Cover of Gypsy Sun and Rainbows
AUGUST 18
1969:Jimi Hendrix performs an electric-guitar rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" during the last performance of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair
in Bethel, N.Y. The highly successful weekend event was supposed to end
the previous day, but rain delays and technical problems keep musicians
such as Hendrix, Sha-Na-Na and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band
performing well into Monday morning.
1587: Virginia Dare is the first child of English parents born
in the New World, at Roanoke Island in present-day North Carolina.
Three years later, Roanoke colony Gov. John White, who is also Dare's
grandfather, will return from England aboard a supply ship to discover
that the settlers of the Roanoke colony have all mysteriously vanished,
with young Virginia Dare among them.
1991: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev
is placed under house arrest in the Crimea during a coup carried out by
leaders of the Soviet army and the KGB, as well as hard-liners in his
own administration, who attempt to take over the government. Although
the coup will quickly collapse, so will Gorbachev's regime; he will
resign in December as the Soviet Union crumbles.
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