On August 15, 1969, the Woodstock music festival opened on a
patch of farmland in White Lake, a hamlet in the upstate New
York town of Bethel.

Promoters John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfield and
Michael Lang originally envisioned the festival as a way to raise
funds to build a recording studio and rock-and-roll retreat near
the town of Woodstock, New York. The longtime artists’ colony
was already a home base for Bob Dylan and other musicians.

Despite their relative inexperience, the young promoters managed
to sign a roster of top acts, including the Jefferson Airplane, the
Who, the Grateful Dead, Sly and the Family Stone, Janis Joplin,
Jimi Hendrix (below), Creedence Clearwater Revival and many
more.

In what later became known as Victory Day, an official announcement
of Japan’s unconditional surrender to the Allies is made public to the world on August 14, 1945. Japan formally surrendered in writing two weeks later, on September 2, 1945.

Even though Japan’s War Council, urged by Emperor Hirohito, had
already submitted a declaration of surrender to the Allies, via
ambassadors.

(Fox News) – Tony Bennett has canceled his fall and winter 2021 tour
dates and retired from touring as per doctors’ orders.

The legendary crooner, 95, is pulling out of concerts in New York, Maryland, Connecticut, Arizona, Oklahoma and Canada.

The iconic singer was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2016.

On August 13, 1981, at his California home Rancho del Cielo (above),
Ronald Reagan signs the Economic Recovery Tax Act (ERTA), a
package of tax and budget reductions that set the tone for his
administration’s trickle-down economic policy.

During his campaign for the White House in 1980, Reagan argued
on behalf of “supply-side economics,” the theory of using tax
cuts as incentives for individuals and businesses to work and
produce goods (supply) rather than as an incentive for consumers
to buy goods (demand)..

Hogan’s Heroes is a television sitcom set in a Nazi German
prisoner-of-war (POW) camp during World War II. It ran for
168 episodes (six seasons) from September 17, 1965, to
April 4, 1971, on the CBS network, the longest broadcast
run for an American television series inspired by that war.

Bob Crane starred as Colonel Robert E. Hogan, coordinating
an international crew of Allied prisoners running a special
operations group from the camp. Werner Klemperer played
Colonel Wilhelm Klink, the gullible commandant of the camp,
and John Banner played the blundering but lovable sergeant-
of-the-guard, Hans Schultz.

From  left: Bob Crane and Werner Klemperer

Leon Askin takes a break.

Robert Clary (left) and Bob Crane.