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  • New York City, New York, U.S.
    Oct, 1969
    Igor Stravinsky

    Stravinsky Relocated To an Apartment in Essex House In New York City

    New York City, New York, U.S.
    Oct, 1969

    In October 1969, Stravinsky relocated to an apartment in Essex House in New York City. Among Stravinsky's final projects was orchestrating two preludes from The Well-Tempered Clavier by Bach, but it was never completed.




  • Vietnam
    Wednesday Oct 15, 1969
    Vietnam War

    The Vietnam Moratorium

    Vietnam
    Wednesday Oct 15, 1969

    On 15 October 1969, the Vietnam Moratorium attracted millions of Americans.




  • Soviet Union, (Russia)
    Monday Oct 27, 1969
    Vietnam War

    Operation Giant Lance

    Soviet Union, (Russia)
    Monday Oct 27, 1969

    On 27 October 1969, Nixon had ordered a squadron of 18 B-52s loaded with nuclear weapons to race to the border of Soviet airspace to convince the Soviet Union, in accord with the madman theory, that he was capable of anything to end the Vietnam War ("Operation Giant Lance").




  • California, U.S.
    Thursday Oct 30, 1969
    12:30:00 PM
    Internet

    Bolt Beranek & Newman and the first ARPANET link was established

    California, U.S.
    Thursday Oct 30, 1969
    12:30:00 PM

    ARPA awarded the contract to build the network to Bolt Beranek & Newman and the first ARPANET link was established between the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the Stanford Research Institute at 22:30 hours on October 29, 1969. "We set up a telephone connection between us and the guys at SRI ...", Kleinrock ... said in an interview: "We typed the L and we asked on the phone, "Do you see the L?" "Yes, we see the L," came the response. We typed the O, and we asked, "Do you see the O." "Yes, we see the O." Then we typed the G, and the system crashed ... Yet a revolution had begun" ....




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