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2 days ago · Hopper won the First Film Award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival, and Nicholson and Easy Rider's screenplay both received Oscar nominations. The movie would go on to gross more than $60 million ...
1 day ago · The Stonewall riots, also known as the Stonewall uprising, Stonewall rebellion, Stonewall revolution, [3] or simply Stonewall, were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.
4 days ago · Main article: 1969 French Open. Rod Laver defeated the defending champion Ken Rosewall in a rematch of the previous year's final, 6–4, 6–3, 6–4 to win the men's singles tennis title at the 1969 French Open. [ 1 ] It was his second French title and ninth Grand Slam tournament singles title overall. It was the second leg of his eventual ...
5 days ago · On Aug. 10, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin completed their 21-day quarantine after returning from the Moon. The historic nature of their mission resulted in a very busy postflight schedule for…
2 days ago · The year was 1969, and in a cavernous computer lab at UCLA, the future was about to be born with all the fanfare of a hiccup. Charley Kline, a young programmer with a penchant for nocturnal coding sessions, sat before the SDS Sigma 7 - a hulking beast of a computer that occupied roughly the same square footage as a modest apartment.
6 days ago · Apollo 10 (May 18–26, 1969) was the fourth human spaceflight in the United States' Apollo program and the second to orbit the Moon. NASA , the mission's operator, described it as a "dress rehearsal" for the first Moon landing ( Apollo 11 , two months later [ 4 ] ).
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