February 23 » Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing J'Accuse…!, a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
April 22 » Spanish–American War: The USSNashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
June 22 » Spanish–American War: In a chaotic operation, 6,000 men of the U.S. Fifth Army Corps begins landing at Daiquirí, Cuba, about 16 miles (26km) east of Santiago de Cuba. Lt. Gen. Arsenio Linares y Pombo of the Spanish Army outnumbers them two-to-one, but does not oppose the landings.
July 1 » Spanish–American War: The Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.
December 3 » The Duquesne Country and Athletic Club defeated an all-star collection of early football players 16–0, in what is considered to be the very first all-star game for professional American football.
December 10 » Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict.
Day of death June 20, 1969
The temperature on June 20, 1969 was between 7.5 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
March 13 » Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
June 3 » Melbourne–Evans collision: off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMASMelbourne cuts the U.S. Navy destroyer USSFrank E. Evans in half.
July 24 » Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
August 10 » A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
August 12 » Violence erupts after the Apprentice Boys of Derry march in Derry, Northern Ireland, resulting in a three-day communal riot known as the Battle of the Bogside.
December 9 » 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.
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