1969

1969

• Neil Armstrong walks on the moon.
• 624 pairs of panty hose are produced.
• After 147 years, the last issue of The Saturday Evening Post is published.
• The Woodstock Music and Art Fair is held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre farm near Bethel, N.Y. August 15th- 18th. Thirty-two acts performed outdoors in front of 500,000 concert-goers
• At the Academy Awards ceremony for films released in 1968, a tie between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand results in the 2 sharing the Best Actress Oscar; Hepburn also becomes the only actress to win 3 Best Actress Oscars. The film version of Oliver! wins Best Picture.
• The film Easy Rider premieres.
• Project Apollo: The Eagle lands on the lunar surface. The world watches in awe as Neil Armstrong takes his historic first steps on the Moon and erects first flagpoles in outer space to fly the American flag
• Members of a cult led by Charles Manson murder Sharon Tate, (who was 8 months pregnant), and her friends Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, and Jay Sebring at Tate and husband Roman Polanski's home in Los Angeles, California. Steven Parent, leaving from a visit to the Polanskis' caretaker, is also killed. More than 100 stab wounds are found on the victims, except for Parent, who had been shot almost as soon as the Manson Family entered the property.
• The Manson Family kills Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, wealthy businesspeople who live in another section of Los Angeles.
• Monty Python's Flying Circus airs its first episode on the BBC.
• The pilot episode of The Brady Bunch, starring Robert Reed and Florence Henderson, airs on United States TV.
• Wal-Mart incorporates as Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
• The Children's Television Workshop's educational television program Sesame Street is premiered in the United States.
• John Lennon returns his OBE to protest the British government's support of the U.S. war in Vietnam.
• The Manson family "hippie cult" is charged with the Tate-LaBianca murders.
• The Altamont Free Concert is held at the Altamont Speedway in northern California. Hosted by the Rolling Stones, it is an attempt at a "Woodstock West" and is best known for the uproar of violence that occurred. It is viewed by many as the "end of the sixties."