November 1969 in History

Events in History

Nov 12 Author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn expelled from the Soviet Writers Union

Nov 12 US army announces investigating William Calley for alleged massacre of civilians at Vietnamese village of My Lai in March, 19
Nov 14 2nd Vietnam Moratorium Day in US
Nov 14 Apollo 12 (Conrad/Gordon/Bean) launched for 2nd manned Moon landing
Nov 15 1st Jackson Five record to enter top 100 (I Want You Back)

Nov 15 An estimated 2 million people take part in the Vietnam War Moratorium demonstration across the United States

Nov 15 Wendy's Hamburgers, American fast food restaurant chains founded by Dave Thomas opens in Columbus, Ohio
Nov 16 1968 Mỹ Lai massacre of between 347 and 504 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by US soldiers is first reported
Nov 17 SALT-discussions open in Helsinki Finland
Nov 18 Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi assigned to the Tate and LaBianca murders, will eventually convict Charles Mason for orchestrating the killings
Nov 19 Apollo 12's Charles Conrad and Alan Bean become the 3rd and 4th humans on the Moon
Nov 20 Alcatraz Island, off San Francisco, is seized by militant Native Americans
Nov 21 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Nov 22 Isolation of a single gene announced by scientists at Harvard University
Nov 24 Apollo 12 returns to Earth
Nov 24 Lt William L Calley charged with massacre of over 100 civilians in My Lai Vietnam in March 1968, ordered to stand trial by court martial
Nov 24 West German President Heinemann visits The Netherlands
Nov 26 Lottery for Selective Service draftees bill signed by President Nixon
Nov 30 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

Nov 6 Colson Whitehead, American writer (The Underground Railroad, The Nickel Boys), born in NYC, New York
Nov 12 Ian Bremmer, American political scientist, born in Baltimore, Maryland
Nov 12 Johnny Gosch, American kidnap victim, born in Des Moines, Iowa
Nov 13 Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Dutch author
Nov 13 Lori Berenson, American criminal
Nov 15 Shane Mack, American politician
Nov 22 Katrin Krabbe, Neubrandenburg German DR, 100m/200m (World Champ 1991)
Nov 22 Marjane Satrapi, Iranian graphic novelist
Nov 26 Kara Walker, American artist (The Subtlety), born in Stockton, California

Nov 2 Marion Lloyd Vince, American fencer (National champion 1928, 31), dies at 63
Nov 4 Carlos Marighela, Brazilian politician and guerilla, shot by police at 57
Nov 5 Itih Walracen, Sudanese widow of author William Walraven, dies
Nov 8 Vesto Slipher, American astronomer who provided the first evidence to support the expanding-universe theory, dies at 93
Nov 10 Tadeusz Peiper, Polish poet, dies at 78
Nov 15 Ignacio Aldecoa, Spanish writer (Gran Sol, Caballo the Pica), dies at 44

Nov 18 American businessman, diplomat and father of JFK, RFK and Teddy, dies at 81

Nov 21 Mutesa II of Buganda, President of Uganda (1924)
Nov 21 Norman Lindsay, Australian artist and novelist (The Magic Pudding), dies at 90 [1]
Nov 27 Armand Bernier, Belgian poet (Sorcier Triste), dies at 67
Nov 28 Elbert Frank Cox, African-American mathematician (first African-American to receive PhD in Mathematics), dies at 73