Historical Events in 1969 (Part 2)

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• Apr 17 The Band (formerly The Hawks), perform their 1st concert, at Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, California
• Apr 18 Greek actress and activist Melina Mercouri establishes Greek Aid Fund
• Apr 19 Serious rioting in the Bogside area of Derry following clashes between Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association marchers and Loyalists and members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary

• Apr 20 23rd Tony Awards: "The Great White Hope" (play) & "1776" (musical) win

• Apr 20 Bombs planted by Loyalists members of the Ulster Volunteer Force and the Ulster Protestant Volunteers explode at Silent Valley reservoir in County Down and at an electricity pylon at Kilmore, County Armagh
• Apr 21 The Ministry of Defence in London announces that British troops would be used in Northern Ireland to guard key public installations following a series of bombings
• Apr 22 1st human eye transplant performed

• Apr 22 Bernadette Devlin, the youngest woman ever to be elected to Westminster, makes a controversial maiden speech in the House of Commons concerning the situation in Northern Ireland

• Apr 23 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Jim Chestney
• Apr 23 Over 1000 square miles flooded in Shantung Province, China

• Apr 23 The Unionist Parliamentary Party votes by 28 to 22 to introduce universal adult suffrage in local government elections in Northern Ireland; the demand for 'one man, one vote' had been one of the most powerful slogans of the civil rights movement
• Apr 24 Car firm British Leyland launch the Austin Maxi in Oporto Portugal
• Apr 24 Lebanese army in battle with Palestinians
• Apr 24 Loyalist members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and the Ulster Protestant Volunteers (UPV) explode a bomb at a water pipeline between Lough Neagh and Belfast, Northern Ireland
• Apr 24 Marshall Lin Biao named Mao's designated successor as the sole Vice Chairman of the Communist Party of China

• Apr 24 US B-52's drop 3,000 ton bombs at Cambodian boundary
• Apr 25 5,400th & last episode of BBC Radio serial "The Dales" (formerly "Mrs Dale's Diary")
• Apr 26 Firestone World Bowling Tournament (Mercury Open) won by Jim Godman
• Apr 28 British progressive rock band King Crimson with Robert Fripp, Greg Lake & Ian McDonald debuts

• Apr 30 Cincinnati Reds pitcher Jim Maloney records his second MLB no-hitter in 10-0 rout of Houston Astros
• Apr 30 WEDB TV channel 40 in Berlin, New Hampshire (PBS) begins broadcasting
• May 1 43 Unification church couples wed in NYC

• May 1 Houston Astros hurler Don Wilson blanks Reds, 4-0 for second career no-hitter, at Crosley Field in Cincinnati
• May 1 James Chichester-Clark is elected as leader of the Unionist party, succeededing Terence O'Neill as the Northern Ireland Prime Minister
• May 1 Leonard Tose buys NFL Philadelphia Eagles for a professional sports record $16.15m
• May 1 Pirate Radio Station 259 (England/France) begins transmitting

• May 2 British liner Queen Elizabeth II leaves Southampton on its maiden voyage to NY
• May 4 Charles Gordone's "No Place to be Somebody" premieres in NYC
• May 4 Stanley Cup Final, St. Louis Arena, St. Louis, MO: John Ferguson scores the winner as Montreal Canadiens edge St Louis Blues, 2-1 for a 4 game series sweep

• May 7 Lt General Robert E Cushman, Jr, USMC, becomes deputy director of CIA
• May 8 Cambodia recognizes the German Democratic Republic (East Germany)

• May 9 BPAA All-Star Bowling Tournament won by Billy Hardwick
• May 9 Following his release from prison Ian Paisley, North Ireland Loyalist holds a 'victory' meeting
• May 10 In an interview with the 'Belfast Telegraph' former Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill states: "if you give Roman Catholics a good job and a good house, they will live like Protestants, ... They will refuse to have 18 children"
• May 10 Turtles play White House, Mark Volman falls off stage 5 times
• May 10 US troops begin attack on Hill 937 ("Hamburger Hill"), Vietnam

• May 12 Pilot Ken Wallis achieves record speed for autogyros - 179 KPH
• May 13 Race riots, later known as the May 13 Incident, take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• May 14 Abortion & contraception legalized in Canada
• May 14 Last Chevrolet Corvair built
• May 15 Associate Justice Abe Fortas resigns from Supreme Court

• May 16 Students occupies Magden House Amsterdam

• May 16 US nuclear sub Guitarro sinks off San Francisco
• May 16 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh, Semipalitinsk USSR
• May 16 Venera 5 lands on Venus, returns data on atmosphere
• May 17 "My Wife, My Dog, My Cat" by Maskman & The Agents hits #92
• May 17 Baltimore, Cleveland & Pittsburgh agree to go from NFC to AFC in NFL
• May 17 Russian probe Venera 6 landed on Venus
• May 18 Apollo 10 launches from Kennedy Space Center and later transmits the 1st color pictures of Earth from space
• May 20 US troop capture Hill 937/Hamburger Hill in Vietnam
• May 21 Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, aka Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old student.
• May 21 Robert F. Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death, later commuted to life imprisonment
• May 22 Stafford & Cernan pilot Apollo 10 LEM 9.4 mi(15km) above lunar surface
• May 23 22nd Cannes Film Festival: "If..." directed by Lindsay Anderson wins the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film

• May 23 Lauwerszee Dike in Holland closes
• May 23 Track Records releases The Who's double album rock opera "Tommy" in the UK
• May 24 "Sugar, Sugar" single released by cartoon band The Archies (Billboard Song of the Year, 1969)
• May 24 The Beatles' "Get Back" single goes #1 and stays #1 for 5 weeks

• May 25 Sudanese government is overthrown in a military coup
• May 26 Apollo 10 astronauts returned to Earth

• May 27 Walt Disney World construction begins at Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista, Florida
• May 29 Atlantic Records releases the eponymous debut album of "Crosby, Stills & Nash"; it contains hits 'Marrakesh Express' and 'Suite: Judy Blue Eyes'
• May 29 Britain's Trans-Arctic expedition makes 1st crossing of Arctic Sea ice
• May 29 General strike in Cordoba, Argentina, leading to the Cordobazo civil unrest
• May 30 Australian Derek Clayton runs world record marathon (2:08:33.6) at Antwerp, Belgium; record disputed (short course)
• May 30 Gibraltar adopts constitution
• May 30 Riots by oil workers striking against economic and racial disparities in Willemstad, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles spark calls for the island's independence

• May 31 John Lennon and Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance" in a Montreal hotel, during their second 'bed-in' for peace; other performers include Tommy Smothers, Petula Clark, Timothy Leary, and Dick Gregory

• Jun 1 Tobacco advertising is banned on Canadian radio & TV
• Jun 2 Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne slices US destroyer USS Frank E Evans in half, killing 74 (South Vietnam)

• Jun 3 Last episode of Star Trek airs on NBC (Turnabout Intruder)
• Jun 4 22-year-old man sneaks into wheel pod of a jet parked in Havana and survives 9-hr flight to Spain despite thin oxygen levels at 29,000 ft

• Jun 5 Dutch Antilles government of Kroon resigns
• Jun 5 International communist conference begins in Moscow
• Jun 5 Race riot in Hartford, Connecticut

• Jun 7 Tommy James and the Shondells release single "Crystal Blue Persuasion"
• Jun 7 Washington Senators draft Jeff Burroughs #1
• Jun 8 "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" variety show last airs on CBS-TV [1]

• Jun 8 KDNL TV channel 30 in Saint Louis, MO (IND) begins broadcasting

• Jun 8 Nixon says 25,000 US troops would leave Vietnam by end of August

• Jun 9 Warren Burger confirmed as US Chief Justice

• Jun 13 Mick Taylor leaves John Mayall Band and joins The Rolling Stones
• Jun 14 John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear on David Frost's British TV Show

• Jun 15 "Hee Haw" with Roy Clark & Buck Owens premieres on CBS TV
• Jun 15 Mets help their power needs by adding 1st baseman Donn Clendenon
• Jun 15 The Campaign for Social Justice publish a second edition of 'Northern Ireland The Plain Truth' which set out the allegations of discrimination against Catholics by Unionists in the region
• Jun 16 US Supreme Court rules suspension of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr from House of Representatives violated Article I of the Constitution by citing reasons beyond the exclusive list of qualifications in the article [1]

• Jun 18 A report published by the International Commission of Jurists on the British government's policy in Northern Ireland is critical of both the British government and the Northern Ireland government
• Jun 19 State troopers ordered to Cairo Ill, to quell racial disturbances

• Jun 20 A constitutional referendum in Rhodesia on declaring a republic is approved by 72% of the voting population

• Jun 21 1st reported hearing of pirate radio WGHP (With God's Help Peace)

• Jun 21 John Pennel pole vaults world record (5.45 m)
• Jun 21 Zager & Evans release "In the Year 2525"
• Jun 22 Cleveland's Cuyahoga River catches fire due to pollution
• Jun 22 The Derry Housing Action Committee (DHAC) stage a protest by blocking the Lecky Road in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland
• Jun 23 24 Africans from the Graaff-Reinet district, Cape Province, appear in the Grahamstown Supreme Court on charges under the Sabotage Act; alleged they had conspired or incited others to kill White people or police
• Jun 23 French government of Couve de Murville resigns
• Jun 23 Joe Frazier TKOs Jerry Quarry in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
• Jun 23 Warren E. Burger sworn in as US Supreme Court Chief Justice
• Jun 25 American Pancho González (41) beats Puerto Rican Charlie Pasarell (25) in 5 hour and 12 minute, 112-game marathon at Wimbledon
• Jun 27 Denver Pop Festival opens; 50,000 attend; Frank Zappa, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Jimi Hendrix headline; other performers include Three Dog Night, Tim Buckley, Big Mama Thornton, Johnny Winter, Joe Cocker, and Poco
• Jun 27 Honduras/El Salvador breaks diplomatic relations due to soccer match
• Jun 28 John Hampshire scores 107 on Test cricket debut v WI at Lord's
• Jun 28 Police carry out an early morning raid on gay bar Stonewall Inn, Greenwich Village, NY; about 400 to 1,000 patrons riot against police, it lasts 3 days. Beginning of the modern LGBT rights movement
• Jun 29 1st Jewish worship service at the White House

• Jun 30 In South Africa, General Laws Amendment Bill is passed; the Bill contains far-reaching provisions and restrictions affecting the administration of justice and the disclosure of evidence
• Jun 30 Spain cedes Ifni to Morocco

• Jul 1 John Lennon and Yoko Ono are admitted to hospital after he crashes his car near Durness in the Scottish Highlands
• Jul 1 Shelby Singleton buys Sun Records from Sam Phillips
• Jul 2 American guitarist Leslie West and producer, bassist Felix Pappalardi form rock group Mountain
• Jul 2 Ireland cricketers dismiss West Indies for just 25 (Dougie Goodwin 5 for 6, Alec O'Riordan 4 for 18) to set up a huge upset in Londonderry

• Jul 3 Soviet N1 rocket explodes just after launch off at Baikonur Cosmodrome - one of the largest-ever non-nuclear human-made explosion, debris spread over 10 km
• Jul 4 "Give Peace a Chance" single by John Lennon & Plastic Ono Band is released in UK

• Jul 4 The Ohio Fireworks Derecho kills 18 Ohioans and destroys over 100 boats on Lake Erie.
• Jul 4 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• Jul 5 Rolling Stones play a free concert in London's Hyde Park

• Jul 6 Frente Obrero y Liberacion (FOL) forms in Curacao
• Jul 7 Canada's House of Commons approves equality of French-English language
• Jul 7 German newspaper Der Spiegel reveals Bishop Defregger of Munich is a war criminal
• Jul 8 IBM CICS is made generally available for the 360 mainframe computer
• Jul 8 US troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam

• Jul 10 Chilean Association of Librarians created

• Jul 11 Rolling Stones release "Honky Tonk Woman"
• Jul 12 As the 'marching season' reaches its height there is serious rioting in Derry, Belfast and Dungiven; many families in Belfast are forced to move from their homes
• Jul 13 North Ireland loyalist Ian Paisley addresses a crowd at Loughgall, County Antrim, and is reported to have said: "I am anti-Roman Catholic, but God being my judge, I love the poor dupes who are ground down under that system."
• Jul 13 Russia launches unmanned Luna 15 to Moon

• Jul 14 "Futbol War" between El Salvador and Honduras begins
• Jul 14 A 67-year-old Catholic civilian dies after being attacked by RUC officers in Dungiven; many consider this the first death of 'the Troubles'
• Jul 14 The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation.
• Jul 14 WMUL (now WPBY) TV channel 33 in Huntington, WV (PBS) 1st broadcast
• Jul 15 Cincinnati Red Lee May hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader

• Jul 19 Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit

• Jul 20 Apollo 11: US Astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to step on the moon at 10:56 PM ET (21July, 2:56:15 AM GMT) [1]
• Jul 21 Russia's Luna 15 impacts moon after 52 lunar orbits

• Jul 22 USSR launches Sputnik 50 & Molniya 1-12 communications satellite
• Jul 23 USSR performs nuclear Test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• Jul 24 At 12:51 EDT, Apollo 11 returns to Earth, after taking the first astronauts to the moon and returning them safely

• Jul 26 Sharon Sites Adams, 39, becomes 1st lady to solo sail the Pacific
• Jul 29 Mariner 6 begins transmitting far-encounter photos of Mars
• Jul 30 Astros Denis Menke and Jim Wynn hit grandslams in 9th inn vs Mets
• Jul 30 KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting
• Jul 31 KWIH TV channel 44 in Winona, MN (IND) begins broadcasting
• Jul 31 Mariner 6 makes its closest approach to planet Mars at 3410 km
• Jul 31 National Guard mobilizes in racial disturbances in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

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