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On this day in 1129 AD, The Council of Troyes gives the Church's Full Approval to the “Poor Fellow Soldiers of Christ and the Temple of Solomon,” better known to conspiracy theorists as The Knights Templar. On this date in 1967, at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, the “Human Be-In” seen by some as the early winter start of the Summer of Love. So cold in the city, sometimes you can't tell.