Honduras-El Salvador Football War Ceasefire Announced July 20, 1969
Date: July 20, 1969
Date: July 20, 1969
U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers proposes his plan for a ceasefire in the War of Attrition; Egypt and Jordan accept it over the objections of the PLO, which leads to civil war in Jordan in September 1970. Date: December 9, 1969 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on December 9 π …
Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire three days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest about the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turns into another major protest. Date: January 19, 1969 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on January 19 π Events on this…
Apollo program: Apollo 10 is launched. Date: May 18, 1969 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on May 18 π Events on this day in 1969 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1969Queen Elizabeth 2 Maiden Voyage to New York City, May 2, 1969Golda Meir Becomes Israelβs First Female Prime Minister,…
Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece. Date: March 28, 1969 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on March 28 π Events on this day in 1969 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1969Vietnam War Anti-War…
The Caravaggio painting Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence is stolen from the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo. Date: October 17, 1969 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on October 17 π Events on this day in 1969 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1969Giorgos Seferis Opposes Greek Junta…
Black Panther Party members Bunchy Carter and John Huggins are killed during a meeting in Campbell Hall on the campus of UCLA. Date: January 17, 1969 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on January 17 π Events on this day in 1969 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1969Ariana Afghan Airlines…