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 16, 1969 – Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, in protest against the Soviets’ crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.
- February 4, 1969 – Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
- February 8, 1969 – Allende meteorite falls near Pueblito de Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico.
- February 17, 1969 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rooster in Chinese astrology.
- 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 7, 1969 – The Internet’s symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1.
- April 28, 1969 – Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.
- May 15, 1969 – People’s Park: California Governor Ronald Reagan has an impromptu student park owned by University of California at Berkeley fenced off from student anti-war protestors, sparking a riot called Bloody Thursday.
- May 18, 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 is launched.
- 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.
- 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.
- September 1, 1969 – A coup in Libya brings Muammar al-Gaddafi to power.
- September 9, 1969 – In Canada, the Official Languages Act comes into force, making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government.
- 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.
- 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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