WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO MAY 1969
Find out what all happened February to May 1969

Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. (4. February 1969)

First test flight of the Boeing 747. (9. February 1969)

Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Ap Bia begins with an assault on Hill 937. It will ultimately become known as Hamburger Hill. (10. May 1969)

Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy. (17. April 1969)

The 385 metres (1,263 ft) tall TV-mast at Emley Moor, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build-up. (19. March 1969)

The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1. (7. April 1969)

Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module. (13. March 1969)

Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities. (5. April 1969)

The "Chicago Eight" plead not guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. (9. April 1969)

In Toulouse, France, the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted. (2. March 1969)

Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France. (28. April 1969)

People's Park: California Governor Ronald Reagan has an impromptu student park owned by University of California at Berkeley fenced off from student anti-war protestors, sparking a riot called Bloody Thursday. (15. May 1969)

At the U.S. Academy Awards there is a tie for the Academy Award for Best Actress between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand. (14. April 1969)

The Hawker Siddeley Harrier enters service with the Royal Air Force. (1. April 1969)

The McGill français movement protest occurs, the second largest protest in Montreal's history with 10,000 trade unionists, leftist activists, college students, and some McGill students at McGill's Roddick Gates. The majority of the protesters are arrested. (28. March 1969)

Apollo 10 's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon's surface. (22. May 1969)

The United States began secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam. (18. March 1969)

Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module. (3. March 1969)

Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece. (28. March 1969)

Soviet and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the Ussuri River. (2. March 1969)