Editing 1969 (section)

===December===
{{Main|December 1969}}
* [[December 1]] – [[Vietnam War]]: The first [[Draft lottery (1969)|draft lottery]] in the United States since World War II is held. [[September 14]] is the first of the 366 days of the year selected, meaning that anyone born on September 14 in the years from 1944 to 1951 would be the first to be summoned. On January 4, 1970, ''[[The New York Times]]'' will run a long article, "Statisticians Charge Draft Lottery Was Not Random".
* [[December 2]] – The [[Boeing 747]] jumbo jet makes its first passenger flight. It carries 191 people, most of them reporters and photographers, from [[Seattle]] to [[New York City]].
* [[December 3]] – [[Air France Flight 212 (1969)|Air France Flight 212]], a [[Boeing 707]] registered as F-BHSZ, crashed shortly after takeoff from [[Venezuela]] killing all 62 occupants onboard. The cause of the accident is not yet known since the [[Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety]] (BEA) did not publish an investigation report. It will not be released until 2029, sixty years after the accident.
* [[December 6]] – [[Killing of Meredith Hunter|Meredith Hunter]] is stabbed to death by [[Hells Angels]] at the [[Altamont Free Concert]], an event which came to be viewed as the end of the [[hippie]] era and the de facto conclusion of late-1960s American youth culture.
* [[December 12]] – The [[Piazza Fontana bombing]] in [[Milan]], Italy, kills 17 people and injures 88.
* [[December 24]]
** [[Charles Manson]] is allowed to defend himself at the Tate-LaBianca murder trial.
** The oil company [[Phillips Petroleum]] made the first [[oil]] discovery in the Norwegian sector of [[North Sea]].
** Nigerian troops capture [[Umuahia]]. The last [[Biafra]]n capital before its dissolution becomes [[Owerri]].
* [[December 27]] – The [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|Liberal Democratic Party]] wins 47.6% of the votes in the [[1969 Japanese general election]]. Future prime ministers [[Yoshirō Mori]] and [[Tsutomu Hata]] and future kingmaker [[Ichirō Ozawa]] are elected for the first time.