The Most Important Events That Changed History Forever

Woodstock (1969)

Woodstock was a music festival held between August 15 and August 18, 1959, in Bethel, New York. Woodstock attracted an audience of over 400,000 and thirty-two major acts performed outdoors in the rain. The festival was a defining event for the counterculture generation and has been listed in Rolling Stone as a moment that changed the History of Rock and Roll.

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