I'll have a hunka-hunka birthday cake tonight, or more specifically- PIE! I'm old, but who cares. As far as I could tell, nothing of great interest happened on this day in 1969 other than my birth. In 1968 Apollo 8 was launched on a mission to orbit the moon. 1970 Elvis Presley met with President Richard M. Nixon in the Oval Office to discuss fighting drugs. Hunka-hunka creepy dudes.
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1620 Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower went ashore for the first time at present-day Plymouth, Mass.
1879 Soviet dictator Josef Stalin was born Josef Dzhugashvili in Gori, Georgia.
1898 Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discovered the radioactive element radium.
And so much more!
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/index.html
1969
Expanded 4-party Vietnam peace talks began Jan. 18. U.S. force peaked at 543,400 in April. Withdrawal started July 8. Pres. Nixon set Vietnamization policy Nov. 3.
Earl Warren retired upon swearing in Warren Burger, June 23, as Supreme Court chief justice.
U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong, commander of the Apollo 11 mission, became the first person to set foot on the moon, July 20; followed by astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin; astronaut Michael Collins remained aboard command module.
Woodstock music festival near Bethel, NY, drew 300,000-500,000 people, Aug. 15-18.
Anti-Vietnam-War demonstrations held in cities across the U.S. marking Vietnam Mortatorium day, Oct. 15; on Nov. 15, some 250,000 marched in Washington, DC.
Massacre of hundreds of civilians by U.S. troops at My Lai, South Vietnam, in 1968 incident reported Nov. 16.
Sesame Street launched on public TV.
Still, nothing interesting on December 21st, 1969.
That's why I picked events from 12/21/1968 and 12/21/1970.
Check out the photos on the oval office link. It looks like Elvis brought Nixon autographed photos of himself. Apparently, his balls were as big as his sideburns.
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