire." Morrison, to his credit, ignored him. They were not invited back.

1991 - Rob Tyner, lead singer of the incendiary Detroit band, MC5 ("Kick out the Jams, Mo-fos") died of a heart attack.

1996 - Bjork avoided a deadly run-in with a whacko. Miami police alerted a South London post office that a surprise was awaiting her after discovering the body of stalker Ricardo Lopez, who had made a video of himself constructing an acid-spraying bomb, which he mailed to Bjork, before killing himself.