| 78 | years ago | 1948 | Klaus Meine, vocalist with the Scorpions, is born. |
| 61 | years ago | 1965 | Kinks guitar player Dave Davies is knocked unconscious when he careens into drummer Mick Avory's cymbal during a London concert. The group cancel the remainder of their U.K. tour. |
| 58 | years ago | 1968 | The Rolling Stones return to straight rock & roll releasing Jumpin' Jack Flash, a single later included on several greatest hits collections, but not on a regular release album. |
| 58 | years ago | 1968 | The 1968 Monterey Pop Festival is canceled because of pressure from the local government and citizenry. In the wake of the cancellation, $52,000 is discovered missing from the previous festival’s profits and the festival’s bookkeeper, Mrs. Sandra Beebe, can’t be located. |
| 56 | years ago | 1970 | Guitarist Peter Green leaves Fleetwood Mac and joins a religious order. |
| 53 | years ago | 1973 | Carole King gives back “a little something” to her favorite city, New York: a free concert in Central Park for an estimated 100,000 fans. |
| 52 | years ago | 1974 | Pam Morrison, wife of The Doors’ vocalist Jim Morrison, dies of drug overdose. |
| 48 | years ago | 1978 | The Who perform a second “secret” concert in London to be filmed for their documentary movie on the band's history, The Kids Are Alright. This is Keith Moon's last performance with the band before his death. |
| 30 | years ago | 1996 | Sublime lead singer Bradley Nowell is found dead in his San Francisco motel room of a drug overdose. He is 26. |
| 26 | years ago | 2000 | Eddie Van Halen undergoes cancer tests at Houston's M.D. Anderson Cancer Center to begin an outpatient clinical trial to prevent cancer. The hospital denies reports that Van Halen suffers from cancer. |