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USSR Venera 5 luanched for 1st successful planet landing on the planet Venus
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Led Zepplin release there debut album titled Led Zepplin.
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Richard M Nixon is inaugurated as president of the US.
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The Beatles performed their last ever public performance on the roof of the apple corps building in London. The only eyewitnesses were Apple staff and the film crew, though dozens of people could hear them in the surrounding buildings, and Savile Row below.
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A huge oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara, California closes the city's harbor.
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The Eurovision Song Contest 1969 is held in Madrid, and results in four co-winners, with 18 votes each, from Spain, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and France.
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An American teenager known as 'Robert R.' dies in St. Louis, Missouri, of a baffling medical condition. In 1984 it will be identified as the first confirmed case of HIV/AIDS in North America.
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Guided tours begin at the Kremlin and other government sites in Moscow.
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Melbourne-Evans collision: The Australian aircraft carrier Melbourne collides with the U.S. destroyer Frank E. Evans in the South China Sea; 74 U.S. sailors are killed.
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The Stonewall riots in New York City mark the start of the modern gay rights movement in the U.S.
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Vietnam War: The very first U.S. troop withdrawals are made.
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The Apollo 11 astronauts return from the first successful Moon landing, and are placed in biological isolation for several days, on the chance they may have brought back lunar germs. The airless lunar environment is later determined to preclude microscopic life.
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The Woodstock Festival is held in upstate New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era.
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The Woodstock Festival is held in upstate New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era.
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Ho Chi Minh, former president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam dies.
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Sesame Street premieres on the National Educational Television (NET) network.
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Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot dead in their sleep during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers.
