1969 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1969?
- January 18, 1969 – United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay killing all 32 passengers and six crew members.
- January 25, 1969 – Brazilian Army captain Carlos Lamarca deserts in order to fight against the military dictatorship, taking with him 10 machine guns and 63 rifles.
- February 17, 1969 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rooster in Chinese astrology.
- March 10, 1969 – In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. He later retracts his plea.
- March 17, 1969 – Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
- April 1, 1969 – The Hawker Siddeley Harrier enters service with the Royal Air Force.
- April 5, 1969 – Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities.
- April 17, 1969 – Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.
- May 2, 1969 – The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 departs on her maiden voyage to New York City.
- May 13, 1969 – Race riots, later known as the May 13 Incident, take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- May 17, 1969 – Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
- June 5, 1969 – The International communist conference begins in Moscow.
- July 25, 1969 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the “Vietnamization” of the war.
- September 23, 1969 – The Chicago Eight trial opens in Chicago.
- October 1, 1969 – Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
- October 5, 1969 – The first episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus airs on BBC.
- November 21, 1969 – U.S. President Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato agree in Washington, D.C. on the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972. Under the terms of the agreement, the U.S. is to retain its rights to bases on the island, but these are to be nuclear-free.
- November 22, 1969 – In American football, the University of Michigan upset Ohio State University, 24-12, in Bo Schembechler’s first season as Michigan’s head coach. The win set off the 10 Year War between Schembechler and Ohio State’s Woody Hayes. (See also Michigan-Ohio State rivalry).
- December 1, 1969 – Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.
- December 18, 1969 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom: Home Secretary James Callaghan’s motion to make permanent the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965, which had temporarily suspended capital punishment in England, Wales and Scotland for murder (but not for all crimes) for a period of five years.
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