TODAY IN HISTORY: Jimi Hendrix opens for The Monkees

In 1967, The Monkees played Forest Hills Stadium in New York. The opening act was The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Hendrix would be dropped from the tour, allegedly because of protests by The Daughters of the American Revolution.

In 1968, The Beatles’ animated film “Yellow Submarine” premiered at the London Pavilion. The voices of the characters in the cartoon film are not those of the group members, although they did provide four new songs for the soundtrack. The film, in which the Fab Four only appeared at the end, was directed by Canadian-born George Dunning.

In 1976, Canada’s first Olympic Games opened in Montreal. The opening ceremony was attended by Queen Elizabeth, Princess Anne and her then-husband, Capt. Mark Phillips. Canada became the only host nation to not win a gold medal.

In 1981, 113 people died when two concrete sky bridges in a courtyard of the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Mo., collapsed onto a ballroom full of dancers.

In 1996, a TWA jumbo jet exploded in a fireball shortly after takeoff from JFK Airport in New York and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 230 people on board.

In 2001, Canadian Alliance Leader Stockwell Day asked his party to hold a leadership contest. At the convention in April 2002, Stephen Harper defeated Day.

In 2013, 23 children in India died and more than two dozen others were sick after eating a free school lunch that was tainted with insecticide.

In 2014, 31 charges of fraud, breach of trust and bribery were laid against suspended Sen. Mike Duffy involving his claims for living expenses, claims for travel expenses unconnected with Senate business and fraudulent contracts. (He was later acquitted of all charges and returned to his job.)