The Beginning of a New Era - 1969

Ephemerides

• Yasser Arafat, founder of the Al-Fatah resistance movement in 1963, becomes the Chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).
• First flight in France of the Concord 001 supersonic aircraft.
• Neil Armstrong, a member of the Apollo XI crew, is the first man to walk on the moon.
• Death in Hanoi of Ho Chi Minh, President of North Vietnam.
• A massive demonstration against the war in Vietnam takes place in Washington: 250 000 Americans participate.