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
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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
September 2, 1969 — Hồ Chí Minh dies
The first President of Vietnam, who died on the 24th anniversary of his accession to that role, Ho Chi Minh...
November 9, 2016
November 17, 1969 — Rupert Murdoch begins publishing “The Sun”
Rupert Murdoch was already a media magnate in his native Australia, and in New Zealand as well, when he entered...
November 4, 2016
December 4, 1969 — Shawn Carter, a.k.a. Jay-Z, is born
Born Shawn Corey Carter, the man today known as Jay-Z probably didn’t realise at the time that he would become...
October 29, 2016
January 12, 1970 — The Nigerian civil war ends with Biafra’s surrender
In 1960, Nigeria achieved independence from the British Empire. Following independence, Nigeria was divided primarily along ethnic lines and in...
October 24, 2016
February 20, 1970 — John Lennon’s “Instant Karma!” is released in the US
“Instant Karma” (also known as “We All Shine On”) was Lennon’s third solo single (that is, single as a non-Beatle...
October 19, 2016
May 4, 1970 — The National Guard opens fire at Kent State University
In what Hunter Thompson called “this brutal year of our Lord, Nineteen-Hundred and Seventy”, there was brutality a-plenty on display,...
October 14, 2016
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