1969 It was a very good year?

There have been many watershed years throughout history and 1969 was certainly one of them. Even as a young teenager, I realized the happenings of that year would have great impact. To me the most exciting was landing on the moon. Being a Texan it was great that the first word from the moon was "Houston". But the other events of especially the summer of 1969 brought great change to our culture. It was the summer of Woodstock and the Manson Family murders.
Another happening was Senator Ted Kennedy's accident at Chappaquiddick. Hurricane Camille hit the Mississippi coast killing 248 and causing over $1 billion in damage.
Richard Nixon was sworn in as our nation's 37th President and then shortly after that Warren Burger was confirmed to replace Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court. 250,000 marched on Washington DC to protest the Vietnam War. The first draft since World War II was begun. The Chicago 8 trial began. Golda Meir became Prime Minister of Israel, Yasser Arafat first chairman of the P.L.O. ,Charles de Gaulle resigned as President of France and finally a biggie M. Qauddafi led a bloodless coupe in Libya.
PBS was established and 1969 is the symbolic birthday of the internet (where was Al Gore?). The first ATM machine was installed. John Lennon and Yoko Ono were married and The Beatles held their last public concert. At the movies two that had great cultural impact were Easy Rider and Midnight Cowboy also the Stonewall Riots in NYC were considered the beginning of the modern gay rights movement.
Judge for yourself if 1969 was a good or bad year but you can see that technological, political and cultural events that occurred are still impacting our society today.