WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO OCTOBER 1969
Find out what all happened April to October 1969

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

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)

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

British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston wins the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race and completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world. (22. April 1969)

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

Race riots, later known as the May 13 Incident, take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (13. May 1969)

Vietnam War; The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam is held in Washington DC and across the US. Over 2 million demonstrate nationally; about 250,000 in the nation's capital. (15. October 1969)

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

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

Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the military dictatorship of Brazil in São Paulo, by robbing two banks. (9. May 1969)

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

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

The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation.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

The Zodiac Killer attacks two teens (one male, one female) at Blue Rock Springs in California; they were his second known victims. The female died. (4. July 1969)

General strike in Córdoba, Argentina, leading to the Cordobazo civil unrest. (29. May 1969)

A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. (10. August 1969)