March 14th

2001 - The Court of Appeals of Rome finds Michael Jackson not guilty of plagiarism, reversing a decision made in 1999 by a lower court. Italian singer/songwriter Albano Carrisi had claimed that his song "I Cigni Di Balaka" was used in Jackson's 1991 hit "Will You Be There."

2001, Peter Blake, who designed The Beatles’ classic Sgt. Pepper album cover sued the group’s record company for more money. Blake was paid ￡200 ($340) for the famous figures in 1967, but was now “cheesed off” that EMI have never offered to pay more money.

1998 - Michael Jackson arrives in Munich to provide moral support to concert promoter Marcel Avram, who is in April to start a 3 1/2-year term for tax evasion in the city's Landsberg/Lech detention center. "As long as Marcel needs me, I will stay with him," vows Jackson.

Today the song "Gettin' Jiggy With It" by Will Smith topped the charts and stayed there for 3 weeks. (1998)

1990, Michael Jackson was voted artist of the decade at the annual 'Soul Train Awards.'

1989 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: "Lost in Your Eyes," Debbie Gibson.

1987, Boy George scored his first UK No.1 single as a solo artist with the David Gates song ' Everything I Own', (also a UK No.1 for Ken Boothe in 1974).