1964: The Beatles begin filming their first motion picture, A Hard Day’s Night. The first scenes are the ones shot at London’s Paddington Station that appear near the beginning of the film.

That means this is also the day that George Harrison first meets teenage model/actress Patti Boyd, his future wife and Eric Clapton’s future obsession (aka “Layla”).

1970: The Doors hold an infamous concert at the Coconut Grove Auditorium in Miami, Florida. Lead singer and resident bad boy, Jim Morrison is arrested on stage after he allegedly exposes himself to the crowd. He’s is not formally arraigned with a mug shot until September of the same year.

Although obviously drunk and verbally abusive to the crowd, Morrison is posthumously cleared of the indecent exposure charge during an appeals process that dragged on past the singer’s death in 1971.

1970: From our Strange But True Department: On this day, Led Zeppelin was forced to change their name before playing a live gig. The band was touring Denmark and the ancestors of the actual Ferdinand von Zeppelin complained. So, Jimmy Page and the lads played the concert under the name “The Nobs.”

1977: One of the most infamous rock star drug busts took place on this day. Keith Richards is awakened from a sound sleep in his room at the Harbour Castle Hotel in Toronto by Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He is charged with possession of cocaine, heroin and drug paraphernalia. Bail is set at $25,000.

1966: The torch is truly passed to a new generation as Frank Sinatra’s daughter, Nancy Sinatra, hits #1 on the pop charts with “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’.”

Usually teaming with producer/songwriter Lee Hazelwood, the daughter of ol’ Blue Eyes will go on to score seven Top 20 hits, including another #1, “Something Stupid,” a duet with her famous father.

1963: Tiny label Vee Jay Records releases the first Beatles’ single in the U.S. “Please Please Me” backed with “Ask Me Why” goes absolutely nowhere in the American charts or on American radio. But the 45 does go on to become a highly coveted souvenir. Why? Vee Jay misspelled the group’s names as “The Beattles.”

1976: The Eagles’ Greatest Hits (1971-1975) becomes the first album ever certified “platinum,” indicating sales of one million copies. It is not the first album to sell over a million copies, but it is the first one whose sales are certified.

That album, by the way, eventually passed the sales of Michael Jackson’s Thriller to become the best-selling album of all time.

2002: The Bee Gees play their final concert as a trio. The brothers appear at the Miami Love and Hope Ball.

1986: To celebrate the cable channel’s acquisition of all 45 episodes of the classic 1960’s television series, The Monkees, MTV held a day-long “Monkees Marathon” on this day, showing every episode back-to-back.

While obviously appealing to nostalgic Baby Boomers, the marathon unexpectedly touches off a whole new wave of “Monkeemania” among younger viewers and the band will go on from here to perform and tour from time to time.

1976: The Four Seasons finally score their first #1 hit in the UK.

“December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)” does what “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Walk Like a Man,” “Rag Doll,” and many other of the group’s earlier U.S. hits couldn’t. Alas, it also proves to be the vocal groups last U.K. # 1.