August 1969 in photos.

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Protest against bras wearing, San Francisco, 1969

August 1 1969. San Francisco. Protest against bras wearing.

August 2 1969. Night club "Appletree." Moon gas - pure oxygen. Photo E. L. Habets.

August 2 1969. New York, corner of Second Avenue. Photo Fred W. McDarrah.

August 1969, American soldiers watch as former Viet Cong sapper (now defected) demonstrates how a barbed wire compound can be breached quickly and quietly.

August 5 1969. Nice.

August 5 1969. An unidentified member of the Black Panthers in Chicago peeks around a bullet-pocked door which police blasted with gunfire during a predawn raid. A poster shows some of the Panthers' social programs.

August 1969. People in circus, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

August 6 1969. Toronto night club. Photo by Boris Spremo.

August 6 1969. Claude Bolling, French jazz pianist. Hotel Palm Beach, Cannes.

August 6 1969. Sharon Tate in a London taxi three days before her death. Photo by Terry O'Neill.

August 6 1969. Sydney. Marianne Faithfull leaves a hospital she got into after she overdosed on drugs. Photo George Lipman.

August 7 1969. Tennis players, Canada. Photo by Jeff Goode.

August 7 1969. Mireille Darc.

August 8 1969. London. Abbey road.

August 1969. Australia, New South Wales. Women's finals in the club Killara.

August 1969, Playboy magazine.

American criminal lawyer F Lee Bailey (in foreground) surveys the scene in front of Dike Bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, near Edgartown, Massachusetts on 9th August 1969, the same bridge that Senator Ted Kennedy's car accidentally drove off, causing the death of his aide, Mary Jo Kopechne on 18th July 1969.

August 9 1969. Queen Elizabeth and princess Anne.

August 9 1969. Piccadilly, London.

August 12 1969. The annual Apprentice Boys of Derry parade in Derry in August 1969. The siege of Derry began in December 1688 when 13 apprentice boys[6] shut the gates of the city against a regiment of twelve hundred Jacobite soldiers, commanded by the Roman Catholic, Alexander Macdonnell, Earl of Antrim. Siege was lifted on 28 July 1689 (Old Style).
The Relief of Derry is celebrated on the second Saturday in August, in memory of the lifting of the siege.
In 1969, the Apprentice Boys' parade around the walls of Derry sparked off three days of intensive rioting in the city, known as the Battle of the Bogside. The disturbances are regarded by some as the start of the Troubles.

August 12 1969. Vietnam. Members of Company D ist Battalion, 501st Airborne Infantry relate battle and wounds received during action east of Tam Ky, to other members of the Company.

August 12 1969. Harvesting in the village of Zlatia, Bulgaria.

August 12 1969. Gabrielle Drake, British actress. Photo by Reg Burkett.

August 1969. The Battle of Bogside, Northen Ireland.

August 13 1969. People line 42nd Street in New York to cheer Apollo 11 astronauts, in lead car from left, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins and Neil Armstrong, traveling east on 42nd street, towards the United Nations.

August 13 1969. Saint Tropez, France.

August 1969. The Battle of Bogside, Northen Ireland. Photo Gilles Caron.

August 13 1969. English actor Ian Hendry (1931 - 1984) and English actress Janet Munro (1934 - 1972) with their daughter Sally at an art competition held at Harrods, London, UK,

Members of the group Smile posed in Addison Gardens, West Kensington, London in August 1969. Left to right: Bruce Sanderson (with eye patch), Paul Humbertone, Brian May (sitting on bonnet), Pete Edmunds, Tim Staffell, Clive Armitage and Paul Fielder.

August 1969. The Battle of Bogside, Northen Ireland. Photo Gilles Caron.

August 1969. Chicago. Lincoln Park. Hippies during during Dem. Natl. Convention.

August 14 1969. Belfast, North Ireland. Catholic area on fire.

August 1969. The Battle of Bogside, Northen Ireland.

August 15 1969. Woodstock Music and Art Fair opening.

August 15 1969. Italy, Liguria.

August 1969. David Bowie.

August 1969. British army enters Belfast.

August 16 1969. Belfast.

August 1969. Theatre Theatre de la Porte Saint-Martin in Paris, France. Actors from the musical "Hair" after the performance. Photo Manuel Litran.

August 1969. Norway, Buskerud county.

August 17, 1969. London. Street fights triggered by events in the Northern Ireland. Photo by C. Maher.

August , 1969. Jame Birkin.

August 1969. Hugh Hefner with a friend. Paris, France.

August 18 1969. Keith Richards and Anita leave a hospital where their son was born.

August 1969. Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer S.2. in Somerset, Britain.

August 19 1969. London, Piccadilly Circus.

August 20 1969. Linda Evans and Lee Majors on the set of The Big Valley.

August 20 1969. Andy Warhol scars after Valerie Solance tried to murder him.

August 1969. Valli Kemp, Australian model.

August 21 1969. First anniversary of the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia, by Gilles Caron.

August 21 1969. Orebro, Sweden. Exercising.

August 22 1969. After hurricane Camille in Buras, Louisiana.

August 22 1969. Show "Keystone Kops", UK.

August 1969. Uppland, Sswden. Girls' night out.

Nordmore, Norway. Kristian Ekholm, worker at the local museum.

August 1969. France.

29th August 1969, Birkenhead, Cheshire,The British nuclear submarine HMS "Conqueror" which sank the Argentine ship "General Belgrano" during the Falklands War, pictured at the launch, so becoming Britain's 5th atomic submarine.

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Wow. I forgot how stunningly beautiful Sharon Tate was. Amazing photo.

7 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

The Sharon Tate pic is one of the saddest pics I’ve ever seen.

7 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

Nice.

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Nice.

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

My birthday is tomorrow born in 1969. Great post. Great year. Can you believe I don’t have 69 in my user name....

7 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

That pic of Sharon Tate with the socks for her soon to be born child breaks my heart. Fuck Charles Manson. May he burn in hell!

7 years ago | Likes 36 Dislikes 0

I pay little attention to celebrities, but when Sharon Tate was murdered, for some reason I was as devastated as if I had known her.

7 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

#6 December 1969, Fred Hampton was drugged and murdered by the Chicago Police.

7 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

The Angola Three, framed, spent over four fuckin' decades straight in solitary confinement. That is unrelenting torture for half a century.

7 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Linda Evans

7 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

Could that have been Barbi Benton with that ol' rascal Hugh Hefner ?

7 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Yep

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

#5

7 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 0

v

7 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

If anyone’s seriously curious, it’s a town in France

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7 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

1969 Chicago, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Convention, not the 1968 Democratic National Convention

7 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 0

And not exactly hippies either ...

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

7 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Channeling her inner Mama Cass.

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

David Bowie was such a beautiful woman.

7 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

He was the nazz. With God-given ass.

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

To me, he kinda looks like Sigourney Weaver in that pic. Probably that fabulous hair

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I didn't realize I was seeing a man until the caption scrolled up. He's kinda pretty.

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Steve Perry’s dad ‘bout to be balls deep in Blondie:

7 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I thought her name was Sherry?

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I was the first person in Central Time Zone (Texas) to write "1969" in 1969. Was 6 years old at the time. Also loved the bra burning and

7 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Halter tops. Lots of hippies but wonderful time to come of age. People were fit and women scantily clad. Plus USA in infancy of political

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Awareness. The awareness died and people are now blind to what is really happening. No one really cares now. But 60's and 70's were hopeful.

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

They thought their world was high tech. We're living in their scifi, right now, just as we're living in someone else's ancient civilization.

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Never knew that about Warhol. Crazy shit!

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Did anyone notice the racial diversity in the first pic? Cleary boobs are what will bring us together.

7 years ago | Likes 61 Dislikes 1

That’s a re-enactment/homage done by Katie Holmes. It was not from 1969.

7 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 1

https://imgur.com/ageOEAp

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There is no race here, just men admiring the view.

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Why didn’t that particular revolution stick?

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Because nobody likes sticky boobs.

7 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Under the right circumstances though....

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#43 “friend” is Playboy Playmate Barbi Benton. total babe in the day

7 years ago | Likes 240 Dislikes 5

Just the daily Hugh-meat that day, apparently.

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

Actually, she lived with Hef for 9 years. He’s quoted as saying, “My only regret is I didn’t marry Barbi.”

7 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

...and there it is. (too lazy to find the gif.)

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Agreed, she was

7 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Hef wasn't too hard on the eyes either.

7 years ago | Likes 35 Dislikes 2

Right? I had no idea he was that handsome when he was younger!

7 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Guess so...he married her.

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

One of his great loves.

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Correction, though she appeared in the magazine and on numerous covers, Barbi was never actually a Playmate

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Kennedy "accidentally" drove off He was drunk, and left his girlfriend to die.

7 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

This should be a thing; a gallery a month over the years around the world

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

The Sharon Tate one just makes me so sad and angry at the same time.

7 years ago | Likes 272 Dislikes 4

And those Cunts in Cali didnt even have the balls to execute her murderers. Fuck you Cuntifornia.

7 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 13

Good, it means you still have a soul. Don't lose it.

7 years ago | Likes 65 Dislikes 1

With the baby socks and all, omg, yes

7 years ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 0

She was such a beautiful woman. Disgusting for her to die that way.

7 years ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 1

She begged them to save her baby. It's still just so tragic. Even worse is her killers were never executed.

7 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 4

Didn’t realize she died on August 9th...same day as the atomic bomber was dropped...and I was born. Yikes.

7 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Meanwhile, me and some guys from school, we got a band and we tried real hard.

7 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Gabriel Drake was Nick Drakes sister.

7 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

1969 was a place to be

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

69 was a hell of a year

7 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

Yeah Kennedy drunkenly crashed into the river and left the scene, changing his clothes to make it seems like he wasn't there... Scumbag move

7 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

#8 T.O. nightclub? Holy shit, I think I see my biological father in the audience! Heavy set guy in paisley shirt, next to man in shirt & tie

7 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

compare this last pic before his death a few years ago

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

i think it’s funny how people equate black panthers and kkk when kkk was literally only based on hate

7 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 4

Black Panthers were vilified because they preached that Blacks deserved to be treated equally. Those "uppity negroes" scared white racists.

7 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 6

So the race-baiting agit-prop has got you arguing with each-other - as was intended.

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Ted Kennedy’s car accidentally drove off a bridge. Ah, it was the car that killed her.

7 years ago | Likes 141 Dislikes 3

Prototype self-driving cars weren't very good. Slow computers, you know.

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Ted Kennedy is a murderer

7 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

Was. He’s dead now.

7 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Ain't that a shame

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Whiskey drunk blue blood. “I do what I want”....and they did.

7 years ago | Likes 49 Dislikes 0

Unfortunately that did not apply for poor Rose Kennedy.

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

The only good thing that came out of that mess was that it completely eliminated any possibility of Ted ever being president.

7 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

But barely

7 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

They still do, his grand niece just died this week of a drug overdose.

7 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

I wondered if that was what happened.

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The one thing you can always trust in a Kennedy is that they will always find the stupidest way to die.

7 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

That's a nice tree. It'd be a shame if someone were to ski into it.

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Or to kill someone & get caught (looking at you, Michael Skakel) whether they go to jail or not (turns to look at Teddy K).

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Whatever you say Skippy.

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I know he was stupid drunk... but I always thought the bridge had a guard. That bridge is crazy... dark night + one false move, you’re done.

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

“Drunk” is the keyword

7 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

1/? But he left her there and went home. Didn’t inform anyone that she was there until the next day. Also, she wasn’t his aid. She just met

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

2/? Him at a party. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jo_Kopechne

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Oh, I’m not saying it was right... he should’ve been sentenced to jail. Just saying it’s not how I pictured the bridge.

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I had t pictured it that way either. You’re right. It is crazy in that there are no guard rails or anything.

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

These are ALL fucking excellent! Thank you for the captions. Also, Katie Holmes in #1.

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She sure has aged well

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Scientology. She has alien genes injected into her to keep her from aging. Tom Cruise did it!

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Holy shit.

7 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Honestly that whole crowd of men looks like a band of time travelers Lol. It looks like that picture was taken yesterday and turned b&w.

7 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

The pure joy on some of the men's faces is excellent

7 years ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 2

Katie Holmes, born in 1978?

7 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Stole this from ImJustGod's response to someone else. I didn't even know. I thought it was a Katie Holmes doppelganger lol.

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I love how it’s only men watching the bra protest

7 years ago | Likes 160 Dislikes 2

Seems to be a fun rally.

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Thats what the photo wants you to see

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I came hoping someone else saw Katie.

7 years ago | Likes 50 Dislikes 0

I daw her immediately.

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I also came, hoping someone else noticed that someone else saw Katie.

7 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

And Shia there in the lower right.

7 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 2

and will farrell behind him

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Photographer credit would be nice.

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ah, shoot. That would've been proper.

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Pretty sure "pure oxygen" is lethal...and ludicrously flammable. #2

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Blue Velvet!

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Katie Holmes is a time traveler. That’s how she escaped Scientology.

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Lol! Are you L. Ron 4th Hubbard?

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Wait, Katie Holmes was born in 1978 according to wiki, if that's 1969 then.....

7 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

...time travel!

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Hahahahah

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

She is from 1978 yes, however the picture here is not from 1969, it's a homage to the Womens liberation. That Katie did.

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