On this day :

1969 The Woodstock festival opens in Bethel New York, 1780 Swamp Fox routs loyalists while Gates men fall ill, 1899 Henry Ford leaves Edison to start automobile company, 1861 Anderson is named commander of Department of the Kentucky, 1964 Khrushchev announces he is ready to begin arms talks, 2006 Wife of slain minister released from jail, 1983 Hurricane Alicia pounds Texas coast, 1057 Malcolm slays Macbeth, 1914 Panama Canal open to traffic, 1947 India and Pakistan win independence, 1961 Berlin Wall built, 1979 Apocalypse Now released, 1887 Edna Ferber author of Show Boat is born, 1812 Indian captive William Wells is killed, 1930 Hoover looks to combat drought and economic depression, 1859 Charles Comiskey born, 1968 Heavy fighting erupts in and around the DMZ, 1969 Woodstock begins in upstate New York, 1970 Regional Forces victorious, 1971 North Vietnamese capture Vietnamese marine base, 1914 Japan gives ultimatum to Germany, 1945 The Japanese emperor speaks,