April 7 » Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
October 1 » Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.
November 23 » King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to succeed him.
December 15 » Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre.
December 29 » Wounded Knee Massacre on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 300 Lakota are killed by the United States 7th Cavalry Regiment.
December 30 » Following the Wounded Knee Massacre, the United States Army and Lakota warriors face off in the Drexel Mission Fight.
Day of death September 28, 1969
The temperature on September 28, 1969 was between 2.2 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (83%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
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).
June 23 » IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry.
July 20 » A cease fire is announced between Honduras and El Salvador, six days after the beginning of the "Football War".
August 21 » Gap Inc. opened their first store in San Francisco, California.
September 14 » The US Selective Service selects September 14 as the First Draft Lottery date.
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