The Hippie Movement

Natural childbirth made a Broadway appearance with the play, Generation by US playwright William Goodhart, starring Henry Fonda.

The first Acid Test was held in Palo Alto, California.

The Family Dog became Family Dog productions under the organiser Chet Helms.

The Underground Press Syndicate had been organised 80 presses of U.S and Canada came to a conference sponsored by Middle Earth in Iowa City.

At Longshoreman's Hall organised by Stewart Brand, Ken Kesey, Owsley Stanley, Zach Stewart and others. On Saturday 22, the Grateful Dead and Big Brother and The Holding Company came on stage, and 6000 people arrived to imbibe punch spiked with LSD and to witness one of the first fully developed light shows of the era.

The diggers opened stores which simply gave away their stock; provided free food, medical care, transport, and temporary housing; they also organized free music concerts and works of political art.

Young Americans around the country began moving to San Francisco, and by June, around 15000 hippies had moved into the Haight.

The state of California made LSD a controlled substance, making the drug illegal. San Francisco hippies staged gatherings in the Golden Gate panhandle, called The Love Pageant Rally, attracting 200-800 people.

The Sunset Strip Curfew Riots, also know as the hippie riots, were a serious of clashes which took place between police and young people on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, California.

The Walk for Love and Peace and Freedom in New York City takes place with 10,000 participants.

Buffalo Springfield released an early hippie anthem called For what It's Worth.

Thousands of young people would travel to San Francisco, sometimes wearing flowers in their hair and distributing flowers to passersby, earning the name Flower Children

Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert formed the International Freedom in Newton, Massachusetts, inhabiting two houses but later moving to a 64-room mansion at Millbrook, New York.

The outdoor Human Be-In in San Francisco popularized hippie culture across the United States.

An audience of 3000 gathered at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco, filling the hall to its capacity for the Mantra Rock Dance, for a fundraising effort of the first Hare Krishna center on the West Coast.

Large rock concerts that originated with the Monterey Pop Festival became the norm.

The Diggers criticized the term 'hippie' with their October 'Death of Hippie' event.

The Yippies became notorious for their theatrics, such as trying to levitate the Pentagon at the October war protest.

As Drop City gained notoriety, people from around the world came to stay and work. The group consisting of 10 core people and many contributors, won Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion award for their constructions.

It was widely noted that most of the original Flower Children had long departed the Haight Ashbury district, having been replaced with a more clinical exploitative crowd.

Hippie-influenced fashions were beginning to take off in the mainstream, especially for youths and younger adults.

Nixon administration responded by seeking to have Lennon deported, on the pretext of a marijuana conviction.

The Yippies came to national attention during the celebration of the spring equinox, when some 3000 of them took over Grand Central Station - resulting in 61 arrests.

The development of two new, but dissimilar, genres of music that each exerted some influence on, and were influenced by the hippie movements: heavy metal and reggae.

The newly formed Poor People's Campaign, started by Martin Luther King, Jr, organized a shantytown known as Resurrection City.

The Yippies started intention to protest the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, including their own candidate, Lyndon Pigasus Pig who was an actual pig.

Generation was made into a film, it was also released under the title A Time for Giving and A Time for Changing.

The Oregon Country Fair began in 1969 as a benefit for an alternative school.

The building of People's Park in Berkeley, California received international attention.

The Sharon Tate and Leno and Rosemary LaBianca murders committed in August 1969 by Charles Manson and his "family" of followers.

the Woodstock Music and Art Festival took place in Bethel, New York. Over 500,000 people arrived to hear the most notable musicians and bands of the era.

Initially billed as "Woodstock West," its official name was The Altamont Free Concert. About 300,000 people gathered to hear The Rolling Stones; Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young; Jefferson Airplane and other bands. The Hells Angels provided security that proved far less beneficent than the security provided at the Woodstock event: 18-year-old Meredith Hunter was stabbed and killed while drawing a gun in front of the stage during The Rolling Stones performance, and four accidental deaths occurred. There were also four births at the concert.

Gaskin and his wife, Ina May Gaskin, led a caravan of 60 buses, vans and trucks on a cross country speaking tour.

With the end of the draft and the Vietnam War, and a renewal of patriotic sentiment associated with the approach of the United States Bicentennial, the mainstream media lost interest in the hippie counterculture, and hippies became targets for ridicule, coinciding with the advent of punk rock and disco.

Members of the Ohio National Guard fired on unarmed student protesters at Kent State, killing four and seriously injuring nine others.

Manson's highly publicized trial.

in England, the Isle of Wight Festival drew an even bigger attendance than Woodstock, and was a major gathering of the hippie movement. Concert appearances for a few prominent musicians of the time, such as Jimi Hendrix.

In Australia the hippie movement originated at the Aquarius Festival held in 1971 in Canberra and again in Nimbin two years later.

Charles Manson and followers found guilty of murder.

John Lennon sang at the John Sinclair Freedom Rally in Michigan, calling attention to Sinclair's ten-year prison sentence for giving two joints to an undercover policewoman.

A Colombian psychiatrist asserted that being a hippie is a form of mental illness that can be passed on to one's children.

The Watergate hearings had begun in earnest, and the famous pair made their final political statement by attending one of them - Lennon's conviction.

In the UK, there are many new age travelers who are known as hippies to outsiders, but prefer to call themselves the Peace Convoy. They started the Stonehenge Free Festival.

The deportation case was dropped for Lennon and Yoko.

Hippie music festivals were held on large farms around Waihi and Waikino in New Zealand- Aotearoa.

Lennon and Yoko attended the Inaugural Ball of president Jimmy Carter in January 1977.

The Nambassa Festivals were held on a grassed plateau above a white sand east coast beach over Auckland Anniversary Weekend.

The third Nambassa festival would see 60,000-odd people flock to New Zealand's hippy high-water mark.

Hippie ideals were a marked influence on anarcho-punk and some post-punk youth cultures, such as the Second Summer of Love.

John Lennon murdered outside his apartment entrance in NYC.

The annual Starwood Festival, is a six-day event held in Sherman, New York indicative of the spiritual quest of hippies through an exploration of non-mainstream religions and world-views.