The Day in Rock 7/14

1969 – Gold Record awarded to The 5th Dimension for “The Age of Aquarius”

1973 – Former Byrds guitarist, Clarence White, is killed when he is struck by a auto near Lancaster, Ca. He was 29 years old.

1980 – Allen Klein moneyman for the Beatles and Stones surrenders to authorities at New York Metropolitan Corrections Center to begin serving a 2-month sentence for filing a false income tax return.

BIRTHDAYS
Woody Guthrie, born Woodrow Wilson Guthrie in Okema, Oklahoma in 1912. He is best known for “This Land is Your Land” .He died in 1967 and is survived by son Arlo Guthrie who carried on the musical tradition.