during his career, Clarence died in Peoria, Illinois where he had been scheduled to appear at the Heart of Illinois Fair. July 15, 1969 (Tuesday) One month before the Woodstock Festival rock concert was to take place, the zoning board of the town of Wallkill, New York, banned Woodstock Ventures from using land that the organizers had leased and had cleared. The legendary rock concert would take place instead at a farm near Bethel, New York, away. A the time that the event had been barred from Wallkill, advance tickets had been sold at prices of up to $18.50 for all three days (equivalent to $128 in 2019), and the plan was to have music only during the hours between 2:00 in the afternoon to 2:00 the next morning. By the time Woodstock took place, most of the 400,000 people in attendance had gotten in without paying. A 58-year old South African woman in Johannesburg made headlines worldwide by claiming that she had become the oldest person to give birth to a child, delivered at home by a friend after she was not able to arrive at the hospital in time to deliver the five pound girl. Five days later, a pair of newspapers— The Sunday Tribune of Durban and Dagbreek en Sondagnuus of Johannesburg, exposed the story as a hoax. The city of Whittier, Alaska, was incorporated. July 16, 1969 (Wednesday) Apollo 11, with Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, lifted off as scheduled from Cape Kennedy in Florida at 9:32 a.m. local time (1332 UTC). Almost 12 minutes later, at 1343 UTC, the ship entered Earth orbit and, after more than two and a half hours, began "translunar injection", departing Earth orbit on toward the Moon at 1622 UTC. July 17, 1969 (Thursday) The New York Times published one of the most famous retractions in history in the form of an editorial titled "A Correction". Noting that "On Jan. 13, 1920, 'Topics of The Times'.... commented on the ideas of Robert H. Goddard, the rocket pioneer", when the Times said that "Professor Goddard... does not know... of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react... he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools." Writing on the day after the launch of Apollo 11 to the Moon, the Times commented that "it is now definitely established that a