 Also in 1862 on this day, President Abraham Lincoln presented to his cabinet a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation, one of the great speeches of all time. And in 1999 on this day, the Woodstock 99 four-day music festival began. It was not as good as the original one in 1969. The event would ultimately be marred by destruction and violence by contragoes amid a lack of security and stifling heat. It was not a very good, good festival at all.