In August, more than half a million people gather in the small, upstate New York town of Bethel (near Woodstock, N.Y.) for four days of rain, sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll.
Performers include Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Joan Baez, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Jefferson Airplane and Sly and the Family Stone.
Led Zeppelin I, an album considered by many to be one of the first in the heavy metal genre, is released.
The Beatles give their last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records. The impromptu concert was broken up by the police.
Movies
Oscar for best actor – Cliff Robertson, Charly
Special Visual Effects Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey
Midnight Cowboy, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Easy Rider, Anne of the Thousand Days, They Shoot Horses Don’t They, Romeo and Juliet, Hello Dolly.
Books
Mario Puzo – The Godfather
Michael Crichton – The Andromeda Strain
Irwin Shaw – Rich Man, Poor Man
Graham Greene – Travels with My Aunt
TV
Monty Python’s Flying Circus first airs in the UK.
Sesame Street known for its Muppet characters, makes its debut:
Soccer great Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the moon.
The first in vitro fertilization of a human egg is performed in Cambridge, England.
First transplant of human eye.
The first Gap store opens, in San Francisco.
Walt Disney World construction begins.
The Boeing 747 makes its maiden flight. In Toulouse, France the first Concorde test flight is conducted.
The Pontiac Firebird Trans Am the epitome of the American muscle car is introduced.
Members of a cult led by Charles Manson murder 8 months pregnant Sharon Tate, and her friends.
And the event of utmost importance – I was born today, in the year 1969.
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