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.

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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

_____________________________ 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

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

The Book of History is the Bible of Irony.   --George Saintsbury https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Saintsbury