When did The Beatles last play live?

The Beatles leave Candlestick Park
The Beatles' last live performance was famously on a rooftop on Savile Row in early 1969. But their last (ticketed) concert came 3 months earlier on the other side of the Atlantic.

On August 29, 1966, The Beatles played at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. 
The Candlestick Park concert seemed at the time to be the triumphant finale of another record-breaking tour. But as Paul McCartney has recently said, it also proved a crisis point:
By then we were totally fed up and then they put us in the back of a stainless steel box {the armoured car they used to leave the Candlestick Park gig}... Now this is like some weird sci-fi thing form 2001 or something. We’re suddenly sliding around in the back of the van...The guys, John [Lennon] and George [Harrison], had been a little {fed up} about touring and, finally, all of us, were like ‘Fuck this!’ So that was the moment.
There was no public announcement and no definitive decision to stop all live performances. But two of The Beatles (John and George) were resolved to retire from touring.

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