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Cut the Crap

Following a break after The Clash's performance at the 1983 US Festival, the band reconvened that June for rehearsals in London, England.

The Electric Co.

Six days prior to the Red Rocks performance, 23-year-old Bono scaled a 50-foot lighting rig holding a white flag during "The Electric Co." at the US Festival near San Bernardino, California on Memorial Day 1983, broadcast on MTV.

U.S.–Soviet Space Bridge

On September 5, 1982, a TV-link was established for the first time between the Soviet Union and the United States.

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The first Space Bridge was an arrangement between the Unison Corporation and Gosteleradio of the USSR for the US Festival, sponsored by computer pioneer Steve Wozniak.

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These "counter-actions" included the “Choose Health, Be Like Us!” festival (July 31, 2009), a youth sports festival (August 31, 2009), the “Division” military-sports festivity (October 31, 2009), an action of the pro-Kremlin “Young Russia” movement (December 31, 2009), and the “Winter Amusements” festivity (January 31, 2010).