January 23, 1968 — Prudence Farrow arrives at Rishikesh
Prudence Farrow (younger sister of Mia Farrow), came to study under the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at his ashram Rishikesh for...
February 2, 2017
Art & Culture
February 10, 1968 — Andy Warhol introduces the concept of 15 minutes of fame
Andy Warhol understood one thing about the general acceleration of life and culture in the self-reinforcing media spiral of the...
January 24, 2017
July 22, 1968 — The Doors release “Waiting For The Sun”
“Waiting for the Sun” was the third studio album released by the Doors, although ironically, the title track of this...
January 9, 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
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 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
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
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