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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 |
| 3/15/1969 | Indian Navy's first Helicopter Squadron was commissioned in Goa. |
| 11/1/1991 | J.N. Dixit appointed the next Foreign Secretary. |
| 10/26/1991 | Anantrao Bhalerao, freedom fighter, journalist and editor of daily newspaper 'Marathwada', died. |
| 6/26/1954 | Nehru, Chou En-lai pledge good-neighbor policy at New Delhi. |
| 8/15/1918 | Hans Kumar Tiwari, famous poet and translater, was born. |
| 5/31/1968 | F.V. Arul became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 06/05/71). |
| 1/4/1907 | Govind Rai, renowned Gujarati novelist and writer of 'Saraswati Chandra', passed away. |
| 10/1/1903 | Sachindev Burman (S. D. Burman), famous film music director, was born. |
| 5/3/1947 | Indian National Trade Union Congress Intak was established. |
| 5/7/1907 | Rajbali Pandey, famous poet, was born. |
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