Birthday Highlight:

Angus Young turns 60 today. The AC/DC guitarist, co-founder and songwriter was born in Glasgow, Scotland, today in 1955; he immigrated with his family to Australia in 1963. Known for his energetic performances and schoolboy-uniform stage outfits, Young was ranked by Rolling Stone magazine as the 24th greatest guitarist of all time. AC/DC are the fifth-best-selling band in U.S. history with more than 70 million albums sold.

Also, Today In:

1949 - RCA Victor introduced the 45rpm single record, which had been in development since 1940. The 7-inch disc was designed to compete with the Long Playing record introduced by Columbia a year earlier. Both formats offered better fidelity and longer playing time than the 78rpm record that was currently in use.

1958 - Chuck Berry's rock 'n' roll classic "Johnny B. Goode" single was released. It entered the U.S. charts six weeks later and peaked at No. 8 on the chart.

1964 - Filming for A Hard Day's Night, The Beatles played a "live television performance" in front of a studio of screaming fans (one of those fans was Phil Collins). The four songs used in the film were "Tell Me Why," "I Should Have Known Better," "And I Love Her," and "She Loves You."

1967 - Jimi Hendrix set fire to his guitar live on stage for the first time when he was appearing at The Astoria in London. It was the first night of a 24-date tour with The Walker Brothers, Cat Stevens and Engelbert Humperdink. The Fender Stratocaster burned on stage by Hendrix sold for £280,000 (about $500,000) at a 2008 London auction of rock memorabilia.

1976 - Led Zeppelin released Presence, their seventh studio album, on their own Swan Song Records in the U.K. Presence has now been certified 3 times Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for U.S. sales in excess of 3 million copies.

1984 - Kenny Loggins started a three-week run at No. 1 on the U.S. singles chart with "Footloose", the theme from the film with the same name.

1995 - Jimmy Page escaped being knifed when a fan rushed the stage at a Page and Plant gig at Auburn Hills, Mich. The fan was arrested and told police he wanted to kill Jimmy Page because of the Satanic music he was playing.

Birthdays:

Singer and actress Shirley Jones, known for her roles in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! as well as on TV's The Partridge Family, is 81. The Partridge Family had a 1970 U.S. No. 1 single with "I Think I Love You".

Herb Alpert is 80.