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| 1968 |
| | | The US astronauts in Apollo 8 are the first humans to see (and photograph) the sight of the earth rising above the moon's horizon | |
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| 1969 |
| | | At a congress in Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) | |
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| 1969 |
| | | On the death of Levi Eshkol, Golda Meir succeeds him as leader of a coalition government in Israel | |
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| 1969 |
| | | The Provisional IRA reintroduces terrorism to northern Ireland after Protestants attack a civil rights march | |
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| 1969 |
| | | The Anglo-French airliner Concorde makes its first supersonic test flight | |
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| 1969 |
| | | British artist duo Gilbert & George attract attention miming to Flanagan and Allen's Underneath the Arches | |
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| 1969 |
| | | English novelist John Fowles publishes The French Lieutenant's Woman, set in Lyme Regis in the 1860s | |
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| 1969 |
| | | Pakistan's president Ayub Khan hands over power to another general, Yahya Khan, who introduces martial law | |
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| 1969 |
| | | Peter Maxwell Davies writes Eight Songs for a Mad King for the Pierrot Players | |
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| 1969 |
| | | The first series of Monty Python's Flying Circus is broadcast on British TV | |
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| 1969 |
| | | Moscow imposes Gustav Husak as first secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, with the brief to reverse Dubcek's reforms | |
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| 1969 |
| | | President de Gaulle resigns after losing a plebiscite on government reform | |
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| 1969 |
| | | Georges Pompidou is elected president of France in succession to de Gaulle | |
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| 1969 |
| | | Paul Newman and Robert Redford star in the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | |
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| 1969 |
| | | US novelist Philip Roth publishes Portnoy's Complaint, a monologue in which the hero gives his psychoanalyst a frank description of his sexual frustrations | |
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| 1969 |
| | | The Stonewall riots in New York prompt a US campaign for Gay and Lesbian rights | |
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| 1969 |
| | | The Gang of Four achieve malign power during China's Cultural Revolution | |
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| 1969 |
| | | Space-traveller Billy Pilgrim suffers horrors in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five | |
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| 1969 |
| | | Mary Jo Kopechne drowns when US senator Edward Kennedy drives his car off the road on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts | |
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| 1969 |
| | | Neil Armstrong, commander of the US space mission Apollo 11, sets foot on the moon and says: 'That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.' | |
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| 1969 |
| | | British film director John Schlesinger makes Midnight Cowboy, starring Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight | |
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| 1969 |
| | | Russian chess player Boris Spassky beats Tigran Petrosian to become world champion | |
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| 1969 |
| | | 19-year-old rugby player J.P.R. Williams makes his debut for Wales in a match against Scotland | |
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| 1969 |
| | | Nearly half a million people turn up for the Woodstock Music Festival at a dairy farm in Bethel, New York | |
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| 1969 |
| | | Canadian author Margaret Atwood publishes her first novel, The Edible Woman | |
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| 1969 |
| | | Australian tennis player Rod Laver is the first to win the Grand Slam a second time | |
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| 1969 |
| | | Idris I, king of Libya, is deposed in a bloodless coup led by Muammar al-Gaddafi | |
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| 1969 |
| | | An engineer in the newly formed Intel Corporation designs the first programmable microchip | |
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| 1969 |
| | | Italian composer Luciano Berio completes his Sinfonia for eight voices and orchestra | |
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| 1969 |
| | | Willy Brandt, leader of the SPD (Social Democratic Party), becomes chancellor of Germany | |
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| 1969 |
| | | Scottish Grand Prix racing driver Jackie Stewart wins the first of his three world championship titles | |
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| 1969 |
| | | The Northern Irish player George Best is voted European Footballer of the Year | |
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| 1969 |
| | | The ARPANET, linking computers in four US cities, is the first step towards the internet | |
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