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- Grateful Dead performed as the headlining act at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit.
- California narcotics agents raided the Grateful Dead's communal house at 710 Ashbury Street in San Francisco. A total of 11 people were arrested, but among the Grateful Dead members themselves, only Bob Weir and Ron “Pigpen” McKernan were present and arrested. Jerry Garcia and the other band members were not at the house at the time of the raid. The other nine people arrested included business managers Rock Scully and Danny Rifkin, equipment manager Bob Matthews, and six visitors or friends. Police seized approximately one pound of marijuana. Sensational headlines at the time about the “arrest of a rock band” later led to claims that the entire Grateful Dead had been arrested.
- Grateful Dead performed at Pelletier Farm in St. Helens, Oregon, after local authorities refused to allow organizers to hold a three-day festival at the Columbia County Fairgrounds.
- Grateful Dead released their second live album, simply titled Grateful Dead. Rolling Stone magazine reported that Jerry Garcia had originally wanted to call it “Starfuck”. The album became the group’s first to reach the Top 25.
- Former Grateful Dead manager Lenny Hart was arrested for embezzling $70,000 from the group’s funds.
- Grateful Dead performed at the Civic Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Grateful Dead performed at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City, New Jersey.
- Grateful Dead, with supporting acts The Marshall Tucker Band and New Riders Of The Purple Sage, played a headline concert at Raceway Park in Englishtown, New Jersey. The concert lasted 11 hours and, with an attendance of 107,019, set a US record for attendance at a paid concert outside festivals, which stood until 2024, when it was surpassed by George Strait.
- Grateful Dead played the second of two concerts at the Paramount Theater in Portland, Oregon.
- Grateful Dead play at Manor Hall in Austin, Texas.
- Grateful Dead performed at the Municipal Auditorium Arena in Kansas City, Missouri.
- Grateful Dead performed at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco.
- Grateful Dead performed at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City, Utah.
- Grateful Dead performed at Frost Amphitheatre at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.
- The Grateful Dead performed at the Centrum Arena in Worcester, Massachusetts. The encore was "Revolution" in honor of John Lennon's birthday.
- Grateful Dead performed at Boreal Ski Resort on Donner's Summit in California.
- During the Grateful Dead concert marking the 20th anniversary of the Summer of Love at the Calaveras County Fairgrounds in Angel Camp, California, a man who had escaped from a drug treatment facility shot a police officer and was subsequently shot by police.
- The members met and decided to disband following the recent tragic death of founder and leader Jerry Garcia.