Modern Era · North America · Culture

1969

Woodstock

August 15, 1969

Half a million young people descended on a dairy farm in upstate New York for three days of music and mud. Hendrix played the Star-Spangled Banner at dawn to whoever was still conscious. It was chaotic, generous, and soggy. Within a year the counterculture would curdle at Altamont and Kent State, but the image of Woodstock held.

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In context

Also in 1969 (6 other events on record)

Apollo 11 lands on the Moon · North America · Exploration
ARPANET sends first message · North America · Technology
Stonewall riots · North America · Culture
Gaddafi seizes Libya · Africa · Politics
Jumbo jet era begins · North America · Technology
Manson Family murders · North America · Politics

Before and after in North America

Before: October 2, 1968: Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico
After: April 22, 1970: First Earth Day

Before and after in Culture

Before: 1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey
After: November 25, 1970: Mishima commits ritual suicide

Era

Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.