A Year in History: Timeline of 1969 Events

Written by Tom Matthews

Summer of 1969 Events

Apollo 11 Moon Landings

On July 20th, Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon, one of the most historic cultural events in 1969. Apollo 11 landed with Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin. It was the fifth mission by NASA’s Apollo program. Whilst technology was defying gravity, David Bowie was soaring through the charts with Space Oddity. These are some of the most defining events during the summer of 1969.

July 20th: Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the Moon.

July 25th: In Chappaquiddick, a car driven by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy plunges off a bridge leading to the death of the passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne. Kennedy survives.

https://www.historic-newspapers.co.uk/blog/a-year-in-history-timeline-of-1969-events/

A lot of English people believed 1666 would be the year of the apocalypse. You can’t really blame them. In late spring 1665, bubonic plague began to eat away at London’s population. By fall, roughly 7,000 people were dying every week in the city. The plague lasted through most of 1666, ultimately killing about 100,000 people in London alone — and possibly as many as three-quarters of a million in England as a whole.

https://dnyuz.com/2020/03/29/what-social-distancing-looked-like-in-1666/