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Bob Dylan made his first appearance at New York City's Gaslight Cafe.
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- Bob Dylan performed at the Gaslight Cafe in New York City.
- Robert Zimmerman legally changed his name to Bob Dylan.
- Bob Dylan began the first recording sessions at Studio A of Columbia Recording Studios in New York with producer Tom Wilson for his third album, “The Times They Are a-Changin'.” It was his first album made up entirely of original songs. Upon its release the following February, the album reached No. 20 in the U.S. and No. 4 in the UK.
- Bob Dylan released the album "Another Side of Bob Dylan" on Columbia Records.
- Bob Dylan released the album “Highway 61 Revisited”, which marked his definitive transition to an electric sound. The album included, among others, “Like a Rolling Stone”, which reached No. 2, and the more than eleven-minute song “Desolation Row”.
- Bob Dylan's “Like a Rolling Stone” moved from number six to number two.
- Bob Dylan renewed his recording contract with Columbia Records.
- On August 2, 1969, Bob Dylan returned to his hometown of Hibbing, Minnesota, for his ten-year high school reunion, marking the class of 1959. He and his wife Sara met classmates beforehand at the local Moose Lodge, but after a confrontation with a drunken former classmate, Dylan left and ultimately did not attend the reunion itself.
- It was reported that Bob Dylan’s bootleg album Great White Wonder had sold more than 350,000 copies worldwide.