From the MCRFB music calendar:
Events on this date: APRIL 11
1956: Elvis Presley’s tour plane developed engine trouble while flying the singer from Amarillo, Texas to Nashville, forcing an emergency landing in Arkansas. When he calls his mother Gladys to tell her, she begs him to never fly again, instilling a fear in Elvis which will take him years to overcome.
1961: New York City gets its first introduction to a young folk singer named Bob Dylan when he makes his live debut at Gerde’s Folk City, opening for John Lee Hooker and performing a new song entitled, “Blowin’ In The Wind.”
1964: Having already set a record the week before by holding the entire Top Five positions of the Billboard singles charts, the Beatles set another record when 14 of their singles are listed at the same time in the “Hot 100.” “Can’t Buy Me Love” is at No. 1, while “Love Me Do” holds down the bottom at No. 81.
1965: The British music trade paper New Musical Express holds its Third Annual NME Poll Winners Concert in London’s Wembly Empire Pool. The concert features the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Kinks, Animals, Moody Blues, Tom Jones, Them, Donovan, Seekers, Freddie and the Dreamers, Herman’s Hermits, and Cilla Black.
1966: NBC-TV’s musical variety show Hulabaloo airs it’s last episode after sixteen months on the air, featuring Lesley Gore, Peter and Gordon, Paul Anka, and the Cyrkle.
1967: Flying back to England after participating in the Beach Boys’ aborted “Smile” sessions, Paul McCartney comes up with the idea for the Beatles film and album Magical Mystery Tour.
1968: Janis Joplin makes her television debut when Big Brother and Holding Company perform on ABC-TV’s Hollywood Palace.
1970: In Germany, Fleetwood Mac founding member and lead-guitarist Peter Green, having just come down from a long acid trip, announces his intent to leave the band to follow an obscure religion. After pleads of coercion from other members of the group that he remain, he agrees to stay on the current tour to satisfy the band’s contract.
1976: Relaxing in his hotel after his record-breaking Sydney concert, Alice Cooper is placed under arrest for alleged breach of contract after refusing to pay another promoter $59,000 for an Australian tour the year before. When it is discovered that the promoter’s fallen short on his end of the deal as well, Cooper is released to fly back to the States.
1988: Cher wins Best Actress for the romantic comedy Moonstruck at tonight’s Oscar Awards in New York.
1990: Elton John performs at the Indianapolis, IN funeral of Ryan White, the hemophiliac 18 year-old who contracted AIDS through a blood transfusion and has been shunned for it. Michael Jackson also attends the service.
2002: Aretha Franklin and seven other Motown stars are honored with street names in Detroit’s new low-income housing district off the John C. Lodge expressway, near the the site of the old Brewster projects.
And that’s just a few of the events which took place in pop music history, on this day…. 
