January 1 (New Year's Day), 1969: Marien Ngouabi becomes President of the Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville). As President of Congo-Brazzaville, Ngouabi wants to do one of two things; declare Congo-Brazzaville a Marxist-Leninist state allied to the Soviet Union or unify Congo-Brazzaville with the already established Marxist-Leninist and Soviet allied People's Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa). However, Ngouabi decides to bide his time for the immediate future.
January 3, 1969: Worried that the pro-Simba Ngouabi will extradite enemies of the government of the Peoples Republic of the Congo to Kinshasa, Pierre Mulele boards a plane for Dar es Salamm, the capital of Tanzania.
January 4, 1969: Pierre Mulele arrives in Dar es Salamm. He rents out a hotel room and decides to keep a low profile for the time being.
January 9, 1969: President Nasser orders Egyptian military intelligence to track down former Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol.
January 18-Janury 19, 1969: Yippies and other members of the American counterculture movement hold a mock-inauguration ceremony.
In spite of the fact that the United States has been out of the Vietnam War for quite some time, the Counterculture is still strong in America. Nevertheless, the counterculture throughout 1969 will be much less confrontational then in years past, what with America out of the Vietnam War.
January 20, 1969: Richard Millhouse Nixon is inaugurated is inaugurated the 38th President of the United States of America.
In his inaugural address, Nixon states that the American people “cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another.” Nixon also says that “the greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker. This honor now beckons America.”
Former President Hubert Humphrey decides to retire from public life and politics for the indefinite future, for obvious reasons, and moves with his wife Muriel Buck Humphrey to Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Former Vice-President Terry Sanford moves back to Raleigh, North Carolina. Sanford decides not to retire from politics, at least for the time being. In fact, soon after leaving office, he opens up a law firm in Raleigh, North Carolina.
January 21, 1969: President Richard Nixon and Vice President Ronald Reagan have inherited something that neither would wish upon their worse enemy. Nixon has inherited an America that has backed down to International Communism twice, first in the Cuban Missile Crisis and second in the Vietnam War, and as a result is now seen by the world at large as not willing to "fight the Cold War", as one journalist for the Wall Street Journal puts it. In addition, America also has to deal with its recently returned veterans from Vietnam, the Israeli Refugee Crisis, the counterculture, among other issues.
On their second day in office, both Nixon and Reagan come to the conclusion that foreign policy will be America's biggest challenge for 1969.
February 1, 1969: In an address on live television, President Nixon affirms his commitment to helping the Israeli Jewish Refugees coming to the United States of America.
February 5, 1969: President Nasser of Egypt begins meeting with PLO Chairman Ahmad Shukeiri in Cairo over the current and future status of occupied Palestine.
February 8, 1969: After two months of living in Amman, Jordan and doing many odd jobs for money, Sirhan Sirhan tries to move to Arab-occupied Palestine. However, he is denied access into Arab-occupied Palestine by the Jordanian Army.
February 15, 1969: Egyptian military intelligence reports to President Nasser that Levi Eshkol was reportedly seen by a Jewish man still living in Jerusalem boarding a flotilla of Israeli refugees in disguise.
February 22, 1969: After over two weeks of discussions, President Nasser agrees to do whatever he can towards the creation of an Arab Palestinian Republic. Nasser also makes clear his support for the eventual right of return of Palestinian refugees.
February 28, 1969: President Nixon visits Israeli Jewish Refuges living in New York City, where most Israeli refugees coming to the United States have settled since the fall of Israel.
March 2, 1969: The Sino-Soviet Border Conflict begins when a group of PLA soldiers ambush Soviet border guards on Zhenbao Island, leaving fifty-nine men dead.
March 12, 1969: After almost four months of living in a small flat in London paid for by the British government, Zalman Shazar, the last President of Israel, decides to move to New York City.
The British government has no problem with this.
March 15, 1969: Violence breaks out on between China and the Soviet Union over an island in the Ussuri River.
March 17, 1969: Soviet Premier Khrushchev bluntly calls the People's Republic of China a threat to world peace.
March 20, 1969: Sirhan Sirhan joins the Jordanian military.
March 28, 1969: Former President Dwight David Eisenhower dies of heart failure at the age of 78.
President Nixon sends a letter of personal condolence to former President Eisenhower's closest family members.
March 29, 1969: Celebrations in Prague over the Czechoslovak Ice-Hockey team beating the Soviet Ice-Hockey team turn into demonstrations against the Soviet Union, with Czechs attacking Soviet occupation troops and the Soviet airline office.
April 1, 1969: Zalman Shazar, with the assistance of a personal attendant, leaves London for good and boards an British Airways plan for New York City.
April 2, 1969: Zalman Shazar arrives in New York City. He purchases a brownstone apartment and settles into his new life.
April 5, 1969: Egyptian military intelligence reports to President Nasser that, according to an unnamed source, Levi Eshkol fled the city on foot along with a large number of other refugees attempting to flee on foot to Turkey.
April 10, 1969 and onwards: A large number of the Israeli refugees living in the crowded cities of the East Coast, including New York City, begin moving to the more sparsely populated states of the United States, including Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, North and South Dakota, Idaho and Alaska, in an effort to find new jobs and new forms of opportunity.
The governors of all of the aforementioned states welcome these Israeli refugees with open arms.
April 17, 1969: The Prague Spring finally ends. Czechoslovak Communist Party Chairman Alexander Dubcek is forced to resign as First Secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party.
April 24, 1969: In the People’s Republic of China, the three week long Communist Party Congress ends. As a result of the Congress, sixty percent of former party members have been replaced. PLA Marshall and Vice Premier of the PRC Lin Biao is named Chairman Mao Zedong’s successor.
May 1, 1969: The Soviet Union celebrates May Day with the same display of military power as in previous May Day celebrations.
May 5, 1969: President Nixon secretly visits Zalman Shazar at his apartment in New York City. The purpose of the visit is unknown.
May 6-May 20, 1969: Marien Ngouabi meets with Congolese President Christophe Gbenye at the Palais de la Nation in Kinshasa. The two men discuss a variety of things, including their loyalty to the Soviet Union and the ideals of Marxist-Leninism. Ngouabi also talks to Gbenye about his desire for Congo-Brazzaville and Congo-Kinshasa to unify at some point in the near future. However, Gbenye recommends that political, economic and cultural ties between the two nations be developed first, as annexing Congo-Brazzaville at the moment would be too much of an economic and political burden for the relatively politically fragile Congo-Kinshasa. As a direct result of all of these factors, the two secretly plan for a unification of the two Congo’s by 1975 at latest.
As a part of the plan to develop closer economic and political ties between their two countries, the two leaders also discuss plans to build a bridge between Kinshasa and Brazzaville, with possible investment from the Soviet Union and other Black African countries sympathetic to the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc.
January 3, 1969: Worried that the pro-Simba Ngouabi will extradite enemies of the government of the Peoples Republic of the Congo to Kinshasa, Pierre Mulele boards a plane for Dar es Salamm, the capital of Tanzania.
January 4, 1969: Pierre Mulele arrives in Dar es Salamm. He rents out a hotel room and decides to keep a low profile for the time being.
January 9, 1969: President Nasser orders Egyptian military intelligence to track down former Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol.
January 18-Janury 19, 1969: Yippies and other members of the American counterculture movement hold a mock-inauguration ceremony.
In spite of the fact that the United States has been out of the Vietnam War for quite some time, the Counterculture is still strong in America. Nevertheless, the counterculture throughout 1969 will be much less confrontational then in years past, what with America out of the Vietnam War.
January 20, 1969: Richard Millhouse Nixon is inaugurated is inaugurated the 38th President of the United States of America.
In his inaugural address, Nixon states that the American people “cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another.” Nixon also says that “the greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker. This honor now beckons America.”
Former President Hubert Humphrey decides to retire from public life and politics for the indefinite future, for obvious reasons, and moves with his wife Muriel Buck Humphrey to Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Former Vice-President Terry Sanford moves back to Raleigh, North Carolina. Sanford decides not to retire from politics, at least for the time being. In fact, soon after leaving office, he opens up a law firm in Raleigh, North Carolina.
January 21, 1969: President Richard Nixon and Vice President Ronald Reagan have inherited something that neither would wish upon their worse enemy. Nixon has inherited an America that has backed down to International Communism twice, first in the Cuban Missile Crisis and second in the Vietnam War, and as a result is now seen by the world at large as not willing to "fight the Cold War", as one journalist for the Wall Street Journal puts it. In addition, America also has to deal with its recently returned veterans from Vietnam, the Israeli Refugee Crisis, the counterculture, among other issues.
On their second day in office, both Nixon and Reagan come to the conclusion that foreign policy will be America's biggest challenge for 1969.
February 1, 1969: In an address on live television, President Nixon affirms his commitment to helping the Israeli Jewish Refugees coming to the United States of America.
February 5, 1969: President Nasser of Egypt begins meeting with PLO Chairman Ahmad Shukeiri in Cairo over the current and future status of occupied Palestine.
February 8, 1969: After two months of living in Amman, Jordan and doing many odd jobs for money, Sirhan Sirhan tries to move to Arab-occupied Palestine. However, he is denied access into Arab-occupied Palestine by the Jordanian Army.
February 15, 1969: Egyptian military intelligence reports to President Nasser that Levi Eshkol was reportedly seen by a Jewish man still living in Jerusalem boarding a flotilla of Israeli refugees in disguise.
February 22, 1969: After over two weeks of discussions, President Nasser agrees to do whatever he can towards the creation of an Arab Palestinian Republic. Nasser also makes clear his support for the eventual right of return of Palestinian refugees.
February 28, 1969: President Nixon visits Israeli Jewish Refuges living in New York City, where most Israeli refugees coming to the United States have settled since the fall of Israel.
March 2, 1969: The Sino-Soviet Border Conflict begins when a group of PLA soldiers ambush Soviet border guards on Zhenbao Island, leaving fifty-nine men dead.
March 12, 1969: After almost four months of living in a small flat in London paid for by the British government, Zalman Shazar, the last President of Israel, decides to move to New York City.
The British government has no problem with this.
March 15, 1969: Violence breaks out on between China and the Soviet Union over an island in the Ussuri River.
March 17, 1969: Soviet Premier Khrushchev bluntly calls the People's Republic of China a threat to world peace.
March 20, 1969: Sirhan Sirhan joins the Jordanian military.
March 28, 1969: Former President Dwight David Eisenhower dies of heart failure at the age of 78.
President Nixon sends a letter of personal condolence to former President Eisenhower's closest family members.
March 29, 1969: Celebrations in Prague over the Czechoslovak Ice-Hockey team beating the Soviet Ice-Hockey team turn into demonstrations against the Soviet Union, with Czechs attacking Soviet occupation troops and the Soviet airline office.
April 1, 1969: Zalman Shazar, with the assistance of a personal attendant, leaves London for good and boards an British Airways plan for New York City.
April 2, 1969: Zalman Shazar arrives in New York City. He purchases a brownstone apartment and settles into his new life.
April 5, 1969: Egyptian military intelligence reports to President Nasser that, according to an unnamed source, Levi Eshkol fled the city on foot along with a large number of other refugees attempting to flee on foot to Turkey.
April 10, 1969 and onwards: A large number of the Israeli refugees living in the crowded cities of the East Coast, including New York City, begin moving to the more sparsely populated states of the United States, including Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, North and South Dakota, Idaho and Alaska, in an effort to find new jobs and new forms of opportunity.
The governors of all of the aforementioned states welcome these Israeli refugees with open arms.
April 17, 1969: The Prague Spring finally ends. Czechoslovak Communist Party Chairman Alexander Dubcek is forced to resign as First Secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party.
April 24, 1969: In the People’s Republic of China, the three week long Communist Party Congress ends. As a result of the Congress, sixty percent of former party members have been replaced. PLA Marshall and Vice Premier of the PRC Lin Biao is named Chairman Mao Zedong’s successor.
May 1, 1969: The Soviet Union celebrates May Day with the same display of military power as in previous May Day celebrations.
May 5, 1969: President Nixon secretly visits Zalman Shazar at his apartment in New York City. The purpose of the visit is unknown.
May 6-May 20, 1969: Marien Ngouabi meets with Congolese President Christophe Gbenye at the Palais de la Nation in Kinshasa. The two men discuss a variety of things, including their loyalty to the Soviet Union and the ideals of Marxist-Leninism. Ngouabi also talks to Gbenye about his desire for Congo-Brazzaville and Congo-Kinshasa to unify at some point in the near future. However, Gbenye recommends that political, economic and cultural ties between the two nations be developed first, as annexing Congo-Brazzaville at the moment would be too much of an economic and political burden for the relatively politically fragile Congo-Kinshasa. As a direct result of all of these factors, the two secretly plan for a unification of the two Congo’s by 1975 at latest.
As a part of the plan to develop closer economic and political ties between their two countries, the two leaders also discuss plans to build a bridge between Kinshasa and Brazzaville, with possible investment from the Soviet Union and other Black African countries sympathetic to the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc.
