April 20 » U.S. President William McKinley signed a joint resolution to Congress for declaration of war against Spain, beginning the Spanish–American War.
April 22 » Spanish–American War: The USSNashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
July 3 » A Spanish squadron, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, is defeated by an American squadron under William T. Sampson in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba.
July 4 » En route from New York to Le Havre, the SS La Bourgogne collides with another ship and sinks off the coast of Sable Island, with the loss of 549 lives.
August 13 » Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
September 21 » Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
Day of death March 22, 1969
The temperature on March 22, 1969 was between -1.7 °C and 5.2 °C and averaged 1.4 °C. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 14 » USS Enterprise fire: An accidental explosion aboard the USSEnterprise near Hawaii kills 28 people.
March 3 » Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
March 25 » During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).
April 9 » The first British-built Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford.
July 19 » Chappaquiddick incident: U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy crashes his car into a tidal pond at Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, killing his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne.
October 29 » The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
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