Timeline Monday 18 August 1969

Events on Monday 18 August 1969 5

• 1969 Woodstock 400,000 attend festival The Woodstock Music Festival in August 1969 drew 400,000 people to upstate New York, the defining cultural event of the 1960s counterculture.
• 1969 Woodstock festival 400,000 attend legendary concert The Woodstock Music & Art Fair took place August 15–18, 1969 in Bethel, New York. An estimated 400,000 people attended performances by Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Who and many others.
• 1969 Crosby, Stills & Nash play Woodstock with Neil Young Second gig Stills tells the crowd it is only their second time in front of people.
• 1969 Jimi Hendrix plays The Star-Spangled Banner at Woodstock Monday morning Closes the festival with a feedback-torn national anthem.
• 1969 Neil Young plays Woodstock with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Joins CSNY Joins Crosby, Stills & Nash and plays their second-ever show at Woodstock.