April 1969

Tuesday 01:

The Hawker Siddeley Harrier enters service with the RAF.

Thursday 03:

U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.

Friday 04:

1969 - The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour is cancelled after the brothers failed to submit an episode before its broadcast date.

Saturday 05:

Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations are held in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and other cities around the United States.

Monday 07:

The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1.

Wednesday 09:

The "Chicago Eight" plead not guilty on federal charges of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.

Monday 14:

At the Academy Awards, a tie between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand results in the two sharing the Best Actress Oscar; Hepburn also becomes the only actress to win three Best Actress Oscars.

Thursday 17:

Czechoslovak Communist Party chairman Alexander Dub?ek is deposed.

Monday 28:

Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.

Tuesday 29:

Jazz musician Duke Ellington receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom.