Check out some of the events that took place on this day in history:

1968 Posthumous Gold Record For Otis Redding

It was on this day back in 1968 that Otis Redding became the first American to posthumously receive a gold record for his single titled ‘(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay.’

BORN ON THIS DAY

  • 1916 – Harold Wilson, the British Prime Minister

DIED ON THIS DAY

  • 1955 – Alexander Fleming, the Scottish scientist who invented penicillin