1969 @ Nostalgia Central

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16 - Czech student Jan Palach sets fire to himself in protest at the Soviet occupation of his country. He dies a martyr on 26 January

18 - South Vietnamese and National Liberation Front delegations join the Paris peace talks

20 - Richard Nixon is inaugurated as the 37th US President

27 - 14 men, most of them Jewish, are publicly hanged in Iraq on charges of spying for Israel

30 - The Beatles make their last ever live appearance on the roof of their Apple Corps HQ at 30 Savile Row, in London. Police are called in to stop the noise when neighbors complain

03 - Yassir Arafat is elected new leader of PLO

07 - In Australia, the Southern Aurora express train crashes into a goods train killing nine people

09 - The Boeing Jumbo Jet has its maiden flight

13 - Scientists in Cambridge (England) announce the first successful in vitro fertilization of a human embryo

18 - An Israeli airliner is attacked by Arab terrorists at Zurich airport. Six passengers are injured, one Arab is killed

02 - Sino-Soviet clash on frozen Ussuri river border

02 - Concorde's maiden flight from Toulouse, France

06 - London's East-End gang leaders Ronnie & Reggie Kray are sentenced to life imprisonment for murder

10 - James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King's killer, is jailed for 99 years

12 - Paul McCartney marries Linda Eastman at Marylebone Registry Office, London. The marriage is blessed at St John's Wood at Paul's local church

13 - George Harrison and his wife Patti are arrested after police find 120 joints at their London home

17 - Israel elects Golda Meir as Prime Minister

19 - British parachute troops take over the Caribbean island of Anguilla

20 - John Lennon weds Yoko Ono in Gibraltar

21 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono stage a "bed-in" for world peace in the Hilton Hotel, Amsterdam

25 - President Ayub Khan of Pakistan resigns, and army chief General Yahya Khan takes over, proclaiming martial law

28 - General Dwight D Eisenhower dies

01 - Lin Piao is elected to succeed Mao Tse-Tung when he retires as Chinese Communist Party Chairman

03 - US deaths in Vietnam reach 33,641

09 - Britain's Concorde has maiden flight, one month after her French counterpart

17 - Alexander Dubcek is replaced as Czech leader by Gustav Husak

22 - Luxury British liner QEII makes maiden voyage

23 - Sirhan Sirhan, Robert Kennedy's killer, is sentenced to death

24 - B-52s drop nearly 3,000 tons of explosives on enemy positions near the Cambodian border. It is the heaviest US bombing raid to date

28 - Referendum says "Non" to de Gaulle so he resigns as President of France

03 - Jimi Hendrix is busted at Toronto Airport for possession of narcotics, but released on $10,000 bail

09 - Pope Paul VI orders a number of popular saints to be deleted from the church's calendar. St Catharine, St Christopher and 30 other saints get the sack. St Nicholas and St George are made 'optional saints'

14 - Nixon proposes an eight-point plan for peace in Vietnam

16 - Soviet spacecraft Venus 5 lands on the surface of Venus

18 - Apollo 10 launched as forerunner to Moon landings. The lunar module descends to within ten miles of the Moon's surface before returning to Earth on May 26

28 - Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull are arrested in London for possession of Marijuana

03 - 73 die as the Australian naval ship HMAS Melbourne cuts US destroyer USS Frank E Evans in half during an accidental collision in the South China Sea

08 - President Nixon announces that 25,000 US troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam by the end of August

08 - Brian Jones, a founding member of The Rolling Stones, leaves the band claiming he can "no longer see eye to eye" with the rest of the band

16 - Nigeria bans Red Cross night flights carrying food and medicines to Biafra

20 - Georges Pompidou becomes French President

22 - Judy Garland dies in London, aged 47

28 - Stonewall riot in New York City marks beginning of gay rights movement. The riot follows the raiding of the Stonewall Bar, a gay establishment in New York's Greenwich Village by police

01 - Prince Charles is invested as Prince of Wales at Caernarvon Castle

03 - Ex-Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones is found dead in his swimming pool at Cotchford Farm, Hartfield, Sussex (UK)

04 - Vietnam protesters storm US Consulate in Australia

05 - The Rolling Stones give a free concert in Hyde Park, London

08 - US embarks on a policy of "Vietnamization" of the war and a gradual withdrawal of US troops. 814 troops of the 9th infantry leave for home

16 - Apollo 11 mission launched. Lunar module carrying Neil Armstrong and "Buzz" Aldrin lands on the Moon on July 20

18 - Mary Jo Kopechne is drowned in a car accident involving Senator Edward Kennedy at Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts. Kennedy flees the scene of the accident and reports it to police the next day

20 - Apollo 11 lunar module lands on the Moon's surface

21 - Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to set foot on the Moon

23 - Prince Juan Carlos is selected to succeed as head of state in Spain on the retirement of General Franco

31 - Pope Paul VI visits Uganda; the first time a Pope has visited Africa

09 - Actress Sharon Tate and four others are murdered in Hollywood by followers of cult leader Charles Manson

09 - Duke and Duchess of Kent visit Australia

12 - Protestant-Catholic unrest breaks out in Northern Ireland. The British government take responsibility for security in Ulster

13 - Soviet troops cross the border into Xinjiang province, China

15 - British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland to keep the peace between Protestants and Catholics

15 - Woodstock Festival starts - 400,000 fans attend

18 - Mick Jagger is accidentally shot on the set of Ned Kelly in Australia

18 - Marianne Faithfull attempts suicide in Australia during filming of Ned Kelly

21 - Australian Warrant Officer Rayene Stewart Simpson is awarded the VC for two acts of bravery in Vietnam War

28 - A daughter, Mary, is born to Paul and Linda McCartney

29 - Arab guerrillas hijack a TWA aircraft in flight from Rome to Tel Aviv and force it to land at Damascus

31 - Rock fans flock to Isle of Wight for second festival

01 - Army officers led by Captain Moamer al Gaddafi throw out 70-year-old King Idris and take power, declaring Libya a republic

03 - North Vietnamese statesman, Ho Chi Minh, dies of a heart attack, aged 79

04 - US Ambassador to Brazil, Charles Burke Elbrick, is kidnapped by terrorists in Rio de Janeiro

05 - Dweezil Zappa (son of Frank Zappa) is born

07 - US Ambassador Elbrick is set free in exchange for the release of 15 political prisoners in Brazil

08 - In Vietnam, Australian Warrant Officer Keith Payne is awarded the VC for devotion to duty

12 - President Nixon orders the resumption of bombing raids on North Vietnam after they were suspended for 36 hours

16 - President Nixon announces the withdrawal of another 35,000 troops from Vietnam

24 - Ton Duc Thang becomes president of North Vietnam

28 - British troops erect "peace wall" in Belfast, Northern Ireland

01 - Olof Palme elected Swedish Premier

01 - OZ Magazine ceases publication in Australia

03 - Greek government restores civil liberties

11 - Fresh rioting breaks out in Belfast

12 - In Belfast, parachute troops are flown in after rioting causes the deaths of a policeman and two civilians

15 - Vietnam Moratorium Day is observed by millions across the US. Massive anti-war protests take place in Washington DC. Vice-President Spiro Agnew calls protest leaders "an effete corps of impudent snobs"

21 - Social Democrat Willy Brandt elected German Chancellor

25 - Gorton's Liberals just scrape home in Australia

31 - An American marine hijacks a TWA Boeing 707 in California and forces it to fly to Rome

03 - President Nixon announces that North Vietnam has rejected his secret US peace proposals

11 - Pro-war demonstrators, called "the great silent majority" by Nixon, march on Veterans' Day

14 - Americans make a second landing when Apollo 12 takes Charles Conrad and Al Bean to the Moon

14 - Single-file "march against death" brings 250,000 to Washington DC. 100,000 march in San Francisco against the Vietnam War

16 - News reports accuse a US infantry unit, led by Lt William Calley, of committing a massacre at My Lai, a South Vietnamese village. More than 450 villagers were killed in the attack, which took place in March 1968

17 - US and USSR begin strategic arms limitation talks (SALT) in Helsinki. A nuclear non-proliferation treaty is ratified on Nov 24

24 - US Army announces Lt Calley will face court martial for the murder of 109 Vietnamese during the "My Lai massacre"

25 - US agrees to destroy all stocks of germ warfare weapons

25 - John Lennon returns his MBE to Buckingham Palace

03 - The Temptation Of Eve, a painting by 16th Century German artist Hans Baldung, is sold at Sotheby's in London for £224,000 ($290,000). it had previously been valued at £20 ($25)

06 - Meredith Hunter, 18, is beaten to death by Hells Angels who are providing security at a Rolling Stones concert at Altamont Raceway in Livermore, California

24 - Charles Manson's hippie 'family' tried for slayings

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