08/23/2025 @ All Day – On their final tour of America, The Beatles performed at Shea Stadium in New York City, New York. Unlike the previous year’s performance, which had sold out, there were 11,000 empty seats in the 55,600 seat stadium. The Beatles earn more than the previous year, receiving $189,000 for their performance.
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1974 (Aug 23) – John Lennon Sees UFO
08/23/2025 @ All Day – John Lennon claims to see a UFO from his New York apartment. He describes it as an archetypal flying saucer, surrounded by lights with a red one on top. In his next album, Walls and Bridges, he includes this note in the booklet: “On the 23rd August 1974 at 9 o’clock I saw a U.F.O. […]
1962 (Aug 23) – John Marries Cynthia
08/23/2025 @ All Day – John Lennon married Cynthia Powell at Liverpool’s Mount Pleasant register office. He then played a gig that night with The Beatles at Liverpool’s Riverpark Ballroom.
1967 (Aug 23) – Beatles Record ‘Your Mother Should Know’
08/23/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles record “Your Mother Should Know.”
1963 (Aug 23) – ‘She Loves You’ Released
08/23/2025 @ All Day – In the UK, The Beatles release “She Loves You,” which becomes the best-selling UK single of all time, a record that isn’t broken until 1977, when Paul McCartney releases “Mull Of Kintyre.”
1964 (Aug 24) – Beatles Release ‘Matchbox’
08/24/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles release “Matchbox” with the B-side “Slow Down” in the US.
1981 (Aug 24) – Mark David Chapman Sentencing
08/24/2025 @ All Day – Mark Chapman was given a 20 year jail sentence for the murder of John Lennon. The 25 year old had shot Lennon five times at close range on December 8th, 1980 in front of The Dakota apartment building in New York City. Over the next few months, Chapman would claim many times to have been […]
1964 (Aug 24) – Brian Epstein Meets ‘Colonel’ Tom Parker
08/24/2025 @ All Day – Taking him up on his telegram invitation to help out in any way he can in America, Beatles manager Brian Epstein meets Elvis Presley manager “Colonel” Tom Parker for the first time when they have lunch at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
1967 (Aug 24) – Maharishi Lectures at the Hilton
08/24/2025 @ All Day – John, Cynthia, Paul, Jane, George and Patti attend the Maharishi’s lecture at the Hilton in London.
1964 (Aug 24) – ‘Something New’ Certified Gold
08/24/2025 @ All Day – The Beatles LP Something New is certified gold.