Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention liked to say that they brought the house down when they played. One time, they really did. Montreux Casino’s entertainment complex caught fire during a concert Zappa and the band played on December 4, 1971, when some idiot fired a flare gun into the ceiling, which was...
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1971 – Montreux Casino burns to the ground
1965 – The Watts Riots begin
On August 11, 1965, a random traffic stop in Watts, a depressed area of Los Angeles with a largely negro population was the spark that set the racial tensions in the area on fire. Lee Minikus, a California Highway Patrol motorcycle officer, pulled over Marquette Frye, whom Minikus believed was drunk. But then Minikus...
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