On this day: February 11
POSTED: 09:59 PM PST Feb 09, 2013
UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Feb 10, 2013
America's first hospital opens, Glenn Miller earns the first gold record, Nelson Mandela is released from prison after 27 years, and Whitney Houston passes away, all on this day.
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1967: Due to increasing public furor over the Monkees being a "manufactured" band, the group issues a statement saying they will hereby play its own instruments on all new releases. The group, which already was performing as a band live on stage, would stick to the promise for one album, 1967's "Headquarters." After that album, the Monkees started using a mixture of themselves playing along with other musicians, but they still wrote, sang, produced and played on their remaining albums.
