1969

The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco.

In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is elected Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.

Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.

The body of former United States General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower is brought by caisson to the United States Capitol to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda; Eisenhower had died two days earlier, after a long illness, in the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C.

May 13 Incident: Race riots occur in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Riots in Curaçao mark the start of an Afro-Caribbean civil rights movement on the island.

The Act of Free Choice for West Irian commences in Merauke, Indonesia.

Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, U.S. representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. They eventually fail since the two sides cannot agree to any terms.

Ho Chi Minh, the president of Democratic Republic of Vietnam, died at the age of 79.

Sazae-san first airs on Fuji Television.

The first electronic message is sent between two computers connected via ARPANET between University of California, Los Angeles and SRI International in California at around 10:30pm local time, the initial forerunning technology to the Internet.

Apollo program: The Apollo 12 spacecraft splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second crewed mission to the Moon.