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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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.