1969 in Chile

List of events

  • 1968
  • 1967
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1969
in
Chile

  • 1970
  • 1971
  • 1972
Decades:
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  • 1970s
  • 1980s
See also:
  • Other events of 1969
  • Timeline of Chilean history

The following lists events that happened during 1969 in Chile.

Incumbents

  • President of Chile: Eduardo Frei Montalva[1]

Events

February

March

  • 2 March – Chilean parliamentary election, 1969
  • 9g March - Puerto Montt Massacre
  • 25 March - The La Silla Observatory is inaugurated in the current Coquimbo Region.

April

  • 28 April - Crash of LAN Chile Flight 160. A Boeing 727 from Buenos Aires crashed in a field near Colina. There were no deaths or injuries.

May

June

  • 15 June - The Huanchaca street scandal occurs, when 9 young homosexuals were detained in a house located at number 352 of said street in the city of Antofagasta and arrested until 2 July, in which they suffered mistreatment and abuse.

August

  • A binational commission sets the maritime limits between Chile and Peru through two lighthouses on each side of the border.

September

  • 18 September - Official broadcasts of Chile's National Television begin in Santiago.

October

November

  • 12 November - Flight 87 of LAN Chile was hijacked, considered the first air piracy attack in national history
  • 22 November - The Radical Democracy political party was founded.

December

  • 3 December - An Air France Boeing 707 exploded in midair and fell into the sea two minutes after taking off at 7:03 p.m. from Maiquetía bound for Lisbon and Paris. 62 people died. The plane had arrived in Venezuela from Santiago de Chile and the flight was 24 hours late due to strikes in France.

Births

Deaths

References

  1. ^ "Eduardo Frei". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
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1969 in South America
Sovereign states
  • Argentina
  • Bolivia
  • Brazil
  • Chile
  • Colombia
  • Ecuador
  • Guyana
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Suriname
  • Uruguay
  • Venezuela
Dependencies and
other territories
  • Falkland Islands
  • French Guiana
  • South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands