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1969 -- Who would have thought a football game would set the tone for such a momentous year? At the start of 1969, there was a sense of tension across the nation. The anti-war movement had toppled a sitting president. The civil rights and women's liberation campaigns were at fever pitch. There were competing forces in America: change and the status quo. And no one was sure which would prevail. VIDEO: Watch a retrospective of 1969 As I say, it started with a football game. The Super Bowl that year pitted the National Football League's Baltimore Colts -- embodied by the traditionalist crewcut of quarterback Earl Morrall -- against the upstarts of the American Football League, the New York Jets, led by their glamorous and shaggy star, Joe Namath. CONTINUE READING >> FAST FACTS: From Sesame Street's debut to the cost of bread -- click over INTERACTIVE: 40 Years Since the Race to the Moon YOUDECIDE: What's the Most Memorable Moment from 1969?![Buzz Aldrin, Rocket Man]()
Four decades ago this summer, I stood next to a colleague and helped set up some instruments on a distant place. VIDEO: Apollo 11 Lands on Moon in 1969 INTERACTIVE: 40 Years Since the Race to the Moon INTERACTIVE: The Original Mercury Seven Astronauts I walked slowly to deploy the devices, and together we worked to erect our flag atop a shiny silver pole with an extra bounce in my step. Amidst our work, we stopped to take a phone call from home. My colleague was Neil Armstrong, the instruments lunar science, and the place was Tranquility Base on the surface of the moon. CONTINUE READING >> PHOTOS: From take-off to landing, see it all. | Full Coverage WATCH: JFK: We Choose the Moon | Part II | Part III | READ WATCH: 'The Eagle Has Landed' | Raising the Flag | Landing on the Moon Part I | Part II YOU DECIDE: Where were you when Apollo 11 landed? FAST FACTS: List of events that changed it all | VIDEO FOX FORUM: We Must Revive Our Spirit of Adventure | Bring Back the Right Stuff "Apollo 11: One Small Step to Our Future" Airs at 3 p.m. Sunday EDT on FOX News![Music Event of the Century]()
What became the defining event of the free love 1960s hippie counterculture began as a small business venture. Four entrepreneurs talking about starting a recording studio in New York's Catskill Mountains came up with the idea of staging a massive open-air concert instead. PHOTOS: Experience the Summer of Love STORY: Leslie West Remembers First Woodstock They called it the Woodstock Music & Arts Fair. They sold 186,000 tickets. Some of the most popular rock musicians in the world were signed up to play, including The Grateful Dead, The Who, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. Film and recording crews were hired to document the gathering. CONTINUE READING >> WATCH: CREEDANCE CLEARWATER REVIVIAL | SANTANA | SHANANA | GRATEFUL DEAD | HIPPIES CELEBRATE SUMMER OF LOVE YOUDECIDE: Do you think Woodstock's 'peace and love' message made any impact on American culture, or was it just another slogan? FAST FACTS: List of events that changed it all FOX FORUM: Steve Bromberg: Woodstock...You Had to Be There | John Tantillo: Woodstock Matters![The 37th President]()
Richard Nixon was sworn in as the 37th president of the United States on Jan. 20, 1969, on a pledge to achieve "peace with honor" and end the Vietnam war. He found it a difficult pledge to keep, even with a "silent majority" backing his decisions. YOUDECIDE : Did you oppose or support the war in Vietnam? Nixon's inauguration marked the former vice president's political rebirth. Having lost the presidential election in 1960, he ran for governor of California -- and lost -- just two years later. It was after that defeat that he famously declared that voters "won't have Nixon to kick around anymore." But the Vietnam War ultimately forced President Lyndon Johnson's decision not to run for re-election in 1968, and Nixon defeated Hubert Humphrey in November, completing his remarkable comeback. CONTINUE READING >> VIDEO: Nixon's Inauguration | 'Silent Majority' Speech PHOTOS: Nixon's Public and Private Life FAST FACTS: List of events that changed it all FOX FORUM: Judith Miller: The Riveting Richard Nixon | K.T. McFarland: Memories of Nixon!['Broadway' Joe Namath]()
Just 12 days into 1969, "Broadway" Joe Namath sent a message to America: This year would be like no other. After boldly -- and foolishly, most fans thought -- guaranteeing that the American Football League champion New York Jets would beat the National Football League's heavily-favored Baltimore Colts, Namath cemented his legend in Super Bowl III by completing 17 passes in 28 attempts for 206 yards, winning the game's Most Valuable Player award without throwing a single touchdown. YOUDECIDE: Are there any teams today that could rival the 1969 Jets? Not only would Namath's prediction go on to serve as a mantra for underdogs everywhere, the guaranteed victory proved to be a watershed moment in pro football history, marking the first time an AFL team won the yet-to-be-named Super Bowl, the Jets' lone championship and the game that solidified pro football's place in U.S. culture. CONTINUE READING >> PHOTOS: The Game That Changed American Sports FAST FACTS: List of events that changed it all FOX FORUM: Jets Came Changed History Forever | Juan Williams: The 'Other' Big Game in 19691969: The Year That Changed America
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