| 60 | years ago | 1965 | Herman's Hermits earn their first gold record with Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter |
| 58 | years ago | 1967 | The Monterey Pop Festival begins in Monterey, California. In three days 50,000 will see the first major appearances of Jimi Hendrix, The Who and Janis Joplin. Also appearing are The Byrds, The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Buffalo Springfield. |
| 57 | years ago | 1968 | The Fillmore West holds a benefit concert for another San Francisco venue, The Matrix Club. Entertainment is provided by Santana and The Steve Miller Band. |
| 55 | years ago | 1970 | Woodstock Ventures, sponsors of the original Woodstock, announces that it lost more than $1.2 million on the festival. It's hoped to be regained from the sale of the Woodstock album and related memorabilia. |
| 50 | years ago | 1975 | John Lennon sues the U.S. government, charging that officials tried to deny his immigration through selective prosecution. |
| 48 | years ago | 1977 | Beatlemania!, a revue based on Lennon/McCartney songs and starring four Beatle look-alikes, opens on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theater. It runs for 1006 performances before moving to two other venues. |
| 47 | years ago | 1978 | The movie version of Grease opens in North America. The movie stars John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. |
| 43 | years ago | 1982 | Pretenders guitarist James Honeyman Scott dies of a drug overdose in his sleep in London. He was 25. |
| 43 | years ago | 1982 | .38 Special member Donny Van Zant is arrested on stage in Tulsa, Oklahoma for public drinking. Tulsa was a dry town. |
| 36 | years ago | 1989 | A new woman's fragrance enters the perfume market. It's creator: Smokey Robinson. |
| 33 | years ago | 1992 | Rapper Sister Souljah calls Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton a “draft-dodging, pot-smoking womanizer.” He had criticized her for suggesting that blacks kill whites because there's too much black-on-black violence. |
| 31 | years ago | 1994 | Hole bassist Kristen Pfaff dies of a heroin overdose. |
| 30 | years ago | 1995 | Pearl Jam begins a tour without using Ticketmaster. The band had accused the ticket giant of monopolizing the concert ticket industry and decided to use a mail-order ticket service instead. |
| 18 | years ago | 2007 | Rod Stewart marries Penny Lancaster in a private ceremony on the Italian Riviera in a 17th-century villa. |
| 15 | years ago | 2010 | Parliament-Funkadelic guitarist Garry Shider dies from brain and lung cancer at age 56 in his Maryland home. |