- 1960 18 Aug The first commercially produced female oral contraceptive became available, in the United States.
- 1964 18 Aug South Africa is banned from participating in the Olympics due to its policy of apartheid.
- 1969 18 Aug The generation-defining Woodstock Music Festival in New York State, attended by 400,000 people, ends.
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