* 1969 – Israeli commando force penetrates deep into Egyptian territory to stage a mortar attack on regional Egyptian Army headquarters in the Nile Valley of Upper Egypt.

The first manned flight of Apollo was in 1968 and it succeeded in landing the first humans on Earth's Moon in 1969 through 1972.

Kennedy's goal was accomplished on the Apollo 11 mission when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Lunar Module ( LM ) on the Moon on July 20, 1969 and walked on its surface while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the command spacecraft, and all three landed safely on Earth on July 24.

Landing men on the Moon by the end of 1969 required the most sudden burst of technological creativity, and the largest commitment of resources ($ 24 billion ), ever made by any nation in peacetime.

* 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.

The emergence of antibacterial resistance has prompted restrictions on antibacterial use in the UK in 1970 ( Swann report 1969 ), and the EU has banned the use of antibacterials as growth-promotional agents since 2003.

While touring Scandinavia he first joined forces with guitarist and singer Peter Thorup, together forming the band New Church, who were one of the support bands at the Rolling Stones Free Concert in Hyde Park, London, on 5 July 1969.

In 1969, the Roman Catholic Church assigned the feast to 26 January so as to celebrate the two disciples of Paul, Titus and Timothy, on the day after the feast of the Conversion of St. Paul.

Following the proposal of the Sentinel and Safeguard decisions on American ABM systems, the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks began in November 1969 ( SALT I ).

( Howerd went on to star in Up Pompeii !, a 1969 British television comedy series set in ancient Pompeii, as the slave Lurcio, whose character was based on Pseudolus.

The South Shore Mall Twin Cinema opened in 1969 and served as a prominent theater on the island until its closure in 1998.

In 1969, Spike Milligan based a BBC television series named The World of Beachcomber on the columns.

The New Curriculum, instituted in 1969, eliminated distribution requirements and allows any course to be taken on a satisfactory / no credit basis.

) The FCC ordered comparative hearings, and in 1969 a competing applicant, Boston Broadcasters, Inc. was granted a construction permit to replace WHDH-TV on channel 5.

US President Richard M. Nixon announced his new policy on biological warfare at a press conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on November 25, 1969.

During the January 1969 sessions for the Let It Be album, the Beatles played a slow impromptu version of " Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues " — although not written by Holly, it was popularized by him — with Lennon mimicking Holly's vocal style ; the recording was eventually released in the mid-1990s on Anthology 3.

Ian Anderson plays balalaika on two songs from the 1969 Jethro Tull album Stand Up: " Jeffrey Goes To Leicester Square " and " Fat Man ".

Canyon of Heroes during a ticker-tape parade for the Apollo 11 astronaut s on August 13, 1969

On the eve of the Apollo 11 launch, July 15, 1969, Abernathy arrived at Cape Canaveral with several hundred members of the poor people to protest spending of government space exploration, while many Americans remained poor.

( 1946 ); “ Essentials for Nigeria ’ s Survival .” ( 1965 ); “ Before Us Lies The Open Grave ” ( 1947 ); “ The Future of Pan-Africanism ” ( 1961 ); “ The Realities of African Unity ” ( 1965 ); “ Origins of the Nigerian Civil War ” ( 1969 ); I Believe in a One Nigeria ( 1969 ); Peace Proposals for Ending the Nigerian Civil War ( 1969 ); Dialogue on a New Capital for Nigeria ( 1974 ); “ Creation of More States in Nigeria, A Political Analysis ” ( 1974 ); Democracy with Military Vigilance ( 1974 ); “ Reorientation of Nigerian Ideologies: lecture on 9 December 1976, on eve of the launching of the UNN Endowment Fund ” ( 1976 ); Our Struggle for Freedom ; Onitsha Market Crisis ( 1976 ); Let Us Forgive Our Children, An appeal to the leaders and people of Onitsha during the market crisis ( 1976 ); A Collection of Poems ( 1977 ); Civil War Soliloquies: More Collection of Poems ( 1977 ); “ Themes in African Social and Political Thought ” ( 1978 ); Restoration of Nigerian Democracy ( 1978 ); Matchless Past Performance: My Reply to Chief Awolowo ’ s Challenge ( 1979 ); A Matter of Conscience ( 1979 ); Ideology for Nigeria: Capitalism, Socialism or Welfarism?

The concept of the Permanent Fund, originally championed in 1969 by then-governor Keith Miller and Anchorage Times publisher and editor Robert Atwood on the eve of the Prudhoe Bay oil lease sale, lay dormant for years as a result of the legislature spending the proceeds of the lease sale and construction delays associated with the pipeline.

The first phase of the Brazilian New Republic, from the inauguration of José Sarney in 1985 ( President Tancredo Neves fell ill on the eve of his inauguration so that he could not attend it ; his running-mate José Sarney was inaugurated as vice president and served in Tancredo's stead as acting president until Tancredo died, without having ever taken the oath of office, whereupon Sarney succeeded to the presidency ) until the inauguration of Fernando Collor in 1990 can be considered a still transitional period because, while the 1967 – 1969 constitution still remained in force the executive still had enormous powers and the president was able to legislate by means of decree-laws.

Parcham was shut down in June 1969 on the eve of parliamentary elections.

On 8 July 1969, the eve of the publication of Johnston's Clean Straw for Nothing, Clift committed suicide by taking an overdose of barbiturates in Mosman, a Sydney suburb.

* 1884 – Rómulo Gallegos, Venezuelan novelist and politician, 46th President of Venezuela ( d. 1969 )

'" The Southwest Florida Council was chartered in July 1969, and based on membership and units, it ranks 46th out of 306 councils in the United States.

It opened at the 46th Street Theatre on March 16, 1969 and ran for 1, 217 performances.

On June 21, 1969, RA 5864 was approved creating Pitogo as the 46th town of the province of Bohol with 23 regular barangays.

Leo Gorcey died from liver failure on June 2, 1969 at the age of 51, one day before his 52nd birthday.

Koenig, who had been on Nelson's organizing committee in 1969, has said that the idea came to him by the coincidence of his birthday with the day selected, April 22 ; " Earth Day " rhyming with " birthday ," the connection seemed natural.

Among his better known works are the Variations for Orchestra ( 1954 – 5 ); the Double Concerto for harpsichord, piano and two chamber orchestras ( 1959 – 61 ); the Piano Concerto ( 1964 – 65 ), written as an 85th birthday present for Igor Stravinsky ; the Concerto for Orchestra ( 1969 ), loosely based on a poem by Saint-John Perse ; and the Symphony of Three Orchestras ( 1976 ).

He died on November 18, 1969, two months after his 81st birthday.

He remained prominent in the philosophical community until his death in Basel on his wife's 90th birthday in 1969.

Shortly after he signed on as host of It's Your Bet in 1969, he was diagnosed with lung cancer and died in 1970, four months short of his 50th birthday.

Because of this, Studio Hergé brought out 500 numbered copies to mark the series ' 40th birthday in 1969.

" In Pope Paul VI's 1969 revision of the calendar, this latter feast was moved to Pope Saint Martin's dies natalis ( birthday to heaven ), and Saint Josaphat's feast was moved to that date, his own dies natalis.

Due to respiratory illness, Manley retired from politics on his birthday in 1969, and he died later that year, on 2 September 1969.

In 1969, Henry Ford II and Enzo Ferrari personally wished Michel Vaillant a happy 20th birthday.

On August 16, 1969, Santana played the Woodstock Festival, shortly after Shreive's twentieth birthday, but before the release of their eponymous first album ( 1969 ).

Many sources cite that Neil Young was released in January 1969 ; however, the album was originally released on November 12, 1968 ( Young's 23rd birthday ).

King Sr's youngest son, Alfred Daniel Williams King, died of an accidental drowning on July 21, 1969, nine days before his 39th birthday.

Gorcey died from liver failure on June 2, 1969, one day before his 52nd birthday.

General Coutts retired a day before his 70th birthday, September 20, 1969.

While no such solo album would eventuate until after the band's break-up, on 25 February 1969 ( his twenty-sixth birthday ), Harrison entered Abbey Road Studios alone and recorded a demo of " All Things Must Pass ", along with other recent compositions " Old Brown Shoe " and " Something ".

Robins made two further appearances for his own XI, against Oxford University in 1969 and against the Indians in 1971, the latter game coming a few days after his 57th birthday.

On April 15, 1969 ( Kim Il-Sung's birthday ), two KPAF MiGs shot down a USAF EC-121M Warning Star on an electronic intelligence mission 167 km off the east coast of North Korea, killing all 31 crewmen.