This year is notable for
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 (July 16–24, 1969) was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo Lunar Module ''Eagle'' on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC, an ...
's first landing on the moon.
Events
January
*
January 4
Events Pre-1600
*46 BC – Julius Caesar fights Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina.
* 871 – Battle of Reading: Æthelred of Wessex and his brother Alfred are defeated by a Danish invasion army.
1601–1900
*1649 – Engli ...
– The Government of
Spain
, image_flag = Bandera de España.svg
, image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg
, national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
, i ...
hands over
Ifni
Ifni was a Spanish province on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, south of Agadir and across from the Canary Islands. It had a total area of , and a population of 51,517 in 1964. The main industry was fishing. The present-day Moroccan province in th ...
to
Morocco
Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...
.
*
January 5
Events Pre-1600
*1477 – Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is defeated and killed in a conflict with René II, Duke of Lorraine; Duchy of Burgundy, Burgundy subsequently becomes part of France.
1601–1900
*1675 – Battle of Turckh ...
**
Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701
Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 was the flight involved in a fatal air accident on 5 January 1969, when a Boeing 727 with 62 people on board crashed into a house on its approach to London Gatwick Airport in heavy fog. Due to pilot error the f ...
crashes into a house on its approach to London's
Gatwick Airport
Gatwick Airport (), also known as London Gatwick , is a major international airport near Crawley, West Sussex, England, south of Central London. In 2021, Gatwick was the third-busiest airport by total passenger traffic in the UK, after H ...
, killing 50 of the 62 people on board and two of the home's occupants.
*
January 14
Events Pre-1600
*1236 – King Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence.
*1301 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in Hungary.
1601–1900
*1639 – The "Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, Fundamenta ...
– An explosion aboard the aircraft carrier
USS ''Enterprise'' near
Hawaii
Hawaii ( ; haw, Hawaii or ) is a state in the Western United States, located in the Pacific Ocean about from the U.S. mainland. It is the only U.S. state outside North America, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only stat ...
kills 27 and injures 314.
*
January 19
Events Pre-1600
* 379 – Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to ''Augustus'', and gives him authority over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.
* 649 – Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrender ...
– End of the siege of the
University of Tokyo
, abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project by ...
, marking the beginning of the end for the
1968–69 Japanese university protests.
*
January 20
Events Pre-1600
* 250 – Pope Fabian is martyred during the Decian persecution.
* 649 – King Chindasuinth, at the urging of bishop Braulio of Zaragoza, crowns his son Recceswinth as co-ruler of the Visigothic Kingdom.
* 1156 &ndas ...
–
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a representative and senator from California and was ...
is
sworn in
Traditionally an oath (from Anglo-Saxon ', also called plight) is either a statement of fact or a promise taken by a sacrality as a sign of verity. A common legal substitute for those who conscientiously object to making sacred oaths is to giv ...
as the 37th President of the United States.
*
January 22
Events Pre-1600
* 613 – Eight-month-old Constantine is crowned as co-emperor (''Caesar'') by his father Heraclius at Constantinople.
* 871 – Battle of Basing: The West Saxons led by King Æthelred I are defeated by the Danelaw Vi ...
–
An assassination attempt is carried out on Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev by deserter Viktor Ilyin. One person is killed, several are injured.
Brezhnev
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev; uk, links= no, Леонід Ілліч Брежнєв, . (19 December 1906– 10 November 1982) was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union between 1964 and 1 ...
escaped unharmed.
*
January 27
Events Pre-1600
* 98 – Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire will reach its maximum extent.
* 945 – The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to becom ...
** Fourteen men, 9 of them
Jews
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...
,
are executed in
Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...
for spying for
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
.
** Reverend
Ian Paisley
Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, Baron Bannside, (6 April 1926 – 12 September 2014) was a Northern Irish loyalist politician and Protestant religious leader who served as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) from 1971 to 2008 and First ...
, Northern Irish Unionist leader and founder of the
Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster
:''Distinct from Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland and Free Church of Scotland (post 1900)''
The Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster ( ga, Eaglais Phreispitéireach Saor Uladh) is a Calvinist denomination founded by Ian Paisley in 1951. Doctr ...
is jailed for three months for illegal assembly.
*
January 28
Events Pre-1600
* 98 – On the death of Nerva, Trajan is declared Roman emperor in Cologne, the seat of his government in lower Germany.
* 814 – The death of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, brings about the accession o ...
–
1969 Santa Barbara oil spill
The Santa Barbara oil spill occurred in January and February 1969 in the Santa Barbara Channel, near the city of Santa Barbara in Southern California. It was the largest oil spill in United States waters by that time, and now ranks third after ...
: A
blowout
Blowout or Blow out may refer to:
Film and television
*''Blow Out'', a 1981 film by Brian De Palma
* ''The Blow Out'', a 1936 short film
* ''Blow Out'' (TV series), a TV series on Bravo
* "Blow Out" (''Prison Break''), an episode of ''Prison ...
on
Union Oil
Union Oil Company of California, and its holding company Unocal Corporation, together known as Unocal was a major petroleum explorer and marketer in the late 19th century, through the 20th century, and into the early 21st century. It was headqu ...
's Platform A spills 80,000 to 100,000 barrels of crude oil into a channel and onto the beaches of
Santa Barbara County
Santa Barbara County, California, officially the County of Santa Barbara, is located in Southern California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 448,229. The county seat is Santa Barbara, and the largest city is Santa Maria.
Santa Barba ...
in
Southern California
Southern California (commonly shortened to SoCal) is a geographic and Cultural area, cultural region that generally comprises the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. It includes the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the second most po ...
; on February 5 the
oil spill
An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, especially the marine ecosystem, due to human activity, and is a form of pollution. The term is usually given to marine oil spills, where oil is released into th ...
closes
Santa Barbara's harbor. The incident inspires
Wisconsin
Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...
Senator
A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...
Gaylord Nelson
Gaylord Anton Nelson (June 4, 1916July 3, 2005) was an American politician and environmentalist from Wisconsin who served as a United States senator and governor. He was a member of the Democratic Party and the founder of Earth Day, which launche ...
to organize the first
Earth Day
Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First held on April 22, 1970, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally by EarthDay.org (formerly Earth Day Network) including 1 b ...
in
1970
Events
January
* January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC.
* January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of X (''Extrem ...
.
February
*
February 4
Events Pre–1600
* 211 – Following the death of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians, the empire is left in the control of his two quarrellin ...
– In
Cairo
Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...
,
Yasser Arafat
Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini (4 / 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), popularly known as Yasser Arafat ( , ; ar, محمد ياسر عبد الرحمن عبد الرؤوف عرفات القدوة الحسيني, Mu ...
is elected
Palestine Liberation Organization
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO; ar, منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية, ') is a Palestinian nationalism, Palestinian nationalist political and militant organization founded in 1964 with the initial purpose of establ ...
leader at the
Palestinian National Congress.
*
February 8
Events Pre-1600
* 421 – Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
* 1238 – The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.
*1250 – Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al ...
** The
Allende meteorite
The Allende meteorite is the largest carbonaceous chondrite ever found on Earth. The fireball was witnessed at 01:05 on February 8, 1969, falling over the Mexican state of Chihuahua. After it broke up in the atmosphere, an extensive search for ...
explodes over Mexico.
** After 147 years, the last weekly issue of ''
The Saturday Evening Post
''The Saturday Evening Post'' is an American magazine, currently published six times a year. It was issued weekly under this title from 1897 until 1963, then every two weeks until 1969. From the 1920s to the 1960s, it was one of the most widely c ...
'' is published in the United States. (The magazine is later briefly resurrected as a monthly magazine.)
*
February 9
Events Pre-1600
* 474 – Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
* 1003 – Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland.
* 1539 – The first recorded race is hel ...
– The
Boeing 747
The Boeing 747 is a large, long-range wide-body airliner designed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in the United States between 1968 and 2022.
After introducing the 707 in October 1958, Pan Am wanted a jet times its size, t ...
"jumbo jet" is flown for the first time, taking off from the Boeing airfield at
Everett, Washington
Everett is the county seat and largest city of Snohomish County, Washington, United States. It is north of Seattle and is one of the main cities in the metropolitan area and the Puget Sound region. Everett is the seventh-largest city in the ...
.
*
February 13
Events Pre-1600
* 962 – Emperor Otto I and Pope John XII co-sign the ''Diploma Ottonianum'', recognizing John as ruler of Rome.
*1322 – The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th–13th.
*1462 – The ...
–
Front de libération du Québec
The (FLQ) was a Marxist–Leninist and Quebec separatist guerrilla group. Founded in the early 1960s with the aim of establishing an independent and socialist Quebec through violent means, the FLQ was considered a terrorist group by the Canadia ...
(FLQ) terrorists bomb the
Montreal Stock Exchange
The Montreal Exchange (MX; french: Bourse de Montréal), formerly the Montreal Stock Exchange (MSE), is a derivatives exchange, located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada that trades futures contracts and option (finance), options on equities, indices, c ...
.
*
February 14
Events Pre-1600
* 748 – Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt.
* 842 – Charles the Bald and Louis ...
–
Pope Paul VI
Pope Paul VI ( la, Paulus VI; it, Paolo VI; born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini, ; 26 September 18976 August 1978) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City, Vatican City State from 21 June 1963 to his ...
issues ''
Mysterii Paschalis
''Mysterii Paschalis'' is an apostolic letter issued ''motu proprio'' (that is, "of his own accord") by Pope Paul VI on 14 February 1969. It reorganized the liturgical year of the Roman Rite and revised the liturgical celebrations of Jesus C ...
'', a ''
motu proprio
In law, ''motu proprio'' (Latin for "on his own impulse") describes an official act taken without a formal request from another party. Some jurisdictions use the term ''sua sponte'' for the same concept.
In Catholic canon law, it refers to a do ...
'', deleting many names from the
Roman calendar of saints
The General Roman Calendar is the liturgical calendar that indicates the dates of celebrations of saints and mysteries of the Lord (Jesus Christ) in the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, wherever this liturgical rite is in use. These celebra ...
(including
Valentine, who was celebrated on this day).
*
February 17
Events Pre-1600
* 1370 – Northern Crusades: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau.
* 1411 – Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Çelebi, one of the sons of ...
–
Aquanaut
An aquanaut is any person who remains underwater, breathing at the ambient pressure for long enough for the concentration of the inert components of the breathing gas dissolved in the body tissues to reach equilibrium, in a state known as satura ...
Berry L. Cannon
Berry Louis Cannon (March 22, 1935 – February 17, 1969) was an American aquanaut who served on the SEALAB II and III projects of the U.S. Navy. Cannon died of carbon dioxide poisoning while attempting to repair SEALAB III. It was later found ...
dies of
carbon dioxide poisoning
Hypercapnia (from the Greek ''hyper'' = "above" or "too much" and ''kapnos'' = "smoke"), also known as hypercarbia and CO2 retention, is a condition of abnormally elevated carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the blood. Carbon dioxide is a gaseous pro ...
while attempting to repair the
SEALAB III
SEALAB I, II, and III were experimental underwater habitats developed by the United States Navy in the 1960s to prove the viability of saturation diving and humans living in isolation for extended periods of time. The knowledge gained from the S ...
habitat off
San Clemente Island, California
San Clemente Island (Tongva: ''Kinkipar''; Spanish: ''Isla de San Clemente'') is the southernmost of the Channel Islands of California. It is owned and operated by the United States Navy, and is a part of Los Angeles County. It is administered b ...
.
*
February 24
Events Pre-1600
* 484 – King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica.
* 1303 – The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence.
* 13 ...
– The
Mariner 6
A sailor, seaman, mariner, or seafarer is a person who works aboard a watercraft as part of its crew, and may work in any one of a number of different fields that are related to the operation and maintenance of a ship.
The profession of the s ...
Mars probe is launched from the United States.
March
![Aircraft burning on USS Enterprise (CVN-65)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Aircraft_burning_on_USS_Enterprise_%28CVN-65%29.jpg)
*
March 2
Events Pre-1600
* 537 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges begins the siege of the capital. Belisarius conducts a delaying action outside the Flaminian Gate; he and a detachment of his ''bucellarii'' are almost cut o ...
** In
Toulouse
Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Par ...
, France the first
Concorde
The Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde () is a retired Franco-British supersonic airliner jointly developed and manufactured by Sud Aviation (later Aérospatiale) and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC).
Studies started in 1954, and France an ...
test flight is conducted.
**
Soviet
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...
and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the
Ussuri River
The Ussuri or Wusuli (russian: Уссури; ) is a river that runs through Khabarovsk and Primorsky Krais, Russia and the southeast region of Northeast China. It rises in the Sikhote-Alin mountain range, flowing north and forming part of the ...
.
*
March 3
Events Pre-1600
* 473 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
* 724 – Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan.
* 1575 &nd ...
**
Apollo program:
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...
launches
Apollo 9
Apollo 9 (March 313, 1969) was the third human spaceflight in NASA's Apollo program. Flown in low Earth orbit, it was the second crewed Apollo mission that the United States launched via a Saturn V rocket, and was the first flight of the ful ...
(
James McDivitt
James Alton McDivitt (June 10, 1929 – October 13, 2022) was an American test pilot, United States Air Force (USAF) pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut in the Gemini and Apollo programs. He joined the USAF in 1951 and flew 145 ...
,
Rusty Schweickart
Russell Louis "Rusty" Schweickart (also Schweikart; born October 25, 1935) is an American aeronautical engineer, and a former NASA astronaut, research scientist, U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, as well as a former business executive and governm ...
,
David Scott
David Randolph Scott (born June 6, 1932) is an American retired test pilot and NASA astronaut who was the seventh person to walk on the Moon. Selected as part of the third group of astronauts in 1963, Scott flew to space three times and c ...
) to test the
lunar module
The Apollo Lunar Module (LM ), originally designated the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), was the lunar lander spacecraft that was flown between lunar orbit and the Moon's surface during the United States' Apollo program. It was the first crewed ...
.
** In a
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world' ...
court,
Sirhan Sirhan
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan (; ar, سرحان بشارة سرحان ''Sirḥān Bišāra Sirḥān'', born March 19, 1944) is a Palestinian Jordanian man who was convicted for the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
Kennedy, a United States Sena ...
admits that he killed presidential candidate
Robert F. Kennedy
Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925June 6, 1968), also known by his initials RFK and by the nickname Bobby, was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, a ...
.
*
March 13
Events Pre-1600
*624 – The Battle of Badr, the first major battle between the Muslims and Quraysh.
*1567 – The Battle of Oosterweel, traditionally regarded as the start of the Eighty Years' War.
*1591 – At the Battle of Tond ...
–
Apollo program:
Apollo 9
Apollo 9 (March 313, 1969) was the third human spaceflight in NASA's Apollo program. Flown in low Earth orbit, it was the second crewed Apollo mission that the United States launched via a Saturn V rocket, and was the first flight of the ful ...
returns safely to Earth after testing the
Lunar Module
The Apollo Lunar Module (LM ), originally designated the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), was the lunar lander spacecraft that was flown between lunar orbit and the Moon's surface during the United States' Apollo program. It was the first crewed ...
.
*
March 16
Events Pre-1600
* 934 – Meng Zhixiang declares himself emperor and establishes Later Shu as a new state independent of Later Tang.
*1190 – Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York.
* 1244 – Over 200 Cathars who refuse ...
–
Viasa Flight 742
Viasa Flight 742 was an international, scheduled passenger flight from Caracas, Venezuela to Miami International Airport with an intermediate stopover in Maracaibo, Venezuela that crashed on 16 March 1969. After taking off on the Maracaibo to Miam ...
crashes into a neighborhood in
Maracaibo
)
, motto = "''Muy noble y leal''"(English: "Very noble and loyal")
, anthem =
, image_map =
, mapsize =
, map_alt = ...
,
Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...
, shortly after taking off for
Miami
Miami ( ), officially the City of Miami, known as "the 305", "The Magic City", and "Gateway to the Americas", is a East Coast of the United States, coastal metropolis and the County seat, county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade C ...
; all 84 people on board the DC-9 jet are killed along with 71 people on the ground.
*
March 17
Events Pre-1600
* 45 BC – In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda.
* 180 – Commodus becomes sole emperor of the Roman Empire at the age of eigh ...
**
Golda Meir
Golda Meir, ; ar, جولدا مائير, Jūldā Māʾīr., group=nb (born Golda Mabovitch; 3 May 1898 – 8 December 1978) was an Israeli politician, teacher, and ''kibbutznikit'' who served as the fourth prime minister of Israel from 1969 to 1 ...
becomes the first female prime minister of
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
.
** The
Longhope
Longhope is a village in west Gloucestershire, situated within the Forest of Dean, England, United Kingdom. Arthur Bullock, who was born in Longhope in 1899, described its location as follows:
* The parish occupies the most easterly valley in t ...
life-boat is lost after answering a mayday call during severe storms in the
Pentland Firth
The Pentland Firth ( gd, An Caol Arcach, meaning the Orcadian Strait) is a strait which separates the Orkney Islands from Caithness in the north of Scotland. Despite the name, it is not a firth.
Etymology
The name is presumed to be a corruption ...
between
Orkney
Orkney (; sco, Orkney; on, Orkneyjar; nrn, Orknøjar), also known as the Orkney Islands, is an archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland, situated off the north coast of the island of Great Britain. Orkney is 10 miles (16 km) north ...
and the northern tip of Scotland; the entire crew of 8 die.
*
March 18
Events Pre-1600
* 37 – Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ''(aka Caligula = Little Boots)'' emperor.Tacitus, ''Annals'' V.10.
* 1068 – An earthquake in the Levant and the Ara ...
– An
annular solar eclipse
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of the Earth, totally or partially. Such an alignment occurs during an eclipse season, approximately every six month ...
is visible in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and is the 49th solar eclipse of
Solar Saros 129
Saros cycle
The saros () is a period of exactly 223 synodic months, approximately 6585.3211 days, or 18 years, 10, 11, or 12 days (depending on the number of leap years), and 8 hours, that can be used to predict eclipses of the Sun and Moon. On ...
.
*
March 20
Events Pre-1600
* 673 – Emperor Emperor Tenmu, Tenmu of Japan assumes the Chrysanthemum Throne at the Asuka, Yamato#Imperial Palaces, Palace of Kiyomihara in Asuka, Yamato, Asuka.
*1206 – Michael IV of Constantinople, Michael IV Au ...
**One hundred of the 105 passengers and crew on a
United Arab Airlines flight, most of them Muslim pilgrims returning to Aswan from Mecca, are killed when the Ilyushin-18 turboprop crashes during a sandstorm.
**
John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 19408 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter, musician and peace activist who achieved worldwide fame as founder, co-songwriter, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of ...
and
Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono ( ; ja, 小野 洋子, Ono Yōko, usually spelled in katakana ; born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking.
Ono grew up i ...
are married at
Gibraltar
)
, anthem = " God Save the King"
, song = " Gibraltar Anthem"
, image_map = Gibraltar location in Europe.svg
, map_alt = Location of Gibraltar in Europe
, map_caption = United Kingdom shown in pale green
, mapsize =
, image_map2 = Gib ...
, and proceed to their honeymoon "
Bed-In
The Bed-ins for Peace were two week-long nonviolent protests against wars, intended as experimental tests of new ways to promote peace. As the Vietnam War raged in 1969, John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono held one protest at the Hilton Amsterdam, H ...
" for peace in
Amsterdam
Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the Capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population ...
.
*
March 22
Events Pre-1600
* 106 – Start of the Bostran era, the calendar of the province of Arabia Petraea.
* 235 – Roman emperor Severus Alexander is murdered, marking the start of the Crisis of the Third Century.
* 871 – Æthelr ...
**UCLA wins its third consecutive
NCAA basketball championship by defeating Purdue University, 92 to 72.
**The landmark art exhibition ''When Attitudes become Form'', curated by
Harald Szeemann ''
Harald Szeemann (11 June 1933 – 18 February 2005) was a Swiss curator, artist, and art historian. Having curated more than 200 exhibitions, many of which have been characterized as groundbreaking, Szeemann is said to have helped redefine the r ...
, opens at the
Kunsthalle Bern
The Kunsthalle Bern is a ''Kunsthalle'' (art exposition hall) on the Helvetiaplatz in Bern, Switzerland.
It was built in 1917–1918 by the Kunsthalle Bern Association and opened on October 5, 1918. Since then, it has been the site of numerous e ...
in Bern, Switzerland.
*
March 28
Events Pre-1600
* AD 37 – Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, bestowed on him by the Senate.
* 193 – After assassinating the Roman Emperor Pertinax, his Praetorian Guards auction off the throne to Di ...
–
Pope Paul VI
Pope Paul VI ( la, Paulus VI; it, Paolo VI; born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini, ; 26 September 18976 August 1978) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City, Vatican City State from 21 June 1963 to his ...
increases the number of Roman Catholic cardinals by one-third, from 101 to 134.
*
March 29
Events Pre-1600
* 845 – Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
* 1430 – The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures Thessalonica from the Republic of ...
– The
Eurovision Song Contest 1969
The Eurovision Song Contest 1969 was the 14th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Madrid, Spain, following the country's victory at the with the song "La, la, la" by Massiel. Organised by the European Broadcasting Uni ...
is held in Madrid, and results in four co-winners, with 18 votes each, from Spain, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and France.
*
March 30
Events Pre-1600
* 598 – Balkan Campaign: The Avars lift the siege at the Byzantine stronghold of Tomis. Their leader Bayan I retreats north of the Danube River after the Avaro- Slavic hordes are decimated by the plague.
* 1282 &ndas ...
– The body of former United States General and President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; ; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, ...
is brought by caisson to the
United States Capitol
The United States Capitol, often called The Capitol or the Capitol Building, is the seat of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, which is formally known as the United States Congress. It is located on Capitol Hill ...
to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda; Eisenhower had died two days earlier, after a long illness, in the
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
The Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC)known as Walter Reed General Hospital (WRGH) until 1951was the U.S. Army's flagship medical center from 1909 to 2011. Located on in the District of Columbia, it served more than 150,000 active and ret ...
, Washington, D.C.
*
March 31
Events Pre-1600
* 307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine the Great, Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of the retired Roman emperor Maximian.
*1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at V ...
– The
Barroterán coal mine disaster Mina de Barroterán coal mine disaster occurred on March 31, 1969, and 153 miners were killed. This was the second worst disaster in Mexico's coal mining history, second only to the Mina Rosita Vieja disaster of 1908.
During the 19th, 20th and 21s ...
kills 153 coal miners in
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
.
April
*
April 4
Events Pre-1600
* 503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines.
* 190 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground.
* 611 – ...
– Dr.
Denton Cooley
Denton Arthur Cooley (August 22, 1920 – November 18, 2016) was an American heart and cardiothoracic surgeon famous for performing the first implantation of a total artificial heart. Cooley was also the founder and surgeon in-chief of The T ...
implants the first temporary
artificial heart
An artificial heart is a device that replaces the heart. Artificial hearts are typically used to bridge the time to heart transplantation, or to permanently replace the heart in the case that a heart transplant (from a deceased human or, experi ...
.
*
April 8
Events Pre-1600
* 217 – Roman emperor Caracalla is assassinated and is succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
* 876 – The Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul saves Baghdad from the Saffarids.
*1139 – Ro ...
– The
Montreal Expos
The Montreal Expos (french: link=no, Les Expos de Montréal) were a Canadian professional baseball team based in Montreal, Quebec. The Expos were the first Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise located outside the United States. They played in t ...
become
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization and the oldest major professional sports league in the world. MLB is composed of 30 total teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), ...
's first team outside the United States.
*
April 9
Events Pre-1600
* 193 – The distinguished soldier Septimius Severus is proclaimed emperor by the army in Illyricum.
* 475 – Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (''Enkyklikon'') to the bishops of his empire, s ...
– Fermín Monasterio Pérez is murdered by the
ETA
Eta (uppercase , lowercase ; grc, ἦτα ''ē̂ta'' or ell, ήτα ''ita'' ) is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the close front unrounded vowel . Originally denoting the voiceless glottal fricative in most dialects, ...
in
Biscay
Biscay (; eu, Bizkaia ; es, Vizcaya ) is a province of Spain and a historical territory of the Basque Country, heir of the ancient Lordship of Biscay, lying on the south shore of the eponymous bay. The capital and largest city is Bilbao.
B ...
,
Spain
, image_flag = Bandera de España.svg
, image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg
, national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
, i ...
; the 4th victim in the name of
Basque nationalism
Basque nationalism ( eu, eusko abertzaletasuna ; es, nacionalismo vasco; french: nationalisme basque) is a form of nationalism that asserts that Basques, an ethnic group indigenous to the western Pyrenees, are a nation and promotes the poli ...
.
*
April 13
Events Pre-1600
*1111 – Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
* 1204 – Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
1601–1900
*1612 – In one of the epic samurai ...
–
Queensland
)
, nickname = Sunshine State
, image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg
, map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia
, subdivision_type = Country
, subdivision_name = Australia
, established_title = Before federation
, established_ ...
: The
Brisbane Tramways end service after 84 years of operation.
*
April 15
Events Pre-1600
* 769 – The Lateran Council ends by condemning the Council of Hieria and anathematizing its iconoclastic rulings.
* 1071 – Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscar ...
– The
EC-121 shootdown incident
On 15 April 1969,DPRK supreme leader Kim Il-sung's 57th birthday a United States Navy Lockheed EC-121M Warning Star of Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron One (VQ-1) on a reconnaissance mission was shot down by a North Korean MiG-21 aircraft over ...
:
North Korea
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu River, Y ...
shoots down the aircraft over the
Sea of Japan
The Sea of Japan is the marginal sea between the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula, and the mainland of the Russian Far East. The Japanese archipelago separates the sea from the Pacific Ocean. Like the Mediterranean Sea, it h ...
, killing all 31 on board.
*
April 17
Events Pre-1600
*1080 – Harald III of Denmark dies and is succeeded by Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized.
*1349 – The rule of the Bavand dynasty in Mazandaran is brought to an end by the murder of Hasan ...
–
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan (; ar, سرحان بشارة سرحان ''Sirḥān Bišāra Sirḥān'', born March 19, 1944) is a Palestinian Jordanian man who was convicted for the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
Kennedy, a United States Senat ...
is found guilty of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
*
April 20
Events Pre-1600
* 1303 – The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII.
1601–1900
* 1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves England's Rump Parliament.
* 1657 – English Admiral Robert Blake destroy ...
– British troops arrive in
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Nort ...
to reinforce the
Royal Ulster Constabulary
The Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) was the police force in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 2001. It was founded on 1 June 1922 as a successor to the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC)Richard Doherty, ''The Thin Green Line – The History of the Royal ...
.
*
April 22
Events Pre-1600
* 1500 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil.
* 1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico.
* 1529 – Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern ...
–
Robin Knox-Johnston
Sir William Robert Patrick Knox-Johnston (born 17 March 1939) is a British sailor. In 1969, he became the first person to perform a single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the globe. Along with Sir Peter Blake, he won the second Jules Vern ...
becomes the first person to sail around the world solo without stopping.
*
April 28
Events Pre-1600
* 224 – The Battle of Hormozdgan is fought. Ardashir I defeats and kills Artabanus V effectively ending the Parthian Empire.
* 357 – Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory ...
–
Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (; ; (commonly abbreviated as CDG) 22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government ...
steps down as president of
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...
after suffering defeat in a
referendum the day before.
May
*
May 4
Events Pre-1600
* 1256 – The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull ''Licet ecclesiae catholicae''.
* 1415 – Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are ...
**
Zakir Husain
Zakir Husain Khan (8 February 1897 – 3 May 1969) was an Indian educationist and politician who served as the third president of India from 13 May 1967 until his death on 3 May 1969.
Born in Hyderabad in a Afridi Pashtun family, Husain ...
, President of India, dies due to a heart attack.
** In a repeat of the previous season's hockey finals, the
Montreal Canadiens
The Montreal CanadiensEven in English, the French spelling is always used instead of ''Canadians''. The French spelling of ''Montréal'' is also sometimes used in the English media. (french: link=no, Les Canadiens de Montréal), officially ...
defeat the
St. Louis Blues
The St. Louis Blues are a professional ice hockey team based in St. Louis. The Blues compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Central Division in the Western Conference. The franchise was founded in 1967 as one of the s ...
four games to none to win the
Stanley Cup
The Stanley Cup (french: La Coupe Stanley) is the championship trophy awarded annually to the National Hockey League (NHL) playoff champion. It is the oldest existing trophy to be awarded to a professional sports franchise in North America, an ...
.
*
May 10
Events Pre-1600
* 28 BC – A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China.
*1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edw ...
– The Battle of Dong Ap Bia, also known as
Hamburger Hill
''Hamburger Hill'' is a 1987 American war film set during the Battle of Hamburger Hill, a May 1969 assault during the Vietnam War by the U.S. Army's 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division (Airmobile) "Screaming Eagles" on a ri ...
, begins during the
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (also known by #Names, other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vie ...
.
*
May 13
Events Pre-1600
*1373 – Julian of Norwich has visions of Jesus while suffering from a life-threatening illness, visions which are later described and interpreted in her book '' Revelations of Divine Love''.
* 1501 – Amerigo Vespu ...
–
May 13 Incident:
Race riot
This is a list of ethnic riots by country, and includes riots based on ethnic, sectarian, xenophobic, and racial conflict. Some of these riots can also be classified as pogroms.
Africa
Americas
United States
Nativist period: 1700s ...
s occur in
Kuala Lumpur
, anthem = '' Maju dan Sejahtera''
, image_map =
, map_caption =
, pushpin_map = Malaysia#Southeast Asia#Asia
, pushpin_map_caption =
, coordinates =
, su ...
,
Malaysia
Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...
.
*
May 14
Events Pre-1600
* 1027 – Robert II of France names his son Henry I as junior King of the Franks.
*1097 – The Siege of Nicaea begins during the First Crusade.
* 1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forc ...
– Colonel
Muammar Gaddafi
Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, . Due to the lack of standardization of transcribing written and regionally pronounced Arabic, Gaddafi's name has been romanized in various ways. A 1986 column by ''The Straight Dope'' lists 32 spellin ...
visits Mecca,
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the A ...
.
*
May 15
Events Pre-1600
* 221 – Liu Bei, Chinese warlord, proclaims himself emperor of Shu Han, the successor of the Han dynasty.
* 392 – Emperor Valentinian II is assassinated while advancing into Gaul against the Frankish usurper Arbog ...
– An
American
American(s) may refer to:
* American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America"
** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America
** American ancestry, pe ...
teenager known as '
Robert R.
Robert Lee Rayford (February 3, 1953 – May 15 1969), sometimes identified as Robert R. due to his age, was an American teenager from Missouri who has been suggested to represent the earliest confirmed case of HIV/AIDS in North America based ...
' dies in
St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi River, Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the Greater St. Louis, ...
, of a baffling medical condition. In 1984 it will be identified as the earliest confirmed case of
HIV/AIDS
Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a retrovirus. Following initial infection an individual ...
in
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...
.
*
May 16
Events Pre-1600
* 946 – Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan.
*1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
* 1364 ...
–
Venera program
The Venera (, , which means "Venus" in Russian) program was the name given to a series of space probes developed by the Soviet Union between 1961 and 1984 to gather information about the planet Venus. Ten probes successfully landed on the s ...
:
Soviet
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...
space probe
Venera 5
Venera 5 (russian: Венера-5 meaning ''Venus 5'') was a space probe in the Soviet space program ''Venera'' for the exploration of Venus.
Venera 5 was launched towards Venus to obtain atmospheric data. The spacecraft was very similar to V ...
lands on
Venus
Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It is sometimes called Earth's "sister" or "twin" planet as it is almost as large and has a similar composition. As an interior planet to Earth, Venus (like Mercury) appears in Earth's sky never fa ...
.
*
May 17
Events Pre-1600
*1395 – Battle of Rovine: The Wallachians defeat an invading Ottoman army.
* 1521 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason.
* 1527 – Pánfilo de Narváez departs Spain to explore Flo ...
– Venera program: Soviet space probe
Venera 6
Venera 6 (''russian: link=no, Венера-6'' meaning ''Venus 6''), or 2V (V-69) No.331, was a Soviet spacecraft, launched towards Venus to obtain atmospheric data. It had an on-orbit dry mass of .
The spacecraft was very similar to Venera 4 ...
begins to descend into
Venus
Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It is sometimes called Earth's "sister" or "twin" planet as it is almost as large and has a similar composition. As an interior planet to Earth, Venus (like Mercury) appears in Earth's sky never fa ...
's atmosphere, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
*
May 18
Events Pre-1600
* 332 – Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople.
* 872 – Louis II of Italy is crowned for the second time as Holy Roman Emperor at Rome, at the age of 4 ...
–
Apollo program:
Apollo 10
Apollo 10 (May 18–26, 1969) was a human spaceflight, the fourth crewed mission in the United States Apollo program, and the second (after Apollo8) to orbit the Moon. NASA described it as a "dress rehearsal" for the first Moon landing, and ...
(
Gene Cernan
Eugene Andrew Cernan (; March 14, 1934 – January 16, 2017) was an American astronaut, naval aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot. During the Apollo 17 mission, Cernan became the eleventh human being to ...
,
Tom Stafford,
John Young John Young may refer to:
Academics
* John Young (professor of Greek) (died 1820), Scottish professor of Greek at the University of Glasgow
* John C. Young (college president) (1803–1857), American educator, pastor, and president of Centre Coll ...
) is launched. It is to be a full rehearsal for the
Moon
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It is the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System and the largest and most massive relative to its parent planet, with a diameter about one-quarter that of Earth (comparable to the width of ...
landing, stopping 15 kilometers short of actually reaching the lunar surface.
*
May 20
Events Pre-1600
* 325 – The First Council of Nicaea is formally opened, starting the first ecumenical council of the Christian Church.
* 491 – Empress Ariadne marries Anastasius I. The widowed '' Augusta'' is able to choose her ...
–
United States National Guard
The National Guard is a state-based military force that becomes part of the reserve components of the United States Army and the United States Air Force when activated for federal missions.[California
California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ...]
.
*
May 21
Events Pre-1600
* 293 – Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as ''Caesar (title), Caesar'' to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy.
* 878 – Syracuse, Sicily, is Siege of Syracuse ...
– ''
Rosariazo
The Rosariazo () was a protest movement that consisted in demonstrations and strikes, in Rosario, , between May and September 1969, during the military dictatorial rule of ''de facto'' President General Juan Carlos Onganía. The Rosariazo was c ...
'': Civil unrest breaks out in
Rosario, Argentina
Rosario () is the largest city in the central Argentine province of Santa Fe. The city is located northwest of Buenos Aires, on the west bank of the Paraná River. Rosario is the third-most populous city in the country, and is also the most po ...
, following the death of a 15-year-old student.
*
May 22
Events Pre-1600
* 192 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu.
* 760 – Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
* 853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt.
* 11 ...
– Apollo program:
Apollo 10
Apollo 10 (May 18–26, 1969) was a human spaceflight, the fourth crewed mission in the United States Apollo program, and the second (after Apollo8) to orbit the Moon. NASA described it as a "dress rehearsal" for the first Moon landing, and ...
's lunar module flies to within 15,400 m of the
Moon
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It is the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System and the largest and most massive relative to its parent planet, with a diameter about one-quarter that of Earth (comparable to the width of ...
's surface.
*
May 26
Events Pre-1600
* 17 – Germanicus celebrates a triumph in Rome for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti, and other German tribes west of the Elbe.
* 451 – Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sasanian Empire take ...
** The
Andean Pact (Andean Group) is established.
** Apollo program:
Apollo 10
Apollo 10 (May 18–26, 1969) was a human spaceflight, the fourth crewed mission in the United States Apollo program, and the second (after Apollo8) to orbit the Moon. NASA described it as a "dress rehearsal" for the first Moon landing, and ...
returns to
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. While large volumes of water can be found throughout the Solar System, only Earth sustains liquid surface water. About 71% of Earth's surfa ...
, after a successful 8-day test of all the components needed for the upcoming first manned
Moon
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It is the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System and the largest and most massive relative to its parent planet, with a diameter about one-quarter that of Earth (comparable to the width of ...
landing.
*
May 26
Events Pre-1600
* 17 – Germanicus celebrates a triumph in Rome for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti, and other German tribes west of the Elbe.
* 451 – Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sasanian Empire take ...
–
June 2
Events Pre-1600
* 455 – Sack of Rome: Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks.
* 1098 – First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city; the second siege began five days later. 1601 ...
–
John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 19408 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter, musician and peace activist who achieved worldwide fame as founder, co-songwriter, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of ...
and
Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono ( ; ja, 小野 洋子, Ono Yōko, usually spelled in katakana ; born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking.
Ono grew up i ...
conduct their second
Bed-In
The Bed-ins for Peace were two week-long nonviolent protests against wars, intended as experimental tests of new ways to promote peace. As the Vietnam War raged in 1969, John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono held one protest at the Hilton Amsterdam, H ...
. The follow-up to the Amsterdam event is held at the
Queen Elizabeth Hotel
Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth (french: Fairmont Le Reine Élizabeth) is a historic grand hotel in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. With 950 rooms and 21 floors it is the largest hotel in the province of Quebec, and the second largest Fairmont hotel in ...
in
Montreal
Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-most populous city in Canada and List of towns in Quebec, most populous city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian ...
,
Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...
. Lennon composes and records the song "
Give Peace a Chance
"Give Peace a Chance" is an anti-war song written by John Lennon (originally credited to Lennon–McCartney), and recorded with the participation of a small group of friends in a performance with Yoko Ono in a hotel room in Montreal, Quebec, Ca ...
" during the event.
*
May 29
Events Pre-1600
* 363 – The Roman emperor Julian defeats the Sasanian army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Sasanian capital, but is unable to take the city.
* 1108 – Battle of Uclés: Almoravid troops under ...
– ''
Cordobazo
The Cordobazo was a civil uprising in the city of Córdoba, Argentina, at the end of May 1969, during the military dictatorship of General Juan Carlos Onganía, which occurred a few days after the ''Rosariazo'', and a year after the global protest ...
'': A general strike and civil unrest break out in
Córdoba, Argentina
Córdoba () is a city in central Argentina, in the foothills of the Punilla Valley, Sierras Chicas on the Primero River, Suquía River, about northwest of Buenos Aires. It is the capital of Córdoba Province, Argentina, Córdoba Province a ...
.
*
May 30
Events Pre-1600
* 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem. Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometres ...
–
Riots
A riot is a form of civil disorder commonly characterized by a group lashing out in a violent public disturbance against authority, property, or people.
Riots typically involve destruction of property, public or private. The property targeted ...
in
Curaçao
Curaçao ( ; ; pap, Kòrsou, ), officially the Country of Curaçao ( nl, Land Curaçao; pap, Pais Kòrsou), is a Lesser Antilles island country in the southern Caribbean Sea and the Dutch Caribbean region, about north of the Venezuela coast ...
mark the start of an Afro-Caribbean
civil rights
Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals. They ensure one's entitlement to participate in the civil and political life of ...
movement on the island.
June
*
June 3
Events Pre-1600
* 350 – The Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
* 713 – The Byzantine Empire, Byzantine emperor Philippikos Ba ...
– While operating at sea on SEATO maneuvers, the Australian aircraft carrier
HMAS ''Melbourne'' accidentally rams and slices into the American destroyer
USS ''Frank E. Evans'' in the South China Sea, killing 74 American seamen.
*
June 5
Events Pre-1600
*1257 – Kraków, in Poland, receives city rights.
*1283 – Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon, destroys the Neapolitan fleet and captures Charles II of Naples, Charles ...
– An
international communist conference begins in
Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...
.
*
June 8
Events Pre-1600
* 218 – Battle of Antioch: With the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus.
* 452 – Attila leads a Hun army in the invasion of Italy, devastating the northern provinces ...
–
Francisco Franco
Francisco Franco Bahamonde (; 4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish general who led the Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War), Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War ...
orders the closing of the
Gibraltar–Spain border
The Gibraltar–Spain border is the international boundary between the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar and the Kingdom of Spain. It is also referred to as "The Fence of Gibraltar" () or simply "The Fence".
The border runs east–wes ...
and communications between
Gibraltar
)
, anthem = " God Save the King"
, song = " Gibraltar Anthem"
, image_map = Gibraltar location in Europe.svg
, map_alt = Location of Gibraltar in Europe
, map_caption = United Kingdom shown in pale green
, mapsize =
, image_map2 = Gib ...
and Spain in response to the
1967
Events
January
* January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair.
* January 5
** Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establishing full consular and ...
Gibraltar sovereignty referendum. The border remains closed until a partial reopening on December 15,
1982
Events January
* January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00).
* January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street bridges, 14th Street Bridge in ...
.
*
June 8
Events Pre-1600
* 218 – Battle of Antioch: With the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus.
* 452 – Attila leads a Hun army in the invasion of Italy, devastating the northern provinces ...
– U.S. President
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a representative and senator from California and was ...
and
South Vietnam
South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam ( vi, Việt Nam Cộng hòa), was a state in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975, the period when the southern portion of Vietnam was a member of the Western Bloc during part of th ...
ese President
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu (; 5 April 1923 – 29 September 2001) was a South Vietnamese military officer and politician who was the president of South Vietnam from 1967 to 1975. He was a general in the Republic of Vietnam Military Forces, Republic o ...
meet at
Midway Island
Midway Atoll (colloquial: Midway Islands; haw, Kauihelani, translation=the backbone of heaven; haw, Pihemanu, translation=the loud din of birds, label=none) is a atoll in the North Pacific Ocean. Midway Atoll is an insular area of the Unit ...
. Nixon announces that 25,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn by September.
*
June 15
Events Pre-1600
* 763 BC – Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.
* 844 – Louis II is crowned as king of Italy at Rome by pope Sergius II.
* 923 – Battle of So ...
–
Georges Pompidou
Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou ( , ; 5 July 19112 April 1974) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1969 until his death in 1974. He previously was Prime Minister of France of President Charles de Gaulle from 1962 to 196 ...
is elected President of France.
*
June 17
Events Pre-1600
* 653 – Pope Martin I is arrested and taken to Constantinople, due to his opposition to monothelitism.
* 1242 – Following the Disputation of Paris, twenty-four carriage loads of Jewish religious manuscripts were bur ...
– After a 23-game match,
Boris Spassky
Boris Vasilievich Spassky ( rus, Бори́с Васи́льевич Спа́сский, Borís Vasíl'yevich Spásskiy; born January 30, 1937) is a Russian chess grandmaster who was the tenth World Chess Champion, holding the title from 1969 ...
defeats
Tigran Petrosian
Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian (, ; 17 June 1929 – 13 August 1984) was a Soviet-Armenian chess grandmaster, and World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969. He was nicknamed "Iron Tigran" due to his almost-impenetrable defensive playing style, ...
to become the World Chess Champion in Moscow.
*
June 24
Events Pre-1600
* 1312 BC – Mursili II launches a campaign against the Kingdom of Azzi-Hayasa.
* 109 – Roman emperor Trajan inaugurates the Aqua Traiana, an aqueduct that channels water from Lake Bracciano, northwest of Rome.
* ...
– The
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and North ...
and
Rhodesia
Rhodesia (, ), officially from 1970 the Republic of Rhodesia, was an unrecognised state in Southern Africa from 1965 to 1979, equivalent in territory to modern Zimbabwe. Rhodesia was the ''de facto'' successor state to the British colony of S ...
sever diplomatic relations, after the
Rhodesian constitutional referendum.
*
June 27
Events Pre-1600
* 1358 – The Republic of Ragusa is founded.
* 1497 – Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London, England.
* 1499 – Americo Vespucci, on Spanish financed trip, sights coas ...
– Gay intercourse is officially legalized in Canada.
*
June 28
Events Pre-1600
* 1098 – Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul at the battle of Antioch.
* 1360 – Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II.
* 1461 – ...
– The
Stonewall riots
The Stonewall riots (also known as the Stonewall uprising, Stonewall rebellion, or simply Stonewall) were a series of spontaneous protests by members of the gay community in response to a police raid that began in the early morning hours of Ju ...
, a milestone in the modern
gay rights movement
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movements are social movements that advocate for LGBT people in society. Some focus on equal rights, such as the ongoing movement for same-sex marriage, while others focus on liberation, as in the ...
in the United States, began in
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ...
.
July
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*
July 7
Events Pre-1600
* 1124 – The city of Tyre falls to the Venetian Crusade after a siege of nineteen weeks.
* 1456 – A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her execution.
* 1520 – Spanish ''conquistado ...
– French is made equal to English throughout the Canadian national government.
*
July 8
Events Pre-1600
* 1099 – Some 15,000 starving Christian soldiers begin the siege of Jerusalem by marching in a religious procession around the city as its Muslim defenders watch.
* 1283 – Roger of Lauria, commanding the Aragonese ...
–
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (also known by #Names, other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vie ...
: The very first U.S. troop withdrawals are made.
*
July 14
Events Pre-1600
* 982 – King Otto II and his Frankish army are defeated by the Muslim army of al-Qasim at Cape Colonna, Southern Italy.
* 1223 – Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II.
* 1420 ...
**
Football War
The Football War ( es, La guerra del fútbol; colloquial: Soccer War), also known as the Hundred Hours' War or 100 Hour War, was a brief military conflict fought between El Salvador and Honduras in 1969. Existing tensions between the two countr ...
: After
Honduras
Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Oce ...
loses an association football match against
El Salvador
El Salvador (; , meaning " The Saviour"), officially the Republic of El Salvador ( es, República de El Salvador), is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south b ...
, rioting breaks out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers. Of the 300,000 Salvadoran workers in Honduras, tens of thousands are expelled, prompting a brief Salvadoran invasion of Honduras. The
OAS
OAS or Oas may refer to:
Chemistry
* O-Acetylserine, amino-acid involved in cysteine synthesis
Computers
* Open-Architecture-System, the main user interface of Wersi musical keyboards
* OpenAPI Specification (originally Swagger Specification) ...
works out a cease-fire on
July 18
Events Pre-1600
* 477 BC – Battle of the Cremera as part of the Roman–Etruscan Wars. Veii ambushes and defeats the Roman army.
* 387 BC – Roman- Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia: A Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, l ...
, which takes effect on
July 20
Events Pre-1600
* 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount. The Roman army is drawn into street fights with the Zealots.
* 792 – Kardam of Bulgaria defea ...
.
** The
Act of Free Choice
The Act of Free Choice ( id, Penentuan Pendapat Rakyat, PEPERA, Determination of the People's Opinion) was a controversial plebiscite held between 14 July and 2 August 1969 in which 1,025 people selected by the Indonesian military in Western New ...
for
West Irian
Western New Guinea, also known as Papua, Indonesian New Guinea, or Indonesian Papua, is the western half of the Melanesian island of New Guinea which is administered by Indonesia. Since the island is alternatively named as Papua, the region ...
commences in
Merauke
Merauke is a large town and the capital of the South Papua province, Indonesia. It is also the administrative centre of Merauke Regency in South Papua. It is considered the easternmost city in Indonesia. The town was originally called Ermasoe. It ...
,
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...
.
*
July 16
Events Pre-1600
* 622 – The beginning of the Islamic calendar.
* 997 – Battle of Spercheios: Bulgarian forces of Tsar Samuel are defeated by a Byzantine army under general Nikephoros Ouranos at the Spercheios River in Greece.
* 105 ...
–
Apollo program:
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 (July 16–24, 1969) was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo Lunar Module ''Eagle'' on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC, an ...
(
Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin (; born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot. He made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission. As the Lunar Module ''Eagle'' pilot on the 1969 A ...
,
Neil Armstrong
Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who became the first person to walk on the Moon in 1969. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor.
...
,
Michael Collins Michael Collins or Mike Collins most commonly refers to:
* Michael Collins (Irish leader) (1890–1922), Irish revolutionary leader, soldier, and politician
* Michael Collins (astronaut) (1930–2021), American astronaut, member of Apollo 11 and Ge ...
) lifts off from
Cape Kennedy
, image = cape canaveral.jpg
, image_size = 300
, caption = View of Cape Canaveral from space in 1991
, map = Florida#USA
, map_width = 300
, type =Cape
, map_caption = Location in Florida
, location ...
in Florida towards the first manned landing on the
Moon
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It is the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System and the largest and most massive relative to its parent planet, with a diameter about one-quarter that of Earth (comparable to the width of ...
.
*
July 19
Events Pre-1600
*AD 64 – The Great Fire of Rome causes widespread devastation and rages on for six days, destroying half of the city.
* 484 – Leontius, Roman usurper, is crowned Eastern emperor at Tarsus (modern Turkey). He is re ...
**
Chappaquiddick incident
The Chappaquiddick incident occurred on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts some time around midnight between July 18 and 19, 1969, when Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy negligently drove his car off a narrow bridge, causing it to overturn ...
: US Senator
Edward M. Kennedy drives off a bridge into a tidal pond after leaving a party on
Chappaquiddick Island
Chappaquiddick Island (Massachusett language: ''tchepi-aquidenet''; colloquially known as "Chappy"), a part of the town of Edgartown, Massachusetts, is a small peninsula and occasional island on the eastern end of Martha's Vineyard. Norton Poi ...
,
, killing
Mary Jo Kopechne
Mary Jo Kopechne (; July 26, 1940 – July 18 or 19, 1969) was an American secretary, and one of the campaign workers for U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign, a close team known as the "Boiler Room Girls". In 1969, she d ...
. Kennedy does not report the accident for nine or ten hours.
**
John Fairfax
John Fairfax (24 October 1804 – 16 June 1877) was an English-born journalist, company director, politician, librarian and newspaper owner, known for the incorporation of the major newspapers of modern-day Australia.
Early life
Fairfax was bo ...
lands in
Hollywood Beach, Florida
Hollywood is a city in southern Broward County, Florida, United States, located between Fort Lauderdale and Miami. As of July 1, 2019, Hollywood had a population of 154,817. Founded in 1925, the city grew rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s, and is now ...
, United States and becomes the first person to row across an ocean solo, after 180 days spent at sea on board the 25' ocean rowboat ''Britannia'' (left
Gran Canaria
Gran Canaria (, ; ), also Grand Canary Island, is the third-largest and second-most-populous island of the Canary Islands, an archipelago off the Atlantic coast of Northwest Africa which is part of Spain. the island had a population of that co ...
on January 20, 1969).
*
July 20
Events Pre-1600
* 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount. The Roman army is drawn into street fights with the Zealots.
* 792 – Kardam of Bulgaria defea ...
**
Apollo program Moon landing: At 3:17 pm ET (20:17 UTC)
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 (July 16–24, 1969) was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo Lunar Module ''Eagle'' on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC, an ...
's Lunar Module Eagle, Lunar Module ''Eagle'' lands on the Moon's surface. At 10:56 pm ET (02:56 UTC July 21), an estimated 650 million people worldwide, the largest television audience for a live broadcast at this time, watch in awe as
Neil Armstrong
Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who became the first person to walk on the Moon in 1969. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor.
...
takes his first historic steps on the surface.
** 1969 Tour de France: Belgian Eddy Merckx wins the cycle race for the first time.
* July 22 – Spanish dictator and head of state
Francisco Franco
Francisco Franco Bahamonde (; 4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish general who led the Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War), Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War ...
appoints Prince Juan Carlos to be his successor as head of state following his death.
* July 24
**
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 (July 16–24, 1969) was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo Lunar Module ''Eagle'' on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC, an ...
returns from the first successful Moon landing and the astronauts are placed in biological isolation for several days in case they may have brought back lunar germs. The airless lunar environment is later determined to rule out microscopic life.
** The Soviet Union returns British lecturer Gerald Brooke to the United Kingdom freed from a Soviet prison in exchange for their spies Peter and Helen Kroger (Morris Cohen (spy), Morris and Lona Cohen).
* July 26 – A 1969 Yangjiang earthquake, 6.4 earthquake shakes the Chinese city of Yangjiang destroying thousands of homes and killing 3,000 people.
* July 30 –
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (also known by #Names, other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vie ...
: U.S. President
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a representative and senator from California and was ...
makes an unscheduled visit to
South Vietnam
South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam ( vi, Việt Nam Cộng hòa), was a state in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975, the period when the southern portion of Vietnam was a member of the Western Bloc during part of th ...
, meeting with President
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu (; 5 April 1923 – 29 September 2001) was a South Vietnamese military officer and politician who was the president of South Vietnam from 1967 to 1975. He was a general in the Republic of Vietnam Military Forces, Republic o ...
and U.S. military commanders.
* July 31 –
Pope Paul VI
Pope Paul VI ( la, Paulus VI; it, Paolo VI; born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini, ; 26 September 18976 August 1978) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City, Vatican City State from 21 June 1963 to his ...
arrives in Entebbe, Uganda for the first visit by a reigning Pope to Africa.
August
![Woodstock redmond stage](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Woodstock_redmond_stage.JPG)
* August 4 –
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (also known by #Names, other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vie ...
: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, U.S. representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. They eventually fail since the two sides cannot agree to any terms.
* August 5 – Mariner program: Mariner 7 makes its closest fly-by of Mars ().
* August 13 – Sino-Soviet border conflict, Serious border clashes occur between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China.
* August 14 – The Troubles: British troops are deployed in
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Nort ...
to restore order following 1969 Northern Ireland riots, three days of political and sectarian violence, marking the beginning of the 37-year Operation Banner.
* August 15–August 18, 18 – The Woodstock, Woodstock Festival is held near White Lake, Sullivan County, New York, White Lake, New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era.
* August 17 – Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the Mississippi coast, killing 248 people and causing US$1.5 billion in damage (1969 USD).
* August 21
** Australian Denis Michael Rohan sets the Qibli Mosque, Al-Aqsa Mosque on fire.
** Strong violence on demonstration in Prague and Brno, Czechoslovakia. Military force contra citizens. Prague Spring, Prague spring finally beaten.
* August 29 – A Trans World Airlines flight from Rome to Tel Aviv is TWA Flight 840 hijacking, hijacked and diverted to Syria.
September
* September 1
** 1969 Libyan coup d'état: A bloodless coup in Libya ousts King Idris I of Libya, Idris and brings Colonel
Muammar Gaddafi
Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, . Due to the lack of standardization of transcribing written and regionally pronounced Arabic, Gaddafi's name has been romanized in various ways. A 1986 column by ''The Straight Dope'' lists 32 spellin ...
to power.
** For Brazil, the Jornal Nacional was created on Monday, 1 September 1969.
* September 2 – Ho Chi Minh, the president of Democratic Republic of Vietnam, North Vietnam, dies at the age of 79.
* September 5 – Lieutenant William Calley is charged with six counts of premeditated murder for the 1968 My Lai Massacre deaths of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai, Vietnam.
* September 9 – Allegheny Airlines Flight 853, a Douglas DC-9, DC-9 airliner, collides in flight with a small Piper PA-28 airplane, and crashes near Fairland, Indiana, killing all 83 people in both aircraft.
* September 11 – An Solar eclipse of September 11, 1969, annular solar eclipse is visible in Pacific Ocean and South America, and is the 41st solar eclipse of Solar Saros 134.
* September 22–September 25, 25 – An Islamic conference in Rabat, Morocco, following the al-Aqsa Mosque fire (August 21), condemns the Israeli claim of ownership of Jerusalem.
* September 23 – China carries out an underground nuclear testing, underground nuclear bomb test.
* September 25 – The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Organisation of the Islamic Conference is founded.
* September 28 – 1969 West German federal election: The Social Democratic Party of Germany, Social Democrats, led by Vice Chancellor Willy Brandt, and the Free Democratic Party (Germany), Free Democrats led by Walter Scheel, formed a coalition government with Brandt as Chancellor, after the Social Democrats severed their relationship with Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger's Christian Democratic Union.
October
* October 1
** In Sweden, Olof Palme is elected Leader of the Social Democratic Worker's Party, replacing Tage Erlander as Prime Minister of Sweden, Prime Minister on October 14.
** The Beijing Subway begins operation.
* October 2 – A 1.2 TNT equivalent, megaton thermonuclear device is tested at Amchitka Island, Alaska. This test is code-named Project Milrow, the 11th test of the Operation Mandrel 1969–
1970
Events
January
* January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC.
* January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of X (''Extrem ...
underground nuclear test series. This test is known as a "calibration shot" to test if the island is fit for larger underground nuclear detonations.
* October 5 – ''Sazae-san'' first airs on Fuji Television.
* October 9–October 12, 12 – Days of Rage: In Chicago, the Illinois National Guard is called in to control demonstrations involving the radical Weatherman (organization), Weathermen, in connection with the "Chicago Eight" Trial.
* October 11 – The Zodiac Killer shoots and kills taxi driver Paul Stine in the Presidio Heights neighborhood of San Francisco; this is the serial killer's last known murder.
* October 11–October 16, 16 – The 1969 New York Mets season, New York Mets upset the 1969 Baltimore Orioles season, Baltimore Orioles four games to one in the 1969 World Series, World Series.
* October 15
** Radio Philippines Network, DZKB-TV Channel 9, the Philippines TV station, owned by Roberto S. Benedicto, is launched.
**
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (also known by #Names, other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vie ...
: Hundreds of thousands of people take part in Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam demonstrations across the United States.
* October 17 – Willard S. Boyle and George Smith invent the Charge-coupled device, CCD at Bell Laboratories (30 years later, this technology is widely used in digital cameras).
* October 20 – Experimental research showing that protons were composed of smaller particles, the first evidence of quarks, is published.
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* October 21
** Willy Brandt becomes Chancellor of West Germany.
** General Siad Barre comes to power in Somalia in a coup, 6 days after the assassination of President Abdirashid Ali Shermarke.
* October 25 – 1969 Australian federal election: John Gorton's Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal/National Party of Australia, Country Coalition (Australia), Coalition Gorton Government, Government is narrowly re-elected with a sharply reduced majority, defeating a resurgent Australian Labor Party, Labor Party led by Gough Whitlam. Prime Minister of Australia, Prime Minister Gorton survived a Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill, 1969, leadership challenge by his deputy William McMahon as well as David Fairbairn (politician), David Fairbairn in the immediate aftermath of the election.
* October 29 – The first message is sent over ARPANET, the forerunner of the internet.
November
* November 3] – Süleyman Demirel of Justice Party (Turkey), AP forms the new government of Turkey (31st government).
* November 14
**
Apollo program:
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...
launches Apollo 12 (Pete Conrad, Richard F. Gordon, Jr., Richard Gordon, Alan Bean), the second manned mission to the
Moon
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It is the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System and the largest and most massive relative to its parent planet, with a diameter about one-quarter that of Earth (comparable to the width of ...
.
** The SS United States, the last active United States Lines passenger ship, is withdrawn from service.
* November 15 – Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato (SSN-615), USS ''Gato'' in the Barents Sea.
* November 17 – Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki, to begin the SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.
* November 19
**
Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad, Charles Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum ("Ocean of Storms"), becoming the third and fourth humans to walk on the
Moon
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It is the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System and the largest and most massive relative to its parent planet, with a diameter about one-quarter that of Earth (comparable to the width of ...
.
** Professional footballer Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
**
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (also known by #Names, other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vie ...
: A Cleveland, Ohio newspaper, ''The Plain Dealer'', publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam.
** Richard Oakes (activist), Richard Oakes returns with 90 followers to Alcatraz Island and begins a 19 month long occupation, lasting until June 1971.
* November 21
** U.S. President
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a representative and senator from California and was ...
and Japanese Premier Eisaku Satō agree in Washington, D.C. to the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972. Under the terms of the agreement, the U.S. retains rights to military bases on the island, but they must be nuclear-free.
** The first ARPANET link is established (the progenitor of the global Internet).
* November 24 –
Apollo program: The Apollo 12 spacecraft splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to the Moon.
December
* December 1 –
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (also known by #Names, other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vie ...
: The first Draft lottery (1969), draft lottery in the United States since World War II is held. September 14 is the first of the 366 days of the year selected, meaning that anyone born on September 14 in the years from 1944 to 1951 would be the first to be summoned. On January 4, 1970, ''The New York Times'' will run a long article, "Statisticians Charge Draft Lottery Was Not Random".
* December 2 – The
Boeing 747
The Boeing 747 is a large, long-range wide-body airliner designed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in the United States between 1968 and 2022.
After introducing the 707 in October 1958, Pan Am wanted a jet times its size, t ...
jumbo jet makes its first passenger flight. It carries 191 people, most of them reporters and photographers, from Seattle to New York City.
* December 12 – The Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan, Italy, kills 17 people and injures 88.
* December 24
** Charles Manson is allowed to defend himself at the Tate-LaBianca murder trial.
** The oil company Phillips Petroleum made the first oil discovery in the Norwegian sector of North Sea.
** Nigerian troops capture Umuahia. The last Biafran capital before its dissolution becomes Owerri.
* December 27 – The Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Liberal Democratic Party wins 47.6% of the votes in the 1969 Japanese general election. Future prime ministers Yoshirō Mori and Tsutomu Hata and future kingmaker Ichirō Ozawa are elected for the first time.
Date unknown
* Summer – Invention of Unix under the potential name "Unics" (after Multics).
* Common African, Madagascar, Malagasy and Mauritius, Mauritian Organization (OCAMM) (Organisation Commune Africaine Malgache et Mauricienne) is established.
* International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage, a maritime treaty, is adopted.
Births
January
![Patton Oswalt by Gage Skidmore 3 (cropped)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Patton_Oswalt_by_Gage_Skidmore_3_%28cropped%29.jpg)
* January 1 – Verne Troyer, American actor (d. 2018)
* January 2
** Robby Gordon, American racing driver
** Tommy Morrison, American boxer (d. 2013)
** Christy Turlington, American fashion model
* January 3 – Michael Schumacher, German seven-time Formula One world champion
*
January 5
Events Pre-1600
*1477 – Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is defeated and killed in a conflict with René II, Duke of Lorraine; Duchy of Burgundy, Burgundy subsequently becomes part of France.
1601–1900
*1675 – Battle of Turckh ...
– Marilyn Manson, American rock musician
* January 6 – Norman Reedus, American actor
* January 7 – Alfredo Romero (activist), Alfredo Romero, Venezuelan activist
*January 11
* Kyōko Hikami, Japanese voice actress
* Kyle Richards, American actress
* January 13
** Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, Mexican writer, wife of Andrés Manuel López Obrador
** Stephen Hendry, British snooker player
*
January 14
Events Pre-1600
*1236 – King Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence.
*1301 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in Hungary.
1601–1900
*1639 – The "Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, Fundamenta ...
** Jason Bateman, American actor, director and producer
** Dave Grohl, American rock drummer and composer
* January 15 – Meret Becker, German actress and musician
* January 16 – Dead (musician), Dead, Swedish vocalist (d. 1991)
* January 17 – Lukas Moodysson, Swedish film director
*
January 27
Events Pre-1600
* 98 – Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire will reach its maximum extent.
* 945 – The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to becom ...
** Cornelius (musician), Cornelius, Japanese rock musician, singer and producer
** Patton Oswalt, American stand-up comedian, writer, actor and voice artist
*
January 28
Events Pre-1600
* 98 – On the death of Nerva, Trajan is declared Roman emperor in Cologne, the seat of his government in lower Germany.
* 814 – The death of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, brings about the accession o ...
– Kathryn Morris, American actress
* January 29 – Hyde (musician), Hyde, Japanese rock musician, singer and guitarist
February
![OIFF 2015-07-17 193547 - Darren Aronofsky](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/OIFF_2015-07-17_193547_-_Darren_Aronofsky.jpg)
* February 1
** Gabriel Batistuta, Argentine footballer
** Andrew Breitbart, American writer and publisher (d. 2012)
* February 2 – Dambisa Moyo, Zambian-born economist
* February 3 – Retief Goosen, South African golfer
* February 5
** Bobby Brown, African-American singer
** Michael Sheen, Welsh actor
* February 6 – David Hayter, Canadian-American actor, voice actor, screenwriter, director, and producer
* February 7 – Andrew Micallef, Maltese painter and musician
* February 11 – Jennifer Aniston, American actress, director, producer and businesswoman
* February 12
** Darren Aronofsky, American filmmaker
** Hong Myung-bo, South Korean footballer
** Brad Werenka, Canadian ice-hockey player
*
February 13
Events Pre-1600
* 962 – Emperor Otto I and Pope John XII co-sign the ''Diploma Ottonianum'', recognizing John as ruler of Rome.
*1322 – The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th–13th.
*1462 – The ...
** Ahlam (singer), Ahlam, Arabic singer
** JB Blanc, French voice actor
*
February 14
Events Pre-1600
* 748 – Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt.
* 842 – Charles the Bald and Louis ...
– Nurserik Kudereev, Russian civil servant
* February 15
** Roberto Balado, Cuban boxer (d. 1994)
** Birdman (rapper), Birdman, American rapper, entertainer, and record producer
* February 20 – Gedo (wrestler), Keiji Takayama, Japanese professional wrestler
* February 21
** James Dean Bradfield, Welsh singer-songwriter
** Bosson, Swedish singer-songwriter
** Petra Kronberger, Austrian alpine skier
* February 23
** Michael Campbell, New Zealand golfer
** Marc Wauters, Belgian cyclist
* February 28 – Robert Sean Leonard, American actor
March
![Pauley Perrette 2014](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Pauley_Perrette_2014.jpg)
* March 1 – Javier Bardem, Spanish actor
* March 4
** Annie Yi, Annie Shizuka Inoh, Taiwanese actress
** Patrick Roach, Canadian actor
* March 10 – Paget Brewster, American actress
* March 11
** Terrence Howard, American actor and singer
** Soraya (musician), Soraya, Colombian singer and multi-instrumentalist (d. 2006)
* March 12
** Graham Coxon, English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and painter
** Akemi Okamura, Japanese voice actress
*
March 13
Events Pre-1600
*624 – The Battle of Badr, the first major battle between the Muslims and Quraysh.
*1567 – The Battle of Oosterweel, traditionally regarded as the start of the Eighty Years' War.
*1591 – At the Battle of Tond ...
– Susanna Mälkki, Finnish conductor
* March 15
** Timo Kotipelto, Finnish musician
** Yutaka Take, Japanese jockey
*
March 16
Events Pre-1600
* 934 – Meng Zhixiang declares himself emperor and establishes Later Shu as a new state independent of Later Tang.
*1190 – Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York.
* 1244 – Over 200 Cathars who refuse ...
– Markus Lanz, German-Italian television presenter
*
March 17
Events Pre-1600
* 45 BC – In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda.
* 180 – Commodus becomes sole emperor of the Roman Empire at the age of eigh ...
– Alexander McQueen, British fashion designer (d. 2010)
*
March 18
Events Pre-1600
* 37 – Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ''(aka Caligula = Little Boots)'' emperor.Tacitus, ''Annals'' V.10.
* 1068 – An earthquake in the Levant and the Ara ...
** Vassily Ivanchuk, Ukrainian chess grandmaster
** Jimmy Morales, Guatemalan politician, 37th President of Guatemala
* March 19 – Patrick Tam (actor), Patrick Tam, Hong Kong actor
* March 21 – Ali Daei, Iranian football player
*
March 22
Events Pre-1600
* 106 – Start of the Bostran era, the calendar of the province of Arabia Petraea.
* 235 – Roman emperor Severus Alexander is murdered, marking the start of the Crisis of the Third Century.
* 871 – Æthelr ...
– Tony Fadell, American engineeer, inventor, designer and entrepreneur (Nest Labs, Apple Inc)
* March 24 – Stephan Eberharter, Austrian alpine skier
* March 25 – Jeff Walker (musician), Jeffrey Walker, British musician
* March 27
** Mariah Carey, American pop singer
** Kevin Corrigan, American actor
** Pauley Perrette, American actress
*
March 28
Events Pre-1600
* AD 37 – Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, bestowed on him by the Senate.
* 193 – After assassinating the Roman Emperor Pertinax, his Praetorian Guards auction off the throne to Di ...
– Rodney Atkins, American country music singer
*
March 29
Events Pre-1600
* 845 – Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
* 1430 – The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures Thessalonica from the Republic of ...
– Chiaki Ishikawa, Japanese singer (See-Saw (group), See-Saw)
April
![Renée Zellweger Berlinale 2010 (cropped)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Ren%C3%A9e_Zellweger_Berlinale_2010_%28cropped%29.jpg)
* April 1
** Fadl Shaker, Lebanese singer
** Andrew Vlahov, Australian basketball player
* April 2 – Ajay Devgn, Ajay Devgan, Indian actor, director and producer
* April 3
** Ben Mendelsohn, Australian actor
** Lance Storm, Canadian professional wrestler
* April 6 – Paul Rudd, American actor, comedian, writer and producer
* April 11
** Cerys Matthews, Welsh singer
** Caren Miosga, German journalist and television presenter
** Chisato Moritaka, Japanese singer
* April 16 – Dawn Brancheau, American senior animal trainer (d. 2010)
* April 18
** Shannon Lee, Chinese-American actress
** Susan Polgár, Hungarian chess player
*
April 20
Events Pre-1600
* 1303 – The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII.
1601–1900
* 1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves England's Rump Parliament.
* 1657 – English Admiral Robert Blake destroy ...
– Marietta Slomka, German journalist
* April 21 – Toby Stephens, English actor
*
April 22
Events Pre-1600
* 1500 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil.
* 1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico.
* 1529 – Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern ...
– Dion Dublin, English footballer
* April 23 – Yelena Shushunova, Soviet gymnast (d. 2018)
* April 25
** Vanessa Beecroft, Italian artist
** Gina Torres, American actress
** Renée Zellweger, American Academy Awards, Academy Award-winning actress and producer
May
![David Boreanaz Comic-Con 2012](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/David_Boreanaz_Comic-Con_2012.jpg)
* May 1 – Wes Anderson, American filmmaker
* May 2
** Brian Lara, Trinidadian cricketer.
** Corinna Schumacher, German animal rights activist and accomplished horse rider
*
May 4
Events Pre-1600
* 1256 – The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull ''Licet ecclesiae catholicae''.
* 1415 – Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are ...
– Rabindra Prasad Adhikari, Nepalese politician (d. 2019)
* May 5 – Hideki Irabu, Japanese baseball player (d. 2011)
* May 6 – Jim Magilton, Northern Irish footballer
* May 9 – Amber (singer), Amber, German musician
*
May 10
Events Pre-1600
* 28 BC – A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China.
*1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edw ...
– Dennis Bergkamp, Dutch footballer
*
May 13
Events Pre-1600
*1373 – Julian of Norwich has visions of Jesus while suffering from a life-threatening illness, visions which are later described and interpreted in her book '' Revelations of Divine Love''.
* 1501 – Amerigo Vespu ...
** Nikos Aliagas, French-born television host
** Buckethead, Brian Carroll (aka Buckethead), American guitarist
*
May 14
Events Pre-1600
* 1027 – Robert II of France names his son Henry I as junior King of the Franks.
*1097 – The Siege of Nicaea begins during the First Crusade.
* 1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forc ...
– Cate Blanchett, Australian actress
*
May 16
Events Pre-1600
* 946 – Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan.
*1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
* 1364 ...
** David Boreanaz, American actor
** Tucker Carlson, American political commentator
** Steve Lewis (sprinter), Steve Lewis, American athlete
*
May 21
Events Pre-1600
* 293 – Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as ''Caesar (title), Caesar'' to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy.
* 878 – Syracuse, Sicily, is Siege of Syracuse ...
– Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist (d. 2000)
*
May 26
Events Pre-1600
* 17 – Germanicus celebrates a triumph in Rome for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti, and other German tribes west of the Elbe.
* 451 – Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sasanian Empire take ...
– Siri Lindley, American triathlete
* May 28 – Rob Ford, Canadian politician, 64th Mayor of Toronto (d. 2016)
June
![Ice-Cube 2014-01-09-Chicago-photoby-Adam-Bielawski](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Ice-Cube_2014-01-09-Chicago-photoby-Adam-Bielawski.jpg)
*
June 3
Events Pre-1600
* 350 – The Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
* 713 – The Byzantine Empire, Byzantine emperor Philippikos Ba ...
– Takako Minekawa, Japanese musician, composer and writer
* June 4 – Rob Huebel, American comedian
* June 7
** Alina Astafei, Romanian-German high jumper
** Prince Joachim of Denmark
** Kim Rhodes, American actress
*
June 8
Events Pre-1600
* 218 – Battle of Antioch: With the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus.
* 452 – Attila leads a Hun army in the invasion of Italy, devastating the northern provinces ...
– J. P. Manoux, American actor
* June 11
** Peter Dinklage, American actor
** Steven Drozd, American rock drummer
** Anatoliy Povedenok, Kazakh football player
* June 12
** Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian rock guitarist (d. 2007)
** Heinz-Christian Strache, Austrian politician
* June 13 – Søren Rasted, Danish musician
* June 14
** Eugene Chung, Korean-American football player
** Steffi Graf, German tennis player
*
June 15
Events Pre-1600
* 763 BC – Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.
* 844 – Louis II is crowned as king of Italy at Rome by pope Sergius II.
* 923 – Battle of So ...
** Ice Cube, African-American rapper and actor
** Oliver Kahn, German football goalkeeper
** Jansher Khan, Pakistani squash player
* June 16 – MC Ren, American rapper
*
June 17
Events Pre-1600
* 653 – Pope Martin I is arrested and taken to Constantinople, due to his opposition to monothelitism.
* 1242 – Following the Disputation of Paris, twenty-four carriage loads of Jewish religious manuscripts were bur ...
– Paul Tergat, Kenyan athlete
* June 18 – Haki Doku, Albanian para-cyclist
* June 19 – Trine Pallesen, Danish actress
* June 20
** Alexander Schallenberg, current Chancellor of Austria
** Paulo Bento, Portuguese football player and coach
* June 23
** Achinoam Nini, Noa, Israeli singer
** Fernanda Ribeiro, Portuguese long-distance runner
*
June 24
Events Pre-1600
* 1312 BC – Mursili II launches a campaign against the Kingdom of Azzi-Hayasa.
* 109 – Roman emperor Trajan inaugurates the Aqua Traiana, an aqueduct that channels water from Lake Bracciano, northwest of Rome.
* ...
– Sissel Kyrkjebø, Norwegian singer
* June 30 – Sanath Jayasuriya, Sri Lankan cricketer
July
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* July 2
** Jenni Rivera, Mexican-American singer-songwriter, producer and actress (d. 2012)
** Tim Rodber, English rugby player
* July 3
** Gedeon Burkhard, German actor
** Shawnee Smith, American actress
* July 5 – John LeClair, American hockey player
*
July 7
Events Pre-1600
* 1124 – The city of Tyre falls to the Venetian Crusade after a siege of nineteen weeks.
* 1456 – A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her execution.
* 1520 – Spanish ''conquistado ...
** Sylke Otto, German luger
** Joe Sakic, Canadian hockey player
** Cree Summer, American-Canadian actress and singer
*
July 8
Events Pre-1600
* 1099 – Some 15,000 starving Christian soldiers begin the siege of Jerusalem by marching in a religious procession around the city as its Muslim defenders watch.
* 1283 – Roger of Lauria, commanding the Aragonese ...
– Sugizo, Japanese guitarist and singer
* July 9 – Munkhbayar Dorjsuren, Mongolian-German sport shooter
* July 10
** Gale Harold, American actor
** Hossan Leong, Singaporean stage and screen actor, television host, radio deejay and comedian
** Jonas Kaufmann, German operatic tenor
** Rami Makhlouf, Syrian businessman
* July 11 – David Tao, Taiwanese singer-songwriter
*
July 14
Events Pre-1600
* 982 – King Otto II and his Frankish army are defeated by the Muslim army of al-Qasim at Cape Colonna, Southern Italy.
* 1223 – Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II.
* 1420 ...
– Billy Herrington, American gay pornographic actor (d. 2018)
*
July 16
Events Pre-1600
* 622 – The beginning of the Islamic calendar.
* 997 – Battle of Spercheios: Bulgarian forces of Tsar Samuel are defeated by a Byzantine army under general Nikephoros Ouranos at the Spercheios River in Greece.
* 105 ...
** Björn Dunkerbeck, Danish windsurfer
** Sahra Wagenknecht, German politician
* July 17
** Jason Clarke, Australian actor
** Ravi Kishan, Indian actor
** Kazuki Kitamura, Japanese actor
*
July 18
Events Pre-1600
* 477 BC – Battle of the Cremera as part of the Roman–Etruscan Wars. Veii ambushes and defeats the Roman army.
* 387 BC – Roman- Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia: A Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, l ...
– The Great Sasuke, Masanori Murakawa, Japanese wrestler
*
July 20
Events Pre-1600
* 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount. The Roman army is drawn into street fights with the Zealots.
* 792 – Kardam of Bulgaria defea ...
** Josh Holloway, American actor
** Johnny Ngauamo, Tonga rugby union player
* July 21
** Avraam Russo, Russian singer
** Isabell Werth, German equestrian
* July 22
** Jason Becker, American heavy metal guitarist, formerly of Cacophony
** James Arnold Taylor, American voice actor
** Despina Vandi, Greek singer
* July 23 – Raphael Warnock, American pastor and junior senator from Georgia
* July 24 – Jennifer Lopez, American actress and singer
* July 25 – Annastacia Palaszczuk, Australian politician, Premier of Queensland
* July 26 – Tanni Grey-Thompson, born Carys Grey, British Paralympian
* July 27
** Dacian Cioloș, 64th Prime Minister of Romania
** Pavel Hapal, Czech footballer
** Jonty Rhodes, South African cricketer
** Triple H (aka Paul Levesque), American wrestler
* July 28
** Michael Amott, Swedish guitarist and songwriter
** Alexis Arquette, American actress, cabaret performer, underground cartoonist, and activist (d. 2016)
** Dana White, American businessman and president of Ultimate Fighting Championship
* July 30 – Simon Baker, Australian-American actor and director
* July 31 – Antonio Conte, Italian football player and manager
August
![2016 RiP Tenacious D - Jack Black - by 2eight - 8SC8891](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/2016_RiP_Tenacious_D_-_Jack_Black_-_by_2eight_-_8SC8891.jpg)
* August 2
** Jan Axel Blomberg, Norwegian drummer
** Fernando Couto, Portuguese footballer
* August 3 – Anne Marie DeLuise, Canadian actress
* August 4
** Max Cavalera, Brazilian musician and singer (Soulfly, Cavalera Conspiracy, ex-Sepultura)
** Michael DeLuise, American actor
* August 6 – Elliott Smith, American musician (d. 2003)
* August 8 – Faye Wong, Hong Kong singer and actress
* August 10 – Brian Drummond, Canadian voice actor
* August 11
** Vanderlei de Lima, Brazilian long-distance runner
** Ashley Jensen, British actress
* August 12 – Tanita Tikaram, German-born British singer-songwriter
* August 13 – Midori Ito, Japanese figure skater
* August 15
** Justin Broadrick, British musician
** Kevin Cheng, Hong Kong television actor and singer
** Bernard Fanning, Australian musician (Powderfinger)
**John Fetterman, American politician, Senator-elect of Pennsylvania
* August 17
** Christian Laettner, American professional basketball player
** Dick Togo, Japanese professional wrestler
** Donnie Wahlberg, American singer and actor (New Kids on the Block)
* August 18
** Edward Norton, American actor, film director, screenwriter, and social activist
** Christian Slater, American actor and producer
** Timothy Snyder, American author and historian
* August 19
** Nate Dogg, African-American rapper (d. 2011)
** Matthew Perry, American actor
* August 28 – Jack Black, American actor and musician
* August 29 – Lucero (entertainer), Lucero, Mexican singer and actress
* August 30 – Kent Osborne, American actor and producer
September
![Catherine Zeta-Jones VF 2012 Shankbone 2](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Catherine_Zeta-Jones_VF_2012_Shankbone_2.jpg)
* September 3 – Robert Karlsson, Swedish golfer
* September 4 – Giorgi Margvelashvili, politician; 4th President of the Georgia (country), Republic of Georgia
* September 6 – Cece Peniston, American musician
* September 7 – Diane Farr, American actress
* September 8 – Gary Speed, Welsh footballer and manager (d. 2011)
* September 9 – Rachel Hunter, New Zealand model and actress
* September 12
** Ángel Cabrera, Argentine golfer
** Shigeki Maruyama, Japanese golfer
* September 13
** Tyler Perry, American actor, film director and screenwriter
** Shane Warne, Australian cricketer (d. 2022)
* September 14 – Bong Joon-ho, South Korean film director and screenwriter
* September 17 – Ken Doherty, Irish snooker player
* September 19 – Simona Păucă, Romanian gymnast
* September 24 – Shawn Crahan, Shawn "Clown" Crahan, American rock percussionist
* September 25
** Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (d. 2002)
* Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
* September 26 – Victor N'Gembo-Mouanda, Congolese author
* September 29 – Erika Eleniak, American model and actress
* September 30 – Jackie Traverse, Canadian artist and activist
October
![Trey Parker by Gage Skidmore](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Trey_Parker_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg)
* October 1
** Zach Galifianakis, American actor and stand-up comedian
** Igor Ulanov, Russian hockey player
** Marcus Stephen, Former President of Nauru
* October 3
** Gwen Stefani, American singer, actress, and television host
** Tetsuya (musician), Tetsuya, Japanese musician
* October 5 – Elizabeth Azcona Bocock, Honduran politician
* October 6
** Muhammad V of Kelantan, 15th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia and Sultan of Kelantan
** Ogün Temizkanoğlu, Turkish football player
* October 7 – Benny Chan (actor), Benny Chan Ho Man, Hong Kong actor
* October 9
** Jun Akiyama, Japanese professional wrestler
** PJ Harvey, British singer-songwriter
** Steve McQueen (director), Steve McQueen, English film director, producer and screenwriter
* October 10
** Brett Favre, American football player
** Wendi McLendon-Covey, American actress
* October 12 – Judit Mascó, Spanish model, television host and writer
* October 13
** Rhett Akins, American country singer
** Nancy Kerrigan, American figure skater
** Cady McClain, American actress and director
* October 15 – Kim Raver, American actress
* October 16 – Wendy Wilson, American singer and television personality
* October 17
** Ernie Els, South African golfer
** Jesús Ángel García, Spanish race walker
** Wood Harris, American actor
** Wyclef Jean, Haitian rapper
** Nancy Sullivan (American actress), Nancy Sullivan, American actress
* October 19
** Pedro Castillo, 130th President of Peru
** Vanessa Marshall, American actress and voice actress
** Trey Parker, American actor, voice actor, animator, writer, producer, director, and composer
* October 20
** Laurie Daley, Australian rugby league player
** Juan González (baseball), Juan González, American baseball player
* October 21 – Michael Hancock (rugby league), Michael Hancock, Australian rugby league player
* October 22 – Spike Jonze, American director and filmmaker
* October 24
** Peter Dolving, Swedish musician
** Adela Noriega, Mexican actress
* October 25
** Samantha Bee, Canadian comedian, writer, producer, and political commentator
** Josef Beránek, Czech ice hockey player
** Oleg Salenko, Russian football player
* October 30
** Stanislav Gross, 5th Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (d. 2015)
** Snow (musician), Snow, Canadian singer
* October 31 – Kim Rossi Stuart, Italian actor and director
November
![Gerard Butler (29681162176)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/Gerard_Butler_%2829681162176%29.jpg)
* November 1 – Gary Alexander (basketball), Gary Alexander, American basketball player
* November 2 – Reginald Arvizu (aka Fieldy Snuts), American bassist
* November 3 – Robert Miles, Swiss-born Italian record producer and DJ (d. 2017)
* November 4
** Sean Combs, American rapper and entrepreneur
** Matthew McConaughey, American actor
* November 7
** Michelle Clunie, American actress
** Hélène Grimaud, French pianist
* November 8 – Jonathan Slavin, American actor and activist
* November 9 – Allison Wolfe, American musician
* November 10
** Faustino Asprilla, Colombian football player
** Jens Lehmann, German football player
** Ellen Pompeo, American actress
* November 12
** Tomas N'evergreen, Danish singer
** Rob Schrab, American actor and comic book creator
* November 13
** Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Somali-born Dutch American activist
** Gerard Butler, Scottish actor
* November 17 – Jean-Michel Saive, Belgian table tennis player
* November 18
** Kathleen Van Brempt, Kathleen van Brempt, Belgian politician
** Sam Cassell, American basketball player
** Ahmed Helmy, Egyptian actor
* November 19 – Ertuğrul Sağlam, Turkish football coach and former player
* November 21 – Ken Griffey Jr., American baseball player
* November 23 – Robin Padilla, Filipino actor
* November 24 – David Adeang, Nauruan politician
* November 26 – Kara Walker, American artist
* November 27 – Carina Ricco, Mexican actress and singer
* November 28
** Colman Domingo, African-American actor
** Lexington Steele, African-American actor and film director
* November 29
** Pierre van Hooijdonk, Dutch footballer
** Kasey Keller,
American
American(s) may refer to:
* American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America"
** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America
** American ancestry, pe ...
Major League Soccer player
** Mariano Rivera, Panamanian-American professional baseball player
* November 30 – Trina Gulliver, English darts player
December
![Jamiroquai 2018 Coachella18W1-157 (42013516212) (cropped)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Jamiroquai_2018_Coachella18W1-157_%2842013516212%29_%28cropped%29.jpg)
* December 1 – Richard Carrier, American historian
* December 4 – Jay-Z, African-American rapper
* December 5
** Sajid Javid, British Pakistani politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer
** Catherine Tate, English actress, comedian, and writer
* December 11 – Viswanathan Anand, Indian chess grandmaster
* December 16 – Michelle Smith, Irish swimmer
* December 17
** Laurie Holden, American actress, producer, model and human rights activist
** Chuck Liddell, American mixed martial arts fighter
* December 18
** Santiago Cañizares, Spanish footballer
** Irvin Duguid, Scottish rock keyboard player (Stiltskin)
** Mille Petrozza, German-Italian rock vocalist and guitarist (Kreator)
** Joe Randa, American
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization and the oldest major professional sports league in the world. MLB is composed of 30 total teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), ...
player and radio talk-show host
* December 19
** Richard Hammond, British television presenter
** Lauren Sánchez, American news anchor
** Kristy Swanson, American actress
* December 21
** Julie Delpy, French actress
** Magnus Samuelsson, Swedish bodybuilder, World's Strongest Man
* December 24
** Brad Anderson (wrestler), Brad Anderson, American wrestler
** Milan Blagojevic (footballer), Milan Blagojevic, Australian footballer
** Pernille Fischer Christensen, Danish film director
** Leavander Johnson, American lightweight boxer (d. 2005)
** Sean Cameron Michael, South African actor and singer
** Ed Miliband, English academic and politician, Minister for the Cabinet Office
** Mark Millar, Scottish author
** Luis Musrri, Chilean footballer
** Oleg Skripochka, Russian cosmonaut
** Gintaras Staučė, Lithuanian footballer
** Chen Yueling, American race walker
** Jonathan Zittrain, American professor
** Michael Zucchet, American economist and politician, Mayor of San Diego
* December 25 – Nicolas Godin, French musician
* December 27
** Chyna, American professional wrestler (d. 2016)
** Sarah Vowell, American historian, author, journalist, essayist, social commentator and actress
* December 28 – Linus Torvalds, Finnish computer programmer
* December 30
** Kersti Kaljulaid, 5th President of Estonia
** Jay Kay, English singer (Jamiroquai)
Deaths
January
![Georges Pire 1958](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Georges_Pire_1958.jpg)
* January 1
** Barton MacLane, American actor (b. 1902)
** Bruno Söderström, Swedish athlete (b. 1881)
* January 3 – Commodore Cochran, American Olympic athlete (b. 1902)
*
January 4
Events Pre-1600
*46 BC – Julius Caesar fights Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina.
* 871 – Battle of Reading: Æthelred of Wessex and his brother Alfred are defeated by a Danish invasion army.
1601–1900
*1649 – Engli ...
– Paul Chambers, American jazz bassist (b. 1935)
* January 8 – Albert Hill (athlete), Albert Hill, British athlete (b. 1889)
*
January 19
Events Pre-1600
* 379 – Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to ''Augustus'', and gives him authority over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.
* 649 – Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrender ...
– Jan Palach, Czech student (b. 1948)
*
January 27
Events Pre-1600
* 98 – Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire will reach its maximum extent.
* 945 – The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to becom ...
– Charles Winninger, American actor (b. 1884)
* January 29 – Allen Dulles, American director of the Central Intelligence Agency (b. 1893)
* January 30 – Dominique Pire, Belgian Dominican friar, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1910)
* January 31 – Meher Baba, Indian spiritual master (b. 1894)
February
![Portrait of prime minister Levy Eshkol](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Portrait_of_prime_minister_Levy_Eshkol._August_1963._D699-070.jpg)
* February 2 – Boris Karloff, English actor (b. 1887)
* February 3
** Eduardo Mondlane, leader of the Mozambique nationalist organization FRELIMO (b. 1920)
** Al Taliaferro, American Disney comics artist (b. 1905)
* February 5 – Thelma Ritter, American actress (b. 1902)
*
February 9
Events Pre-1600
* 474 – Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
* 1003 – Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland.
* 1539 – The first recorded race is hel ...
– George "Gabby" Hayes, American actor (b. 1885)
*
February 13
Events Pre-1600
* 962 – Emperor Otto I and Pope John XII co-sign the ''Diploma Ottonianum'', recognizing John as ruler of Rome.
*1322 – The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th–13th.
*1462 – The ...
– Florence Mary Taylor, English-born Australian architect (b. 1879)
*
February 14
Events Pre-1600
* 748 – Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt.
* 842 – Charles the Bald and Louis ...
– Vito Genovese, Italian-American mobster (b. 1897)
* February 18 – Dragiša Cvetković, 13th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1893)
* February 19 – Madge Blake, American actress (b. 1899)
* February 20 – Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (b. 1883)
* February 23
** Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, King of Saudi Arabia (b. 1902)
** Madhubala, Indian actress (b. 1933)
* February 25 – Jan Zajíc, Czech student (b. 1950)
* February 26
** Levi Eshkol, 3rd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1895)
** Karl Jaspers, German psychiatrist and philosopher (b. 1883)
* February 27 – John Boles (actor), John Boles, American actor (b. 1895)
March
![Dwight D](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Dwight_D._Eisenhower%2C_official_photo_portrait%2C_May_29%2C_1959.jpg)
*
March 3
Events Pre-1600
* 473 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
* 724 – Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan.
* 1575 &nd ...
** Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi, 11th Prime Minister of Iraq (b. 1886)
** Fred Alexander, American tennis player (b. 1880)
* March 6 – Óscar Osorio, Salvadorian military leader, 32nd President of El Salvador (b. 1910)
* March 11 – John Wyndham, British author (b. 1903)
* March 14 – Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-American artist (b. 1898)
* March 24 – Joseph Kasavubu, 1st President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, President of Congo-Léopoldville (b. 1917)
* March 25 – Max Eastman, American writer (b. 1883)
* March 26 – John Kennedy Toole, American author (b. 1937)
*
March 28
Events Pre-1600
* AD 37 – Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, bestowed on him by the Senate.
* 193 – After assassinating the Roman Emperor Pertinax, his Praetorian Guards auction off the throne to Di ...
–
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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, American general and politician, 34th President of the United States (b. 1890)
April
![Rómulo Gallegos 1940s](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/R%C3%B3mulo_Gallegos_1940s.jpg)
* April 2 – Fortunio Bonanova, Spanish actor and singer (b. 1895)
* April 5
** Alberto Bonucci, Italian actor and director (b. 1918)
** Rómulo Gallegos, Venezuelan novelist and politician, 48th President of Venezuela (b. 1884)
* April 10 – Harley Earl, American designer and executive (b. 1893)
*
April 15
Events Pre-1600
* 769 – The Lateran Council ends by condemning the Council of Hieria and anathematizing its iconoclastic rulings.
* 1071 – Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscar ...
– Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, former Queen consort of Spain (b. 1887)
*
April 20
Events Pre-1600
* 1303 – The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII.
1601–1900
* 1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves England's Rump Parliament.
* 1657 – English Admiral Robert Blake destroy ...
– Vjekoslav Luburić, Croatian Ustaše official and concentration camp administrator (b. 1914)
* April 26 – Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist and founder of aikido (b. 1883)
* April 27 – René Barrientos , Bolivian general and statesman, 47th President of Bolivia (helicopter crash) (b. 1919)
May
* May 2 – Franz von Papen, 22nd Chancellor of Germany (German Reich), Chancellor of Germany and 26th Prime Minister of Prussia (b. 1879)
* May 3
** Karl Freund, German cinematographer (b. 1890)
** Zakir Husain (politician), Zakir Hussain, Indian politician, 3rd President of India (b. 1897)
* May 6 – Don Drummond, Jamaican ska musician (b. 1932)
*
May 14
Events Pre-1600
* 1027 – Robert II of France names his son Henry I as junior King of the Franks.
*1097 – The Siege of Nicaea begins during the First Crusade.
* 1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forc ...
** Enid Bennett, American actress (b. 1893)
** Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (b. 1888)
*
May 15
Events Pre-1600
* 221 – Liu Bei, Chinese warlord, proclaims himself emperor of Shu Han, the successor of the Han dynasty.
* 392 – Emperor Valentinian II is assassinated while advancing into Gaul against the Frankish usurper Arbog ...
– Robert Rayford, American HIV/AIDS victim (b. 1953)
*
May 21
Events Pre-1600
* 293 – Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as ''Caesar (title), Caesar'' to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy.
* 878 – Syracuse, Sicily, is Siege of Syracuse ...
– William Lincoln Bakewell, American explorer (b. 1888)
* May 23 – Jimmy McHugh, American composer (b. 1894)
* May 24 – Mitzi Green, American actress (b. 1920)
*
May 26
Events Pre-1600
* 17 – Germanicus celebrates a triumph in Rome for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti, and other German tribes west of the Elbe.
* 451 – Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sasanian Empire take ...
– Paul Hawkins (racing driver), Paul Hawkins, Australian racing driver (b. 1937)
* May 27
** Muhammad Fareed Didi, Sultan of Maldives (b. 1901)
** Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (b. 1926)
June
![Judy Garland publicity photo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Judy_Garland_publicity_photo.png)
* June 1 – Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian Olympic speed skater (b. 1904)
* June 4 – Rafael Osuna, Mexican professional tennis player (b. 1938)
*
June 8
Events Pre-1600
* 218 – Battle of Antioch: With the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus.
* 452 – Attila leads a Hun army in the invasion of Italy, devastating the northern provinces ...
– Robert Taylor (American actor), Robert Taylor, American actor (b. 1911)
* June 11 – John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers of America (b. 1889)
* June 12 – Aleksandr Deyneka, Russian painter and sculptor (b. 1899)
* June 16 – Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, 17th Governor General of Canada (b. 1891)
* June 18 – Edgar Anderson, American botanist (b. 1897)
* June 19 – Natalie Talmadge, American actress (b. 1896)
* June 20 – Mohamed Siddiq El-Minshawi, Egyptian Qur'anic reciter (b. 1920)
* June 22 – Judy Garland, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
* June 23 – Volmari Iso-Hollo, Finnish athlete (b. 1907)
July
![WalterGropius-1919](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/WalterGropius-1919.jpg)
* July 2 – Mikio Naruse, Japanese film director (b. 1905)
* July 3 – Brian Jones, British rock musician (b. 1942)
* July 5
** Ben Alexander (actor), Ben Alexander, American actor (b. 1911)
** Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (b. 1884)
** Walter Gropius, German architect (b. 1883)
** Lambert Hillyer, American film director (b. 1889)
** Tom Mboya, Kenyan politician (b. 1930)
** Leo McCarey, American film director (b. 1898)
* July 9 – Raizō Tanaka, Japanese admiral (b. 1892)
* July 15 – Peter van Eyck, German actor (b. 1911)
* July 17 – Ichikawa Raizō VIII, Japanese actor (b. 1931)
*
July 20
Events Pre-1600
* 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount. The Roman army is drawn into street fights with the Zealots.
* 792 – Kardam of Bulgaria defea ...
– Roy Hamilton, American singer (b. 1929)
* July 24 – Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (b. 1904)
* July 25 – Otto Dix, German painter (b. 1891)
* July 28
** Frank Loesser, American songwriter (b. 1910)
** Ramón Grau, president of Cuba (b. 1882)
August
![Sharon Tate in Eye of the Devil (1965)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Sharon_Tate_in_Eye_of_the_Devil_%281965%29.jpg)
* August 5 – Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg (b. 1873)
* August 6 – Theodor W. Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1903)
* August 8 – Choi Seung-hee, Korean modern dancer (b. 1911)
* August 9
** C. F. Powell, Cecil Frank Powell, British physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
** Constantin Ion Parhon, Romanian politician (b. 1874)
** Jay Sebring, American celebrity hair stylist (b. 1933)
** Sharon Tate, American actress and model (b. 1943)
* August 13 – Nicolás Fasolino, Argentine Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1887)
* August 14 – Leonard Woolf, English writer (b. 1880)
* August 17
** Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German-American architect (b. 1886)
** Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
* August 18 – Mildred Davis, American actress (b. 1901)
* August 20 – Marty Barry, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1905)
* August 26 – Ismail al-Azhari, 2nd Prime Minister, 3rd President of Sudan (b. 1900)
* August 27
** Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, English novelist (b. 1884)
** Erika Mann, German writer (b. 1905)
* August 31 – Rocky Marciano, American professional boxer (b. 1923)
September
![Ho Chi Minh 1946](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Ho_Chi_Minh_1946.jpg)
* September 2 – Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese Communist politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, Prime Minister of North Vietnam and 1st President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, President of North Vietnam (b. 1890)
* September 3 – John Lester, American cricketer (b. 1871)
* September 6 – Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian footballer (b. 1892)
* September 8
** Bud Collyer, American radio and television personality (b. 1908)
** Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer (b. 1868)
* September 19 – Rex Ingram (actor), Rex Ingram, American actor (b. 1895)
* September 22
** Adolfo López Mateos, Mexican politician, 48th President of Mexico, 1958-1964 (b. 1909)
** Aleksandras Stulginskis, Lithuanian politician, 2nd President of Lithuania, President of the Republic of Lithuania (b. 1885)
* September 27 – Nicolas Grunitzky, 2nd President of Togo (b. 1913)
* September 28 – Nicolae Dăscălescu, Romanian general (b. 1884)
October
![Sonja Henie 1936](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Sonja_Henie_1936.jpg)
* October 3 – Skip James, American blues singer (b. 1902)
* October 6 – Walter Hagen, American golf champion (b. 1892)
* October 7 – Natalya Lisenko, Russian actress (b. 1884)
* October 8 – Eduardo Ciannelli, Italian actor and singer (b. 1888)
* October 12 – Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater (b. 1912)
* October 16 – Leonard Chess, Polish-American record company executive, co-founder of Chess Records (b. 1917)
* October 18 – Gyula Mándi, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1899)
* October 21
** Jack Kerouac, American author (b. 1922)
** Wacław Sierpiński, Polish mathematician (b. 1882)
* October 29 – Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich, 34th President of Costa Rica (b. 1907)
* October 31 – Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río, 26th President of Ecuador, leader during World War II (b. 1893)
November
![Iskander Mirza](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Iskander_Mirza.jpg)
* November 1 – Pauline Bush (actress), Pauline Bush, American actress (b. 1886)
* November 5 – Lloyd Corrigan, American actor (b. 1900)
* November 8
** Dave O'Brien (actor), Dave O'Brien, American actor (b. 1912)
** Vesto Slipher, American astronomer (b. 1875)
* November 12 – William F. Friedman, American cryptanalyst (b. 1891)
* November 13 – Iskander Mirza, Pakistani politician, 1st President of Pakistan (b. 1899)
* November 18 – Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., American politician (b. 1888)
* November 21
** Norman Lindsay, Australian painter (b. 1879)
** Mutesa II of Buganda, Kabaka of Buganda and 1st President of Uganda (b. 1924)
December
![Spencer williams carmel theater 1958](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Spencer_williams_carmel_theater_1958.jpg)
* December 1 – Magic Sam, American musician (b. 1937)
* December 2 – Kliment Voroshilov, Soviet military commander (b. 1881)
* December 4 – Fred Hampton, American activist (b. 1948)
* December 5
** Princess Alice of Battenberg (b. 1885)
** Claude Dornier, German airplane builder, founder of Dornier Flugzeugwerke (b. 1884)
* December 6 – João Cândido Felisberto, Brazilian sailor, led the Revolt of the Lash (b. 1880)
* December 8
** Karl Fiehler, German Politician of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) and Lord Mayor of Munich (b. 1895)
** Ole Singstad, Norwegian-born American civil engineer (b. 1882)
* December 13
** Spencer Williams Jr., American actor (b. 1893)
** Raymond A. Spruance, United States admiral (b. 1886)
* December 21 – Georges Catroux, French Army general and colonial governor (b. 1877)
* December 22
** Josef von Sternberg, Austrian film director (b. 1894)
** Enrique Peñaranda , Bolivian general, 38th President of Bolivia, leader during World War II (b. 1892)
* December 29 – Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango, 11th President of Panama, leader during World War II (b. 1899)
Nobel Prizes
* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Murray Gell-Mann
* Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – Derek Barton, Odd Hassel
* Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Medicine – Max Delbrück, Alfred Hershey, Salvador Luria
* Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Samuel Beckett
* Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – International Labour Organization
* Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Economics – Ragnar Frisch, Jan Tinbergen
References
1969 – HeadlinesA report from Rich Lamb of WCBS Newsradio 880 (WCBS-AM New York) Part of WCBS 880's celebration of 40 years of newsradio.
1969 – The Year in SoundAn Audiofile produced by Lou Zambrana of WCBS Newsradio 880 (WCBS-AM New York) Part of WCBS 880's celebration of 40 years of newsradio.
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