History Highlight:

Today in 1994, Oasis released their debut album Definitely Maybe. With popular singles "Supersonic", "Shakermaker" and "Live Forever", the record was a hit and went straight to the top of the U.K. charts. In fact, it was the fastest selling debut album of all time in the U.K. when it was released and went on to be certified 7t Platinum ($2.1 million in sales). Though it only peaked at 58 on the U.S.'s Billboard 200, the album went on to sell over 8 million copies worldwide and brought widespread critical acclaim.

Also, Today In:

1958 - 15-year-old George Harrison joined a local Liverpool band called The Quarrymen, which featured Paul McCartney and John Lennon.

1964 - "Oh, Pretty Woman," by the great Roy Orbison, was released on this day.

1966, The Beatles played their last concert before a paying audience, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California to a sold-out crowd of 25,000. John and Paul, knowing what the fans do not (that this will be the last concert ever) bring cameras on stage and take pictures between songs. During this tour, The Beatles have not played a single song from their latest album, Revolver. They finished the show with a version of Little Richard's 'Long Tall Sally'.

1976 - Jimmy Reed, the influential Big Boss Man of the Blues, died at the age of 50.

1970 - The gender-bending single "Lola" by The Kinks was released. The song details a romantic encounter between a young man and a possible transvestite or transgender person he meets in a club in Soho, London, with the narrator describing his confusion towards a person named Lola who "walked like a woman and talked like a man".

1976 - Spirit reformed with its original lineup for the first time in five years to perform a concert in Santa Monica, CA. Neil Young joined them onstage during the encore for a rendition of Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone".

1977 - Elvis Presley's body was removed from a Memphis cemetery and re-entombed at Graceland after three people were arrested while attempting to steal his corpse.

1991 - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers kicked off their world tour in support of Into the Great Wide Open at Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre in Denver.

1992 - Guns N' Roses peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart with "November Rain" which was their sixth and final top ten single in the U.S.

2005 - 77-year-old Fats Domino was rescued from the flooding in New Orleans caused by Hurricane Katrina.

2005 - Barry Cowsill (The Cowsills) died by drowning during the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Louisiana, at age 50.

Birthdays:

Dina Washington, one of the most popular recording artists of the 1950s, was born in 1924.

Sterling Morrison, guitarist for The Velvet Underground, was born today in 1942.

Michael Jackson was born today in 1958.

Singer Meshell Ndegeocello is 50.

Highlights for Today in Music History are gathered from This Day in Music, Paul Shaffer's Day in Rock, Song Facts and Wikipedia.