Date: August 12, 1969
The Lonesome Cowboys police raid occurs in Atlanta, Georgia, leading to the creation of the Georgia Gay Liberation Front. Date: August 5, 1969 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 5 📅 Events on this day in 1969 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1969Queen Elizabeth 2 Maiden Voyage to…
The Piazza Fontana bombing; a bomb explodes at the headquarters of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura (the National Agricultural Bank) in Piazza Fontana in Milan, Italy, killing 17 people and wounding 88. The same afternoon, three more bombs are detonated in Rome and Milan, and another is found unexploded. Date: December 12, 1969 Read more on Wikipedia…
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 → 📅 Other events on January 17 📅 Events on this day in 1969 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1969Venera 5 Lands…
In the aftermath of the 1969 Malaysian general election, Sino-Malay sectarian violence erupts in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Date: May 13, 1969 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 13 📅 Events on this day in 1969 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1969Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 Crashes Near Gatwick,…
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 → 📅 Other events on January 19 📅 Events on this…
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 → 📅 Other events on December 9 📅…