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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.
May 9, 1969: excursion train on the Salt Lake, Garfield and Western Railway as part of the 1969 Golden Spike Centennial . May 1 – Semiconductor company AMD is founded. May 10 – Zip to Zap, a harbinger of the Woodstock Concert, ends with the dispersal and eviction of youth and young adults at Zap, North Dakota, by the National Guard.
June 3, 1969: Destroyer USS Frank Evans sliced in two by Australian carrier, 74 seamen killed June 20, 1969: Pompidou electeds new French President June 12, 1969: Niagara Falls "turned off" for five months on American Falls side June 22, 1969: Judy Garland dies of drug overdose. The following events occurred in June 1969:
The 1969 bombing was the first of several blasts that would be carried out by the "Weathermen" against American governmental buildings, and was the opener of the "Days of Rage" that coincided with the trial of the "Chicago Seven", who were on trial for conspiracy to incite a riot during the Democratic National Convention in 1968. Nobody was ...
The following events occurred in January 1969: ... The accident happened during operation of an aircraft engine ... For the first time in the history of ...
25 October – 1969 Australian federal election: The Coalition Gorton government is narrowly re-elected with a sharply reduced majority, defeating a resurgent Labor Party led by Gough Whitlam. 7 November – A Liberal Party leadership spill is held, with Prime Minister Gorton re-elected as party leader over challengers William McMahon and David ...
"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." That epic sentence was uttered by NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong from the surface of the moon 46 years ago and was broadcast around the world ...
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).