Arts and Culture
• Smothers Brothers TV Show canceled because it is too controversial (Apr 4)
• Stephen Gaskin starts The Farm commune in Tennessee.(July)
• "Easy Rider" movie premieres.
• Woodstock Music Festival draws 500,000 people gathered for three days of peace and music (Aug 15-17)
• Rolling Stones " Altamont " concerts erupts in violence, one spectator killed (Dec 24)
• 150 community based underground newspapers
• John and Yoko fly to Gibraltar and get married (March)
• Manson Family indictments (Dec 24)
Social Change and Activism
• Thousands rampage through nine buildings at University of Wisconsin , Madison over blacks enrollments (Feb 27)
• Men walk on the moon. "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." (July 20)
• Results in Stonewall uprising. 2000 protestors battle 400 police, start of Gay Liberation movement (July 27)
• Chicago Eight trial begins. Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, et al charged with conspiracy to incite riots( Sept 24) ~ Police raid on gay bar inn Greenwich village , NYC.
• Peace Day, the first Vietnam Moratorium. 500,000 + march in Washington (Nov 15)
• In Berkeley, demonstrations against the University of California 's plan to repossess a vacant lot turned into a communal garden result in the Battle of People's Park. Police arrest 900 people after firing shotguns to disperse the crowd. National Guardsmen use bayonets and tear gas against student demonstrators at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the University of North Carolina . Administrators blame "white radicals" from the SDS for the disruptions (from The Sixties: A chronology)
• After getting married, John and Yoko fly to Amsterdam for one week "lie in" for peace (March)
• John and Yoko: Montreal bed- in for a week. They record "Give Peace a Chance" (May)
• Supreme Court overturns Leary's conviction for crossing Mexico to Texas with marijuana.
• Apollo 8 photo of earth rise over the moon published as US postage stamp & circulated widely, as Buckminster Fuller uses the term "spaceship earth"
• Berkeley Ecology Center (first in US) opens
• Woodstock Festival. 300,000 attended (starts Aug 17)
• David Brower announces founding of Friends of the Earth (Sept 15)
• Neil Young (from Buffalo Springfield) first solo album
• The book; Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex But Were Afraid to Ask, by David Reuben
Economics and Politics
• Santa Barbara , Ca. oil well blowout (Jan 28)
• Santa Barbara oil well blowout (January and continues into midsummer)
• Chicago Eight Trial becomes Chicago Seven Trial: Seale cited by Judge Hoffman for contempt & given 4 years in jail; retrial ordered on Seale's case (Nov 4)
• 78 Native Americans land on & occupy Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay (Nov)
• By the end of 1969, over 100,000 Americans have died in Vietnam
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