1969

Golda Meir Premier of Israel
Charles deGaulle defeated by Georges Pompidou for French Presidency
Palestine Liberation Organization formed under Yassir Arafat
Woodstock Music and Art Festival

First men on the Moon - Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin
1st men on the Moon - Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin
540,000 American troops in Vietnam
Nixon begins withdrawing troops from Vietnam
Institution of a draft lottery in the US
Anti-war protesters across the US occupy college and university buildings
"Saturday Evening Post" halts publication (temporarily)
Rolling Stones' concert at the Altamont Speedway
Mickey Mantle retires
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five
Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint
Mario Puzo's The Godfather
1st flight of the Boeing 747
1st flight of the Concorde
Arpanet (proto-Internet)
1st artificial heart
ATMs
Bar-code scanners
Songs - "Crimson and Clover", "Everyday People", "Leaving on a Jet Plane", "Come Together"
Broadway - "1776", "Hair"
Films - "Easy Rider", "Bullitt", "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", "Midnight Cowboy"
Sesame Street debuts
Michael Schumacher, Brett Favre, Jerry Yang, Bobby Brown, and Steffi Graf born
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Boris Karloff, Judy Garland, Mies van der Rohe, Ho Chi Minh, Sonja Henie, Jack Keroac, and Joseph P. Kennedy die