February 27 » Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.
March 7 » Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, inflict the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war, at Tweebosch.
March 18 » Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
April 18 » The 7.5 Mw Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 800–2,000.
June 24 » King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.
Day of death May 25, 1969
The temperature on May 25, 1969 was between 14.1 °C and 21.9 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (24%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
April 15 » The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board.
May 13 » May 13 Incident involving sectarian violence in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
July 20 » A cease fire is announced between Honduras and El Salvador, six days after the beginning of the "Football War".
October 9 » In Chicago, the National Guard is called in as demonstrations continue over the trial of the "Chicago Eight".
November 17 » Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki, Finland to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.
November 19 » Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
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