This Day in Music History...

1968: Bill Graham opens the Fillmore East in New York City with a bill of Albert King, Tim Buckley and Big Brother and the Holding Company. (King also plays the venue's closing show, on June 27th, 1971.)

1977: Foreigner's self-titled debut album is released.

1993: Beavis and Butt-head premieres on MTV as a series.

2000: AC/DC's Angus Young gives auction-winner Wade Stickler of Washington, DC a guitar lesson at a New York rehearsal studio and donates the fan's $28,000 payment to the Nordoff-Robbins Foundation.

2007: Eddie Van Halen announces he's checking into rehab. His brother Alex announces that the rehab stint means Eddie won't be going to New York for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies. And David Lee Roth says he's not going because the Hall asked him to perform backed by Velvet Revolver.