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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 |
11/22/1873 | Leopold CMS Amery, British minister of Colonies (India), was born. |
12/6/1987 | MiG-29, re-christened `Baaz', inducted into the Indian Air Force. |
10/31/1955 | The Prime Minister inaugurated the Cooperative Milk Producers' Union factory at Anand, Gujarat. |
7/3/1897 | Hansa Mehta, educationist and social reformer, was born at Surat (Gujarat). |
11/16/1997 | Sandalwood smuggler Veerappan offers to surrender. |
9/21/1990 | Supreme Court refuses to stay implementation of Mandal Commission Report. |
5/19/1951 | Sukhdev Bihari Mishra of Mishra Brothers, first historian of Hindi litterateur, passed away. |
4/22/1840 | James Princes, British research scientist and archeaologist, passed away. |
2/11/1979 | Shankarrao Narayanrao Mohite Patil `Sahakari Maharshi' passed away. |
12/5/1872 | Bhai Vir Singh, great poet, social worker, writer, educationist, musician, humanitarian and Padma Bhushan awardee, was born at Amritsar. |
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