Top 20 Best Songs Ever:

On this date in 1959 Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper all died in a plane crash in Iowa during a snowstorm on their way to Fargo, ND.

Don McLean later wrote - The Day the Music Died - a song about that event and the state of Rock n' Roll in the years that followed.

Go to this link to read about what all the different verses in the song were refering to. Interesting reading if you're so inclined. Great tune.