Happy Birthday: Edgar Winter born in 1946
1968 – The East Coast get their first big Rock Festival as 100,000 fans attend “Miami Pop Festival II”. The lineup includes Fleetwood Mac, Steppenwolf, Joni Mitchell and, the Grateful Dead.
1968– The Beatles’ ninth studio album, “The Beatles” (aka The White Album), hits #1 in America!
1975 – Backstage at a concert in Spokane, Washington, Ted Nugent has a .44 Magnum gun pulled on him, Ted is saved when the man is wrestled to the ground by security.
2015 – Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister dies of cancer. He received the diagnosis two days prior