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February 13

1972: Led Zeppelin is forced to cancel a concert in Singapore when officials wouldn’t let them off the plane because of their long hair

1981: Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon finishes 402 consecutive weeks (more than seven years) on the Billboard charts

February 17

1982: Jazz legend Thelonious Monk dies

February 19

1980: Bon Scott, vocalist of AC/DC, dies in London after choking on his own vomit

2003: In West Warwick, R.I., 99 people are killed when fire destroys the nightclub The Station. The fire started with sparks from a pyrotechnic display being used by Great White. Ty Longley, guitarist for Great White, is one of the victims in the fire

February 20

1967: Kurt Cobain of Nirvana is born

1996: Snoop Doggy Dogg and his bodyguard McKinley Lee are found not guilty of murder in a shooting death case

1997: Ben and Jerry’s introduce the flavor Phish Food.

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