Editing 1969 (section)

===May===
{{Main|May 1969}}
* [[May 10]] – The Battle of Dong Ap Bia, also known as [[Battle of Hamburger Hill|Hamburger Hill]], begins during the [[Vietnam War]].
* [[May 13]] – [[May 13 Incident]]: [[Race riot]]s occur in [[Kuala Lumpur]], [[Malaysia]].
* [[May 14]] – Colonel [[Muammar Gaddafi]] visits Mecca, [[Saudi Arabia]].
* [[May 15]] – An [[United States|American]] teenager known as '[[Robert R.]]' dies in [[St. Louis, Missouri]], United States, of a baffling medical condition. In 1984 it will be identified as the earliest confirmed case of [[HIV/AIDS]] in [[North America]].
* [[May 16]] – [[Venera program]]: [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] space probe [[Venera 5]] lands on [[Venus]].
* [[May 17]] – Venera program: Soviet space probe [[Venera 6]] begins to descend into [[Venus]]'s atmosphere, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
* [[May 18]] – [[Apollo program]]: [[Apollo 10]] ([[Gene Cernan]], [[Thomas Patten Stafford|Tom Stafford]], [[John Young (astronaut)|John Young]]) is launched. It is to be a full rehearsal for the [[Moon]] landing, stopping 15 kilometers short of actually reaching the lunar surface.
* [[May 20]] – [[United States National Guard]] helicopters spray skin-stinging powder on anti-war protesters in [[California]].
* [[May 21]] – ''[[Rosariazo]]'': Civil unrest breaks out in [[Rosario]], Argentina, following the death of a 15-year-old student.
* [[May 22]] – Apollo program: [[Apollo 10]]'s lunar module flies to within 15,400 m of the [[Moon]]'s surface.
* [[May 26]]
** The [[Andean Pact]] (Andean Group) is established.
** Apollo program: [[Apollo 10]] returns to [[Earth]], after a successful 8-day test of all the components needed for the upcoming first crewed [[Moon]] landing.
* [[May 26]]–[[June 2]] – [[John Lennon]] and [[Yoko Ono]] conduct their second [[bed-in]]. The follow-up to the Amsterdam event is held at the [[Queen Elizabeth Hotel]] in [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]]. Lennon composes and records the song "[[Give Peace a Chance]]" during the event.
* [[May 29]] – ''[[Cordobazo]]'': A general strike and civil unrest break out in [[Córdoba, Argentina]].
* [[May 30]] – [[1969 Curaçao uprising|Riots]] in [[Curaçao]] mark the start of an Afro-Caribbean [[civil rights]] movement on the island.