January 16 - Jamaican authorities open fire on Jimmy Buffett's seaplane, mistaking it for a drug trafficker's plane. U2 singer Bono was also on the plane, but neither singer was injured.
January 28 - Chris Isaak makes a guest appearance on the television show FriendsThis article is about the television show; Friends can also refer to Quakers or, more esoterically, a brand name of a spring loaded camming device. Friends was a long-running American television situation comedy centered on lives of six twenty-somethings.
January 29January 29 is the 29th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 336 days remaining, (337 in leap years). Events 1676 Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia. 1845 The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is published for the first time New York Evening Mirror . - Garth BrooksGarth Brooks (born February 7, 1962 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American singer/songwriter who performs country music. He won a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance in 1992 for the album Ropin' The Wind''. He was awarded the Academy of Count refuses to accept his American Music Award for "Favorite Overall Artist". Brooks says that Hootie and the Blowfish had done more for music that year than he did.
February 4February 4 is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 330 days remaining, (331 in leap years). Events 1454 In the Thirteen Years' War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederacy sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Mas - Former Milli-Vanilli member Rob PilatusSinger Rob Pilatus born in New York City on June 8, 1965, was a member of the music band Milli Vanilli. After the band was exposed as a fraud, he turned to a life of crime. In 1996, he was hospitalized after being hit in the head with a bat during a faile is hospitalized when a man hits him over the head with a baseball bat in Hollywood, California. Pilatus was attempting to steal the man's car.
February 20 - Snoop Doggy Dogg and his bodyguard are acquitted of first degree murder. The jury deadlocks on voluntary manslaughter charges and a mistrial is declared.
July - The Smashing Pumpkins drummer, Jimmy Chaimberland , is arrested for possession of a controlled substance. The remaining members of the Smashing Pumpkins fire Chaimberland because they said his "insidious battle with drugs and alcohol" had nearly ruined everything for the band.
September 7 - Gangster singing rapper Tupac Shakur was shot 4 times and was wounded at Las Vegas, Nevada after seeing the Mike Tyson vs. Bruce Seldon fight at the MGM Grand as they were leaving the hotel, obviously suggested that event was caused by the drive-by shooting. Tupac was taken into hospital.
September 13 - Tupac Shakur died in hospital after his wounds with the Las Vegas, Nevada MGM Grand shooting.
November 8 - After having first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, the film Hype!, a documentary on the Seattle grunge scene, opens to general audiences
Sheryl Crow's self titled album is banned from Wal-Mart stores because of the lyric "Watch out sister, watch out brother/watch our children while they kill each other/with a gun they bought at Wal-Mart Discount Stores".
Singer Tori Amos is sued when a man crashes his car after being distracted by a billboard advertising her album; the billboard featured a photo of Amos breastfeeding a piglet.
David Bowie's single "Telling Lies" becomes the first song offered as a free digital download by a major record label (Virgin Records).