March 18 » Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
April 2 » Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, Saint Petersburg.
April 14 » James Cash Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
May 31 » Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
October 24 » Guatemala's Santa María Volcano begins to erupt, becoming the third-largest eruption of the 20th century.
November 21 » The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeated the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39–0, in the first ever professional American football night game.
Day of death April 29, 1969
The temperature on April 29, 1969 was between 0.9 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 11.9 hours of sunshine (81%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 17 » Black Panther Party members Bunchy Carter and John Huggins are killed during a meeting in Campbell Hall on the campus of UCLA.
June 23 » Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren.
August 4 » Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuân Thuỷ begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.
October 21 » The 1969 Somali coup d'état establishes a Marxist–Leninist administration.
October 29 » The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
December 1 » Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.
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