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Woodstock drew around 400,000 people

The 1969 festival ran for four days on a dairy farm in New York

The Woodstock Music and Art Fair ran from 15 to 18 August 1969 on Max Yasgur's farm near Bethel, New York. Around 400,000 people attended, many more than the organisers had planned for. Thirty-two acts played, and rain turned the site to mud.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: The 1969 festival ran for four days on a dairy farm in New York. The figure is taken from Encyclopaedia Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a music fact?: Yes. It sits on the Music shelf, one of 1,090 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.