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TIL Millennium '73, a festival at the Houston Astrodome organized by the followers of 15-year-old guru Maharaj Ji, was promoted as "the most significant event in human history which would usher in a thousand years of peace." It featured big-band music and drew between 10,000 and 35,000 attendees.

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