February 18 » Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
February 28 » The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted.
April 2 » The United States Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
May 22 » The Associated Press is formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative.
June 14 » Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
June 18 » Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
Day of death May 1, 1969
The temperature on May 1, 1969 was between 5.5 °C and 9.5 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
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.
March 18 » The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.
May 2 » The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 departs on her maiden voyage to New York City.
July 21 » Apollo program: At 02:56 UTC, astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to walk on the Moon.
August 21 » Gap Inc. opened their first store in San Francisco, California.
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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