January 13 » Émile Zola's J'accuse…! exposes the Dreyfus affair.
June 27 » The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
August 11 » Spanish–American War: American troops enter the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
August 13 » Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
September 21 » Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
October 14 » The steam ship SSMohegan sinks near the Lizard peninsula, Cornwall, killing 106.
Day of death June 13, 1969
The temperature on June 13, 1969 was between 11.6 °C and 27.0 °C and averaged 19.7 °C. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 12 » The New York Jets of the American Football League defeat the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League to win Super Bowl III in what is considered to be one of the greatest upsets in sports history.
January 19 » Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire three days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest about the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turns into another major protest.
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 9 » Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the military dictatorship of Brazil in São Paulo, by robbing two banks.
August 7 » Richard Nixon appoints Luis R. Bruce, a Mohawk-Oglala Sioux and co-founder of the National Congress of American Indians, as the new commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
November 3 » Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon addresses the nation on television and radio, asking the "silent majority" to join him in solidarity on the Vietnam War effort and to support his policies.
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