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.

Normandy Landings (1944)

The Normandy landings, most often referred to as D-Day, occurred on June 6, 1944, when the Allies invaded Normandy during World War II. This was the largest seaborne invasion in all of history. The operation began the liberation of German-occupied France and established the initial framework of the Allied victory on the Western front.

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The More You Know

  • Abraham Lincoln was a wrestling champion.
  • The Catholic Church considers the Theory of Evolution to be "virtually certain", and believes that intelligent design "isn't science even though it pretends to be."
  • Nintendo was founded in 1889. Before it sold video games, the Japanese company specialized in playing cards.
  • When Boris Yeltsin met President Clinton in 1995, his first question was "Do you think O.J. did it?"
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