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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 |
12/15/1980 | Hema Chengkalath, female Soccer(Football) player, was born in Calgary, Canada. |
2/25/1760 | Lord Clive left India. His successors as Governors of India were J. Holwell and H. Vansittart from July 1760 to 1765. He was re-posted to India on May 3, 1765. |
4/26/1990 | V. R. P. Menon, an Air Force Engineer, broke the world record in Chandigargh. |
4/27/2000 | Arun Bharat Ram takes over as the president of the Confederation of Indian Industry. |
10/27/1982 | Gandhiji's personal secretary Pyare Lal died. |
3/5/1922 | Ebrahim Suleman Maka, Indian cricket wicket-keeper (2 Tests vs West Indies1952), was born at Daman. |
2/17/1948 | Gorkha Rifles Battalion Group (INDBATT) unit was re-designated as the 5th Battalion the 8th Gorkha Rifles (the Sirmoor Rifles). |
2/17/1948 | Genghis Khan, Monghol conqueror, passed away. |
10/27/1999 | Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in Madhya Pradesh splits. |
3/4/1927 | Dr. Laxminarayan Lal was born. |
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