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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