Janis at Monterey – Today In Southern History
17 June 1967
On this date in 1967…
Janis Joplin launched her solo career at the Monterey International Pop Festival, giving a phenomenal performance that helped turn her into a rock and roll star.
Other Years:
1527 - Pánfilo de Narváez ill-fated expedition departed Spain to explore Florida with five ships and 600 men. Only 4 survived.
1824 - The US Bureau of Indian Affairs was established
1835 – Soldier and future Confederate President Jefferson Davis married Sarah Knox Taylor, daughterof General and President Zachary Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky.
1864 – Federal General William Tecumseh Sherman’s troops launched a fierce, but futile attack on the Confederates at Mud Creek near Marietta, Georgia.
1864 - Confederate General John Bell Hood replaced General Joseph Johnston as head of the Army of Tennessee
1916 - US troops under General John Pershing marched into Mexico in retaliation for Pancho Villa’s attack on Columbus, New Mexico
1932 – The first members pf the “Bonus Army,” a thousand mostly Southern World War I veterans assembled outside the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considered a bill to give them promised benefits.
1933 – The Union Station massacre occurred in Kansas City, Missouri when four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash were gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.
1973 - Dolly Parton recorded her hit song “I Will Always Love You” for RCA in Nashville
1991 - Entertainer Minnie Pearl suffered a stroke at age 78
2015 - A mass shooter killed nine people at a Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, SC triggering another round of leftist anti-Southern and anti-gun hysteria.
2021 - US President Joe Biden signed the “Juneteenth National Independence Day Act” making June 19th a federal holiday commemorating emancipation
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“Janis Joplin launched her solo career at the Monterey International Pop Festival, giving a phenomenal performance that helped turn her into a rock and roll star.”
Beg to differ with the phrasing here…Janis was a full-on member of Big Brother and the Holding Company and did not leave that band until several years later when she became “Pearl” and went out on her own with her hand-picked band members and left Big Brother and Holding Company in her wake…I know cos I lived in the Bay Area back then and I ab-so-fukin-toot-ly loved all of her work, with Big Brother and her solo career when she left Big Brother and formed her own band and went on tour with them…
jest sayin’