Sam Cooke’s “You Send Me” was released by Keen Records. It became his biggest hit, reaching No. 1 and selling 2.5 million copies.

The Beatles played two shows at Toronto’s Maple Leaf Gardens before more than 35,000 fans. Asked how long the group would last, John Lennon replied, “Longer than you.”

Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham performed together for the first time at Denmark’s Gladsaxe Teen Club as The New Yardbirds, before adopting the name Led Zeppelin.

The Who’s drummer Keith Moon died at 32 from an overdose of Heminevrin. He died in the same London bedroom where Cass Elliot had died four years earlier.

Pink Floyd began the A Momentary Lapse of Reason tour in Ottawa despite a legal challenge from former member Roger Waters. A later settlement let the group continue using the name.

Warren Zevon died of mesothelioma at 56. He was best known for Excitable Boy and its hit “Werewolves of London.”

Buddy Holly received a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in a ceremony attended by his widow Maria Elena and Phil Everly.

The U.S. Postal Service issued a commemorative John Lennon stamp using a photograph by Bob Gruen.