Historical Events in July 1969

Jul 1 John Lennon and Yoko Ono are admitted to hospital after a car crash

Jul 4 140,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival featuring Led Zep and Janis Joplin

Jul 4 76th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Ann Jones beats Billie Jean King (3-6 6-3 6-2)

Jul 4 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Jul 4 The Ohio Fireworks Derecho kills 18 Ohioans and destroys over 100 boats on Lake Erie.
Jul 5 83rd Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Rod Laver beats John Newcombe (64 57 64 64)
Jul 5 Rolling Stones play a free concert in London's Hyde Park

Jul 6 Filming begins on "Ned Kelly" starring Mick Jagger

Jul 6 Frente Obrero y Liberacion (FOL) forms in Curacao
Jul 7 Canada's House of Commons approves equality of French-English language
Jul 7 German newspaper Der Spiegel reveals Bishop Defregger of Munich is a war criminal
Jul 8 US troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam
Jul 8 IBM CICS is made generally available for the 360 mainframe computer
Jul 9 Tom Seaver's no-hit bid against Cubs ends with 1 out in 9th
Jul 10 Chilean Association of Librarians created

Jul 11 David Bowie releases the single "Space Oddity" 9 days before Apollo 11 lands on the moon

Jul 11 Rolling Stones release "Honky Tonk Woman"
Jul 12 98th British Golf Open: Tony Jacklin shoots a 280 at Royal Lytham
Jul 12 As the 'marching season' reaches its height there is serious rioting in Derry, Belfast and Dungiven; many familles in Belfast are forced to move from their homes
Jul 13 Russia launches unmanned Luna 15 to Moon

Jul 13 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Ladies' Supertest Golf Open
Jul 13 North Ireland loyalist Ian Paisley addresses a crowd at Loughgall, County Antrim, and is reported to have said: "I am anti-Roman Catholic, but God being my judge, I love the poor dupes who are ground down under that system."

Jul 14 "Easy Rider", directed by Dennis Hopper, starring himself, Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson, is released

Jul 14 "Futbol War" between El Salvador and Honduras begins
Jul 14 WMUL (now WPBY) TV channel 33 in Huntington, WV (PBS) 1st broadcast
Jul 14 The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation.
Jul 14 A 67-year-old Catholic civilian dies after being attacked by RUC officers in Dungiven; many consider this the first death of 'the Troubles'
Jul 15 Cincinnati Red Lee May hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader
Jul 15 Rod Carew ties record with his 7th steal of home in a season

Jul 16 Apollo 11 launched, carrying 1st men to land on Moon
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Jul 20 1st Moon Landing: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin step out from Apollo spacecraft 11, 530 million watch live global broadcast

Jul 20 Carol Mann wins LPGA Danbury Lady Carling Golf Open
Jul 20 56th Tour de France won by Eddy Merckx of Belgium
Jul 21 Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to step on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT)
Jul 21 Russia's Luna 15 impacts moon after 52 lunar orbits

Jul 22 Aretha Franklin arrested for disturbing the peace in Detroit

Jul 22 USSR launches Sputnik 50 & Molniya 1-12 communications satellite
Jul 23 40th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 9-3 at RFK Memorial, Washington, D.C.
Jul 23 All star MVP: Willie McCovey (SF Giants)
Jul 23 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Jul 24 Apollo 11 returns to Earth
Jul 25 70,000 attend Seattle Pop Festival
Jul 25 Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of an accident a week after the Chappaquiddick car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne
Jul 26 Sharon Sites Adams, 39, becomes 1st lady to solo sail the Pacific

Jul 27 15th LPGA Championship won by Betsy Rawls

Jul 30 Barbra Streisand opens for Liberace at International Hotel, Las Vegas

Jul 30 KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting
Jul 31 KWIH TV channel 44 in Winona, MN (IND) begins broadcasting
Jul 31 Mariner 6 makes its closest approach to planet Mars at 3410 km
Jul 31 National Guard mobilizes in racial disturbances in Baton Rouge, Lousiana