WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO JUNE 1969
Find out what all happened March to June 1969

Governor of Texas Preston Smith signs a bill into law converting the former Southwest Center for Advanced Studies, originally founded as a research arm of Texas Instruments, into the University of Texas at Dallas. (13. June 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)

Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the military dictatorship of Brazil in São Paulo, by robbing two banks. (9. May 1969)

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

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

General strike in Córdoba, Argentina, leading to the Cordobazo civil unrest. (29. May 1969)

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

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

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

Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart. (4. April 1969)

Race riots, later known as the May 13 Incident, take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (13. May 1969)

The Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ends. (20. May 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)

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

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

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

Czechoslovakian Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubček is deposed. (17. April 1969)

The respected Holy Quran recitor Shiekh Mohamed Siddiq El-Minshawi passes away. (20. June 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)

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