History Highlight:

Today in 1965, the Beatles played their one and only concert in Minnesota. Having played in Chicago the night before, the Beatles arrived at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport at 4:15 p.m., and they were taken to Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minn., (now the site of the Mall of America) for a press conference, where George Harrison was presented a new 12-string Rickenbacker guitar by employees from B-Sharp Music. Following the press meeting and a sauna in the Twins' locker room, the Beatles performed a set of 11 songs from a stage erected near the baseball diamond's second base to a crowd of 30,000 mostly screaming fans, still at the height of Beatlemania. After spending the night in the Leamington Motor Inn in downtown Minneapolis (razed in 2008), the Beatles left the next day for Portland, Ore., the next stop on their tour. (See Andrea Swensson's feature about this historic concert.)

Also, Today In:

1961 - Elvis Presley started a three-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with Something For Everybody, his sixth No. 1 album.

1961 - Patsy Cline recorded the classic Willie Nelson song, "Crazy." Cline was still on crutches after being in a car accident two months earlier and struggled at first to reach the high notes of the song due to her broken ribs.

1965 - The Rolling Stones started a three-week run at No. 1 on the U.S. album chart with Out of Our Heads, their first U.S. No. 1 album.

1972 - Grace Slick, Paul Kantner and Jack Casady were sprayed with mace by police after a rather boisterous Jefferson Airplane concert in Akron, Ohio.

1982 - U2 singer Bono married Alison Stewart, his girlfriend since 1975, at All Saints Church in a northern suburb of Dublin. The two are married to this day. U2 bassist Adam Clayton was Bono's best man.

2005 - Synthesizer pioneer Robert A. Moog died at age 71 at his home in Asheville, N.C., due to complications from brain cancer. The Moog synthesizer was made popular by '70s progressive rock bands like Manfred Mann, Yes, Pink Floyd and Emerson, Lake and Palmer; The Beatles used a Moog synthesizer on Abbey Road and a Moog was used to create the eerie sounds on the soundtrack to the 1971 film A Clockwork Orange.

2006 - A man surfing the Internet in the U.S. foiled three men who broke into a shop in Liverpool, England. The man had logged onto a site streaming live footage of a forthcoming Beatles festival when he saw the men smashing the window of a shop and climb inside. He phoned Merseyside police who arrested the men.

Birthdays:

Count Basie was born today in 1904.

Kenny Rogers is 77.

Joe Strummer, of The Clash, was born today in 1952.

Serj Tankian of System of a Down is 48.