1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a

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of the

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, the 1969th year of the

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(CE) and ''

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'' (AD) designations, the 969th year of the

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, the 69th year of the

20th century The 20th century began on 1 January 1901 (MCMI), and ended on 31 December 2000 (MM). It was the 10th and last century in the 2nd millennium and was marked by new models of scientific understanding, unprecedented scopes of warfare, new modes of ...

, and the 10th and last year of the

1960s File:1960s montage.png, Clockwise from top left: U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War; the Beatles led the British Invasion of the U.S. music market; a half-a-million people participate in the Woodstock, 1969 Woodstock Festival; Neil Armstrong ...

decade.

Events

January

January 4 Events Pre-1600 *46 BC – Julius Caesar fights Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina. * 871 – Battle of Reading (871), Battle of Reading: Æthelred of Wessex and his brother Alfred the Great, Alfred are defeated by a Danish invasi ...

– The Government of

Spain Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Eur ...

hands over

Ifni The Territory of 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 Mor ...

Morocco Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to Algeria–Morocc ...

. *

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; Burgundy subsequently becomes part of France. 1601–1900 * 1675 – Battle of Colmar: The French ...

– Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to London's

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, 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 * 1761 – The Third Battle of Panipat is fought in I ...

– An explosion aboard the aircraft carrier USS ''Enterprise'' near

Hawaii Hawaii ( ; ) is an island U.S. state, state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland. One of the two Non-contiguous United States, non-contiguous U.S. states (along with Alaska), it is the only sta ...

kills 28 and injures 314. *

January 16 Events Pre-1600 * 1458 BC – Hatshepsut dies at the age of 50 and is buried in the Valley of the Kings. * 27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the R ...

– First successful docking of two crewed spacecraft in orbit and the first transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another (by a space walk) between Soviet craft Soyuz 5 and Soyuz 4. *

January 18 Events Pre-1600 * 474 – Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He dies ten months later. * 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople fail. * 1126 – Emperor Huizong abdicates the C ...

– Failure of Soyuz 5's service module to separate correctly causes a near-fatal re-entry (not publicly acknowledged until 1997) but the module makes a hard landing in the

Ural Mountains The Ural Mountains ( ),; , ; , or simply the Urals, are a mountain range in Eurasia that runs north–south mostly through Russia, from the coast of the Arctic Ocean to the river Ural (river), Ural and northwestern Kazakhstan.

. *

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 surren ...

– End of the siege of the

University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo (, abbreviated as in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era ins ...

, marking the beginning of the end for the 1968–69 Japanese university protests. *

January 22 Events Pre-1600 * 613 – Eight-month-old Heraclius 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 b ...

– Attempted assassination of Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet leader, by deserter Viktor Ilyin. One person is killed, several are injured;

Brezhnev Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (19 December 190610 November 1982) was a Soviet politician who served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982 as well as the fourth chairman of the Presidium ...

escapes unharmed. Very little is publicly admitted about the incident by the Soviet authorities at this time. *

January 27 Events Pre-1600 * 98 – Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor. * 945 – The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to become monks by Constantine VII, who becomes sole emperor of the ...

** Fourteen men, 9 of them

Jews Jews (, , ), or the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group and nation, originating from the Israelites of History of ancient Israel and Judah, ancient Israel and Judah. They also traditionally adhere to Judaism. Jewish ethnicity, rel ...

, are executed in

Baghdad Baghdad ( or ; , ) is the capital and List of largest cities of Iraq, largest city of Iraq, located along the Tigris in the central part of the country. With a population exceeding 7 million, it ranks among the List of largest cities in the A ...

for spying for

Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...

. ** Reverend

Ian Paisley Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, Baron Bannside, (6 April 1926 – 12 September 2014) was a loyalist politician and Protestant religious leader from Northern Ireland who served as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) from 1971 to 2008 and ...

, 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 is a Calvinist denomination founded by Ian Paisley in 1951. Doctrinally, the church describes itself as Fundam ...

is jailed for three months for illegal assembly. *

January 28 Events Pre-1600 *AD 98, 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 accessi ...

– 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill: A blowout on Union Oil'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, officially the County of Santa Barbara (), is a county located in Southern California. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 448,229. The county seat is Santa Barbara, and the largest city is Santa M ...

Southern California Southern California (commonly shortened to SoCal) is a geographic and Cultural area, cultural List of regions of California, region that generally comprises the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Its densely populated coastal reg ...

; 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 U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States. It borders Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michig ...

Senator A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or Legislative chamber, chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the Ancient Rome, ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior ...

Gaylord Nelson Gaylord Anton Nelson (June 4, 1916July 3, 2005) was an American politician 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 launched a new wave of en ...

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 through earthday.org (formerly Earth Day Network) includin ...

1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 1970 Tonghai earthquake, Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli ...

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 ( ; , ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, being home to more than 10 million people. It is also part of the List of urban agglomerations in Africa, largest urban agglomeration in Africa, L ...

Yasser Arafat Yasser Arafat (4 or 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), also popularly known by his Kunya (Arabic), kunya Abu Ammar, was a Palestinian political leader. He was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from 1969 to 2004, Presid ...

is elected

Palestine Liberation Organization The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO; ) is a Palestinian nationalism, Palestinian nationalist coalition that is internationally recognized as the official representative of the Palestinians, Palestinian people in both the occupied Pale ...

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 ...

** 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 p ...

explodes over Mexico. ** After 147 years, the last weekly issue of ''

The Saturday Evening Post ''The Saturday Evening Post'' is an American magazine published six times a year. It was published weekly from 1897 until 1963, and then every other week until 1969. From the 1920s to the 1960s, it was one of the most widely circulated and influ ...

'' is published in the United States. (The magazine is later briefly resurrected as a monthly magazine.) *

February 9 Events Pre-1600 * 474 – Zeno (emperor), Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire, Eastern Roman Empire *1003 – Boleslaus III, Duke of Bohemia, Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I ...

– The

Boeing 747 The Boeing 747 is a long-range wide-body aircraft, wide-body airliner designed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in the United States between 1968 and 2023. After the introduction of the Boeing 707, 707 in October 1958, Pan Am ...

"jumbo jet" is flown for the first time, taking off from the Boeing airfield at

Everett, Washington Everett (; ) is the county seat and most populous city of Snohomish County, Washington, United States. It is north of Seattle and is one of the main cities in the Seattle metropolitan area, metropolitan area and the Puget Sound region. Everett ...

. *

February 13 Events Pre-1600 * 962 – Emperor Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, Otto I and Pope Pope John XII, John XII co-sign the ''Diploma Ottonianum'', recognizing John as ruler of Rome. *1258 – Siege of Baghdad (1258), Siege of Baghdad: Hulegu Kh ...

–

Front de libération du Québec The (FLQ) was a Quebec separatist terrorist group which aimed to establish an independent and socialist Quebec. Founded sometime in the early 1960s, the FLQ conducted a number of attacks between 1963 and 1970,Reich, Walter. ''Origins of Terror ...

(FLQ) terrorists

bomb A bomb is an explosive weapon that uses the exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide an extremely sudden and violent release of energy. Detonations inflict damage principally through ground- and atmosphere-transmitted mechan ...

the

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. *

February 14 It is observed in most countries as Valentine's Day. Events Pre-1600 * 748 – Abbasid Revolution#Persian phase, Abbasid Revolution: The Kaysanites Shia#History, Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad ...

–

Pope Paul VI Pope Paul 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 State from 21 June 1963 until his death on 6 August 1978. Succeeding John XXII ...

issues ''

Mysterii Paschalis ''Mysterii Paschalis'' is an Ecclesiastical letter#Letters_of_the_popes_in_modern_times, 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 Rom ...

'', a ''

motu proprio In law, (Latin for 'on his own impulse') describes an official act taken without a formal request from another party. Some jurisdictions use the term for the same concept. In Catholic canon law, it refers to a document issued by the pope on h ...

'', deleting many names from the Roman calendar of saints (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 ...

–

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 sat ...

Berry L. Cannon dies of carbon dioxide poisoning while attempting to repair the SEALAB III habitat off San Clemente Island, California. *

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. ...

– 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. While the term ''sailor' ...

Mars probe is launched from the United States. *

February 28 Events Pre-1600 *202 BC – Emperor Gaozu of Han, Liu Bang is enthroned as the Emperor of China, beginning four centuries of rule by the Han dynasty. * 870 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople (Roman Catholic), Fourth Council of Co ...

– The 1969 Portugal earthquake hits

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it share ...

and

March

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 ...

** In

Toulouse Toulouse (, ; ; ) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Haute-Garonne department and of the Occitania (administrative region), Occitania region. The city is on the banks of the Garonne, River Garonne, from ...

, France the first

Concorde Concorde () is a retired Anglo-French supersonic airliner jointly developed and manufactured by Sud Aviation and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC). Studies started in 1954, and France and the United Kingdom signed a treaty establishin ...

test flight is conducted. **

Soviet The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the

Ussuri River The Ussuri ( ; ) or Wusuli ( ) is a river that runs through Khabarovsk and Primorsky Krais, Russia and the southeast region of Northeast China in the province of Heilongjiang. It rises in the Sikhote-Alin mountain range, flowing north and for ...

. *

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 ...

Apollo program The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program led by NASA, which Moon landing, landed the first humans on the Moon in 1969. Apollo followed Project Mercury that put the first Americans in sp ...

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the federal government of the United States, US federal government responsible for the United States ...

launches

Apollo 9 Apollo 9 (March 3–13, 1969) was the third human spaceflight in NASA's Apollo program, which successfully tested systems and procedures critical to landing on the Moon. The three-man crew consisted of Commander James McDivitt, Command Modul ...

(

James McDivitt James Alton McDivitt Jr. (June 10, 1929 – October 13, 2022) was an American test pilot, United States Air Force (USAF) pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut in the Project Gemini, Gemini and Apollo programs. He joined the USAF in ...

Rusty Schweickart Russell Louis "Rusty" Schweickart (also Schweikart; born October 25, 1935) is an American aeronautical engineer, and a former NASA astronaut, research scientist, United States Air Force, U.S. Air Force fighter aircraft, fighter pilot, as well as ...

David Scott David Randolph Scott (born June 6, 1932) is an American retired test pilot and NASA astronaut who was the List of Apollo astronauts#People who have walked on the Moon, seventh person to walk on the Moon. Selected as part of the NASA Astronaut ...

) 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 s ...

. ** In a

Los Angeles Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, ...

court,

Sirhan Sirhan Sirhan Bishara Sirhan (; ; born March 19, 1944) is a Palestinian-Jordanian man who assassinated Senator Robert F. Kennedy, a younger brother of American president John F. Kennedy and a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 1968 U ...

admits that he killed presidential candidate

Robert F. Kennedy Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also known as RFK, was an American politician and lawyer. He served as the 64th United States attorney general from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. senator from New Yo ...

. *

March 13 Events Pre-1600 * 222 – Roman emperor Elagabalus is murdered alongside his mother, Julia Soaemias. He is replaced by his 14-year old cousin, Severus Alexander. * 624 – The Battle of Badr, the first major battle between the Mu ...

–

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 s ...

. *

March 16 Events Pre-1600 * 1190 – Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York. * 1244 – Over 200 Cathars who refuse to recant are burnt to death after the Fall of Montségur. * 1355 – Amidst the Red Turban Rebellions, Han Lin'er, ...

– Viasa Flight 742 crashes into a neighborhood in

Maracaibo Maracaibo ( , ; ) is a city and municipality in northwestern Venezuela, on the western shore of the strait that connects Lake Maracaibo to the Gulf of Venezuela. It is the largest city in Venezuela and is List of cities in Venezuela by population ...

Venezuela Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It com ...

, shortly after taking off for

Miami Miami is a East Coast of the United States, coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade County in South Florida. It is the core of the Miami metropolitan area, which, with a populat ...

; 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 ...

Golda Meir Golda Meir (; 3 May 1898 – 8 December 1978) was the prime minister of Israel, serving from 1969 to 1974. She was Israel's first and only female head of government. Born into a Jewish family in Kyiv, Kiev, Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine) ...

becomes the first female prime minister of

. ** The Longhope life-boat is lost after answering a mayday call during severe storms in the

Pentland Firth The Pentland Firth (, 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 of the Old Nors ...

between

Orkney Orkney (), also known as the Orkney Islands, is an archipelago off the north coast of mainland Scotland. The plural name the Orkneys is also sometimes used, but locals now consider it outdated. Part of the Northern Isles along with Shetland, ...

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 Ar ...

– 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 Earth, totally or partially. Such an alignment occurs approximately every six months, during the eclipse season i ...

is visible in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and is the 49th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 129. *

March 20 Events Pre-1600 *1206 – Michael IV of Constantinople, Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. *1600 – The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden: five Swedish n ...

** 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 activist. He gained global fame as the founder, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles. Lennon's ...

and

Yoko Ono Yoko Ono (, usually spelled in katakana as ; 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 in Tokyo and moved to New York ...

are married at

Gibraltar Gibraltar ( , ) is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory and British overseas cities, city located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Bay of Gibraltar, near the exit of the Mediterranean Sea into the A ...

, and proceed to their honeymoon "

Bed-in A bed-in is a nonviolent protest against wars, initiated by Yoko Ono and her husband John Lennon during a two week period in Amsterdam and Montreal as an experimental test of new ways to promote peace. As the Vietnam War raged in 1969, artists On ...

" for peace in

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , ; ; ) is the capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has a population of 933,680 in June 2024 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the City Re ...

. *

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 – Æthel ...

** 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 history, art historian. Having curated more than 200 exhibitions, many of which have been characterized as groundbreaking, Szeemann is said to have helped red ...

, opens at the Kunsthalle Bern 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 Did ...

–

increases the number of Roman Catholic cardinals by one-third, from 101 to 134. *

March 29 Events Pre-1600 * 1430 – The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures Thessalonica from the Republic of Venice. * 1461 – Battle of Towton: Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England, bringing a ...

– The

Eurovision Song Contest 1969 The Eurovision Song Contest 1969 was the 14th edition of the 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 Union (EBU ...

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 – Avar–Byzantine wars: 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 army is decimated by the plague. * 1282 ...

– 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 the 34th president of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he was Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionar ...

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 government, seat of the United States Congress, the United States Congress, legislative branch of the Federal government of the United States, federal g ...

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), officially known as Walter Reed General Hospital (WRGH) until 1951, was the United States Army, U.S. Army's flagship medical center from 1909 to 2011. Located on in Washington, D.C., it served more ...

, Washington, D.C. *

March 31 Events Pre-1600 * 307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of the retired Roman emperor Maximian. * 1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging ...

– The Barroterán coal mine disaster kills 153 coal miners in

Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...

April

April 3 Events Pre-1600 * 686 – Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul. * 1043 – Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England. * 1077 – The Patriarchate of Friûl, the first Friulian state, is created. ...

– The

Mass of Paul VI The Mass of Paul VI, also known as the Ordinary Form or , is the most commonly used Catholic liturgy, liturgy in the Catholic Church. It was Promulgation (Catholic canon law), promulgated by Pope Paul VI in 1969 and its liturgical books were p ...

promulgated Promulgation is the formal proclamation or the declaration that a new statutory or administrative law is enacted after its final approval. In some jurisdictions, this additional step is necessary before the law can take effect. After a new law i ...

in the

Catholic Church The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwid ...

by the Pope. *

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 &nd ...

– Denton Cooley implants the first temporary

artificial heart An artificial heart is a artificial organ, device that replaces the human heart, heart. Artificial hearts are typically used as a bridge to heart transplantation, but ongoing research aims to develop a device that could permanently replace the ...

. *

April 7 Events Pre-1600 * 451 – Attila the Hun captures Metz in France, killing most of its inhabitants and burning the town. * 529 – First '' Corpus Juris Civilis'', a fundamental work in jurisprudence, is issued by Eastern Roman Em ...

– RFC series begins with Network Working Group RFC 1 on

ARPANET The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the first wide-area packet-switched network with distributed control and one of the first computer networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite. Both technologies became the tec ...

host software. *

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 – ...

– The

Montreal Expos The Montreal Expos () were a Canadian professional baseball team based in Montreal. The Expos were the first Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise located outside the United States. They played in the National League (baseball), National League ...

become

Major League Baseball Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league composed of 30 teams, divided equally between the National League (baseball), National League (NL) and the American League (AL), with 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada. MLB i ...

'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, ...

– Fermín Monasterio Pérez is murdered by the

ETA Eta ( ; uppercase , lowercase ; ''ē̂ta'' or ''ita'' ) is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the close front unrounded vowel, . Originally denoting the voiceless glottal fricative, , in most dialects of Ancient Greek, it ...

Biscay Biscay ( ; ; ), is a province of the Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Autonomous Community, heir of the ancient Lordship of Biscay, lying on the south shore of the Bay of Biscay, eponymous bay. The capital and largest city is Bilb ...

; the 4th victim in the name of

Basque nationalism Basque nationalism ( ; ; ) is a form of nationalism that asserts that Basques, an ethnic group indigenous to the western Pyrenees, are a nation and promotes the political unity of the Basques, today scattered between Spain and France. Since ...

. *

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 Guisca ...

– The EC-121 shootdown incident:

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 borders China and Russia to the north at the Yalu River, Yalu (Amnok) an ...

shoots down a US reconnaissance 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 ...

, 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 H ...

– Sirhan Bishara Sirhan 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 ( ; ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It has been #Descriptions, variously described as a country, province or region. Northern Ireland shares Repub ...

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 ...

. *

April 22 Events Pre-1600 * 1500 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil ( discovery of Brazil). * 1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico. * 1529 – Treaty of Zara ...

– English sailor Robin Knox-Johnston 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 victor ...

–

Charles de Gaulle Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French general and statesman who led the Free France, Free French Forces against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Re ...

steps down as president of

France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...

after suffering defeat in a referendum the day before.

May

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 ...

– The Battle of Dong Ap Bia, also known as Hamburger Hill, begins during the

Vietnam War The Vietnam War (1 November 1955 – 30 April 1975) was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam) and South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) and their allies. North Vietnam w ...

. *

May 13 Events Pre-1600 * 1344 – A Latin Christian fleet defeats a Turkish fleet in the battle of Pallene during the Smyrniote crusades. *1373 – Julian of Norwich has visions of Jesus while suffering from a life-threatening illness, v ...

–

May 13 Incident The 13 May incident was a period of violent racial conflict that erupted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 13 May 1969, following 1969 Malaysian general election, that year's general election. The clashes primarily involved the Malay Malaysians, Ma ...

Race riot This is a list of ethnic riots by country, and includes riots based on Ethnic conflict, ethnic, Sectarian violence, sectarian, xenophobic, and Racial conflict, racial conflict. Some of these riots can also be classified as pogroms. Africa A ...

s occur in

Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur (KL), officially the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, is the capital city and a Federal Territories of Malaysia, federal territory of Malaysia. It is the largest city in the country, covering an area of with a census population ...

Malaysia Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and thre ...

. *

May 14 Events Pre-1600 * 1027 – Robert II of France Robert II ( 972 – 20 July 1031), called the Pious () or the Wise (), was List of French monarchs, King of the Franks from 996 to 1031, the second from the Capetian dynasty. Crowned Juni ...

– Colonel

Muammar Gaddafi Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi (20 October 2011) was a Libyan military officer, revolutionary, politician and political theorist who ruled Libya from 1969 until Killing of Muammar Gaddafi, his assassination by Libyan Anti-Gaddafi ...

visits Mecca,

Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia. Located in the centre of the Middle East, it covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula and has a land area of about , making it the List of Asian countries ...

. *

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 usurpe ...

– An American teenager known as ' Robert R.' dies in

St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis ( , sometimes referred to as St. Louis City, Saint Louis or STL) is an Independent city (United States), independent city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It lies near the confluence of the Mississippi River, Mississippi and the Miss ...

, United States, of a baffling medical condition. In 1984 it will be identified as the earliest confirmed case of

HIV/AIDS The HIV, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that attacks the immune system. Without treatment, it can lead to a spectrum of conditions including acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). It is a Preventive healthcare, pr ...

North America North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere, Northern and Western Hemisphere, Western hemispheres. North America is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South Ameri ...

. *

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. *13 ...

–

Venera program The Venera (, 'Venus') program was a series of space probes developed by the Soviet Union between 1961 and 1984 to gather information about the planet Venus. Thirteen probes successfully entered the Venusian atmosphere, including the two ...

space probe

Venera 5 Venera 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 Venera 4 although it was ...

lands on

Venus Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It is often called Earth's "twin" or "sister" planet for having almost the same size and mass, and the closest orbit to Earth's. While both are rocky planets, Venus has an atmosphere much thicker ...

. *

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 explo ...

– Venera program: Soviet space probe Venera 6 begins to descend into

'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 47 ...

–

Apollo 10 Apollo 10 (May 18–26, 1969) was the fourth human spaceflight in the United States' Apollo program and the second to orbit the Moon. NASA, the mission's operator, described it as a "dress rehearsal" for the first Moon landing (Apollo 11, two ...

(

Gene Cernan Eugene Andrew Cernan (; March 14, 1934 – January 16, 2017) was an American astronaut, naval aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot. Cernan traveled into space three times and to the Moon twice: as pilot ...

, Tom Stafford, John Young) is launched. It is to be a full rehearsal for the

Moon The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It Orbit of the Moon, orbits around Earth at Lunar distance, an average distance of (; about 30 times Earth diameter, Earth's diameter). The Moon rotation, rotates, with a rotation period (lunar ...

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 h ...

–

United States National Guard The National Guard is a U.S. state, state-based military force that becomes part of the United States Armed Forces, U.S. military's reserve components of the United States Armed Forces, reserve components of the United States Army, U.S. Army a ...

helicopters spray skin-stinging powder on anti-war protesters in

California California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ...

. *

May 21 Events Pre-1600 * 293 – Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as '' Caesar'' to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy. * 878 – Syracuse, Sicily, is captured by the Muslim Aghlab ...

– ''

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 ...

'': Civil unrest breaks out in

Rosario Rosario () is the largest city in the central provinces of Argentina, Argentine province of Santa Fe Province, Santa Fe. The city, located northwest of Buenos Aires on the west bank of the Paraná River, is the third-most populous city in the ...

, Argentina, 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. ...

– Apollo program:

's lunar module flies to within 15,400 m of the

'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 ta ...

** The Andean Pact (Andean Group) is established. ** Apollo program:

returns to

Earth Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to Planetary habitability, harbor life. This is enabled by Earth being an ocean world, the only one in the Solar System sustaining liquid surface water. Almost all ...

, after a successful 8-day test of all the components needed for the upcoming first crewed

landing. *

–

June 2 Events Pre-1600 * 260 – Sima Zhao's regicide of Cao Mao: The figurehead Wei emperor Cao Mao personally leads an attempt to oust his regent, Sima Zhao; the attempted coup is crushed and the emperor killed. * 455 – Sack of Rome: ...

–

and

conduct their second

bed-in A bed-in is a nonviolent protest against wars, initiated by Yoko Ono and her husband John Lennon during a two week period in Amsterdam and Montreal as an experimental test of new ways to promote peace. As the Vietnam War raged in 1969, artists On ...

. The follow-up to the Amsterdam event is held at the

Queen Elizabeth Hotel Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth () is a historic grand hotel in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. With 950 rooms and 21 floors it is the largest hotel in Quebec, and the second largest Fairmont hotel in Canada after the Fairmont Royal York in Toronto. Lo ...

Montreal Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, and the List of North American cit ...

Quebec Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, ...

. 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, C ...

" 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 unde ...

– ''

Cordobazo The ''Cordobazo'' was a civil uprising in the city of Córdoba, Argentina at the end of May 1969. It occurred a few days after the '' Rosariazo'' protests erupted in the Santa Fe Province against the military dictatorship of General Juan Carlos ...

'': 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 an ...

. *

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 . * 1381 – ...

–

Riots A riot or mob violence 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 p ...

Curaçao Curaçao, officially the Country of Curaçao, is a constituent island country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located in the southern Caribbean Sea (specifically the Dutch Caribbean region), about north of Venezuela. Curaçao includ ...

mark the start of an Afro-Caribbean

civil rights Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' political freedom, freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals. They ensure one's entitlement to participate in the civil and ...

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 * 830 – Theodora is crowned Byzantine empress and marries then emperor Theophilos in the Hagia Sophia. She is credited with restoring orthodoxy and the icons. * 1086 – Tutush, brother of Seljuk sultan Malik Sh ...

– An international communist conference begins in

Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ...

. *

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 (born Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco Bahamonde; 4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish general and dictator who led the Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War), Nationalist forces i ...

orders the closing of the

Gibraltar–Spain border The Gibraltar–Spain border is the border, international boundary between the British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar and the Spain, Kingdom of Spain. It is also referred to as "The Fence of Gibraltar" () or si ...

and communications between

and Spain in response to the

1967 Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 6 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and Army of ...

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 Bridge in Washington, D.C. ...

. ** U.S. President

Richard Nixon Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until Resignation of Richard Nixon, his resignation in 1974. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican ...

and

South Vietnam South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam (RVN; , VNCH), was a country in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975. It first garnered Diplomatic recognition, international recognition in 1949 as the State of Vietnam within the ...

ese President

Nguyễn Văn Thiệu Nguyễn Văn Thiệu (; 5 April 1923 – 29 September 2001) was a South Vietnam, South Vietnamese military officer and politician who was the Leaders of South Vietnam, president of South Vietnam from 1967 to 1975. He was a general in the Repub ...

meet at

Midway Island Midway Atoll (colloquial: Midway Islands; ; ) is a atoll in the North Pacific Ocean. Midway Atoll is an insular area of the United States and is an unorganized and unincorporated territory. The largest island is Sand Island, which has housi ...

. 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 served as Prime Minister of France under President Charles de Gaulle from 19 ...

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 burn ...

– After a 23-game match,

Boris Spassky Boris Vasilyevich Spassky (; January 30, 1937 – February 27, 2025) was a Russian chess grandmaster who was the tenth World Chess Champion, holding the title from 1969 to 1972. Spassky played three world championship matches: he lost to Tigra ...

defeats

Tigran Petrosian Tigran Vardani Petrosian (; ; 17 June 1929 – 13 August 1984) was a Soviet-Armenian chess grandmaster and the ninth World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969. He was nicknamed "Iron Tigran" due to his almost-impenetrable defensive playing s ...

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 Northwestern Europe, off the coast of European mainland, the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...

and

Rhodesia Rhodesia ( , ; ), officially the Republic of Rhodesia from 1970, was an unrecognised state, unrecognised state in Southern Africa that existed from 1965 to 1979. Rhodesia served as the ''de facto'' Succession of states, successor state to the ...

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 – Amerigo Vespucci sights what is now Amapá State in B ...

– Gay intercourse is officially legalized in Canada. *

June 28 Events Pre-1600 *1098 – Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha, Kerbogha of Mosul at the Battle of Antioch (1098), battle of Antioch. *1360 – Muhammed VI, Sultan of Granada, Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid dynasty, Nas ...

– The

Stonewall riots The Stonewall riots (also known as the Stonewall uprising, Stonewall rebellion, Stonewall revolution, or simply Stonewall) were a series of spontaneous riots and demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of ...

, a milestone in the modern

gay rights movement Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) movements are social movements that advocate for LGBTQ people in society. Although there is not a primary or an overarching central organization that represents all LGBTQ people and their i ...

in the United States, began in

New York City New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive w ...

July

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 ''conquistad ...

– 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. * 1167 – The Byzantines defeat the Hungarian army ...

–

: The 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. * 142 ...

Football War The Football War (), also known as the Soccer War or the 100 Hour War, was a brief military conflict fought between El Salvador and Honduras in 1969. Existing tensions between the two countries coincided with rioting during a 1970 FIFA World ...

: After

Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, ...

loses an association football match against

El Salvador El Salvador, officially the Republic of 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 by the Pacific Ocean. El Salvador's capital and largest city is S ...

, 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 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, ...

, 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 defe ...

. ** The Act of Free Choice for

West Irian Western New Guinea, also known as Papua, Indonesian New Guinea, and Indonesian Papua, is the western half of the island of New Guinea, formerly Dutch colonial empire, Dutch and granted to Indonesia in 1962. Given the island is alternatively n ...

commences in

Merauke Merauke is a large town (''kelurahan'') and an administrative district (''distrik'') in Merauke Regency of South Papua Province, Indonesia. It is also the administrative centre of Merauke Regency, and is considered to be the easternmost city in I ...

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...

. *

July 16 Events Pre-1600 * 622 – The Hijrah of Muhammad begins, marking the beginning of the Islamic calendar. * 997 – Battle of Spercheios: Bulgarian forces of Tsar Samuel are defeated by a Byzantine army under general Nikephoros Ouran ...

–

Apollo 11 Apollo 11 was a spaceflight conducted from July 16 to 24, 1969, by the United States and launched by NASA. It marked the first time that humans Moon landing, landed on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and Lunar Module pilot Buzz Aldrin l ...

(

Buzz Aldrin Buzz Aldrin ( ; born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot. He made three extravehicular activity, spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, and was the Lunar Module Eag ...

Neil Armstrong Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aerospace engineering, aeronautical engineer who, in 1969, became the Apollo 11#Lunar surface operations, first person to walk on the Moon. He was al ...

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 Cape Canaveral () is a cape in Brevard County, Florida, in the United States, near the center of the state's Atlantic coast. Officially Cape Kennedy from 1963 to 1973, it lies east of Merritt Island, separated from it by the Banana River. It i ...

in Florida towards the first crewed landing on the

. *

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 ...

Chappaquiddick incident The Chappaquiddick incident occurred on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, United States, sometime around midnight, between July 18 and 19, 1969, when Mary Jo Kopechne died inside the car driven by United States Senator Ted Kennedy after h ...

: 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”) is a peninsula and occasional island off the eastern end of Martha's Vineyard. Norton Point, a narrow barrier beach, connects Martha's Vin ...

Massachusetts Massachusetts ( ; ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Maine to its east, Connecticut and Rhode ...

, 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 ...

. 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, 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, a Spain, Spanish archipelago off the Atlantic coast of Northwest Africa. the island had a population of that constitut ...

on January 20, 1969). *

Moon landing A Moon landing or lunar landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon, including both crewed and robotic missions. The first human-made object to touch the Moon was Luna 2 in 1959. In 1969 Apollo 11 was the first cr ...

: At 3:17 pm ET (20:17 UTC)

's 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

takes his first historic steps on the surface. ** 1969 Tour de France: Belgian

Eddy Merckx Édouard Louis Joseph, Baron Merckx (born 17 June 1945), known as Eddy Merckx (, ), is a Belgian former professional road and track cyclist racer who is the most successful rider in the history of competitive cycling. His victories include an ...

wins the cycle race for the first time. *

July 22 Events Pre-1600 * 838 – Battle of Anzen: The Byzantine emperor Theophilos suffers a heavy defeat by the Abbasids. *1099 – First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of ...

– Spanish dictator and head of state

appoints Prince Juan Carlos to be his successor as head of state following his death. *

July 24 Events Pre-1600 * 1132 – Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily. * 1148 – Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade. * 1304 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of S ...

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 The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

returns British lecturer Gerald Brooke to the United Kingdom freed from a Soviet prison in exchange for their spies Peter and Helen Kroger ( Morris and

Lona Cohen Lona Cohen (, ''Leontina Vladislavovna Koen''; January 11, 1913 – December 23, 1992), born Leontine Theresa Petka, also known as Helen Kroger, was an American who spied for the Soviet Union. She is known for her role in smuggling atomic bomb ...

). *

July 26 Events Pre-1600 * 657 – First Fitna: In the Battle of Siffin, troops led by Ali ibn Abu Talib clash with those led by Muawiyah I. * 811 – Battle of Pliska: Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros I is killed and his heir Staurakios is seri ...

– A 6.4 earthquake shakes the Chinese city of

Yangjiang Yangjiang (), alternately romanized via Cantonese as Yeungkong, is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Guangdong Province in the People's Republic of China. It borders Maoming to the west, Yunfu to the north, Jiangmen to the east, and loo ...

destroying thousands of homes and killing 3,000 people. *

July 30 Events Pre-1600 * 762 – Baghdad is founded. * 1419 – First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council. * 1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay I ...

–

: U.S. President

makes an unscheduled visit to

, meeting with President

and U.S. military commanders. * July 31 –

arrives in

Entebbe Entebbe is a city in Central Region, Uganda, Central Uganda which is located on Lake Victoria peninsula, approximately southwest of the Ugandan capital city, Kampala. Entebbe was once the seat of government for the Protectorate of Uganda pri ...

Uganda Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the ...

for the first visit by a reigning

Pope The pope is the bishop of Rome and the Head of the Church#Catholic Church, visible head of the worldwide Catholic Church. He is also known as the supreme pontiff, Roman pontiff, or sovereign pontiff. From the 8th century until 1870, the po ...

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surfac ...

August

August 2 Events Pre-1600 *338 BC – A Ancient Macedonian army, Macedonian army led by Philip II of Macedon, Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes, Greece, Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC), Battle of Chaeronea, secu ...

– U.S. President

visits

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

, becoming the first incumbent U.S. president to visit a

communist state A communist state, also known as a Marxist–Leninist state, is a one-party state in which the totality of the power belongs to a party adhering to some form of Marxism–Leninism, a branch of the communist ideology. Marxism–Leninism was ...

since the start of the

Cold War The Cold War was a period of global Geopolitics, geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 unt ...

. *

August 4 Events Pre-1600 * 598 – Goguryeo–Sui War#Course of the war, Goguryeo-Sui War: In response to a Goguryeo (Korean) incursion into Liaoxi, Emperor Emperor Wen of Sui, Wéndi of Sui dynasty, Sui orders his youngest son, Yang Liang (assiste ...

–

: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, U.S. representative

Henry Kissinger Henry Alfred Kissinger (May 27, 1923 – November 29, 2023) was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the 56th United States secretary of state from 1973 to 1977 and the 7th National Security Advisor (United States), natio ...

and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. They eventually fail since the two sides cannot agree to any terms. *

August 5 Events Pre-1600 * AD 25 – Guangwu claims the throne as Emperor of China, restoring the Han dynasty after the collapse of the short-lived Xin dynasty. * 70 – Fires resulting from the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem are ...

–

Mariner program The Mariner program was conducted by the American space agency NASA to explore other planets. Between 1962 and late 1973, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) designed and built 10 robotic interplanetary probes named Mariner to explore the in ...

Mariner 7 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. While the term ''sailor'' ...

makes its closest fly-by of

Mars Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. It is also known as the "Red Planet", because of its orange-red appearance. Mars is a desert-like rocky planet with a tenuous carbon dioxide () atmosphere. At the average surface level the atmosph ...

(). *

August 9 Events Pre-1600 *48 BC – Caesar's Civil War: Battle of Pharsalus: Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt. * 378 – Gothic War: Battle of Adrianople: A large Roman army led by Emperor Vale ...

– On orders from

Charles Manson Charles Milles Manson (; November 12, 1934 – November 19, 2017) was an American criminal, cult leader, and musician who led the Manson Family, a cult based in California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Some cult members committed a Manson ...

, members of the Manson Family invade the Los Angeles home of film director

Roman Polanski Raymond Roman Thierry Polański (; born 18 August 1933) is a Polish and French filmmaker and actor. He is the recipient of List of awards and nominations received by Roman Polanski, numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, three Britis ...

, and murder his pregnant wife, the actress Sharon Tate, and four others. *

August 10 Events Pre-1600 * 654 – Pope Eugene I elected to succeed Martinus I. * 955 – Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats the Magyars, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West. * 991 – Battle of Maldon: T ...

– A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of the Manson Family kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca in Los Angeles. *

August 13 Events Pre-1600 * 29 BC – Octavian holds the first of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate the victory over the Dalmatian tribes. * 523 – John I becomes the new Pope after the death of Pope Hormisdas. * 554 &ndash ...

– Serious border clashes occur between the

and the People's Republic of China. *

August 14 Events Pre-1600 * 74 BC – A group of officials, led by the Western Han minister Huo Guang, present articles of impeachment against the new emperor, Liu He, to the imperial regent, Empress Dowager Shangguan. * 29 BC – Octavian ...

–

The Troubles The Troubles () were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland conflict, it began in the late 1960s and is usually deemed t ...

: British troops are deployed in

to restore order following three days of political and sectarian violence, marking the beginning of the 37-year

Operation Banner Operation Banner was the operational name for the British Armed Forces' operation in Northern Ireland from 1969 to 2007, as part of the Troubles. It was the longest continuous deployment in British military history. The British Army was initia ...

. *

August 15 Events Pre-1600 * 636 – Arab–Byzantine wars: The Battle of Yarmouk between the Byzantine Empire and the Rashidun Caliphate begins. * 717 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik begins the Second Arab Siege of Consta ...

– 18 – The

Woodstock Festival The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held from August 15 to 18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, southwest of the town of Woodstock, New York, Woodstock. Billed as "a ...

is held near White Lake, New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era. *

August 17 Events Pre-1600 * 310 – Pope Eusebius dies, possibly from a hunger strike, shortly after being banished by the Emperor Maxentius to Sicilia (Roman province), Sicily. * 682 – Pope Leo II begins his pontificate. * 986 – Byzanti ...

– Category 5

Hurricane Camille Hurricane Camille was a powerful, deadly and destructive tropical cyclone which became the second most intense on record to strike the United States (behind the 1935 Labor Day hurricane) and is one of the four Category 5 hurricanes to make ...

hits the

Mississippi Mississippi ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Deep South regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the east, the Gulf of Mexico to the south, Louisiana to the s ...

coast of the United States, killing 248 people and causing US$1.5 billion in damage (1969 USD). *

August 21 Events Pre-1600 * 959 – Eraclus becomes the 25th bishop of Liège. *1140 – Song dynasty general Yue Fei defeats an army led by Jin dynasty (1115–1234), Jin dynasty general Wuzhu at the Battle of Yancheng during the Jin–Song War ...

– Australian

Denis Michael Rohan Denis Michael Rohan (1 July 1941 - 20 March 2013) was an Australian arsonist responsible for the Al-Aqsa mosque fire, which took place in Jerusalem on 21 August 1969. His attack on Al-Aqsa Mosque, which began after he set fire to the Minba ...

sets fire to the

Al-Aqsa Mosque The Aqsa Mosque, also known as the Qibli Mosque or Qibli Chapel is the main congregational mosque or Musalla, prayer hall in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City (Jerusalem), Old City of Jerusalem. In some sources the building is also n ...

in Jerusalem. *

August 29 Events Pre-1600 * 708 – Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708). * 870 – The city of Melite surrenders to an Aghlabid army following a siege, putting an end to Byzanti ...

– A

Trans World Airlines Trans World Airlines (TWA) was a major airline in the United States that operated from 1930 until it was acquired by American Airlines in 2001. It was formed as Transcontinental & Western Air to operate a route from New York City to Los Angeles ...

flight from Rome to Tel Aviv is hijacked and diverted to Syria.

September

September 1 Events Pre-1600 * 1145 – The main altar of Lund Cathedral, at the time the seat of the archiepiscopal see of all the Nordic countries, is consecrated. *1173 – The widow Stamira sacrifices herself in order to raise the siege of A ...

1969 Libyan coup d'état The 1969 Libyan revolution, also known as the al-Fateh Revolution or 1 September Revolution, was a coup d'état and revolution carried out by the Free Officers Movement (Libya), Free Officers Movement, a group of Arab nationalism, Arab nationali ...

: A bloodless coup in

Libya Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to Egypt–Libya border, the east, Sudan to Libya–Sudan border, the southeast, Chad to Chad–L ...

ousts King

Idris Idris may refer to: People * Idris (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname * Idris (prophet), Islamic prophet in the Qur'an, traditionally identified with Enoch, an ancestor of Noah in the Bible * Idris ...

and brings Colonel

to power. ** For Brazil, the

Jornal Nacional ; ) is the flagship television newscast of TV Globo. First airing on September 1, 1969, according to IBOPE ( Brazilian Institute of Public Opinion and Statistics), in the week of September 28October 4, 2015, it was the second most watched progra ...

was created on Monday, 1 September 1969. *

September 2 Events Pre-1600 * 44 BC – Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion. * 44 BC – Cicero launches the first of his '' Philippicae'' (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of ...

–

Ho Chi Minh (born ; 19 May 1890 – 2 September 1969), colloquially known as Uncle Ho () among other aliases and sobriquets, was a Vietnamese revolutionary and politician who served as the founder and first President of Vietnam, president of the ...

, the president of

North Vietnam North Vietnam, officially the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV; ; VNDCCH), was a country in Southeast Asia from 1945 to 1976, with sovereignty fully recognized in 1954 Geneva Conference, 1954. A member of the communist Eastern Bloc, it o ...

, dies at the age of 79. * September 5 – Lieutenant William Calley is charged with six counts of premeditated murder for the

1968 Events January–February * January 1968, January – The I'm Backing Britain, I'm Backing Britain campaign starts spontaneously. * January 5 – Prague Spring: Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Cze ...

My Lai Massacre deaths of 109

Vietnam Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende ...

ese civilians in My Lai,

. *

September 9 Events Pre-1600 *337 – Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans succeed their father Constantine I as co-emperors. The Roman Empire is divided between the three Augusti. * 1000 – Battle of Svolder, Viking Age. * 1141 &ndas ...

– Allegheny Airlines Flight 853, a

DC-9 The McDonnell Douglas DC-9 is an American five-abreast, single-aisle aircraft designed by the Douglas Aircraft Company. It was initially produced as the Douglas DC-9 prior to August 1967, after which point the company had merged with McDonnell A ...

airliner, collides in flight with a small Piper PA-28 airplane, and crashes near

Fairland, Indiana Fairland is a town in Brandywine Township, Shelby County, Indiana. The population was 315 at the 2010 census. History Construction of the Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and Lafayette Railroad began in 1849, and Fairland was platted in 1852. Isaac O ...

, killing all 83 people in both aircraft. *

September 11 Events Pre-1600 * 9 – The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends: The Roman Empire suffers the greatest defeat of its history and the Rhine is established as the border between the Empire and the so-called barbarians for the next four hu ...

– An

is visible in Pacific Ocean and South America, and is the 41st solar eclipse of Solar Saros 134. *

September 13 Events Pre-1600 *585 BC – Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Sabines, and the surrender of Collatia. *509 BC – The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hill ...

– ''

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!'' is an American animated comedy television series created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears and produced by Hanna-Barbera for CBS. The series premiered as part of the network's Saturday morning cartoon schedule on Septem ...

'' premieres on

CBS CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainme ...

, starting the ''

Scooby-Doo ''Scooby-Doo'' is an American media franchise owned by Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Entertainment and created in 1969 by writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears through their animated series, ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!'', for Hanna-Barbera (which wa ...

'' franchise. * September 22– 25 – An Islamic conference in

Rabat Rabat (, also , ; ) is the Capital (political), capital city of Morocco and the List of cities in Morocco, country's seventh-largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) and a metropolitan population of over 1.2 million. ...

, Morocco, following the al-Aqsa Mosque fire (August 21), condemns the Israeli claim of ownership of

Jerusalem Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. It is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest cities in the world, and ...

. * September 23 – China carries out an underground nuclear bomb test. *

September 25 Events Pre-1600 * 275 – For the last time, the Roman Senate chooses an emperor; they elect 75-year-old Marcus Claudius Tacitus. * 762 – Led by Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya, the Hasanid branch of the Alids begins the Alid Revolt ...

– The

Organisation of the Islamic Conference The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC; ; ), formerly the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, is an intergovernmental organisation founded in 1969. It consists of 57 member states, 48 of which are Muslim-majority. The Pew Forum on ...

is founded. *

September 26 Events Pre-1600 *46 BC – Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to Venus Genetrix, fulfilling a vow he made at the Battle of Pharsalus. * 715 – Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of Compiègne. * 1087 – William II is c ...

–

The Beatles The Beatles were an English Rock music, rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. The core lineup of the band comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They are widely regarded as the Cultural impact of the Beatle ...

release their eleventh studio album,

Abbey Road ''Abbey Road'' is the eleventh studio album by the English rock band the Beatles, released on 26 September 1969, by Apple Records. It is the last album the group recorded, although '' Let It Be'' (1970) was the last album completed before th ...

in the United Kingdom *

September 28 Events Pre-1600 *48 BC – Pompey disembarks at Pelusium upon arriving in Egypt, whereupon he is assassinated by order of King Ptolemy XIII. * 235 – Pope Pontian resigns. He is exiled to the mines of Sardinia, along with Hippolytus ...

–

1969 West German federal election Federal elections in Germany, Federal elections were held in West Germany on 28 September 1969 to elect the members of the 6th Bundestag. The CDU/CSU remained the largest faction and the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Social Democratic Part ...

: The

Social Democrats Social democracy is a social, economic, and political philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy and a gradualist, reformist, and democratic approach toward achieving social equality. In modern practice, s ...

, led by Vice Chancellor

Willy Brandt Willy Brandt (; born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm; 18 December 1913 – 8 October 1992) was a German politician and statesman who was leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from 1964 to 1987 and concurrently served as the Chancellor ...

, and the Free Democrats led by

Walter Scheel Walter Scheel (; 8 July 1919 – 24 August 2016) was a German statesman. A member of the Nazi Party who joined the Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP) in 1946, he first served in government as the Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and ...

, formed a coalition government with Brandt as Chancellor, after the Social Democrats severed their relationship with Chancellor

Kurt Georg Kiesinger Kurt Georg Kiesinger (; 6 April 1904 – 9 March 1988) was a German politician who served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1 December 1966 to 21 October 1969. Before he became Chancellor he served as Minister-President of Baden-Württembe ...

's Christian Democratic Union.

October

October 1 Events Pre-1600 * 331 BC – Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela. * 366 – Pope Damasus I is consecrated. * 959 – Edgar the Peaceful becomes king of all England, in succession to E ...

** In

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...

Olof Palme Sven Olof Joachim Palme (; ; 30 January 1927 – 28 February 1986) was a Swedish politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1969 to 1976 and 1982 to 1986. Palme led the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 until as ...

is elected Leader of the Social Democratic Worker's Party, replacing

Tage Erlander Tage Fritjof Erlander (; 13 June 1901 – 21 June 1985) was a Swedish politician and statesman who served as the Prime Minister of Sweden and leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, Social Democratic Party from 1946 to 1969. Previously, h ...

Prime Minister A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. A prime minister is not the head of state, but r ...

October 14 Events Pre-1600 *1066 – The Norman conquest of England begins with the Battle of Hastings. *1322 – Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at the Battle of Old Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's in ...

. ** The

Beijing Subway The Beijing Subway is the rapid transit system of Beijing Direct-controlled municipality, Municipality that consists of 29 lines including 24 rapid transit lines, two airport rail links, one maglev line and two light rail, light rail tram line ...

begins operation. *

October 2 Events Pre-1600 * 829 – Theophilos succeeds his father Michael II as Byzantine Emperor. * 939 – Battle of Andernach: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, crushes a rebellion against his rule, by a coalition of Eberhard of Franconia an ...

– A 1.2 megaton thermonuclear device is tested at Amchitka Island,

Alaska Alaska ( ) is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America. Part of the Western United States region, it is one of the two non-contiguous U.S. states, alongside Hawaii. Alaska is also considered to be the north ...

. This test is code-named Project Milrow, the 11th test of the Operation Mandrel 1969–

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 Events Pre-1600 * 610 – Heraclius arrives at Constantinople, kills Byzantine Emperor Phocas, and becomes emperor. * 816 – King Louis the Pious is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by the Pope. * 869 – The Fourth Co ...

– ''

Sazae-san is a Japanese ''yonkoma'' manga series written and illustrated by Machiko Hasegawa. It was first published in Hasegawa's local paper, the , on April 22, 1946. When the ''Asahi Shimbun'' wished to have Hasegawa draw the four-panel comic for ...

'' first airs on

Fuji Television JOCX-DTV (channel 8), branded as or , is a Japanese television station that serves the Kantō region as the flagship (broadcasting), flagship station of the Fuji News Network (FNN) and the Fuji Network System (FNS). The station is owned-and- ...

. *

October 9 Events Pre-1600 * 768 – Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned kings of the Franks. * 1238 – James I of Aragon founds the Kingdom of Valencia. * 1410 – The first known mention of the Prague astronomical clock. * 1446 &ndash ...

– 12 – Days of Rage: In

Chicago Chicago is the List of municipalities in Illinois, most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of Unite ...

, 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 – ** DZKB-TV, DZKB-TV Channel 9, the Philippines' sixth TV station, is launched. **

: 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. * October 21 **

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 electronic message is sent between two computers connected via

between University of California, Los Angeles and SRI International in California at around 10:30pm local time, the initial forerunning technology to the Internet.

November

* November 3 – Süleyman Demirel of Justice Party (Turkey), AP forms the new government of Turkey (31st government). * November 10 – The television series ''Sesame Street'' premiered on National Educational Television, becoming the most famous preschool television series of all time. * November 14 **

launches Apollo 12 (Pete Conrad, Richard F. Gordon, Jr., Richard Gordon, Alan Bean), the second crewed mission to the

. ** The SS United States, the last active United States Lines passenger ship, is withdrawn from service. * November 15 –

: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato (SSN-615), USS ''Gato'' in the Barents Sea. * November 17 –

: Negotiators from the

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 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

. ** Professional footballer Pelé scores his 1,000th goal. **

: A Cleveland, Ohio newspaper, ''The Plain Dealer'', publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai Massacre in

. ** 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

and Japanese Premier Eisaku Satō agree in Washington, D.C. to the return of Okinawa Prefecture, 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

link is established (the progenitor of the global Internet). * November 24 –

: The Apollo 12 spacecraft splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second crewed mission to the Moon.

December

* December 1 –

: 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

jumbo jet makes its first passenger flight. It carries 191 people, most of them reporters and photographers, from Seattle to

. * December 3 – Air France Flight 212 (1969), Air France Flight 212, a Boeing 707 registered as F-BHSZ, crashed shortly after takeoff from

killing all 62 occupants on board. The cause of the accident is not yet known since the Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA) did not publish an investigation report. It will not be released until 2029, sixty years after the accident. * December 6 – Killing of Meredith Hunter, Meredith Hunter is stabbed to death by Hells Angels at the Altamont Free Concert, an event which came to be viewed as the end of the hippie era and the de facto conclusion of late-1960s American youth culture. * December 12 – The Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan, Italy, kills 17 people and injures 88. * December 24 **

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

n, 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

* 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 *

– 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 *

** Jason Bateman, American actor, director and producer ** Dave Grohl, American rock drummer and composer * January 15 – Meret Becker, German actress and musician *

– Dead (musician), Dead, Swedish vocalist (d. 1991) * January 17 – Lukas Moodysson, Swedish film director *

– Dave Bautista, American pro wrestler and actor *

** Predrag Mijatović, Montenegrin footballer ** Robert Prosinečki, Croatian football player and coach *

** Cornelius (musician), Cornelius, Japanese rock musician, singer and producer ** Patton Oswalt, American stand-up comedian, writer, actor and voice artist *

– Kathryn Morris, American actress * January 29 – Hyde (musician), Hyde, Japanese rock musician, singer and guitarist * January 31 – Bill Huizenga, American politician

February

* 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 *

** Ahlam (singer), Ahlam, Emirati singer ** JB Blanc, French voice actor *

– Adriana Behar, Brazilian volleyball player * February 15 ** Roberto Balado, Cuban boxer (d. 1994) ** Birdman (rapper), Birdman, American rapper, entertainer, and record producer * February 21 ** James Dean Bradfield, Welsh singer-songwriter ** Bosson, Swedish singer-songwriter ** Petra Kronberger, Austrian alpine skier ** Tony Meola, American soccer player * February 23 ** Michael Campbell, New Zealand golfer ** Marc Wauters, Belgian cyclist *

** Robert Sean Leonard, American actor ** Pat Monahan, American singer

March

* March 1 – Javier Bardem, Spanish actor * March 4 ** Annie Yi, 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 *

– Susanna Mälkki, Finnish conductor * March 15 ** Kim Raver, American actress ** Timo Kotipelto, Finnish musician ** Yutaka Take, Japanese jockey *

– Markus Lanz, German-Italian television presenter *

– Alexander McQueen, British fashion designer (d. 2010) *

** Vasyl 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 *

– Tony Fadell, American engineer, 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 26 – Suroosh Alvi, Canadian journalist and filmmaker * March 27 ** Mariah Carey, American pop singer ** Kevin Corrigan, American actor ** Pauley Perrette, American actress *

– Rodney Atkins, American country music singer *

– Chiaki Ishikawa, Japanese singer (See-Saw (group), See-Saw)

April

* April 1 ** Fadl Shaker, Lebanese singer ** Andrew Vlahov, Australian basketball player * April 2 – Ajay Devgn, Indian actor, director and producer *

** 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 animal trainer (d. 2010) * April 18 ** Shannon Lee, Chinese-American actress ** Susan Polgár, Hungarian chess player *

– Marietta Slomka, German journalist * April 21 – Toby Stephens, English actor * 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 * April 27 – Cory Booker, US Senator from New Jersey

May

* May 1 – Wes Anderson, American filmmaker * May 2 ** Brian Lara, Trinidadian cricketer. ** Corinna Schumacher, German animal rights activist and accomplished horse rider * May 4 – Rabindra Prasad Adhikari, Nepalese politician (d. 2019) * May 5 – Hideki Irabu, Japanese baseball player (d. 2011) * May 6 – Jim Magilton, Northern Irish footballer * May 7 – Katerina Maleeva, Bulgarian tennis player * May 9 – Amber (Dutch singer), Amber, German musician *

– Dennis Bergkamp, Dutch footballer *

** Nikos Aliagas, French-born television host ** Buckethead, Brian Carroll (aka Buckethead), American guitarist *

– Cate Blanchett, Australian actress *

** David Boreanaz, American actor ** Tucker Carlson, American political commentator ** Steve Lewis (sprinter), Steve Lewis, American athlete * May 19 – Teresa Ribera, Spanish politician *

– Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist (d. 2000) *

– Siri Lindley, American triathlete * May 28 – Rob Ford, Canadian politician, 64th Mayor of Toronto (d. 2016)

June

– Takako Minekawa, Japanese musician, composer and writer * June 4 – Rob Huebel, American comedian *

– Brian McKnight, American musician * June 7 ** Alina Astafei, Romanian-German high jumper ** Prince Joachim of Denmark ** Kim Rhodes, American actress *

– 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 *

** Ice Cube, African-American rapper and actor ** Oliver Kahn, German football goalkeeper ** Jansher Khan, Pakistani squash player * June 16 – MC Ren, American rapper *

– 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 ** Noa (singer), Noa, Israeli singer ** Fernanda Ribeiro, Portuguese long-distance runner *

** Sissel Kyrkjebø, Norwegian singer ** Nicodemo Gentile, Italian lawyer and TV personality * June 30 – Sanath Jayasuriya, Sri Lankan cricketer

July

* 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 **RZA, American rapper and record producer *

** Sylke Otto, German luger ** Joe Sakic, Canadian hockey player ** Cree Summer, American-Canadian actress and singer *

– 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 *

– Billy Herrington, American gay pornographic actor (d. 2018) *

** Björn Dunkerbeck, Danish windsurfer ** Sahra Wagenknecht, German politician * July 17 ** Jason Clarke, Australian actor ** Ravi Kishan, Indian actor ** Kazuki Kitamura, Japanese actor *

– The Great Sasuke, Japanese wrestler *

** Josh Holloway, American actor ** Johnny Ngauamo, Tonga rugby union player * July 21 ** Avraam Russo, Russian singer ** Isabell Werth, German equestrian *

** 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 *

– Jennifer Lopez, American actress and singer * July 25 – Annastacia Palaszczuk, Australian politician, Premier of Queensland *

– Tanni Grey-Thompson, born Carys Grey, British Paralympian * July 27 ** Dacian Cioloș, 64th Prime Minister of Romania ** Bryan Fuller, American writer, producer, and director ** Pavel Hapal, Czech footballer ** Jonty Rhodes, South African cricketer ** Triple H, 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 *

– Simon Baker, Australian-American actor and director * July 31 – Antonio Conte, Italian football player and manager

August

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* August 1 – Graham Thorpe, English cricketer (d. 2024) *

** Jan Axel Blomberg, Norwegian drummer ** Fernando Couto, Portuguese footballer * August 3 – Anne Marie DeLuise, Canadian actress *

** 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 *

– 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 *

– Midori Ito, Japanese figure skater *

– Chris Pérez, American guitarist *

** Justin Broadrick, British musician ** Kevin Cheng, Hong Kong television actor and singer ** Bernard Fanning, Australian musician (Powderfinger) ** John Fetterman, American politician, Senator of Pennsylvania *

** Uhm Jung-hwa, South Korean singer and actress ** Christian Laettner, American professional basketball player ** 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 (d. 2023) * August 20 – Santeri Kinnunen, Finnish actor * August 23 – Jean-Marc Tellier, French politician * August 28 – Jack Black, American actor and musician *

– Lucero (entertainer), Lucero, Mexican singer and actress

September

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* September 3 – Robert Karlsson, Swedish golfer * September 4 ** Giorgi Margvelashvili, politician; 4th President of the Georgia (country), Republic of Georgia ** Noah Taylor, Australian actor ** Sasha (DJ), Alexander Paul Coe, Welsh DJ and record producer * September 6 ** Michellie Jones, Australian triathlete ** Cece Peniston, American musician * September 7 – Diane Farr, American actress * September 8 – Gary Speed, Welsh footballer and manager (d. 2011) * September 8 – Rachel Hunter, New Zealand model and actress * September 12 ** Ángel Cabrera, Argentine golfer ** Shigeki Maruyama, Japanese golfer *

** 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 **Keith Flint, English singer/dancer in the band The Prodigy (d. 2019) * September 19 – Simona Păucă, Romanian gymnast * September 21 – Billy Porter, American actor and singer * September 22 – Sue Perkins, English actress and comedian * September 24 – Shawn Crahan, American rock percussionist *

** Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (d. 2002) ** Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress ** Hal Sparks, American comedian, actor, musician, and political commentator * September 29 ** Erika Eleniak, American model and actress ** Aleks Syntek, Mexican singer and songwriter * September 30 – Jackie Traverse, Canadian artist and activist ** Chris Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1991)

October

** Zach Galifianakis, American actor and stand-up comedian ** Marcus Stephen, President of Nauru ** Igor Ulanov, Russian hockey player * October 3 ** Gwen Stefani, American singer, actress and television host ** Tetsuya (musician), Tetsuya, Japanese rock musician *

– 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 footballer * October 7 – Benny Chan (actor), Benny Chan Ho Man, Hong Kong actor *

** Jun Akiyama, Japanese professional wrestler ** PJ Harvey, British singer-songwriter ** Steve McQueen (director), Steve McQueen, English film director, producer and screenwriter ** Chan Chun Sing, Singaporean politician * October 10 ** Brett Favre, American football player ** Wendi McLendon-Covey, American actress * October 11 – Merieme Chadid, Moroccan born-French astronomer * 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 – Dominic West, English actor, director and musician * 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, 63rd 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 metal 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 footballer * October 26 – Sarina Wiegman, Dutch footballer and manager * October 28 ** Steven Chamuleau, Dutch cardiologist * October 30 ** Stanislav Gross, 5th Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (d. 2015) ** Snow (musician), Snow, Canadian reggae singer * October 31 – Kim Rossi Stuart, Italian actor and director

November

* November 1 – Gary Alexander (basketball), Gary Alexander, American basketball player * November 2 ** Reginald Arvizu (aka Fieldy Snuts), American bassist ** Madhushree, Indian playback singer * 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 14 ** Butch Walker, American musician ** Daniel Abraham (author), Daniel Abraham, American novelist, author, screenwriter, and producer * November 17 – Jean-Michel Saive, Belgian table tennis player * November 18 ** Sam Cassell, American basketball player ** Ahmed Helmy, Egyptian actor * November 19 ** Ertuğrul Sağlam, Turkish football coach and former player ** Viktor Skrypnyk, Ukrainian football coach and former player * November 21 – Ken Griffey Jr., American baseball player * November 22 – Katrin Krabbe, German sprinter * November 23 – Robin Padilla, Filipino actor * November 24 – David Adeang, Nauruan politician * November 26 – Kara Walker, American artist * November 27 ** Elizabeth Marvel, American actress ** 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 Major League Soccer player ** Mariano Rivera, Panamanian-American professional baseball player * November 30 ** Trina Gulliver, English darts player ** Chris Weitz, American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor

December

* 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 9 ** Bixente Lizarazu, French footballer ** Jakob Dylan, American singer-songwriter * December 11 – Viswanathan Anand, Indian chess grandmaster * December 16 – Michelle Smith, Irish swimmer * December 17 ** Laurie Holden, Canadian and American actress, producer and human rights activist ** Chuck Liddell, American mixed martial arts fighter ** Ismail Qasim Naji, Somali politician * December 18 ** Santiago Cañizares, Spanish footballer ** Mille Petrozza, German-Italian rock vocalist and guitarist (Kreator) * December 19 ** Richard Hammond, British television presenter ** Lauren Sánchez, American news anchor ** Kristy Swanson, American actress * December 20 – Nicușor Dan, president of Romania * December 21 ** Julie Delpy, French-American actress ** Magnus Samuelsson, Swedish bodybuilder, World's Strongest Man * December 22 – Dagmar Hase, German swimmer * December 24 ** Pernille Fischer Christensen, Danish film director ** 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 * 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

* January 1 – Barton MacLane, American actor (b. 1902) * January 3 – Commodore Cochran, American Olympic athlete (b. 1902) *

– Paul Chambers, American jazz bassist (b. 1935) * January 6 – Shalva Nutsubidze, Georgian philosopher, historian, rustvelologist, literary critic, translator, and public figure (b. 1888) * January 8 – Albert Hill (athlete), Albert Hill, British athlete (b. 1889) * January 12 – Roberto Noble, Argentine politician, journalist and publisher (b. 1902) *

– Jan Palach, Czech student (b. 1948) *

– 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

* 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) ** C. N. Annadurai, Indian politician and List of chief ministers of Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (b. 1909) CN Annadurai

* February 5 – Thelma Ritter, American actress (b. 1902) *

– George "Gabby" Hayes, American actor (b. 1885) *

– Florence Mary Taylor, English-born Australian architect (b. 1879) *

– 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 ** King Saud 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

** 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 **Daniel E. Barbey, American admiral (b. 1889) **John Wyndham, English author (b. 1903) * March 14 – Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-American artist (b. 1898) * March 15 – Miles Malleson, English actor (b. 1888) * 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) *

–

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April

* 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) *

– FS Hussain, Pakistani aerobatic pilot who fought in World War II (b. 1924) * April 10 – Harley Earl, American designer and executive (b. 1893) *

– Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Queen consort of Spain (b. 1887) *

– 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 4 – Osbert Sitwell, Sir Osbert Sitwell, English writer (b. 1892) *

** Enid Bennett, American actress (b. 1893) ** Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (b. 1880) *

– Robert Rayford, American HIV/AIDS victim (b. 1953) *

– Camille Drevet, French anti-colonialist, feminist activist and pacifist (b. 1881) *

– William Lincoln Bakewell, American explorer (b. 1888) * May 23 – Jimmy McHugh, American composer (b. 1894) * May 24 – Mitzi Green, American actress (b. 1920) *

– 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) * May 28 – Rhys Williams (Welsh-American actor), Rhys Williams, Welsh actor (b. 1897)

June

* June 1 – Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian Olympic speed skater (b. 1904) * June 4 – Rafael Osuna, Mexican professional tennis player (b. 1938) *

– Robert Taylor (American actor), Robert Taylor, American actor (b. 1911) * June 11 – John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers of America (b. 1880) * June 12 – Aleksandr Deyneka, Russian painter and sculptor (b. 1899) * June 13 – Martita Hunt, Argentine-born British actress (b. 1900) * June 16 – Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, British field marshal and 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

* 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) *

- Roy Hamilton, American singer (b. 1929) *

– 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

– 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) *

** 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) *

– Nicolás Fasolino, Argentine Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1887) *

– Leonard Woolf, English writer (b. 1880) *

** Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German-American architect (b. 1886) ** Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888) * 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

, 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) ** Norman Manley, Premier of Jamaica (b. 1893) * 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 12 – Terry de la Mesa Allen, Sr., American general (b. 1888) * 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) *

– Nicolae Dăscălescu, Romanian general (b. 1884)

October

* 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) ** Ture Nerman, Swedish communist leader (b. 1886) * 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 21 ** Jack Kerouac, American author (b. 1922) ** Wacław Sierpiński, Polish mathematician (b. 1882) * October 22 – Vittorio Tur, Italian admiral (b. 1882) * October 23 - Tommy Edwards, American singer-songwriter (b. 1922) * October 26 – Gyula Mándi, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1899) * 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

* 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 M. Slipher, American astronomer (b. 1875) * November 12 ** William F. Friedman, American cryptanalyst (b. 1891) ** Liu Shaoqi, President of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898) * 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

* 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 7 ** Lefty O'Doul, American baseball player and restaurateur (b. 1897) ** Eric Portman, English actor (b. 1901) * December 8 – Karl Fiehler, German Nazi politician and mayor of Munich (b. 1895) * December 13 ** Spencer Williams Jr., American actor (b. 1893) ** Raymond A. Spruance, American 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 26 – Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin, French author (b. 1902)Louise Leveque de Vilmorin, French Novelist, Is Dead at 67
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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

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