July 1 » Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
August 29 » The Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched.
October 1 » Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
October 31 » The Purdue Wreck, a railroad train collision in Indianapolis, kills 17 people, including 14 players of the Purdue University football team.
December 14 » The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
December 30 » A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.
Day of death February 21, 1969
The temperature on February 21, 1969 was between 2.9 °C and 4.9 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 16 » Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.
January 17 » Black Panther Party members Bunchy Carter and John Huggins are killed during a meeting in Campbell Hall on the campus of UCLA.
April 9 » The first British-built Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford.
May 20 » The Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ends.
June 22 » The Cuyahoga River catches fire in Cleveland, Ohio, drawing national attention to water pollution, and spurring the passing of the Clean Water Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.
October 8 » The opening rally of the Days of Rage occurs, organized by the Weather Underground in Chicago.
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