January 30 » The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
February 27 » Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.
March 18 » Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
April 2 » Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, Saint Petersburg.
April 18 » The 7.5 Mw Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 800–2,000.
December 10 » The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.
Day of death June 1, 1969
The temperature on June 1, 1969 was between 6.6 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (35%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
March 10 » In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King, Jr. He later unsuccessfully attempts to recant.
April 28 » Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.
September 9 » In Canada, the Official Languages Act comes into force, making French equal to English throughout the Federal government.
November 3 » Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon addresses the nation on television and radio, asking the "silent majority" to join him in solidarity on the Vietnam War effort and to support his policies.
December 1 » Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.
December 24 » Nigerian troops capture Umuahia, the Biafran capital.
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