What Happened – June 16

It was on this day in 1967 that three days of music began at the Monterey Pop Festival. Considered to be the first large-scale rock&roll festival, it was held on a county fairground in Northern California that had previously had folk, blues and jazz festivals.  The sound system that was designed was considered pioneering for the time, and the “great sound” was a large part of the weekend’s success. Bands that played over the course of the three days are The Association,The Paupers, Lou Rawls, Beverly, Johnny Rivers, Eric Burdon and The Animals, Simon and Garfunkel, Canned Heat, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Country Joe and the Fish, Al Kooper, The Butterfield Blues Band, The Electric Flag, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Steve Miller Band, Moby Grape, Hugh Masekela, The Byrds, Laura Nyro, Jefferson Airplane, Booker T. & the M.G.s, Otis Redding, Ravi Shankar, The Blues Project, The Group With No Name, Buffalo Springfield, The Who, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Grateful Dead, Scott McKenzie, and The Mamas & the Papas. The vast majority of the money raised was donated to charity, with all the artists except one (Ravi Shanker) playing for free.

The earliest event that Wiki says happened on this day is “1487 – Battle of Stoke Field, the final engagement of the Wars of the Roses” and the most recent is “2000 – Israel complies with UN Security Council Resolution 425 after 22 years of it issuance, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon. Israel withdraws from all of Lebanon, except the disputed Sheba Farms.

A couple other things that also happened on this day are:

1816 – Lord Byron reads a few scary stories out loud to his house guests, inspiring Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein & John Polidori to write The Vampyre.
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1963 – Soviets launch the first woman into outer space, Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova.

 

A slice of birthday cake goes out to Laurie Metcalf.

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