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Dennis Wilson, drummer of The Beach Boys, is admitted to hospital with serious head injuries, after being beaten up by a male friend of his estranged wife — nineteen-year-old Shawn Love Wilson — at the Santa Monica Bay Inn, Santa Monica, California, USA.
As a Christmas present, Marvin Gaye gives his father an unlicensed Smith + Wesson .38 Special pistol with which to protect himself from intruders. A few months later, Gaye Sr. will use it to shoot his son dead.