Today back then.

1926 - For his first recording session, held today, Benny Goodman played clarinet with the Ben Pollack Orchestra on, "Downtown Shuffle" for Victor Records. Goodman was 17 years old.

1943 - Singer and actor Frank Sinatra was classified 4-F by the United States Army when he tried to enlist in Newark, New Jersey, during World War II.

1953 - Frank Sinatra recorded "Young At Heart", a song turned down by Nat ‘King’ Cole and other artists. In March of 1954, it became a hit in the United States.

1956 - At Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee, the Million Dollar Session was held when Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis gathered for an unplanned jam session. Six songs were recorded by the artists at this session, but none were released for almost three decades.

1965 - The television debut of the comic strip "Peanuts" gang, in A Charlie Brown Christmas, was on this date. More than 30 years later, it was still a perennial favorite.