Some of what was going on in “the world” in November 1969.
US President Richard Nixon addressed the nation on television and radio on 3 November to announce his plans to end direct American involvement in Vietnam. He termed the plan “Vietnamization,” whereby American troops would be withdrawn and replaced by Republic of Vietnam forces.
Sesame Street made its debut on the National Education Network (predecessor to the Public Broadcasting System) on 10 November. The first episode came through the courtesy of the numbers 2 and 3 and the letters E, S, and W.
The story of the 1968 My Lai massacre was revealed to the American public on 12 November by freelance report Seymour Hersh and in a New York Times article by its reporter, Robert M. Smith. At least 109 Vietnamese civilians were killed by American troops in and around the village of My Lai in March 1968.
The cartoon character “Fat Albert” was introduced on 12 November in a television special by comedian Bill Cosby.
NASA launched Apollo 12, the second manned mission to a Moon landing, on 14 November. Launched in the midst of a rainstorm, the rocket bearing astronauts Pete Gordon, Richard Gordon, and Alan Bean was twice struck by lightning on its ascent, but safely achieved orbit.
The first “Wendy’s” hamburger restaurant opened on 15 November in Columbus, Ohio.
More than 500,000 protestors marched in “the largest peace march on Washington in American history” on 15 November for the second “Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam.”
Apollo 12’s Pete Conrad and Alan Bean became the third and fourth humans to reach the surface of the Moon on 19 November.
The occupation of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay by American Indians began on 20 November. It would last until June 1971.
The connection between “interface message processors” at UCLA and the Stanford Research Center was made permanent on 21 November. It was the first link of ARPANET, progenitor of the Internet.
The Apollo 12 spacecraft splashed down safely in the Pacific on 24 November.