WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO JULY 1969
Find out what all happened March to July 1969

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

Nigeria bans Red Cross aid to Biafra. (30. June 1969)

The International communist conference begins in Moscow. (5. June 1969)

Football War: after Honduras loses a soccer match against El Salvador, riots break out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers. (14. July 1969)

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

Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing. (26. May 1969)

Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean. (24. July 1969)

Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel. (17. March 1969)

Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure. (17. May 1969)

Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyen Van Thieu and U.S. military commanders. (30. July 1969)

Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy, Florida. (16. July 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)

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

The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board. (15. April 1969)

In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. He later unsuccessfully attempts to retract his plea. (10. March 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)

Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort. (3. April 1969)

After a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts drives an Oldsmobile off a bridge and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, dies. (18. July 1969)

The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation. (14. July 1969)