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1969 (' MCMLXIX ) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. The year is associated with the first manned landing on the Moon (Apollo 11).

The year 1969 was also the last year of the 1960s.


Events of 1969

January

  • January 1 – Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch purchases the largest selling British Sunday newspaper, The News of the World .
  • January 1 – People's Democracy begins a march from Belfast to Derry, Northern Ireland in support of civil rights.
  • January 1 – Ohio State defeats USC in the Rose Bowl to win the national title for the 1968 season.
  • January 5 – Members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) damage property and assault occupants in the Bogside in Derry. In response, residents erect barricades and establish Free Derry.
  • January 5 – The Soviet Union launches Venera 5 toward Venus.
  • January 9 – In Washington, D.C., the Smithsonian displays the art of Winslow Homer for 6 weeks.
  • January 10 – After 147 years, the last issue of The Saturday Evening Post is published.
  • January 10 – The Soviet Union launches Venera 6 toward Venus.
  • January 12 – Super Bowl III: The New York Jets of the American Football League defeat the heavily favored Baltimore Colts of the National Football League 16–7.
  • January 12 – Led Zeppelin I, Led Zeppelin's first studio recorded album, is released.
  • January 13 – Elvis Presley steps into American Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, recording "Long Black Limousine" thus beginning the recording of what becomes his landmark comeback sessions for the albums "From Elvis In Memphis" and "Back in Memphis." The sessions yield the popular and critically acclaimed singles "Suspicious Minds," "In the Ghetto" and "Kentucky Rain."
  • January 14 – The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 4 .
  • January 14 – An explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 27 and injures 314.
  • January 15 – The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5 , which will dock with Soyuz 4 for a transfer of crew.
  • January 16 – Two cosmonauts transfer from Soyuz 5 to Soyuz 4 via a spacewalk while the two craft are docked together, the first time such a transfer takes place. The two spacecraft undock. Soyuz 4 will reenter Earth's atmosphere and land January 17 while Soyuz 5 will have a hard landing January 18.
  • January 16 – Ten paintings are defaced in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  • January 16 – Student Jan Palach sets himself on fire in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia; 3 days later he dies.
  • January 20 – Richard Milhous Nixon succeeds Lyndon Baines Johnson as the 37th President of the United States of America.
  • January 24 – Martial law is declared in Madrid, the University is closed and over 300 students are arrested.
  • January 27 – Fourteen men, 9 of them Jews, are executed in Baghdad for spying for Israel.
  • January 27 – Reverend Ian Paisley, hardline Protestant leader in Northern Ireland, is jailed for 3 months for illegal assembly.
  • January 27 – The present-day Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse, rated at 100,000 KVA, is completed and placed in operation.
  • January 30 – The Beatles give their last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records. The impromptu concert was broken up by the police.


February

  • February 4 – In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is elected Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.
  • February 5 – A huge oil slick off the coast of Santa Barbara, California closes the city's harbor.
  • February 7 – The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is removed from service.
  • February 8 – The last issue of The Saturday Evening Post hits magazine stands.
  • February 9 – The Boeing 747 makes its maiden flight.
  • February 13 – FLQ terrorists bomb the Stock Exchange in Montreal, Quebec.
  • February 24 – The Mariner 6 Mars probe is launched.
  • February 24 – Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District : The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the First Amendment applies to public schools.

March

  • March 2 – In Toulouse, France the first Concorde test flight is conducted.
  • March 2 – Soviet and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the Ussuri River.
  • March 3 – In a Los Angeles, California court, Sirhan Sirhan admits that he killed presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy.
  • March 3 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 (James McDivitt, David Scott, Rusty Schweickart) to test the lunar module.
  • March 10 – In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. (he later retracts his guilty plea).
  • March 10 – The novel The Godfather (novel) by Mario Puzo is published.
  • March 13 – Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
  • March 17 – The Longhope, Orkney lifeboat in Scotland is lost; the entire crew of 8 die.
  • March 17 – Golda Meir becomes the first female prime minister of Israel.
  • March 18 – Operation Breakfast, the secret bombing of Cambodia, begins.
  • March 19 – British paratroopers and Marines land on the island of Anguilla.
  • March 19 – A 385-metre (1,265-foot) tall TV-mast at Emley Moor, UK, collapses because of icing.
  • March 22 – The landmark art exhibition When Attitudes Become Form, curated by Harald Szeemann opens at the Kunsthalle Bern in Bern, Switzerland.
  • March 28 – Former United States General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower dies after a long illness in the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C..
  • March 29 – The Eurovision Song Contest 1969 is held in Madrid, and results in four co-winners, with 18 votes each, from Spain, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and France.

April

  • April 1 – The Hawker Siddeley Harrier enters service with the Royal Air Force.
  • April 4 – Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
  • April 4 – Swing Phi Swing Social Fellowship Incorporated is founded at Winston-Salem State University.
  • April 9 – The Harvard University Administration Building is seized by close to 300 students, mostly members of the Students for a Democratic Society. Before the takeover ends, 45 will be injured and 184 arrested.
  • April 9 – Fermín Monasterio Pérez is killed by the ETA in Biscay, Spain, being the 4th victim in the name of Basque nationalism.
  • April 13 – Queensland: The Brisbane Tramways end service after 84 years of operation.
  • April 15 – The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down the aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board.
  • April 20 – British troops arrive in Northern Ireland to reinforce the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
  • A grassroots movement of Berkeley community members seizes an empty lot owned by the University of California to begin the formation of "People's Park."
  • April 22 – Robin Knox-Johnston becomes the first person to sail around the world solo without stopping.
  • April 24 – Recently formed British Leyland launches their first new model, the Austin Maxi in Portugal .
  • April 28 – Charles de Gaulle steps down as president of France after suffering defeat in a referendum the day before.

May

  • May 10 – Zip to Zap, a harbinger of the Woodstock Concert, ends with the dispersal and eviction of youth and young adults at Zap, North Dakota by the National Guard.
  • May 10 – The Battle of Dong Ap Bia, also known as Hamburger Hill, begi

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