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On October 6, 1969, the statue commemorating the policemen killed in the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago was blown up by a group including William Ayers. [7] The blast broke nearly 100 windows and scattered pieces of the statue onto the Kennedy Expressway below; [ 8 ] no one was ever arrested for the bombing. [ 9 ]
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.
The 1969 Students for a Democratic Society National Convention held in June of that year in Chicago, Illinois was the final convention held by the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). The gathering, which took place over June 18–22, was one of four conventions that officers and members of SDS attended each year.
July 16, 1969: Launch of Apollo 11 North America taken July 16 during the translunar part of the journey Apollo 11 , with Neil Armstrong , Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins , lifted off as scheduled from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A in Florida at 9:32 a.m. local time (1332 UTC).
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In “Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised),” which opened the Sundance Film Festival tonight on a note of heady historical exuberance, we see images from the 1969 ...
The 1969 Chicago Cubs season was the 98th season of the ... Throughout the summer of 1969, ... This event essentially "lit the fuse" to the Cubs' successful first ...
January 1969 events in the United States (1 C, 15 P) February 1969 events in the United States (1 C, 3 P) March 1969 events in the United States (1 C, 3 P)