Editing 1969 (section)

===March===
{{Main|March 1969}}
* [[March 2]]
** In [[Toulouse]], France the first [[Concorde]] test flight is conducted.
** [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the [[Ussuri River]].
* [[March 3]]
** [[Apollo program]]: [[NASA]] launches [[Apollo 9]] ([[James McDivitt]], [[Rusty Schweickart]], [[David Scott]]) to test the [[lunar module]].
** In a [[Los Angeles]] court, [[Sirhan Sirhan]] admits that he killed presidential candidate [[Robert F. Kennedy]].
* [[March 13]] – [[Apollo program]]: [[Apollo 9]] returns safely to Earth after testing the [[Apollo Lunar Module|Lunar Module]].
* [[March 16]] – [[Viasa Flight 742]] crashes into a neighborhood in [[Maracaibo]], [[Venezuela]], shortly after taking off for [[Miami]]; all 84 people on board the DC-9 jet are killed along with 71 people on the ground.<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=gL9scSG3K_gC&dat=19690317&printsec=frontpage&hl=en "150 Killed in Air Disaster]— 47 Americans Die In Miami-Bound Jet From Venezuela", ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'', March 17, 1969, p1</ref>
* [[March 17]]
** [[Golda Meir]] becomes the first female prime minister of [[Israel]].
** The [[Longhope, Orkney|Longhope]] [[Lifeboat (rescue)|life-boat]] is lost after answering a mayday call during severe storms in the [[Pentland Firth]] between [[Orkney]] and the northern tip of Scotland; the entire crew of 8 die.<ref>[http://news.stv.tv/scotland/82797-orkney-remembers-longhope-disaster/ "Orkney remembers Longhope disaster", STV News, 17 March 2009] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304002804/http://news.stv.tv/scotland/82797-orkney-remembers-longhope-disaster/ |date=March 4, 2016 }}. Accessed June 27, 2013</ref>
* [[March 18]] – An [[Solar eclipse of March 18, 1969|annular solar eclipse]] is visible in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and is the 49th solar eclipse of [[Solar Saros 129]].
* [[March 20]]
** One hundred of the 105 passengers and crew on a [[1969 Aswan Ilyushin Il-18 crash|United Arab Airlines flight]], most of them Muslim pilgrims returning to Aswan from Mecca, are killed when the Ilyushin-18 turboprop crashes during a sandstorm.
** [[John Lennon]] and [[Yoko Ono]] are married at [[Gibraltar]], and proceed to their honeymoon "[[Bed-in]]" for peace in [[Amsterdam]].
* [[March 22]]
** UCLA wins its third consecutive [[1969 NCAA University Division basketball tournament|NCAA basketball championship]] by defeating Purdue University, 92 to 72.
** The landmark art exhibition ''When Attitudes become Form'', curated by [[Harald Szeemann]], opens at the [[Kunsthalle Bern]] in Bern, Switzerland.
* [[March 28]] – [[Pope Paul VI]] increases the number of Roman Catholic cardinals by one-third, from 101 to 134.
* [[March 29]] – The [[Eurovision Song Contest 1969]] is held in Madrid, and results in four co-winners, with 18 votes each, from Spain, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and France.
* [[March 30]] – 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.
* [[March 31]] – The [[Barroterán coal mine disaster]] kills 153 coal miners in [[Mexico]].