Besides the end of the War to End All Wars (which didn’t end all wars but led directly to the next war) and the day Americans remember and honor those whose service and sacrifice allow me to freely write this and you to freely read this, what else happened Nov. 11?

Today in 1954, Bill Haley got his first top 10 single, “Shake Rattle and Roll,” originally a Joe Turner song. Haley had changed the name of his band, the cowboy-motif Saddlemen, to His Comets.

Imagine what the Transportation Security Administration would have done with this: Today in 1969, the FBI arrested Jim Morrison for drunk and disorderly conduct on an airplane. Morrison and actor Tom Baker had been drinking and harassing stewardesses on a flight to Phoenix. Morrison and Baker spent a night in jail and were released on $2,500 bail.

Today in 1972, an era when pretty much everything would go in rock music, listeners got to hear the first example of what might be called “yodel rock”:

Today in 1978, Donna Summer had the number one album, “Live and More,” and single, which counted as “more” more than “live”:

The number one British single …

… and album today in 1989:

The number one album today in 1995 was the Smashing Pumpkins’ “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness”:

Birthdays begin with Roger Lavern, who played keyboards for the Tornadoes:

Jesse Colin Young of the Youngbloods …

… was born one year before Vince Martell of Vanilla Fudge …

… and Chris Dreja of the Yardbirds …

… who were born one year before Pat Daugherty of Black Oak Arkansas:

Jim Peterik of the brass-rock band The Ides of March …

… and then Survivor:

Paul Cowsill of the Cowsills:

Mike Mesaros of the Smithereens:

Andy Partridge of XTC:

One death of note: Today in 1972, Allman Brothers bass player Berry Oakley hit a bus with his motorcycle and died at the same intersection where bandmate Duane Allman had died in a motorcycle crash a year earlier.

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