1969

1969 was a year:

Events

 * 1 January – The Constitutional Act on the Czechoslovak Federation comes into force.
 * 20 January – Richard Nixon becomes President of the USA.
 * 2 March – The first Concorde airplane is test flown from Toulouse, France.
 * 3 June – The final episode of the original Star Trek series airs over NBC.
 * 21 July – Neil Armstrong, followed up with Edwin Aldrin, becomes the first Human to visit the Moon, climbing down the steppladder from the Apollo 11 Lunar Module. Michael Collins stays inside the Columbia Command module, piloting it in Moon orbit.
 * 14 October – Prime Minister Tage Erlander of Sweden resigns, and is replaced with Olof Palme.
 * 5 December – Swedish public television broadcaster Sveriges Radio-TV launches its second channel, TV2.