| 100 | years ago | 1926 | The Beatles' record producer Sir George Martin is born. |
| 81 | years ago | 1945 | Stephen Stills, guitarist and vocalist for Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, is born. |
| 80 | years ago | 1946 | John Paul Jones, bassist for Led Zeppelin, is born. |
| 62 | years ago | 1964 | The Jack Paar Show features a clip of The Beatles, taken from a concert in Bournemouth, England. |
| 60 | years ago | 1966 | The Beatles appear on Hullabaloo, performing Day Tripper and We Can Work It Out on videotape. |
| 58 | years ago | 1968 | Police at New Jersey's Newark Airport confiscate 30,000 copies of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Two Virgins album, saying the cover photo of the nude John and Yoko is “pornographic.” In Chicago, vice squad officers close down a record shop for displaying the cover. |
| 56 | years ago | 1970 | The Beatles record what will be their last song together, I Me Mine. A decade later it becomes the title of George Harrison's auto-biography. |
| 56 | years ago | 1970 | A year after Peter Tork's departure from the group, lead singer Davy Jones announces he too is leaving The Monkees. |
| 52 | years ago | 1974 | Bob Dylan and the Band commences their six-week tour at Chicago Stadium. The Band was once Dylan's backup group. |
| 52 | years ago | 1974 | Jim Croce's Time in a Bottle goes gold, the second of three posthumous hits for the late singer/songwriter. |