** The following events in Beatles history all took place on June 29. ** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beatles * [J] John * [P] Paul * [G] George * [R] Ringo * [O] Other ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1961 The Beatles perform at the Top Ten Club, Reeperbahn, Hamburg, West Germany. (1204) 1962 The Beatles perform at the ****rn Club at lunchtime, and that night they appear at the Tower Ballroom, New Brighton, Wallasey. Ten groups appear at the Tower for "Operation Big Beat III", with The Beatles topping the bill. (1483) 1964 The Beatles perform two shows at Festival Hall, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. During one of the performances, a group of malcontents throw rotten eggs at The Beatles, and the police have to intervene to save the perpetrators from angry Beatles fans. (2142) 1965 The Beatles, on a two-week European tour, fly from Rome, Italy, to Nice, France. (2389) [J] 1973 John and Yoko attend the Watergate hearings. (2508) [R] 1992 UK release of Ringo Starr CD, LP, and cassette "Time Takes Time" (Private Music). Songs: "Don't Know a Thing About Love", "Don't Go Where the Road Don't Go", "Golden Blunders", "All in the Name of Love", "I Don't Believe You", "Runaways", "In a Heartbeat", "What Goes Around", "Weight of the World", and "After All These Years". (856) [G] 1998 George Harrison announces that, contrary to previous reports that lumps taken from his neck in August 1997 were not cancerous, he has been receiving radiation treatment for throat cancer. Harrison says "I'm not going to die on you folks just yet," indicating that he is currently free of cancer and that he has been given a clean bill of health. Harrison blames cigarette smoking as the cause of his cancer. (3686) Hasta La Vista
