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Historical Event on 6/18/1966
California's hippie subculture converged into a mass of long hair, flowers, and rock music this weekend, as 50,000 flowed into the fairgrounds of the Monterey International Pop Festival. The event featured the largest collection of major rock acts ever assembled; thousands of fans had to be turned away from the sold-out concert. Established artists such as the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, and the Mamas and the Papas received the expected ovations from the huge audience. But the response was equally enthusiastic for performances by Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar and new talents Janis Joplin, the Who, and Jimi Hendrix, a young man who played the electric guitar like nobody else.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
4/14/1772 | Ahmadshah Abdali passed away. |
9/22/1789 | Office of Postmaster General is created under the Treasury Department. |
1/2/1994 | Warden's in Arambaug, India lead about a fifty hungry and bruised elephants into a forest for temporary shelter. After a week, the herd strayed from a santuary, stampeding villagers and terrorising peasants. |
6/13/1999 | The Indian army secures the strategic Tololing peak in the Dras sector. |
10/28/1929 | Narotam Puna, cricketer (Bombay NZ off-spinner v England 1966), was born. |
8/10/1993 | Election Commission withdrew controversial order. By-polls to be held before 10. |
10/2/1993 | Prime Minister's employment project started in urban areas. |
5/1/1993 | Narayan Ganesh Goray, socialist stalwart, 86, passed away in Pune. |
11/6/1946 | P. S. Shivswami Iyyer, great politician and administrator, passed away. |
4/14/1950 | Sri Raman Maharshi, modern south Indian saint, passed away . |
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