January 1 » New York, New York annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The four initial boroughs, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and The Bronx, are joined on January 25 by Staten Island to create the modern city of five boroughs.
June 11 » The Hundred Days' Reform, a planned movement to reform social, political, and educational institutions in China, is started by the Guangxu Emperor, but is suspended by Empress Dowager Cixi after 104 days. (The failed reform led to the abolition of the Imperial examination in 1905.)
July 1 » Spanish–American War: The Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.
August 23 » The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London.
November 3 » France withdraws its troops from Fashoda (now in Sudan), ending the Fashoda Incident.
December 26 » Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
Day of death September 9, 1969
The temperature on September 9, 1969 was between 11.5 °C and 23.9 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (66%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
April 17 » Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.
May 26 » Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.
June 23 » IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry.
November 10 » National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts Sesame Street.
November 13 » Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, D.C. stage a symbolic March Against Death.
November 20 » Vietnam War: The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam.
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