*Ø* Blogmanac January 14, 1967 | Human Be-In
1967 Timothy Leary, Jerry Rubin, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder and others attended the first 'Human Be-In' in a park in San Francisco, USA, one of the big events of the ‘Summer of Love’. Among the performers were The Grateful Dead and The Jefferson Airplane. Estimates of numbers in attendance range wildly from 20,000 to 300,000 (estimate in Ringolevio by Emmett Grogan). Leary, in his first San Francisco appearance, uttered the sound bite of the decade: “Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out”.
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1967 Timothy Leary, Jerry Rubin, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder and others attended the first 'Human Be-In' in a park in San Francisco, USA, one of the big events of the ‘Summer of Love’. Among the performers were The Grateful Dead and The Jefferson Airplane. Estimates of numbers in attendance range wildly from 20,000 to 300,000 (estimate in Ringolevio by Emmett Grogan). Leary, in his first San Francisco appearance, uttered the sound bite of the decade: “Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out”.
This is just a snippet of today's stories. Read all about today in folklore, historical oddities, inspiration and alternatives at the Wilson's Almanac Book of Days, every day. Click today's date when you're there.
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