1969
 
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  • British troops quell clashes between Catholics & Protestants in Northern Ireland
  • IRA launches a terrorist campaign against British troops in Ireland
  • Richard Nixon becomes President of US
  • Nixon begins to withdraw US troops from Vietnam
  • Charles de Gaulle resigns & George Pompidou become President of France
  • Willi Brandt succeeds Kurt Kiesinger as Chancellor of Germany
  • Levi Eshkol dies & Gold Meier becomes Prime Minister of Israel
  • Yasir Arafat becomes Chairman on the Palestine Liberation Organization
  • Gustav Husak replaces liberal Alexander Dubcek in Czechoslavakia
  • Colonel Qaddafi deposes King Idris in Lybya 
  • Apollo 8 makes the first manned orbit if the Moon
  • Stonewall Riots spark the gay rights movement
  • Equal pay for women doing the same work as men introduced in Australia
  • US Destroyed Frank E Evans cut in two in accidental collission with Australian aircraft carrier Melbourne (69 US sailors killed)
  • Edward Kennedy's female companion dies in a car accident off Chappaquiddick bridge
  • Cult followers of Charles Manson kill Sharon Tate and six others
  • First flight of the Concorde, the first supersonic transport
  • Massive "Poseidon" nickel strike in Western Australia
  • Standard gauge rail line between Sydney and Melbourne completed.
  • Woodstock music festival attracts 500,000
  • Oh! Calcutta shocks Broadway audiences with nudity
  • Hair! plays in Sydney
  • Michael Leunig's first "everyman" cartoon is published
  • US introduces "X" rating system for movies
  • Platform shoes in fashion

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Buzz Aldrin descending to the surface of the moon
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Leunig cartoon

 

Woodstock poster

 

Apollo 11 (video)

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