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- The Veronicas' fashion collection for the Target retail chain was launched in Australia.
- Police raiding rapper DMX's home in Arizona found 12 neglected pit bulls, the buried bodies of three other dogs and several weapons. DMX told police that he had not been on the property for at least two months.
- The soundtrack album “High School Musical 2” was at No. 1 on the US album chart. It remained at the top for four weeks, and the musical's premiere attracted 17.2 million viewers in the United States.
- The Rolling Stones concluded their two-year A Bigger Bang World Tour with the final concert at London's O2 Arena. The tour became the highest-grossing rock tour up to that time, with gross revenues of $558 million.
- Kevin Federline's lawyers asked Britney Spears to pay part of her former husband's legal costs in their divorce proceedings. According to documents filed in Los Angeles, Federline had no net income after various expenses, while Spears had an average monthly income of $737,868.
- The Police began their reunion tour at the Globe Arena in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Rapper Lil Wayne was sued by a woman for $1 million, who claimed she had been crushed during one of his concerts after a large amount of cash was thrown into the audience. Tyrique Layne, who was 17 at the time, said that she lost consciousness during the concert in Maryland in October 2006 after being trampled by the crowd and subsequently suffered memory loss and severe headaches.
- Hilly Kristal, founder of New York punk club CBGB, died at the age of 75 from complications related to lung cancer. He is credited with discovering Patti Smith and The Ramones, and his club became an important venue for the development of punk rock. It originally opened as a venue focused on country, bluegrass and blues.
- The soundtrack to the film “High School Musical 2” began a four-week run at No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200. It also reached No. 1 in Canada and on the compilation charts in Italy and the United Kingdom.
- The mayor of St. Louis refused to declare the day “Ike Turner Day”. Turner was performing at the Big Muddy Blues Festival in the city at the time.
- Seventeen-year-old Jamaican-American singer Sean Kingston reached number one on the UK singles chart with “Beautiful Girls”, which was also a US number-one hit. The song uses the bassline from Ben E. King’s classic hit “Stand by Me”.