The first free rock festival, held near Bethel, New York, over three days in August 1969. It was attended by 400,000 people, and performers included the Band, Country Joe and the Fish, the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, and the Who. The festival was a landmark in the youth culture of the 1960s (see hippie) and was recorded in the film Woodstock (1970).
Green, red, and blue were the colours of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) flag which bore a yellow star at the hoist. Effective date: late 1995.