History Highlight:

On this date in 1979, Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious died of a heroin overdose in New York City. The previous night, there had been a party at an apartment in Manhattan's West Village to celebrate Vicious' release on $50,000 bail pending his trial for the alleged murder of his former girlfriend, Nancy Spungen. Party guests said that Vicious had taken heroin at midnight. An autopsy confirmed that Vicious died from an accumulation of fluid in the lungs that was consistent with heroin overdose. A syringe, spoon and heroin residue were discovered near the body.

Also, today in:

1962 - The Beatles played their first professional gig outside of Liverpool at The Oasis Club in Manchester. The first song in their set was their cover of "Hippy Hippy Shake".

1974 - Barbra Streisand started a four-week run at No.1 on the U.S. singles chart with the theme from the film The Way We Were. The single won an Oscar and a Grammy for Song of the Year.

1985 - Foreigner started a two-week run at No.1 on the U.S. singles charts with "I Want To Know What Love Is."

1989 - George Michael received undisclosed damages in excess of $170,000 from British tabloid The Sun over articles it printed that stated Michael had crashed a party given by Andrew Lloyd Weber, and that Michael was drunk and abusive while in attendance.

1993 - Willie Nelson agreed to pay $9 million of the $16.7 million he owed the Internal Revenue Service. His accountants, Price Waterhouse, had not been paying Nelson's taxes for years, and in addition to the unpaid taxes, Nelson's situation was exacerbated by weak investments he had made during the early 1980s.

2004 - TV network CBS apologized for its Super Bowl broadcast after Janet Jackson was left exposed when Justin Timberlake ripped her top as the two performed a duet during the halftime show. CBS quickly cut away from the scene but was flooded with calls from angry viewers. Timberlake insisted it had been an accident, saying, "I am sorry that anyone was offended by the wardrobe malfunction during the halftime performance of the Super Bowl."

2014 - Electro-industrial band Skinny Puppy sent the U.S. government an invoice after finding out their music was used as torture device in Guantanamo Bay. Despite the band's aggressive sound, they said they had never envisioned their music being used in such a way. "Because we make unsettling music, we can see it being used in a weird way," singer Kevin "cEvin" Key said. "But [this] doesn't sit right with us."

Birthdays:

Alan Caddy was born on this day in 1940. He was a guitarist with The Tornadoes, who had a 1962 U.K. and U.S. No.1 single with "Telstar"; notably, this was the first major hit from a U.K. act on the American chart. Caddy passed away in 2000.

Graham Nash, guitarist and singer who began his career with the Hollies and later became part of Crosby Stills Nash & Young, is 73.

Robert DeLeo, bassist with Stone Temple Pilots, is 49.