March 28, 1964 - The start of two days of skirmishes between Mods and Rockers at Clacton and Hastings over the Easter weekend
The battles culminate in Brighton over the 1964 Whitsun weekend (May 18 and 19)
The British tabloid press leaps on it, describing it as '
an invasion' and begins to write articles trying to understand what these Mods and their enemies the Rockers are all about
These events, of course, form the basis of '
Quadrophenia'