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Total financial losses from the events was $8.35 million. October 2 – A 1.2 megaton thermonuclear device is tested at Amchitka Island, Alaska. This test is code-named Project Milrow, the 11th test of the Operation Mandrel 1969–1970 underground nuclear test series. This test is known as a "calibration shot" to test if the island is fit for ...
For Brazil, the Jornal Nacional was created on Monday, 1 September 1969. September 2 – Ho Chi Minh , the president of North Vietnam , dies at the age of 79. September 5 – Lieutenant William Calley is charged with six counts of premeditated murder for the 1968 My Lai Massacre deaths of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai , Vietnam .
1969 – Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the Moon on the Apollo 11 mission; 1969 – The Woodstock Festival in White Lake, New York, becomes an enormously successful musical and cultural gathering; a milestone for the baby-boom generation; 1969 – Warren E. Burger appointed Chief Justice of the United States to replace Earl Warren
Irregular employment was also a problem, with 20% of workers in 1969 unemployed for some period of time, a figure that rose to 23% in 1970. [58] Many people also had little or no savings by the end of the Sixties, with a fifth of the population in 1969 having no liquid assets, and nearly half the population having less than $500. [59]
January 20, 1969: Nixon inaugurated as 37th U.S. President January 14, 1969: USS Enterprise blast kills 27, injures over 300 January 28, 1969: Largest oil spill to date befouls California coast The following events occurred in January 1969 :
1969 in the United States by state or territory (54 C) 1969 events in the United States by month (12 C) 1969 disestablishments in the United States (40 C, 20 P)
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July 16, 1969: Launch of Apollo 11 North America taken July 16 during the translunar part of the journey Apollo 11 , with Neil Armstrong , Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins , lifted off as scheduled from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A in Florida at 9:32 a.m. local time (1332 UTC).