1 : 1969
2 : Events
2.1 : January-February
2.2 : March-April
2.3 : May-June
2.4 : July
2.5 : August
2.6 : September-October
2.7 : November
2.8 : December
2.9 : Ongoing events
3 : Year in topic
4 : Births
5 : Deaths
6 : Nobel Prizes
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s - 1960s - 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s
Years: 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 - 1969 - 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974
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Events
January-February
March-April
May-June
July
- July 7 - French is made equal to English throughout the Canadian national government
- July 14 - Football War - after Honduras lost a soccer game against El Salvador, rioting broke out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers. Of the 300,000 Salvadorean workers in Honduras, tens of thousands were expelled, prompting a brief Salvadoran invasion of Honduras. The OAS worked out a cease-fire on July 18, taking effect on July 20
- July 18 - Edward M. Kennedy drives off a bridge on his way home from a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts. Mary Jo Kopechne, an aide who was in the car with him, dies in the incident
- July 20 - Apollo program: The human race, represented by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, lands on the Moon. Apollo 11 lifted off for the moon on July 16 and returned safely on July 24
- July 25 - Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This was the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war
- July 30 - Vietnam War: US President Richard M. Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyen Van Thieu and with US military commanders
August
September-October
November
- November - Creation of ARPANET, the predecessor of the Internet
- November 3 - Vietnam War: US President Richard M. Nixon addresses his nation on television and radio asking the "silent majority" to join him in solidarity on the Vietnam War effort and to support his policies
- November 10 - Sesame Street premieres
- November 12 - Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre - Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story
- November 13 - Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, DC stage a symbolic "March Against Death"
- November 14 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the surface of the Moon (landed on the Moon on November 19)
- November 15 - Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea
- November 15 - Vietnam War: In Washington, DC, 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war
- November 17 - Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides
- November 19 - Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum ("Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon
- November 20 - Vietnam War: The Cleveland Plain Dealer publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai massacre in Vietnam
- November 21 - U.S. President Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato agree in Washington on the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972 Under the terms of the agreement, the US is to retain its rights to bases on the island, but these are to be nuclear-free
- November 21 - The first ARPANET link is established
- November 24 - Apollo program: The Apollo 12 spacecraft splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to the Moon
- November 28 - The Newcomers stopped airing on the BBC
December
Ongoing events
Year in topic
- 1969 in music
- The National Academy of Popular Music/Songwriters Hall of Fame founded.
- August 15 - August 17: The Woodstock Music and Art Festival was held at Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, near Woodstock. Although 10,000 or 20,000 people were expected, over 400,000 attended. Among the many artists who performed were Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, Joe Cocker, The Who, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and the Grateful Dead. The weekend was rainy, the facilities were overcrowded, and attendees shared food, alcohol, and drugs, although no violence was reported. The Woodstock Festival represented the culmination of the counterculture of the 1960s and the high point of the "hippie era."
- The #1 Song was "Aquarius (Let the Sunshine In)"
- Graffiti art had fully developed into an art form, with distinctive styles, trends and schools, by 1969; graffiti art is one of the four elements of hip hop, the musical form of which is influenced by the success of the Last Poets and similar artists, beginning in 1969
Births
- January 3 - Michael Schumacher, Formula One driver; six-time champion of that series
- January 5 - Marilyn Manson, singer
- January 14 - Jason Bateman, actor
- January 14 - David Grohl, drummer, composer
- January 16 - Roy Jones Jr., boxer
- January 20 - Skeet Ulrich, actor
- February 1 - Gabriel Batistuta, Argentine football player
- February 5 - Bobby Brown, singer
- February 9 - Gabby Hayes, actor
- February 11 - Jennifer Aniston, American actress
- February 11 - Bryan Eversgerd US baseball player.
- February 11 - Shannon Long Gladstone, Australian, Playboy magazine's playmate for October 1988
- February 12 - Hong Myung-Bo, South Korean football player
- March 1 - Javier Bardem, actor
- March 1 - Rob Janssen, baseball player
- March 19 - Connor Trinneer, actor (Star Trek: Enterprise)
- April 25 - Renée Zellweger, actress
- May 2 - Brian Lara, Trinidadian cricketer
- May 3 - Daryl F. Mallett, American author & actor
- May 7 - Eagle Eye Cherry, musician
- May 14 - Cate Blanchett, Australian actress
- May 15 - Emmitt Smith, American football player
- May 18 - Martika, Cuban-American singer
- May 26 - Alain Knaff, programmer
- June 14 - Steffi Graf, German tennis player
- June 15 - Oliver Kahn, German football player
- July 5 - John LeClair, American NHL star
- July 16 - Curtis Kenneth Haug
- August 13 - Midori Ito, Japanese figure skater
- August 18 - Edward Norton, actor
- August 18 - Christian Slater, actor
- August 19 - Matthew Perry, actor
- September 5 - Dweezil Zappa, actor, musician, eldest son of Frank Zappa
- September 13 - Shane Warne, Australian cricketer
- September 25 - Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (+2002)
- September 25 - Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
- October 3 - Gwen Stefani, No Doubt frontwoman
- October 10 - Brett Favre, American football player
- October 13 - Nancy Kerrigan, figure skater
- October 17 - Ernie Els, South African golfer
- October 19 - Trey Parker, co-creator of South Park
- October 20 - Juan Gonzalez, baseball player
- November 4 - Matthew McConaughey, American actor
- November 21 - Ken Griffey, Jr., baseball player
- November 29 - Mariano Rivera, baseball relief pitcher
- December 15 - Rick Law, illustrator, producer
- December 21 - Julie Delpy, actress
- December 28 - Linus Torvalds, Finnish programmer; original developer of Linux
Deaths
- January 4 - Violet and Daisy Hilton, conjoined twins, actresses
- January 19 - Czech student Jan Palach sets himself on fire in Wenceslas Square, Prague in protest at the communist regime and the USSR's occupation of the country.
- January 25 - Irene Castle, dancer
- January 29 - Allen Dulles, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
- February 4 - Thelma Ritter, actress
- February 11 - James Lanphier, actor.
- February 20 - Ernest Ansermet, conductor
- February 26 - Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of Israel
- March 4 - Nicholas Schenck, motion-picture empresario
- March 11 - John Wyndham, author
- March 26 - John Kennedy Toole, author
- March 27 - B. Traven, writer
- March 28 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, US General of the Army, 34th president of the United States
- May 14 - Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer
- May 19 - Coleman Hawkins, jazz musician
- June 21 - Maureen Connolly, tennis star
- July 18 - Mary Jo Kopechne, congressional staffer for Edward Kennedy
- August 9 - Sharon Tate, actress
- August 27 - Ivy Compton-Burnett, English novelist
- August 31 - Rocky Marciano, boxer, retired undefeated as world heavyweight champion
- September 2 - Ho Chi Minh, President of North Vietnam
- October 12 - Sonja Henie, Olympic and World Champion figure skater (b. 1912)
- October 12 – Serge Poliakoff, Russian painter
- October 21 - Jack Kerouac, US author
- October 21 - Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician
- October 30 - Pops Foster, jazz musician (b. 1892)
- November 12 - William F. Friedman, cryptanalyst
- November 15 - Iskander Mirza, first President of Pakistan
- December 5 - Her Serene Highness Princess Alice of Battenberg, mother of Prince Philip, consort of Queen Elizabeth II.
- December 31 - George Lewis, jazz musician (b. 1900)
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