 With Tech Trends, I'm Mike Dabosky, ABC News. In the almanac this morning, this date in 1966, an artificial surface is installed into the Astrodome in Houston. That coined the phrase AstroTurf, and it was this date in 1996. The rock band Deep Purple performed Smoke on the Water at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. Now, the song was released 24 years earlier, but this was the first time the band had played the song in the Swiss city that actually inspired the tune.