1969 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1969?
- February 4, 1969 – Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
- February 17, 1969 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rooster in Chinese astrology.
- March 19, 1969 – The 385 m tall TV-mast at Emley Moor, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build-up.
- March 28, 1969 – Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece.
- April 1, 1969 – The Hawker Siddeley Harrier enters service with the Royal Air Force.
- April 4, 1969 – Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
- April 5, 1969 – Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities.
- June 23, 1969 – Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren.
- July 3, 1969 – The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N-1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad.
- July 30, 1969 – Vietnam War: US President Richard M. Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and U.S. military commanders.
- August 13, 1969 – The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine to enjoy a ticker-tape parade in New York. That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Richard Nixon.
- August 27, 1969 – Israeli commando force penetrates deep into Egyptian territory to stage a mortar attack on regional Egyptian Army headquarters in the Nile Valley of Upper Egypt.
- October 1, 1969 – Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
- October 15, 1969 – Vietnam War; The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam is held in Washington DC and across the US. Over 2 million demonstrate nationally; about 250,000 in the nation’s capitol.
- October 19, 1969 – The first Prime Minister of Tunisia in twelve years, Bahi Ladgham, is appointed by President Habib Bourguiba.
- November 13, 1969 – Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, D.C. stage a symbolic March Against Death.
- November 15, 1969 – In Columbus, Ohio, Dave Thomas opens the first Wendy’s restaurant.
- 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 9, 1969 – United States Secretary of State William P. Rogers proposes his plan for a ceasefire in the War of Attrition; Egypt and Jordan accept it over the objections of the PLO, which leads to civil war in Jordan in September 1970.
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