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 14, 1969 – An accidental explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 27 people.
- 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 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.
- February 18, 1969 – Hawthorne Nevada Airlines Flight 708 crashes into Mount Whitney killing all on board.
- March 2, 1969 – In Toulouse, France, the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted.
- March 18, 1969 – The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.
- 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 22, 1969 – Apollo 10's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon’s surface.
- July 14, 1969 – Football War: after Honduras loses a soccer match against El Salvador, riots break out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers.
- 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 20, 1969 – A cease fire is announced between Honduras and El Salvador, 6 days after the beginning of the “Football War”.
- 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 5, 1969 – My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lt. William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
- 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 14, 1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second crewed mission to the surface of the Moon.
- December 1, 1969 – The first legislation to limit aircraft noise levels at airports is introduced in U.S. Federal Air Regulation, Part 36.
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