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| 1969 |
| | | The Stonewall riots in New York prompt a US campaign for Gay and Lesbian rights | |
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| 1969 |
| | | The Gang of Four achieve malign power during China's Cultural Revolution | |
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| 1969 |
| | | Space-traveller Billy Pilgrim suffers horrors in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five | |
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| 1969 |
| | | Mary Jo Kopechne drowns when US senator Edward Kennedy drives his car off the road on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts | |
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| 1969 |
| | | Neil Armstrong, commander of the US space mission Apollo 11, sets foot on the moon and says: 'That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.' | |
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| 1969 |
| | | British film director John Schlesinger makes Midnight Cowboy, starring Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight | |
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| 1969 |
| | | Russian chess player Boris Spassky beats Tigran Petrosian to become world champion | |
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| 1969 |
| | | 19-year-old rugby player J.P.R. Williams makes his debut for Wales in a match against Scotland | |
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| 1969 |
| | | Nearly half a million people turn up for the Woodstock Music Festival at a dairy farm in Bethel, New York | |
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| 1969 |
| | | Canadian author Margaret Atwood publishes her first novel, The Edible Woman | |
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