March 21, 1952 — Cleveland disc jockey Alan "Moondog" Freed holds the first rock 'n' roll concert — the Moondog Coronation Ball — an ill-fated event shut down by police after the opening song when a surge of youths breaks down the doors trying to force their way into the vastly oversold venue, leading to a riot.

                     2006 — Two years after filing suit, the family of South African Zulu musician Solomon Linda, who wrote and waxed the 1939 record "Mbube" ("Lion"), reach agreement with the song's publisher giving them partial royalties to the music that became "The Lion Sleeps Tonight." Linda, who died destitute in 1962, had signed away his rights to the song for a pittance a decade earlier to the South African record company that had originally issued it.

 

 

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Reference  (Eight Days A Week  Ron Smith)