Date: January 19, 1969
USS Enterprise fire: An accidental explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 28 people. Date: January 14, 1969 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 14 📅 Events on this day in 1969 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1969Manson Cult Murders Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, August 10, 1969Sirhan Sirhan…
Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module. Date: March 13, 1969 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 13 📅 Events on this day in 1969 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1969Hawker Siddeley Harrier Enters RAF Service, April 1, 1969EC-121 Shootdown: North Korea Downs U.S….
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…
Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the military dictatorship of Brazil in São Paulo, by robbing two banks. Date: May 9, 1969 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 9 📅 Events on this day in 1969 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1969Black Panther Party Members…
Vietnam War: U.S. president Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and U.S. military commanders. Date: July 30, 1969 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 30 📅 Events on this day in 1969 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1969Allegheny…
Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuân Thuỷ begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail. Date: August 4, 1969 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 4 📅 Events on this day in 1969 📅 On…