WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO AUGUST 1969
Find out what all happened April to August 1969

An Australian, Denis Michael Rohan, sets the Al-Aqsa Mosque on fire, a major catalyst of the formation of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. (21. August 1969)

Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet spaceprobe, lands on Venus. (16. May 1969)

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

Apollo program: Apollo 10 is launched. (18. May 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)

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

Apollo program: Apollo 11 successfully makes the first manned landing on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon almost 7 hours later. (US Time) (20. July 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)

The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N-1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad. (3. July 1969)

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

The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation.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

Mariner program: Mariner 7 makes its closest fly-by of Mars (3,524 kilometers). (5. August 1969)

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

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

The first British-built Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford. (9. April 1969)

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

A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. (10. August 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)

Melbourne–Evans collision: off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne cuts the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half. (3. June 1969)

A cease fire is announced between Honduras and El Salvador, 6 days after the beginning of the "Football War". (20. July 1969)