- July 9
- The United States Postal Service announces a stamp to commemorate the first landing on the Moon. A record 8,743,070 requests are received for first day covers. [270.499]
- July 11
- David Bowie's single, "Space Oddity" is released to coincide with the first lunar landing. [1] [457]
- July 13
- Russia launches unmanned Luna 15 to Moon. [1]
- July 14
- "Futbol War" between El Salvador and Honduras begins. [1]
- July 16
- Apollo 11 takes off from Kennedy Space Center with astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin Junior, and Michael Collins aboard. [1] [129]
- July 20
- Lunar module Eagle, manned by Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin separates from the command module of Apollo 11, and lands on the Moon 2.5 hours later. Armstrong radios Mission Control in Houston, Texas, "The Eagle has landed." [5] [129]
- At 10:56 p.m. EDT, American astronaut Neil Armstrong, 240,000 miles from Earth, speaks these words to more than a billion people listening at home: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Stepping off the lunar landing module Eagle, Armstrong became the first human to walk on the surface of the moon. Edwin Aldrin joins him 11:11 p.m., and the two take photographs, plant a U.S. flag, run scientific tests, and leave a plaque that reads: "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot on the moon - July 1969 A.D. - We came in peace for all mankind." [1] [129]
- July 22
- USSR launches Sputnik 50 and Molniya 1-12 communications satellite. [1]
- July 24
- Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean. [1] [5] [129]
- July 27
- July 29
- Mariner 6 begins transmitting far-encounter photos of Mars. [1]
- August 7
- In Andreevka, USSR a building is hit by a falling meteorite. [521]
- August 9
- Sharon Tate, actress, killed by Charles Manson's gang. [1]
- August 14
- British troops intervene militarily in Northern Ireland. [1]
- The Woodstock Music and Art Fair opens in New York State (Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm). An estimated 400,000 people turn out over three days to hear more than thirty acts, including the Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, and Jimi Hendrix. [457]
- August 22
- Hurricane Camille strikes U.S. Gulf Coast; kills 255. [1]
- August 30
- 120,000 attend Texas International Pop Festival. [1]
- September 1
- Libyan revolution, Colonel Moammar Gadhafi deposes King Idris. [1]
- September 3
- Ho Chi Minh, North Vietnamese president, dies. [1]
- September 9
- Allegheny 853 collides with Piper Cherokee above Indiana, kills 82. [1]
- September 16
- In Suchy Dul, Czechoslovakia a building is hit by a falling meteorite. [521]
- September 28
- Parliamentary elections are held in West Germany. The CDU/CSU gets 46.1 percent of the vote, the SPD 42.7 percent and the FDP 5.8 percent. The FDP joins the SPD in a coalition and Willy Brandt becomes the first SPD chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. [37]
- In Murchison, Victoria, Australia, 1/2 ton fragments of a carbonaceous chondrite meteorites (type CM2) fall. [521] [523.90,123]
- September 29
- In South Africa, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurs. [53]
- October 1
- In Central Peru, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake occurs, completely razing villages of Lampa and Chilifruta, killing at least 136 and injuring at least 216. [53]
- The Concorde supersonic transport plane breaks the sound barrier for the first time. [5]
- October 5
- BBC Television debuts comedy Monty Python's Flying Circus. [5] [457]
- October 15
- Vietnam Moratorium Day; millions in US nationwide protest the war. [1]
- October 18
- US Federal government bans use of cyclamates artificial sweetener. [1]
- October 21
- Bloodless coup in Somalia. [1]
- Willy Brandt of the SPD is elected the fourth chancellor of West Germany. Walter Scheel (FDP) becomes the vice chancellor and foreign minister. [37]
- October 26
- In the Banja Luka area of Yugoslavia, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake occurs. 20 killed, 150 seriously injured, and 65,000 left homeless. [53]
- October 27
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains associated status with Britain. [1]
- November 14
- NASA launches Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the surface of the Moon. [1] [5]
- November 15
- 250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Washington DC against the Vietnam War. [1]
- November 25
- John Lennon returns his Member of the British Empire medal. [1]
- December 2
- Boeing 747 jumbo jet first public preview (Seattle, Washington to New York City, New York). [1]
- December 8
- Greek DC-6B crashes in storm at Athens, Greece; 93 killed. [1]
- December 11
- Libya adopts constitution. [1]
- December 12
- Bomb attack on bank in Milan, Italy, 14 killed. [1]
- December
- Japanese geologists find nine fragments of meteorites near the Yamato Mountains in the Antarctic. [523.55]
- December 16
- British House of Commons votes 343-185 abolishing the death penalty. [1]
- December 17
- Arturo da Costa e Silva, President of Brazil (1967-69), dies at age 67. [1]
- US Air Force closes Project Blue Book, concluding no evidence of extraterrestrial spaceships behind thousands of UFO sightings. [1]
- December 18
- Britain abolishes death penalty. [1]
- December 25
- Five Israeli gunboats escape from Cherbourg harbor. [1]
- December 28
- USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk. [1]
- December 30
- USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk. [1]
- December 31
- Congo-Brazzaville becomes People's republic, under Major Ngouabi. [1]
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