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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 |
| 7/26/1991 | Indian, UN Observer Mission in El Salvador joined (ONUSAL from Jul 1991 To Apr 1995). |
| 3/31/1998 | T. N. Mishra became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 04/01/99). |
| 12/20/1978 | Riots in many Indian cities in protest against Indira Gandhi's imprisonment. |
| 6/7/1631 | Begum Mumtaj Mahal, wife of Shah Jahan, Emperor of India, passed away at Burhanpur a few hours after the birth of a daughter. She was married in 1612 and the Taj Mahal was built for her. |
| 9/21/1948 | Formation of Press Trust of India (PTI) announced under an agreement signed between Reuters and Indian and Eastern Newspapers Society. |
| 2/1/1994 | ONGC becomes a Public Limited Company. |
| 1/4/1998 | V.D.I.S. nets Rs.10,500 crores with Rs 33,000 crore black money disclosed in 4,66,031 declarations made. |
| 5/1/1992 | C. Arjun, famous music director, passed away. |
| 1/9/1919 | Theophane A. Mathias, educationist, was born. |
| 7/16/1992 | Amar Varma, Hindi author, producer and director, died. |
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