Modern Era · North America · Culture
1969
Stonewall riots
June 28, 1969
When police raided the Stonewall Inn, a Greenwich Village gay bar, the patrons fought back. Drag queens threw bricks; crowds gathered for three nights. The event was not the first act of gay resistance, but it was the one that gave the movement its symbol and a date for its parades. A new kind of liberation had its Bastille.
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Also in 1969 (6 other events on record)
- Apollo 11 lands on the Moon · North America · Exploration
- ARPANET sends first message · North America · Technology
- Gaddafi seizes Libya · Africa · Politics
- Woodstock · North America · Culture
- Jumbo jet era begins · North America · Technology
- Manson Family murders · North America · Politics
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Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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