03/01/1944
Roger Daltrey, singer of the group The Who, was born on this day.

05/19/1945
Pete Townshend, guitarist and primary songwriter for The Who, was born on this day.

08/23/1946
Keith Moon was born on this day.

10/22/1964
The Who failed an audition with EMI. They were known as High Numbers at the time.

01/28/1965
The Who made their first appearance on the British TV rock show 'Ready Steady Go!'

09/04/1965
The Who had their equipment van stolen while purchasing a guard dog at Battersea Dog's Home in England.

09/22/1965
The Who began a short tour in Scandinavia. Roger Daltrey punched Keith Moon.

10/21/1966
The Who appeared on Britain's 'Ready Steady Go!'

12/23/1966
The final show of BBC-TV's 'Ready, Steady Go!' was aired with the Who as special guest.

03/25/1967
The Who made its U.S. concert debut in New York.

06/23/1967
Bassist John Entwistle for the band The Who, married Alison Wise.

05/21/1968
Pete Townshend of The Who married dress designer Karen Astley.

08/10/1968
The Who's 'Magic Bus' was released.

09/14/1968
Pete Townshend, in an interview with 'Rolling Stone', spoke about a Rock Opera he was writing about a boy who is deaf, dumb and blind and 'sure played a mean game of pinball.' Tommy!

11/29/1968
The Who released their first concert record, 'The Who Sell Out'.

10/05/1969
The Who performed on 'The Ed Sullivan Show'.

02/14/1970
The Who taped a concert at Leeds University in Leeds, England, for their forthcoming album, 'Live at Leeds'.

06/07/1970
The Who performed the rock opera Tommy at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.

08/30/1971
A security guard was stabbed to death at a Who concert in Forest Hills, NY.

09/18/1972
The Who headlined the 'Rock At The Oval' festival in London.

10/28/1972
The United States Council for World Affairs announced that it was adopting The Who song, 'Join Together' as its official theme.

12/09/1972
'Tommy' was performed at London's Rainbow Theatre. The recording of the event was released the next year.

06/10/1974
The Who begin a four-night series of concerts at Madison Square Garden, New York. 80,000 tickets were sold in 8 hours.

03/26/1975
The film 'Tommy' premiered in London. The movie was based on the rock opera by The Who.

03/09/1976
Keith Moon collapsed onstage at the start of a Who concert in the Boston Garden.

05/31/1976
The Who broke the Guinness record for the loudest performance by a rock band, when they performed at The Valley football ground (Charlton Athletic Field), at an ear splitting 120 dB, about the volume of a jet engine from 100 ft. away.

10/22/1976
Keith Moon performed for the last time with The Who.

12/02/1976
The Who and some companions were jailed overnight for $6,000 worth of destruction they imposed on a hotel room after a show.

09/07/1978
Keith Moon, drummer of The Who, dies from a drug overdose from a prescription drug.

12/22/1978
Kenney Jones, of Faces, becomes the drummer for The Who. He replaced Keith Moon who had died a couple of months earlier.

05/02/1979
Following the death of drummer Keith Moon, The Who introduced his replacement, Kenny Jones.

05/23/1979
The film biography of The Who, 'The Kids Are Alright,' was premiered in New York.

09/11/1979
The Who made their first U.S. concert appearance without Keith Moon. Kenney Jones replaced him on drums.

11/02/1979
The Who's movie 'Quadrophenia' opened.

12/03/1979
At Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum eleven Who fans were trampled to death in the rush to gain admittance for general (unreserved) seats to the band's concert.

12/17/1982
The Who play the 'last concert of our farewell tour' at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens.

12/16/1983
The Who officially disbanded.

02/08/1988
The Who (without Keith Moon) reunited for their 25th anniversary at a London awards ceremony.

06/24/1989
The Who started their highly successful U.S. Tour in Toronto, at the same venue where they had played their farewell performance in 1982.

08/24/1989
The Who performed 'Tommy' at the Universal Amphitheatre with special guests Steve Winwood, Elton John, Phil Collins, Patti LaBelle and Billy Idol.

11/14/1990
The Who's Pete Townshend confessed his bisexuality to Newsweek.

04/22/1993
'The Who's Tommy' opened on Broadway at the St. James Theatre.

07/27/2002
The Who's John Entwistle is found dead in his hotel room in Las Vegas. He has cocaine in his system, and the death is ruled accidental. He is 57.

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