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.
- February 17, 1969 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rooster in Chinese astrology.
- March 17, 1969 – Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
- 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.
- April 9, 1969 – The “Chicago Eight” plead not guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- October 1, 1969 – Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
- November 19, 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the “Ocean of Storms”) and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
- November 21, 1969 – The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI.
- 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 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.
- December 12, 1969 – Strategy of tension: Piazza Fontana bombing – The offices of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in Piazza Fontana, Milan, are bombed.
- 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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