May 26 » Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
June 4 » Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
July 28 » The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
August 17 » Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.
September 21 » Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan: British forces under the command of Horatio Kitchener take Dongola.
December 30 » Canadian ice hockey player Ernie McLea scores the first hat-trick in Stanley Cup play, and the Cup-winning goal as the Montreal Victorias defeat the Winnipeg Victorias 6–5.
Day of death February 11, 1969
The temperature on February 11, 1969 was between -8.1 °C and -0.2 °C and averaged -3.2 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 5.8 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
April 4 » Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
April 17 » Communist Party of Czechoslovakia chairman Alexander Dubček is deposed.
April 28 » Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.
June 3 » Melbourne–Evans collision: off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMASMelbourne cuts the U.S. Navy destroyer USSFrank E. Evans in half.
September 9 » In Canada, the Official Languages Act comes into force, making French equal to English throughout the Federal government.
November 19 » Association football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
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