Editing 1969 (section)

===August===
{{Main|August 1969}}
[[File:Woodstock redmond stage.JPG|thumb|230px|right|August 15–18: Woodstock Festival is held]]
* [[August 2]] – U.S. President [[Richard Nixon]] visits [[Socialist Republic of Romania|Romania]], becoming the first incumbent U.S. president to visit a [[communist state]] since the start of the [[Cold War]].<ref>"Cheers Hail Nixon In Romania", ''Pittsburgh Press'', August 2, 1969, p1</ref>
* [[August 4]] – [[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.
* [[August 5]] – [[Mariner program]]: [[Mariner 7]] makes its closest fly-by of [[Mars]] ({{convert|3,524|km}}).
* [[August 9]] – On orders from [[Charles Manson]], members of the Manson Family invade the Los Angeles home of film director [[Roman Polanski]], and murder his pregnant wife, the actress [[Sharon Tate]], and four others. 
* [[August 10]] – A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of the Manson Family kill [[Leno and Rosemary LaBianca]] in Los Angeles. 
* [[August 13]] – [[Sino-Soviet border conflict|Serious border clashes]] occur between the [[Soviet Union]] and the People's Republic of China.
* [[August 14]] – [[The Troubles]]: British troops are deployed in [[Northern Ireland]] to restore order following [[1969 Northern Ireland riots|three days of political and sectarian violence]], marking the beginning of the 37-year [[Operation Banner]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/14/newsid_4075000/4075437.stm |title=1969: British troops sent into Northern Ireland |work=BBC News |access-date=2008-01-10 |date=August 14, 1969}}</ref>
* [[August 15]]–[[August 18|18]] – The [[Woodstock|Woodstock Festival]] is held near [[White Lake, Sullivan County, New York|White Lake, New York]], featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era.
* [[August 17]] – Category 5 [[Hurricane Camille]] hits the [[Mississippi]] coast of the United States, killing 248 people and causing US$1.5&nbsp;billion in damage (1969 USD).
* [[August 21]] – Australian [[Denis Michael Rohan]] sets fire to the [[Al-Aqsa Mosque]] in Jerusalem.
* [[August 29]] – A [[Trans World Airlines]] flight from Rome to Tel Aviv is [[TWA Flight 840 hijacking|hijacked]] and diverted to Syria.