History Highlight:

Actress and singer Doris Day is 97. Her best-known musical hit is the 1956 Academy Award-winning single, "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)", which she sang in Alfred Hitchcock's "The Man Who Knew Too Much", which was her 10th movie at the time to be in the Top 10 at the box office. Day has received many, many awards including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and a Legend Award from the Society of Singers. In 1960, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and in 1989 was given the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures. In 2004, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush followed in 2011 by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Career Achievement Award.

Also, Today In:

1956 - Elvis Presley appeared on ABC-TV's The Milton Berle Show live from the flight deck of the USS Hancock in San Diego, Calif. Presley performed "Heartbreak Hotel", "Shake Rattle And Roll" and "Blue Suede Shoes." It was estimated that one out of every four Americans saw the show.

1961 - The Marcels started a three-week run at No. 1 on the U.S. singles chart with the Rodgers and Heart song "Blue Moon."

1971 - The Temptations scored their second U.S. No. 1 with "Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)".

1976 - A then-unknown Sex Pistols opened for The 101ers at The Nashville Room in London. (The 101ers were a pub rock band, notable as being the band that Joe Strummer left to join The Clash).

1976 - Johnnie Taylor started a four-week run at No. 1 on the U.S. singles chart with "Disco Lady", his 10th U.S. Top 40 hit.

1990 - Jazz singer Sarah Vaughan died of lung cancer.

2007 - Keith Richards denied that he snorted the ashes of his late father during a drugs binge. Jane Rose, Richards' manager, told MTV News the remarks were made "in jest", and she could not believe they had been taken seriously.

2008 - Morrissey accepted a public apology in court from the now-defunct monthly music magazine The Word, after it suggested he was a racist and a hypocrite.

2011 - Adele broke the record for the longest time at No. 1 in the UK album chart by a female solo artist after her second album, 21, spent 10 consecutive weeks at the top of the chart. The previous record was held by Madonna with her first greatest-hits album, The Immaculate Collection, in 1990.

2015 - Bob Burns, the drummer who was in the original lineup of Lynyrd Skynyrd, died in a car crash in Georgia. He appeared on the band's "Sweet Home Alabama," "Gimme Three Steps" and "Free Bird".

Birthdays:

Tony Orlando is 75. His best-known hits include the 1971 No. 1 single "Knock Three Times" and the 1973 No. 1 single "Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree".

Simon Raymonde of Cocteau Twins is 57.

Sebastian Bach is 51.

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