December 1969

Monday 01:

Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.

1969 - Legendary surfer Greg "Da Bull" Noll rode a 65-foot wave on the North Shore of Oahu, still the highest ever recorded.

The Rolling Stoness concert at Altamont leads to the stabbing death of a concert-goer by Hell's Angels providing security.

An Olympic Airways DC-6B crashes near Athens during a storm killing 93 people.

Strage di Piazza Fontana in Italy.

1969 - SALT I talks begin

Capital punishment is ended in the United Kingdom

Curt Flood writes to Bowie K. Kuhn, the Commissioner of Baseball, asking to be declared a free agent .

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