August 20, 1968 — The Prague Spring is crushed by the Soviet Army
For eight glorious months in 1968, it appeared that some of the liberalisation that was sweeping the West had taken...
January 4, 2017
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October 15, 1968 — Donald Trump is classified 1-Y by the Draft Board
On September 17, 1968, a podiatrist diagnosed Donald Trump, then a 22 year old who was eligible for military service...
January 2, 2017
March 20, 1969 — John Lennon and Yoko Ono marry
One of the most controversial relationships in modern cultural history, John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s love began inauspiciously, as an...
December 29, 2016
March 25, 1969 — John and Yoko stage their first Bed-In
After getting married on March 20, 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono proceeded to have possibly the strangest honeymoon ever....
December 24, 2016
June 22, 1969 — The Cuyahoga River catches fire. Again.
Between 1868 and 1969, there were thirteen separate fires on the Cuyahoga River, the worst occurring in 1952. It was...
December 14, 2016
July 12, 1969 — “In The Year 2525” reaches #1 on the US charts
Proving both that there really were serious amounts of drugs around in the Sixties, and that science fiction is harder...
December 4, 2016
July 21, 1969 — Armstrong and Aldrin walk on the Moon
Really, what needs to be said? Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins took off from the Kennedy Space Center, near Cape Canaveral,...
November 29, 2016
July 31, 1969 — Elvis Presley first dubbed the “King of Rock ‘n’ Roll”
It may seem unbelievable today, but there was a time when he wasn’t ‘the King’. In fact, there was a...
November 24, 2016
August 15, 1969 — Woodstock
Woodstock Music & Art Fair (informally, Woodstock or The Woodstock Festival) was a music festival, billed as “An Aquarian Exposition”,...
November 14, 2016
August 16, 1969 — The Beckenham Free Festival is held
The Beckenham Free Festival was held at the Croydon Road Recreation Ground in Beckenham in August 1969, in parallel with...
November 12, 2016
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