1969

El Ten Eleven - 1969

The year of 1969 is linked with the first manned moon landing. It was also the last year of "the sixties".

• January 12 – Led Zeppelin I, Led Zeppelin's first studio recorded album, is released.
• January 30 – The Beatles give their last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records. The impromptu concert was broken up by the police.
• March 10 – The novel The Godfather (novel) by Mario Puzo is published.
• April 28 – Charles de Gaulle steps down as president of France after suffering defeat in a referendum the day before.
• June 20 – Georges Pompidou is elected President of France.
• July 5 – Dies Walter Gropius, German architect (b. 1883)
• July 7 – French is made equal to English throughout the Canadian national government.
• July 20 – Apollo program: The lunar module Eagle lands on the lunar surface. The world watches in awe as Neil Armstrong takes his historic first steps on the Moon.
• August 17 – Dies Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German-American architect (b. 1886) 
• October 29 – The first message is sent over ARPANET, the forerunner of the internet.
• November 7 - Dies Ernesto Nathan Rogers (born 1909)
• November 10 – Sesame Street premieres on the National Educational Television (NET) network.
• November 19 – Soccer great Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
• The first Gap store opens, in San Francisco.