Historical Events in April 1969

Apr 2 Milwaukee Bucks sign (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor)

Apr 3 Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start a policy of "Vietnamization", reducing American involvement
Apr 4 Haskell Karp receives the 1st temporary artificial heart, implanted by surgeon Denton Cooley at Texas Heart Institute in Houston
Apr 5 Massive anti-Vietnam War demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities
Apr 7 Dodgers' Bill Singer is credited with 1st official save, against Reds
Apr 7 Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material

Apr 7 Ted Williams begins managing Washington Senators, they lose to Yanks 8-4

Apr 12 Wales beats England, 30-9 at the National Stadium, Cardiff to clinch their 16th Five Nations Rugby Championship and 11th Triple Crown
Apr 13 33rd US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: George Archer wins his only major title, 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Billy Casper, George Knudson, and Tom Weiskopf
Apr 13 Closure of the Brisbane tramway network.
Apr 14 1st major league baseball game outside US played (Montreal Canada)

Apr 14 41st Academy Awards: "Oliver", Cliff Robertson & Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand win (1st ever tie for best actress)

Apr 17 Alexander Dubček forced to resign as first secretary of Czechoslovakia's Communist Party

Apr 17 Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating US Senator Robert F. Kennedy

Apr 17 The Band (formerly The Hawks), perform their 1st concert
Apr 17 People's Democracy activist Bernadette Devlin becomes the youngest woman Member of Parliament ever elected to Westminster at 21 years old
Apr 18 Greek actress and activist Melina Mercouri establishes Greek Aid Fund
Apr 19 Serious rioting in the Bogside area of Derry following clashes between Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association marchers and Loyalists and members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary
Apr 20 23rd Tony Awards: Great White Hope & 1776 win
Apr 20 Bombs planted by Loyalists members of the Ulster Volunteer Force and the Ulster Protestant Volunteers explode at Silent Valley reservoir in County Down and at an electricity pylon at Kilmore, County Armagh
Apr 21 73rd Boston Marathon: Yoshiaki Unetani of Japan wins in 2:13:49; American Sara Mae Berman 1st woman in 3:22:46 (unsanctioned)
Apr 21 The Ministry of Defence in London announces that British troops would be used in Northern Ireland to guard key public installations following a series of bombings
Apr 22 1st human eye transplant performed

Apr 22 Joe Frazier KOs Dave Zyglewick in 1 for heavyweight boxing title

Apr 22 Robin Knox-Johnston ends 312 day non-stop sailing
Apr 22 Bernadette Devlin, the youngest woman ever to be elected to Westminster, makes a controversial maiden speech in the House of Commons concerning the situation in Northern Ireland
Apr 23 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Jim Chestney

Apr 23 LA Laker Jerry West scores 53 points

Apr 23 Over 1000 square miles flooded in Shantung Province, China
Apr 23 Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy
Apr 23 The Unionist Parliamentary Party votes by 28 to 22 to introduce universal adult suffrage in local government elections in Northern Ireland; the demand for 'one man, one vote' had been one of the most powerful slogans of the civil rights movement
Apr 24 Marshall Lin Biao named Mao's designated successor as the sole Vice Chairman of the Communist Party of China
Apr 24 Lebanese army in battle with Palestinians

Apr 24 Paul McCartney says there is no truth to rumors he is dead

Apr 24 US B-52's drop 3,000 ton bombs at Cambodian boundary
Apr 24 Car firm British Leyland launch the Austin Maxi in Oporto Portugal
Apr 24 Loyalist members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and the Ulster Protestant Volunteers (UPV) explode a bomb at a water pipeline between Lough Neagh and Belfast, Northern Ireland
Apr 25 5,400th & last episode of BBC Radio serial "The Dales" (formerly "Mrs Dale's Diary" )
Apr 26 "Celebration" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 110 performances
Apr 26 "George M!" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 435 performances
Apr 26 Firestone World Bowling Tournament (Mercury Open) won by Jim Godman

Apr 28 Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France

Apr 28 Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill resigns and is replaced later by James Chichester-Clark.

Apr 28 4th Academy of Country Music Awards: Glen Campbell and Cathie Taylor win