January 10 1949: RCA Victor announces a new 7-inch, 45 rpm phonograph record. 1968: Singer John Mouse is born in Spanish Town, Jamaica. 1969: Floyd Smith aka Aaron Silk, singer, Garnet Silk's younger brother, is born in a quiet town of Downs in Manchester, Jamaica. 1981: Jagwa (Vernon Spencer) is born.  January 11 1952: Dawn Penn is born in Kingston, Jamaica. 2019: Japanese singer I-PAN DREAD passes away.  January 12 1931: Saxophonist Roland Alphonso is born in Havana, Cuba. 1955: Singer Johnny Clarke is born in Kingston, Jamaica. ----: Macka Diamond (Charmaine Munroe) is born in Kingston, Jamaica. 1993: Italy decriminalizes personal use of drugs. 2010: Vivian "Yabby You" Jackson passes away, aged 63, after suffering a ruptured brain aneurysm.