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Same year · Question

In 1969, humans first landed on the Moon. Which major music festival took place the same year?

Answer

Woodstock

The story behind the answer

Woodstock is correct: the legendary three-day “3 Days of Peace and Music” festival took place in August 1969 in Bethel, New York, drawing roughly 400,000 people. It became the defining cultural event of the counterculture era the very same summer that Apollo 11 landed on the Moon in July 1969.

To remember: 1969 was “Moon and Music” — man on the Moon, masses in the mud. By contrast, the Monterey Pop Festival was 1967 (kicking off the Summer of Love), Newport Folk began in 1959 with Dylan’s electric shock in 1965

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