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August 13, 1969: Chicago ticker-tape parade for the crew of Apollo 11. The three Apollo 11 astronauts rode in ticker-tape parades in their honor in New York and Chicago, with an estimated six million attendees. On the same evening in Los Angeles there was an official state dinner to celebrate the flight, attended by members of Congress, 44 ...
Ticker tape parade for the Apollo 11 astronauts. 1964 July 16 – Operation Sail vessel crews. October 8 – Diosdado Macapagal, president of the Philippines. 1965 March 29 – Virgil "Gus" Grissom and John Young, following the Gemini 3 mission. May 19 – Chung Hee Park, president of South Korea. 1969
1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1969th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 969th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1960s decade.
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The tradition of the yearly parade, though, would be partially revived with parades held in 1969 and 1970.) Since China's opening and reform, the most prominent National Day celebrations have taken place in 1984, 1999, and 2009 at the 35th, 50th and 60th anniversaries respectively.
A Harlem Cultural Festival was first proposed in 1964 to bring life to the Harlem neighborhood. [3] At the same time, in the mid-1960s, nightclub singer Tony Lawrence began working on community initiatives in Harlem, initially for local churches, but from 1966 working under New York City Mayor John Lindsay and Parks Commissioner August Heckscher.
This year's parade airs on Thursday, November 28 at 8:30 a.m. ET on NBC. ... Sesame Street began airing in 1969. 1982: Woody Woodpecker flew high above Macy's. ... 2021: Broadway's cast of "Wicked ...
As the Massed Bands play the Parade March of the PLA, a special parade version of the Military Anthem of the People's Liberation Army, following the fly past of the national and party flags and the flag of the PLA, alongside, in special years, a helicopter formation honoring the number of years of nationhood, the ground column marches first as ...