Historical Events In 1969

Jul 22 USSR launches Sputnik 50 & Molniya 1-12 communications satellite

Jul 07 Canada's House of Commons approves equality of French-English language across the country

Jul 04 140,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival featuring Led Zep & Janis Joplin

Jul 08 Thor Heyerdahl & reed raft Ra II land in Barbados 57 days from Morocco

Jul 27 Pioneer 10 launched

Jul 01 John & Yoko are hospitilized after a car crash

Jul 03 Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones drowns at 25

Jul 26 Sharon Sites Adams, 39, becomes first lady to solo sail the Pacific

Jul 22 Prince Juan Carlos named as the future king of Spain by General Franco

Jul 30 Barbra Striesand opens for Liberace at International Hotel, Las Vegas

Jul 14 "Futbol War" between El Salvador & Honduras begins

Jul 13 Russia launches unmanned Luna 15 to Moon

Jul 10 Chilean Association of Librarians created

Jul 20 Man first walks on the moon, brings back lots of rocks.

Jul 03 78,000 attend Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI

Jul 04 "Give Peace a Chance" by Plastic Ono Band is released in the UK

Jul 08 US troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam

Jul 31 Mariner 6 flies past Mars

Jul 20 At 10 56 p.m. EDT, American astronaut Neil Armstrong, nearly 240,000 miles from earth, spoke these words to millions listening at home

Jul 22 Aretha Franklin arrested for disturbing the peace in Detroit

Jul 31 National Guard mobilizes in racial disturbances in Baton Rouge, La

Jul 16 Apollo 11, carrying first men to land on the Moon, launched

Jul 21 Neil Armstrong steps on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT)

Jul 02 Leslie West & Felix Pappalardi form the rock group Mountain

Jul 11 David Bowie releases "Space Oddity"

Jul 21 Russia's Luna 15 impacts moon after 52 lunar orbits

Jul 24 Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in US Army on appeal

Jul 25 70,000 attend Seattle Pop Festival

Jul 05 Rod Laver wins his 4th Wimbeldon championship

Jul 02 Canadian National abandons Newfoundland passenger trains 101-102.

Jul 04 Ann Jones defeats Billie Jean King for Wimbeldon Ladies championship

Jul 19 Mary Jo Kopechne dies at 28, in Ted Kennedy's car

Jul 20 The first men on Moon, Neil Armstrong & Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11

Jul 20 At 10:56 p.m. EDT, American astronaut Neil Armstrong, nearly 240,000 miles from earth, spoke these words to millions listening at home

Jul 21 Neil Armstrong becomes the first human to set foot on the Moon

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