Jimi Hendrix wrote “Purple Haze” backstage at the Upper Cut Club, London.
Source
James H Mason patented the first US coffee percolator.
Mark Messier was suspended for ten games for starting a fight with Jamie Macoun and breaking his cheekbone.
The horror film 'The Exorcist,' based on book and screenplay by William Peter Blatty, premiered.
The largest strike in South Korean history began.
A security patrol near RAF Woodbridge in Suffolk, UK, saw what they believed to be a UFO.
