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The very first Lollapalooza Festival is held in Europe

Lollapalooza is an annual four-day music festival based in Chicago, Illinois at Grant Park. Performances include but are not limited to alternative rock, heavy metal, punk rock, hip hop, and electronic music. Lollapalooza has also provided a platform for non-profit and political groups and various visual artists.

'Hereafter' premieres at the TIFF

Hereafter is a 2010 American fantasy disaster drama film directed, co-produced, and scored by Clint Eastwood, written by Peter Morgan, and executive produced by Steven Spielberg. The film tells three parallel stories about three people affected by death in similar ways—all three have issues of communicating with the dead.

'Once Upon a Time in Mexico' makes its debut

Once Upon a Time in Mexico is a 2003 American contemporary western action film written, directed, produced, and edited by Robert Rodriguez. It is the third and final film in Rodriguez's Mexico Trilogy, and it is a sequel to El Mariachi and Desperado. The film features Antonio Banderas in his second and final performance as El Mariachi.

The Vengaboys hit #1 on the UK singles chart

"We're Going to Ibiza!" is a song by Dutch Eurodance group the Vengaboys. It was released as the 6th and final single from The Party Album. Based on Typically Tropical's 1975 number-one hit "Barbados", the song reached number one on the UK Singles Chart in 1999, becoming the group's second and most recent number-one single there.

Psycho star Anthony Perkins dies from AIDS-related illness at age 60

Diagnosed with HIV during the filming of Psycho IV: The Beginning, Perkins died at his Los Angeles home from AIDS-related pneumonia at age sixty. His urn, inscribed "Don't Fence Me In", is in an altar by a bench on the terrace of his former home in the Hollywood Hills.

Michael Jackson kicks off his 'Bad World Tour'

Bad was the first solo concert tour by American recording artist Michael Jackson, launched in support of his seventh studio album, Bad. Sponsored by Pepsi and spanning 16 months, the tour included 123 concerts to 4.4 million fans across 15 countries. It grossed a total of $125 million, making it the second highest-grossing tour of the 80s.

NBC launches the first regularly scheduled program in color

Bonanza is an NBC television western series that ran from 1959 to 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 431 episodes, Bonanza is NBC's longest-running western, and ranks overall as the second-longest-running western series on U.S. network television.

Frank Sinatra hits #1 on the UK singles chart

"Three Coins in the Fountain" is a popular song which received the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1955. It was recorded by The Four Aces, who had a number-one hit on the U.S. Billboard pop chart in 1954, while the Frank Sinatra recording topped the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in September and October that year.

Anniversaries of the (in)famous

born 1973

Paul Walker

born 1986

Emmy Rossum