1969 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1969?
- February 9, 1969 – First test flight of the Boeing 747.
- February 17, 1969 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rooster in Chinese astrology.
- March 3, 1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
- March 17, 1969 – Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
- April 3, 1969 – Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to “Vietnamize” the war effort.
- April 4, 1969 – Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
- July 24, 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
- August 4, 1969 – Vietnam War: at the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.
- August 14, 1969 – Operation Banner: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland.
- August 15, 1969 – The Woodstock Music and Art Festival opens.
- 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.
- September 23, 1969 – The Chicago Eight trial opens in Chicago.
- October 8, 1969 – The opening rally of the Days of Rage occurs, organized by the Weather Underground in Chicago, Illinois.
- November 3, 1969 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon addresses the nation on television and radio, asking the “silent majority” to join him in solidarity on the Vietnam War effort and to support his policies.
- 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 14, 1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second crewed mission to the surface of the Moon.
- November 15, 1969 – Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic “March Against Death”.
- November 20, 1969 – Vietnam War: The Plain Dealer publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.
- November 21, 1969 – The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI.
- December 17, 1969 – The SALT I talks begin.
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