1969 U.S.A. Woodstock Music Festival
1969 : The Woodstock Music Festival opens with 500,000 rock music fans going to this Peace and Harmony Music Festival the groups who performed includes some of the greatest performers of late 60s pop music . Day 1 Richie Havens, Swami Satchidnanda, Country Joe McDonald, John B. Sebastion, Sweetwater, Incredible String Band, Bert Somner, Tim Hardin, Ravi Shanker, Melanie, Arlo Guthrie, Joan Biaz Day 2 Quill, Keef Hartley Band, Santana, Canned Heat, Grateful Dead, Mountain, Credence Clearwater Revival, Sly & The Family Stone, Janis Joplin, The Who. Day 3 Jefferson Airplane, Joe Cocker, Country Joe & The Fish, Ten Years After, The Band, Day 4Blood Sweat and Tears, Johny Winter, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Sha-Na-Na, Jimi Hendrix. How many chances are there to see this type of talent assembled in one place playing live music.
1914 Panama Canal Opens
1914 : The Panama Canal, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, was officially opened, the original construction began in 1880 by French Engineers but after 20,000 workers died of malaria, yellow fever and other diseases during construction the French gave up and American money and engineers completed the project. The canal is 48 miles long and has three major locks and Tolls are decided by the Panama Canal Authority based on vessel type, size, and cargo. The tolls still provide a significant saving on fuel and time for ships to go the long route round Cape Horn at the southernmost tip of South America.
1965 Beatles Live Concert at Shea Stadium
1965 : At the peak of American Beatlemania the Beatles play at Shea Stadium in New York City where 55,000 Beatles fans mostly young teenage girls screamed and cried through the concert.
1910 Ireland Home Rule Discussions
1910 : President Theodore Roosevelt conferred with King George and asserted that Home Rule in Ireland would be beneficial. Roosevelt offered Great Britain support for its ongoing problems with Ireland.
1927 Jamaica Canadian Lumber Imports
1927 : Jamaica has been importing Canadian lumber which for the most part is Douglas Fir. Its trade with Canada has increased 100 per cent in the last year. Jamaica is still a colony of Britain.
1930 US Hit by Drought
1930 : Following the stock market crash in late 1929, America is hit by one of the worst droughts ever seen which combined with the market crash leaves many hundreds of thousands without food and shelter. President Herbert Hoover tells Americans his plans for relief of individuals and businesses affected by the droughts, only history confirms that his plans were not wide ranging enough to stave off the great depression years which dogged not only America but the world during the rest of the 1930s.
1934 Germany Paul von Hindenburg
1934 : In his last will and testament, the dying Reich president, Paul von Hindenburg endorsed Hitler’s revival of the fatherland and this fact was used to gain popular support for Hitler. Hindenburg wrote of Germany, “I thank Providence for permitting me to see in the evening of my life the hour of recovery.”
1945 U.S.A. / UK VJ Day
1945 : Following the US President Harry S Truman telling the world at a press conference at the White House yesterday that Japan has surrendered unconditionally. 15 August has been declared Victory in Japan (VJ) day.
1947 Denmark Rebuilding
1947 : Denmark’s population in this decade is 4,000,000 people and it occupies a peninsula and several islands. In the past this country was famous for its dairy products, but German occupation had decimated it. Denmark is now in the process of rebuilding and it is a member of the U.N. Assembly.
1947 India and Pakistan Gains Independence
1947 : India and Pakistan gain independence from Britain ending 200 years of British rule much of the thanks for this should be given to the Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi as because of his many effective passive resistance campaigns he had managed to get many of the other world leaders to pressurize the British government into giving India and Pakistan independence.
1950 Great Britain
1950 : The future queen of England Princess Elizabeth, has given birth to a daughter at Clarence House in London it is almost 2 years since her first son, Prince Charles was born.
1953 China Jeer Mao Tse Tung
1953 : In Panmunjom rebellious Chinese POWs dealt the communists a blow, by jeering and refusing to go home to China and Mao Tse Tung. Of the 500 prisoners 490 chose captivity to communism and only 10 were subservient and agreed to covert.
1969 India Elections
1969 : India has 539 million people and complex politics. Many of the voters cannot read. For the last 22 years Sanjiva Reddy had ruled, but his coalition started crumbling. His opponent, Venkata Giri was popular with left wingers and boasted the endorsement of Indira Gandhi.
1971 Inflation, Wage Freeze
1971 : President Richard M. Nixon announced a 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents in an attempt to bring inflation that was increasing under control. As part of the measures he also removed the gold/silver backing from the US Dollar effectively ending the (Bretton Woods System) and the American role as the guarantor of stability for the US Dollar and other worlds currencies. By the end of the year the US dollar became a floating currency and shortly after most of the rest of the worlds currencies followed which is still the case today.
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