Also on April 29, 1960, Dick Clark told the U.S. House of Representatives that he had never taken payola for the records he featured on his show "American Bandstand..."

On April 30, 1975, the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to Communist forces

Also on April 30, 1983, the original Manfred Mann reunited for a London concert...

On May 1, 1960, the Soviet Union shot down an American U-2 reconnaissance plane near Sverdlovsk and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers

Also on May 1, 1967, Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu were married. They were together until 1973...

On May 2, 1979, The Who performed their first concert after the death of Keith Moon. Kenney Jones, formerly of the Faces, was the new drummer...

Also on May 2, 1945, the Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin and the Allies announced the surrender of Nazi troops in Italy and parts of Austria.

On May 3rd, 1988- The White House acknowledged that first lady Nancy Reagan had used astrological advice to help schedule President Ronald Reagan's activities.

On May 3, 1977, Paul Simon and Phoebe Snow performed at a benefit concert for the New York Public Library...

On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on anti-war protesters at Kent State University, killing four students and wounding nine others.

In the words of Neal... four dead in O-Hi-O

Also on May 4, 1976, KISS performed their first concert in their hometown of New York City...

On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America's first space traveler as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight in a capsule launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla.

Also on May 5, 1986, it was announced that Cleveland, Ohio, had been chosen as the city where the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame would be built...

On May 6, 1937, the hydrogen-filled German dirigible Hindenburg burned and crashed in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 36 of the 97 people on board.

Also on May 6, 1977, Led Zeppelin set a new record for the largest audience at a single-act concert. 76,229 people were at a show in Pontiac, MI...

On May 7, 1945, Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Rheims, France, to take effect the following day, ending the European conflict of World War II

Also on May 7, 1991, a judge in Macon, Georgia dismissed a wrongful death suit against Ozzy Osbourne. A local couple failed to prove their son was inspired to attempt suicide by Ozzy's music...

On May 8, 1972, Billy Preston became the first rock performer to headline at Radio City Music Hall...

Also on May 8, 1973, militant American Indians who had held the South Dakota hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrendered.

On May 9, 1990, Sinead O'Connor refused to perform on "Saturday Night Live" after Andrew Dice Clay was named as host...

Also on May 9th, 1945- Herman Goering, commander in chief of the Luftwaffe, president of the Reichstag, head of the Gestapo, prime minister of Prussia, and Hitler's designated successor is taken prisoner by the U.S. Seventh Army in Bavaria.

On May 10th, 1994- Nelson Mandela becomes South Africa's first black president after more than three centuries of white rule

Also on May 10, 1968, Jim Morrison (Doors) incited a riot during a Chicago concert...

On May 11th, 1949- Siam changed its named to Thailand.

Also on May 11, 1970, the triple album "Woodstock" soundtrack was released on Cotillion Records...

On May 12, 1943, during World War II, Axis forces in North Africa surrendered.

Also on May 12, 1971, Jerry Lee Lewis was granted a divorce from his cousin Myra...

On May 13, 1981, Pope John Paul II was shot and seriously wounded in St. Peter's Square by Turkish assailant Mehmet Ali Agca.

Also on May 13, 1971, Grace Slick smashed her Mercedes into a concrete wall near San Francisco's Golden Gate Park...

On May 14th, 1804- The Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory left St. Louis.

Also on May 14, 1998, George Michael pled no contest in the Beverly Hills Municipal Court to committing a lewd act in a park restroom. He was fined $810, given 80 hours of community service, and ordered to undergo counseling...

On May 15, 1984, Nils Lofgren replaced "Miami" Steve Van Zandt in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band...

Also on May 15th, 1957- Britain drops its first H-bomb on a test island in the Pacific.

On May 16th, 1770- Marie Antoinette, age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15.

Also on May 16, 1970, Marty Balin (Jefferson Airplane) was arrested for marijuana possession and for contributing to the deliquency of minors in Bloomington, MN...

On May 17th, 1792- The New York Stock Exchange was founded by brokers meeting under a tree on what is now Wall Street.

Also on May 17, 1963, Joan Baez headlined the first Monterey Folk Festival in California...

On May 18, 1980, the Mount St. Helens volcano in Washington state exploded, leaving 57 people dead or missing.

And yes I did see this happen. Was 90 miles south but really you couldn't miss it.

Also on May 18, 1968, Tiny Tim's "Tiptoe through the Tulips" was released. It was originally a number one hit for Nick Lucas in 1929...

On May 19th, 1962- Actress Marilyn Monroe performed a sultry rendition of "Happy Birthday" for President John F. Kennedy during a fund-raiser at New York's Madison Square Garden.

Also on May 19, 1965, FBI agents visited Wand Records investigating the lyrics to the song "Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen...

On May 20th, 1927- Charles Lindbergh took off for Paris from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, N.Y., aboard the Spirit of St. Louis on the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

Also on May 20, 1971, Peter Cetera (Chicago) was beaten up by four men at a Chicago Cubs-Dodgers baseball game. The men objected to the length of Cetera's hair. Cetera underwent four hours of emergency surgery...

On May 21, 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean

Also on May 21, 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono began a ten-day "bed-in" in Montreal's Queen Elizabeth Hotel...

May 21st 1996 Blackout in many areas of Queens, New York

On May 22, 1954, Bob Dylan celebrated his bar mitzvah...

On May 23, 1934, bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were shot to death in a police ambush as they were driving a stolen Ford Deluxe along a road in Bienville Parish, La

Also on May 23, 1970, the Grateful Dead played its first British concert at the Hollywood Rock Festival. It was also their first show outside of the U.S...

On May 24, 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge, linking Brooklyn and Manhattan, was opened to traffic.

Also on May 24, 1989, "Weird Al" Yankovic recorded "Generic Blues," "Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota," "Hot Rocks Polka," "Attack of the Radioactive Hamsters," and "Spam." The five tracks all appeared on the soundtrack to his film "UHF..."

On May 25, 1925, John T. Scopes was indicted in Tennessee for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.

Also on May 25, 1969, Led Zeppelin and the Who appeared together in concert at the Merriweather Post Pavilion...

On May 26, 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono began their 2nd "Bed-In For Peace" in Montreal...

On May 27th, 1937- The Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco and Marin County, Calif., opened.

On May 27th, 1998- Comic actor Phil Hartman of "Saturday Night Live" and "NewsRadio" fame was shot to death by his wife, Brynn, who then killed herself.

On May 28, 1969, Mick Jagger (Rolling Stones) and girlfriend Marianne Faithful were arrested in their London home on marijuana possession charges...

On May 29, 1973, Mike Oldfield released his "Tubular Bells" LP. The title track would later become the theme for "The Exorcist..."

On May 30, 1966, in San Francisco, CA, Jefferson Airplane performed at a benefit for the Haight-Ashbury Legal Organization...

On May 31, 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono recorded "Give Peace a Chance" during their Montreal bed-in...

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On June 1, 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono recorded "Give Peace a Chance" with Tommy and Dick Smothers, Derek Taylor, Murray the K and Timothy Leary...

On June 2, 1993, Ronald Ray Howard's murder trial began in Austin, TX. Howard killed a state trooper after listening to Tupac Shakur's "2Pacalypse Now" album. Howard was convicted and sentenced to death...

On June 3, 1987, George Michael's "I Want Your Sex" was banned by the BBC...

On June 4, 1984, Bruce Springsteen released his "Born in the U.S.A." album...

congress votes to let women vote....1912

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On June 5, 1959, Bob Zimmerman graduated from high school in Hibbing, MN. He later changed his name to Bob Dylan....

On June 6, 1971, John Lennon and Yoko Ono appeared on stage for the first time since 1969 when they joined Frank Zappa for a show at the Fillmore East...

Also on June 6th, 1944 the allied invasion of Normandy began... also known as D-Day.

On June 7, 1969, Blind Faith made its British debut with a free concert at London's Hyde Park...

June 7, 1954 - Despondent over court-ordered estrogen treatments to cure his homosexuality, Alan Turing commits suicide by consuming an apple laced with cyanide. Turing is considered the founder of modern computing, a pioneer in the field of Artificial Intelligence, and a crucial member of the team that cracked Germany's Enigma cipher in World War II.

Also on June 7, 1929, the sovereign state of Vatican City came into existence as copies of the Lateran Treaty were exchanged in Rome.

On June 8th, 1948- The "Texaco Star Theater" made its debut on NBC-TV with Milton Berle as guest host.

Also on June 8, 2000, Sinead O'Connor revealed that she was a lesbian in an article that would later be published by "Curve" in their July-August 2000 issue...

On June , 1958, Jerry Lee Lewis took out a full-page ad in Billboard Magazine to explain about his second divorce and third marriage to his 14 year old cousin Myra...

On June 10, 1966, the Beatles were first heard using reversed tape in the song "Rain." It was a 'B' side to the song "Paperback Writer..."

When you play the reversed part backwards, I think you can hear John say, "Paul's a big fat cunt."

On this date in 1963, Governor George Wallace stands in the schoolhouse door, blocking admission of African Americans to the University of Alabama. The entire nation is rightfully disgusted by the blatant, unbelievable, and obvious racism of anyone connected to the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa and anything to do with the miserable Crimson Tide (and I'm pretty sure they all still act that way over there).

On June 11, 1966, Janis Joplin debuted on stage at the Avalon ballroom in San Francisco...

On June 12, 1972, John Lennon and Yoko Ono released "Some Time In New York City..."

June 12 1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson and her male friend Ronald Goldman are savagely murdered in front of Simpson's condominium complex in Brentwood, California. Poor, distraught, estranged husband OJ Simpson is still looking for the real killers.

On June 13, 1970, Christine McVie released a solo album and then announced her retirment from music. She later came out of retirement...

June 13, 1920 - The United States Postal Service rules that children may not be sent via Parcel Post.

On June 14, 1970, Eric Clapton's band, "Derek and The Dominoes," made their live debut in Britain...

June 14, 1648 - Midwife Margaret Jones was hanged in Boston for witchcraft. It was the first such execution for the Massachusetts colony, but not the first in the colonies.

June 15, 1999 - Nicholas Vitalich was arrested outside a supermarket in San Diego for slapping his girlfriend upside the head with a large tuna. Vitalich was booked for assault with a deadly weapon.

Also on June 15, 1968, the Beatles' announced the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi as a public mistake at a press conference in New York...

Also on June 15th, 1904, more than 1,000 people died when fire erupted aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York City's East River.

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Hey! That sucks now how I'm suppose to get my grand young'ngs to the family reunions?

On June 16, 1967, the Monterey Pop Festival began at the Monterey Fairgrounds in Northern California. The festival lasted three days...

Also on June 16th, 1963- The Soviet Union launched the first female space traveler, Valentina Tereshkova, into orbit aboard Vostok 6.

June 16 1959 - While entertaining friends at his home, George Reeves, who played the title character in the original Superman TV series, went upstairs to his bedroom and committed suicide with a 9mm German Luger. Or did he?

On June 17, 1928, Amelia Earhart embarked on the first trans-Atlantic flight by a woman. She flew from Newfoundland to Wales in about 21 hours.

Also on June 17, 1967, Moby Grape released 5 singles simultaneously on CBS Records...

June 17, 1972 - The "plumbers" broke into Democratic National Committee Headquarters in the Watergate complex, in the course of what President Nixon would later describe as a "third rate burglary," in an attempt by the Republican Party to illegally wiretap the opposition.

But, "Watergate does not bother me. Does your conscience bother you? (Tell the truth.)"

"Southern change gonna come at last,
Now your crosses are burning fast..."

A Southern Man don't need you around anyhow.

On June 18th, 1948- Columbia Records unveiled its new long-playing (the LP), 33 1/3 rpm phonograph record

Also on June 18, 1967, the Jimi Hendrix Experience made its debut performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in California...

June 18, 1815 - Napoleon was defeated in the Battle of Waterloo, partly because of an inability to properly survey the battlefield (due to a case of inflamed hemorrhoids).

On June 19, 1976, Blue Oyster Cult released the album, "Agents of Fortune..."

June 19, 1999 - Oh, Discordia! While taking a walk, horror author Stephen King was struck by a van piloted by a distracted Bryan Smith. King's extensive injuries (broken leg, broken hip, lacerated scalp and collapsed lung) remanded him to a hospital bed for three weeks.

King would rewrite this scene in Book VII of The Dark Tower series as part of The Crimson King's plot to eliminate him from Roland's story, and he would also use this event in the opening scene of his TV series Kingdom Hospital.

Bryan Smith would later die in his sleep on Stephen King's birthday.

Also on June 19th, 1862- Slavery was outlawed in U.S. territories.