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1969 Calendar

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•  January 5, 1969 – Members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary damage property and assault occupants in the Bogside in Derry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. In response, residents erect barricades and establish Free Derry.
•  February 17, 1969 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rooster in Chinese astrology.
•  August 27, 1969 – Israeli commando force penetrates deep into Egyptian territory to stage a mortar attack on regional Egyptian Army headquarters in the Nile Valley of Upper Egypt.
•  September 1, 1969 – A coup in Libya brings Muammar al-Gaddafi to power.
•  September 5, 1969 – My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lt. William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
•  October 5, 1969 – The first episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus airs on BBC.
•  October 8, 1969 – The opening rally of the Days of Rage occurs, organized by the Weather Underground in Chicago, Illinois.
•  October 15, 1969 – Vietnam War; The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam is held in Washington DC and across the US. Over 2 million demonstrate nationally; about 250,000 in the nation’s capitol.
•  October 29, 1969 – The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
•  November 14, 1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second crewed mission to the surface of the Moon.

•  January 1, 1969 – Paul Lawrie, Scottish golfer
•  January 2, 1969 – Tommy Morrison, American boxer
•  January 12, 1969 – Margaret Nagle, American screenwriter and TV producer
•  March 15, 1969 – Gianluca Festa, Italian footballer
•  June 4, 1969 – Horatio Sanz, Chilean-born comedian
•  June 21, 1969 – Gabriella Paruzzi, Italian skier
•  July 4, 1969 – Wilfred Mugeyi, Zimbabwean soccer player
•  July 7, 1969 – Robin Weigert, American actress
•  October 28, 1969 – Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Puerto Rican screenwriter and producer
•  December 24, 1969 – Mark Millar, Scottish comic book writer