January 17 » El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
March 14 » Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the first national wildlife refuge in the US, is established by President Theodore Roosevelt.
July 20 » The Ford Motor Company ships its first automobile.
August 2 » The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Ottoman Empire begins.
November 17 » The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: The Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
December 16 » Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel in Bombay first opens its doors to guests.
Day of death August 2, 1969
The temperature on August 2, 1969 was between 15.8 °C and 30.9 °C and averaged 22.5 °C. There was 6.4 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 10.3 hours of sunshine (67%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 18 » United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay killing all 32 passengers and six crew members.
March 19 » The 385-metre-tall (1,263ft) TV-mast at Emley Moor transmitting station, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build-up.
June 23 » IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry.
August 9 » Followers of Charles Manson murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate (wife of Roman Polanski), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men's hairstylist Jay Sebring and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent.
October 21 » The 1969 Somali coup d'état establishes a Marxist–Leninist administration.
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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