Australian Michael Dennis Rohan sets the Al-Aqsa Mosque on fire.

Category 5 hurricane Camille, the most powerful tropical cyclonic system at landfall in recorded history, hits the Mississipi coast killing 248 people and causing US$1.5 billion damage (1969 dollars).

The Woodstock festival is held in upstate New-York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era.

British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland following the 3-days battle of the Bogside.

Serious border clashes occur between the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China.

Violence erupts after the Apprentice Boys of Derry march in Derry, Northern Ireland, resulting in a 3-days communal riot known as the Battle of the Bogside.

Top note : all the citrus fruits from sunshine countries
Heart Note : orange blossom, lily of the valley, lavender
Base Note : Vanilla, white musks, Caramel

Inside her family garden of Bourgogne, young Sidonie Gabrielle Colette experienced her first steps as a writer, surrounded by roses and field flowers. Having chosen her third name as a pen name, she was to become an admired literary woman, famous for both her literary and sensual freedom. Reflecting this happy sensual woman, 1873 is a gourmand and refined eau de parfum. Unsettling white flowers blossom in a light bubble, sparkling with tangerine and lemon.

Those bloggers write very nice reviews of our 1873:

http://www.auparfum.com/?1873,449

http://ambregris.blogspot.com/2009/08/avis-1873-histoires-de-parfums.html

http://perfumeshrine.blogspot.com/2008/06/histoires-de-parfums-colette-1873.html

http://fragrancebouquet.blogspot.com/2008/06/1740-1873-by-histoires-de-parfums.html

The Manson family killed Leno La Bianca and Rosemary La Bianca, wealthy Los Angeles businesspeople.

Members of a cult led by Charles Manson murder Sharon Tate, (who was 8 months pregnant), and her friends : Folgers cofee hairess Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, and Hollywood hairstylist Jay Sebring at Tate and husband Roman’s Polanski’s home in Los Angeles, California. Steven Parent, leaving from a visit at the polanski’s caretaker, is also killed. More than 100 stabs wounds are found on the victims except for Parent, who had been shot almost as soon as the Manson family entered the property.

A fire breaks out in the bannerman’s castle in the Hudson river;most of the roof collapses and crashes down to the lower level.