The English rock band the Kinks staged their first concert tour of the
United States in June and July 1965, following concerts in Australia,
New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore and a tour of the United Kingdom.
Initially one of the most popular British Invasion groups, the Kinks
(pictured) saw major commercial opportunity in the US, but the resultant
tour was plagued with issues between the band, their management, local
promoters and the American music unions. Promoters and union officials
filed complaints over the Kinks' conduct, prompting the US musicians'
union to withhold work permits from the band for the next four years,
effectively banning them from performing in the US. Their American
record sales declined, and bandleader Ray Davies shifted his songwriting
approach towards more overt English influences. Davies resolved the ban
in early 1969, and the Kinks staged a comeback tour later that year,
but they did not achieve regular commercial success in the US again
until the late 1970s.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kinks%27_1965_US_tour>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1850:
The inaugural National Women's Rights Convention, presided over
by American activist Paulina Wright Davis, began in Worcester,
Massachusetts.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Women%27s_Rights_Convention>
1906:
Alberto Santos-Dumont flew his biplane 14-bis for 50 metres
(160 ft) at an altitude of about four metres (13 ft).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santos-Dumont_14-bis>
2001:
Grand Theft Auto III was released, helping to popularize open-
world and mature-content video games.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_III>
2022:
Myanmar civil war: Burmese military forces launched airstrikes
that killed at least 80 concertgoers in Kachin State.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hpakant_massacre>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
drench:
1. (transitive)
2. To cause (someone) to drink; to provide (someone) with a drink
3. (specifically, veterinary medicine) To administer a dose or draught
of liquid medicine to (an animal), often by force.
4. To make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some
other liquid fall or thrown on them or it; to saturate, to soak; also
(archaic), to make (someone or something) completely wet by immersing in
water or some other liquid; to soak, to steep.
5. (obsolete) To drown (someone).
6. (obsolete, figurative) To overwhelm (someone); to drown, to engulf.
7. (intransitive, obsolete) To be drowned; also, to be immersed in
water.
8. An act of making someone or something completely wet; a soak or
soaking, a wetting.
9. An amount of water or some other liquid that will make someone or
something completely wet. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/drench>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The Book of History is the Bible of Irony.
--George Saintsbury
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Saintsbury>