Birthdays:

1969 - Donnie Wahlberg
1960 - Sean Penn
1943 - Robert DeNiro

This Day in History

1977 - A day after Elvis Presley's death, President Jimmy Carter issues a statement praising him as "unique and irreplaceable" and crediting him with "permanently chang[ing] the face of American popular culture."

1986 - Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen plays his first concert since losing his left arm in a car accident.

2007 - Singer Uncle Kracker is charged with sexual assault in Raleigh, North Carolina. He'd later bargain the charge down to simple assault.