WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO OCTOBER 1969
Find out what all happened August to October 1969

The US Selective Service selects September 14 as the First Draft Lottery Date. (14. September 1969)

The first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus airs on BBC One. (5. October 1969)

Violence erupts after the Apprentice Boys of Derry march in Derry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom resulting in a three-day communal riot known as the Battle of the Bogside. (12. August 1969)

The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is signed. (25. September 1969)

In Canada, the Official Languages Act comes into force, making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government. (9. September 1969)

Tran Thien Khiem becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam under President Nguyen Van Thieu. (1. September 1969)

The United Kingdom introduces the British fifty-pence coin, which replaces, over the following years, the British ten-shilling note, in anticipation of the decimalization of the British currency in 1971, and the abolition of the shilling as a unit of currency anywhere in the world. (14. October 1969)

Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail. (4. August 1969)

Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 DC-9 collides in flight with a Piper PA-28 and crashes near Fairland, Indiana. (9. September 1969)

Operation Banner: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland. (14. August 1969)

Woodstock rock and roll concert opens. (15. August 1969)

At a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan takes the photo that becomes the cover of the Beatles album Abbey Road, one of the most famous album covers in recording history. (8. August 1969)

The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet. (29. October 1969)

The Chicago Eight trial opens in Chicago. (23. September 1969)

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

A coup d'état in Somalia brings Siad Barre to power and establishes a socialist republic in Somalia. (21. October 1969)

A coup in Libya brings Muammar Gaddafi to power. (1. September 1969)

In Chicago, the United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection with the trial of the "Chicago Eight" that began on September 24. (9. October 1969)

Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time. (1. October 1969)