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Suzi Gardner, guitarist/vocalist of 90s all-girl grunge band L7 is born in Altus, Oklahoma, USA.

Neil Young completes recording of an instrumental, The Emperor Of Wyoming, which will appear on his solo debut album.
Rock censorship rears its ugly head again when MTV in the USA refuses to air the Neil Young video for his current single, This Note's For You. In the video, the hair of a Michael Jackson lookalike catches fire during filming of what appears to be a Pepsi commercial. The blaze is extinguished by 'Whitney Houston' pouring Coke on Jacko's head.
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Nirvana is mixing the tracks Love Buzz, Big Cheese and Spank Thru at Reciprocal Recording Studios, Seattle, Washington, USA.


Neil Young ends a six-day tour of Japan, Asia, with a show at Shi Kokaido, Nagoya. The show will eventually be released on the bootleg, Japan Tour 89.
Austin, Texas-based indie rocker Daniel Johnson releases a new album, 1990, in the USA. Johnson counts Kurt Cobain of Nirvana among his fans.



Jeremy Wade Delle, a student at Richardson High School, 1250 W. Belt Line Road, Dallas, Texas, USA, shoots himself in the head in front of his classmates. His tragic death will become the subject of the 1992 song Jeremy by Pearl Jam.
Nirvana play at the Maritime History Museum Park, Stockholm, Sweden, Europe.
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David Bowie holds his 50th birthday concert in Madison Square Garden, New York City, USA. Guests joining Bowie for this event include Robert Smith of The Cure, Frank Black, Billy Corgan, Dave Grohl, Lou Reed and Sonic Youth. After the show, Bowie's wife Iman hosts a post-concert dinner at the downtown space of Julian Schnabel with guests including Beck, Moby, Courtney Love, Prince, Charlie Sexton, Fred Schneider, Matt Dillon, Matthew Modine, Jeffrey Wright, Christopher Walken, and Michael Wincott, Donna Karan and Naomi Campbell.
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The Beaconsfield Mine collapse occurs in Beaconsfield, Tasmania, Australia, Oceania. Of the seventeen people who were in the mine, one is killed, fourteen escape immediately following the collapse, but the remaining two are trapped underground. One of the pair, Brant Webb, requests that an iPod be sent down to them, filled with Foo Fighters songs. When Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters learns of this request, he will become inspired to write the acoustic instrumental composition Ballad Of The Beaconsfield Miners.
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Pearl Jam begin an international tour with an appearance at the V Fest in Calgary, Canada.















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