1969 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1969?
- January 5, 1969 – Members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary damage property and assault occupants in the Bogside in Derry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. In response, residents erect barricades and establish Free Derry.
- January 15, 1969 – The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5.
- February 3, 1969 – In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.
- February 17, 1969 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rooster in Chinese astrology.
- March 13, 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
- March 19, 1969 – The 385 m tall TV-mast at Emley Moor, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build-up.
- April 1, 1969 – The Hawker Siddeley Harrier enters service with the Royal Air Force.
- May 29, 1969 – General strike in Córdoba, Argentina, leading to the Cordobazo civil unrest.
- June 22, 1969 – The Cuyahoga River catches fire, triggering a crack-down on pollution in the river.
- June 30, 1969 – Nigeria bans Red Cross aid to Biafra.
- July 18, 1969 – After a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts drives an Oldsmobile off a bridge and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, dies.
- July 24, 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
- September 1, 1969 – Tran Thien Khiem became Prime Minister of South Vietnam under President Nguyen Van Thieu.
- October 5, 1969 – The first episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus airs on BBC.
- October 29, 1969 – The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
- November 10, 1969 – National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts the children’s television program Sesame Street.
- November 17, 1969 – Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.
- November 19, 1969 – Association football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
- December 1, 1969 – The first legislation to limit aircraft noise levels at airports is introduced in U.S. Federal Air Regulation, Part 36.
- December 6, 1969 – Meredith Hunter is killed by the Hells Angels during a The Rolling Stones’s concert at the Altamont Speedway in California.
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