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September 26 – The Brady Bunch (1969–74) on ABC; September 29 Bright Promise (1969–72), the latter of the soap operas created by Frank and Doris Hursley, on NBC daytime; Love, American Style (1969–74) on ABC; October 5 Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969–74) on BBC1; Sazae-san (1969–present) as a kids' comedy on Fuji Television in Japan
July 20 All three commercial television networks broadcast a live transmission from the Moon, which was viewed by 720 million people around the world, with the landing of Apollo 11 ; at 10:56 p.m. EDT Neil Armstrong (followed soon afterwards by Buzz Aldrin ) steps onto the surface; viewers see a scan from broadcasts received at Honeysuckle ...
The live TV image. As the world watched on live television, Neil A. Armstrong piloted the descent of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle, and, at 4:17 in the afternoon EDT (2017 UTC), he and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first human beings to land on another world.
July 16 – Apollo program: Apollo 11 (Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins) lifts off from Cape Kennedy toward the first human landing on the Moon. July 17 – The New York Times publicly takes back the ridicule of the rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard published on January 13, 1920, that stated that spaceflight is impossible. [5]
1969 Libyan coup d'état: A bloodless coup in Libya ousts King Idris and brings Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to power. For Brazil, the Jornal Nacional was created on Monday, 1 September 1969. September 2 – Ho Chi Minh, the president of North Vietnam, dies at the age of 79.
The History Channel's original logo used from January 1, 1995, to February 15, 2008. In the station's early years, the red background was not there, and later it sometimes appeared blue (in documentaries), light green (in biographies), purple (in sitcoms), yellow (in reality shows), or orange (in short form content) instead of red.
Closest approach for Mariner 6 occurred July 31, 1969, at 05:19:07 UT at a distance of 3,431 kilometers (2,132 mi) [2] above the martian surface. Closest approach for Mariner 7 occurred August 5, 1969 at 05:00:49 UT [ 4 ] at a distance of 3,430 kilometers (2,130 mi) above the Martian surface.
1969 received positive reviews upon its publication. In a two-page article in USA Today on January 26, Craig Wilson commented, "The subtitle of his new book, 1969: The Year Everything Changed, may sound hyperbolic, but Kirkpatrick makes a good case that it was a year of 'landmark achievements, cataclysmic episodes and generation-defining events.'" [1] Booklist called it "A riveting look at a ...