WHAT HAPPENED IN 1969.
Look what happened the 1969.

The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI. (21. November 1969)

Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to land on the Moon. (24. November 1969)

Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II. (1. December 1969)

Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot and killed in their sleep during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers. (4. December 1969)

The four node ARPANET network is established. (5. December 1969)

Meredith Hunter is killed by Hells Angels during a Rolling Stones concert at the Altamont Speedway in California. (6. December 1969)

An Olympic Airways Douglas DC-6 strikes a mountain outside of Keratea, Greece, killing 90—the worst crash of a DC-6. (8. December 1969)

U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers proposes his plan for a ceasefire in the War of Attrition; Egypt and Jordan accept it over the objections of the PLO, which leads to civil war in Jordan in September 1970. (9. December 1969)

Years of Lead: Piazza Fontana bombing – The offices of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in Piazza Fontana, Milan, are bombed. (12. December 1969)

The SALT I talks begin. (17. December 1969)

Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs. (17. December 1969)

Capital punishment in the United Kingdom: Home Secretary James Callaghan's motion to make permanent the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965, which had temporarily suspended capital punishment in England, Wales and Scotland for murder (but not for all crimes) for a period of five years. (18. December 1969)

The United Nations adopts the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. (21. December 1969)

Charles Manson is allowed to defend himself at the Tate-LaBianca murder trial. (24. December 1969)

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