The New York Yankees started out as the Baltimore Orioles when the American League was founded in 1901. After two years in Baltimore, the team moved to New York in 1903 and châ¦anged their name to the Highlanders, later to be changed to Yankees in 1913.
Officially billed as The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, An Aquarian Exposition, the festival that came to be known, simply, as Woodstock is the stuff of legend. Friday marks the 45th anniversary of Woodstock, which took place from August 15-18, 1969. Woodstock didn't take place in Woodstock, New York, but in Bethel, about 60 miles away. It was really called Woodstock because (festival co-creator) Mike Lang thought it had the right vibe, Bob Spitz, journalist and author of Barefoot in Babylon: The Creation of the Woodstock Music Festival, 1969 told CNN.
August 29, 1970: A Day Every Chicana & Chicano Must Remember. Every August 29th marks the anniversary of the largest raza-led mobilization against the U.S. imperialist war in Vietnam, and against the conditions of oppression and exploitation of our historically indigenous people by this colonial settler society on our own land.