1969 CE

Apollo 11 lands the first humans on the Moon as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on its surface; Woodstock draws over 400,000 people and becomes a counterculture landmark; the Stonewall riots ignite the modern LGBT rights movement; the Sino-Soviet border conflict heightens tensions between China and the Soviet Union; the 1969 Libyan revolution led by Muammar Gaddafi overthrows King Idris I; the Chappaquiddick incident involving Senator Edward Kennedy results in Mary Jo Kopechne's death; the 1969 Curaçao uprising erupts over labor and racial issues; Hurricane Camille devastates the U.S. Gulf Coast; and Sesame Street premieres, reshaping children’s television.

In the 1960s, the 20th century.