Editing 1969 (section)

===July===
{{Main|July 1969}}
[[File:Apollo 11 Launch - GPN-2000-000630.jpg|thumb|right|July 16: The Saturn V rocket is launched]]
[[File:AS11-40-5868 (21037483754).jpg|thumb|July 20: Buzz Aldrin descends a ladder to become the second human to step onto the surface of the Moon during the Apollo 11 program]]
* [[July 7]] – French is made equal to English throughout the Canadian national government.
* [[July 8]] – [[Vietnam War]]: The first U.S. troop withdrawals are made.
* [[July 14]]
** [[Football War]]: After [[Honduras]] loses an association football match against [[El Salvador]], rioting breaks out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers. Of the 300,000 Salvadoran workers in Honduras, tens of thousands are expelled, prompting a brief Salvadoran invasion of Honduras. The [[Organization of American States|OAS]] works out a cease-fire on [[July 18]], which takes effect on [[July 20]].
** The [[Act of Free Choice]] for [[Western New Guinea|West Irian]] commences in [[Merauke]], [[Indonesia]].
* [[July 16]] – [[Apollo program]]: [[Apollo 11]] ([[Buzz Aldrin]], [[Neil Armstrong]], [[Michael Collins (astronaut)|Michael Collins]]) lifts off from [[Cape Kennedy]] in Florida towards the first crewed landing on the [[Moon]].
* [[July 19]]
** [[Chappaquiddick incident]]: US Senator [[Ted Kennedy|Edward M. Kennedy]] drives off a bridge into a tidal pond after leaving a party on [[Chappaquiddick Island]], [[Massachusetts]], killing [[Mary Jo Kopechne]]. Kennedy does not report the accident for nine or ten hours.
** [[John Fairfax (rower)|John Fairfax]] lands in [[Hollywood Beach, Florida]], United States and becomes the first person to row across an ocean solo, after 180 days spent at sea on board the 25' ocean rowboat ''Britannia'' (left [[Gran Canaria]] on January 20, 1969).
* [[July 20]]
** [[Apollo program]] [[Moon landing]]: At 3:17 pm ET (20:17&nbsp;UTC) [[Apollo 11]]'s [[Lunar Module Eagle|Lunar Module ''Eagle'']] lands on the Moon's surface. At 10:56 pm ET (02:56&nbsp;UTC July 21), an estimated 650&nbsp;million people worldwide, the largest television audience for a live broadcast at this time, watch in awe as [[Neil Armstrong]] takes his first historic steps on the surface.<ref>{{cite web |title=Manned Space Chronology: Apollo_11 |url=http://www.spaceline.org/flightchron/apollo11.html |publisher=spaceline.org |access-date=2008-02-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080214213826/http://www.spaceline.org/flightchron/apollo11.html |archive-date=February 14, 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref>
** [[1969 Tour de France]]: Belgian [[Eddy Merckx]] wins the cycle race for the first time.
* [[July 22]] – Spanish dictator and head of state [[Francisco Franco]] appoints Prince [[Juan Carlos]] to be his successor as head of state following his death.
* [[July 24]]
** [[Apollo program]]: [[Apollo 11]] returns from the first successful Moon landing and the astronauts are placed in biological isolation for several days in case they may have brought back lunar germs. The airless lunar environment is later determined to rule out microscopic life.
** The [[Soviet Union]] returns British lecturer [[Gerald Brooke]] to the United Kingdom freed from a Soviet prison in exchange for their spies Peter and Helen Kroger ([[Morris Cohen (spy)|Morris]] and [[Lona Cohen]]).
* [[July 26]] – A [[1969 Yangjiang earthquake|6.4 earthquake]] shakes the Chinese city of [[Yangjiang]] destroying thousands of homes and killing 3,000 people.
* [[July 30]] – [[Vietnam War]]: U.S. President [[Richard Nixon]] makes an unscheduled visit to [[South Vietnam]], meeting with President [[Nguyễn Văn Thiệu]] and U.S. military commanders.
* [[July 31]] – [[Pope Paul VI]] arrives in [[Entebbe]], [[Uganda]] for the first visit by a reigning [[Pope]] to [[Africa]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Pope Paul VI's Apostolic Pilgrimage to Uganda, 31 July–2 August 1969 |url=http://www.totus2us.co.uk/universal/uganda/pvi-pilgrim-visit-1969 |access-date=2016-10-29 |archive-date=October 30, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161030002840/http://www.totus2us.co.uk/universal/uganda/pvi-pilgrim-visit-1969/ |url-status=dead}}</ref>