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The following lists events that happened during 1969 in Chile.
Incumbents
Events
February
- 1 February - The broadcasts of the local Televisión Nacional de Chile station begin in Punta Arenas.
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
- 21 May - The transmissions of the third station of National Television of Chile begin, this time in the city of Talca.
- 26 May - Chile signs the Andean Pact.
- 29 May - Construction begins on Line 1 of the Santiago Metro, that would unite the Civic District of Santiago with the Barrancas sector.
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
September
- 18 September - Official broadcasts of Chile's National Television begin in Santiago.
October
- 21 October – Tacnazo insurrection
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
Births
- 7 January – Raimundo Tupper (d. 1995)
- 28 January – Fernando Cornejo (d. 2009)
- 15 March – Juan Cristóbal Guarello
- 10 May – Javier Margas
- 22 June – Ronald Fuentes
- 4 July – Alejandra Fosalba
- 14 July – Carlo de Gavardo (d. 2015)
- 27 August – Karen Doggenweiler
- 18 September – Rafael Araneda
- 15 October – Roberto Artiagoitia
- 6 December – Rodrigo Vásquez Schroder
- 24 December – Luis Musrri
- 27 December – Miguel Cerda
Deaths
- 9 February – Manuel Plaza (b. 1900)
References
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