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1997 1st New York Women Film Festival opens

1995 Howard Yanks, founder of the Philadelphia folk festival, dies at 65

1995 Isador Caplan, lawyer/Aldeburgh Festival pioneer, dies at 82

1995 Mark Finch, film festival organizer, dies at 33

1994 Wolf Donner, Austrian movie historian/festival director, dies at 55

1994 Michael Gribble, film animator (Mike and Spike Festival), dies at 42

1993 Alf Bold, German festival programmer, dies of AIDS at 47

1993 Carlos Gimenez, director (Theater Festival of Caracas), dies at 47

1992 Paul Acket, organizer (Music Express, North Sea Jazz Festival), dies

1992 SuriPop VII, Suriname Popular Song Festival

1991 Harry Thomas, founder (Flower Festival, Dutch Homofielen Party), dies

1991 Les Miserables opens at Festival Theatre, Adelaide

1983 Jim Ameche, actor (Festival of Stars), dies at 68

1980 Winifred Wagner-William, German World Festival organizer, dies at 82

1979 John Huston's "Wine Blood" premieres at New York Film Festival

1978 600,000 attend "Summer Jam" rock festival, Watkins Glen, New York

1978 Bob Dylan booed off Newport Folk Festival for using electric guitar

1977 World's largest crowd-12.7 million-for Indian religious festival

1976 1st Jewish film and TV festival

1975 "Dinge-competed" wins Eurovisie Song festival

1975 Teach-In wins Eurovision Song Festival with "Dinge-Dong"

1972 200,000 attend Mt. Pocono rock festival in Pennsylvania

1970 "NET Festival," last aired

1970 30,000 attend Powder Ridge Rock Festival, Middlefield, Connecticut

1970 30,000 attend Randall's Island Rock Festival, New York City

1970 Sylvester Wiere, comedian (Wiere Brothers-Ford Festival), dies at 60

1970 200,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival

1969 25,000 attend New Orleans Pop Festival

1969 120,000 attend Texas International Pop Festival

1969 25,000 attend 2nd Annual Sky River Rock Festival, Tenino Wash

1969 Woodstock rock festival begins in New York

1969 110,000 attend Atlantic City Pop Festival

1969 70,000 attend Seattle Pop Festival

1969 140,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival featuring Led Zep and Janis Joplin

1969 78,000 attend Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island

1969 50,000 attend Denver Pop Festival

1968 100,000 attend Miami Pop Festival

1968 100,000 attend Newport Pop Festival, Costa Mesa, California

1968 Joseph Keilberth, German conductor (Bayreuther Festival), dies

1968 "Wonderwall" with George Harrison premieres at Cannes Film Festival

1967 Monterey International Pop Festival rocks Southern California

1967 50,000 attend Monterey International Pop Festival

1967 15,000 attend Fantasy Faire and Magic Mountain Music Festival, California

1966 1st world festival of black art (Dakar Senegal)

1965 Folk-rock begins, Dylan uses electricity at Newport Folk Festival

1961 Mark Finch, film festival organiser

1961 James Melton, opera tenor (Ford Festival), dies at 57

1961 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Golden Circle of Golf Festival

1959 Danny Sharp, born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canadian Tour golfer, 1986 Quinte Festival

1959 Teddy Scholten wins Eurovision Song festival with "A Little Bit"

1959 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Golden Triangle Festival Golf Tournament

1957 Jamestown, Virginia 350th Anniversary Festival opens

1957 Corry Brokken wins Eurovision Song festival with "Just as then"

1946 Ralph Kirshbaum, born in Denton, Texas, cellist, RNCM Manchester International Festival

1945 Harry Thomas, Dutch founder, Schlager Festival Gay Party

1945 Carlos Gimenez, Arg/Venez founder, Theater festival of Caracas

1938 Pupi Avati, Bologna Italy, director, Festival, Bix, Impiegati

1929 Howard Yanks, founder, Philadelphia folk festival

1927 Frank Dunlop, director, Edinburgh International Festival

1925 Michael Kaye, director, City of London Festival

1922 Derek Prouse, writer actor/film festival director, Le Scandale

1912 Isador Caplan, lawyer/Aldeburgh Festival Pioneer

1911 Carl Dolmetsch, director, Haslemere Festival

1910 Dick Elffers, Dutch graphic artist/painter, Holland Festival

1910 William H. Schuman, born in New York City, composer, Amer Festival Overture, Juilliard

1907 1st Portland Rose festival

1904 James Melton, Moultrie, Georgia, opera tenor, Ford Festival

1897 Winifred Wagner-William, German organizer, Wagner Festival

1897 Irish Music Festival 1st held (Dublin)

1896 Tsunami strikes Shinto festival on beach at Sanriku Japan 27,000 are killed, 9,000 injured, with 13,000 houses destroyed

1893 Johan C P Alberts, Dutch literary, Festival

1882 Pierre de Brazza festival welcomed in Paris

1881 Johannes Brahms' "Academic Festival Overture" premieres, Breslau

1844 Declaration of Bab (Baha'i festival) ('Azamat 7, 1)

1665 "Messiah" Sjabtai Tswi festival in Smyrna

1629 Prince Frederik Hendrik festival in The Hague

1594 French King Henri IV festival in Paris



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