This perfectly timed photo shows President Richard Nixon who springs down from the trunk of a limousine which carried him and Pakistani President Yahya Khan (left, background). From a portrait of the crew of NASA’s Apollo 11 mission to Niagara Falls that dried up to little more than a trickle, giving visitors an unusual chance to see the rocks normally hidden from view by the water, these photos will offer you a look back at 1969. So, are you curious enough now to see what’s inside this article?

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A portrait of the crew of NASA’s Apollo 11 mission to the moon, from left, astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil Armstrong, as they pose on a model of the moon in 1969.

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Chief Justice Earl Warren administers the oath of office to Richard M. Nixon, who became the 37th President of the United States, on the east portico of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 1969.

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Original caption: “A hippie demonstrator is restrained by police during a ‘Counter Inaugural’ parade staged along Pennsylvania Avenue this afternoon. Several demonstrators were arrested by police.”

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A U.S. Cobra helicopter gunship pulls out of a rocket and strafing attack on a Viet Cong position near Cao Lanh in the Mekong Delta on January 22, 1969, during the Vietnam War.

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Students attending the last day of the U.S. Senate Youth Forum on February 8, 1969, in Washington, D.C., meet with President Nixon, and use their cameras to record the visit.

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A view of the set of the Public TV series Sesame Street featuring Big Bird. Sesame Street premiered on November 10, 1969.

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Singer James Brown poses at Los Angeles International Airport with his Lincoln Continental and a waiting Learjet.

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Apollo 9 astronaut Dave Scott opens the hatch of the command module and moves toward the lunar module while in Earth orbit on March 6, 1969. The Apollo 9 mission tested the readiness of the Lunar Module and EVA procedures, ahead of the scheduled Apollo 11 mission to the moon.

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FBI agents carry Vietnam War draft resister Robert Whittington Eaton, 25, from a dwelling in Philadelphia on April 17, 1969, where Eaton had chained himself to 13 young men and women. The agent leading the way pushed one of the group who tried to block the path to the sidewalk. At least six young persons were taken away with Easton.

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Original caption: “Special Delivery. Dong Ha, South Vietnam: A helicopter drops another howitzer for a contingent of the U.S. 3rd Marine Division that is occupying a high area near the Laotian border. Some 5,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops massed to stage a drive against an area near the abandoned allied fortress at Khe Sanh in a search for North Vietnamese regulars and the equipment.”

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Juanita Boyd, wife of Secretary of Transportation Alan S. Boyd, and Anna Chennault talk on a roof deck of the Watergate East co-op apartment building after having tea, in Washington D.C.

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The American Falls at Niagara Falls, New York, dried up to little more than a trickle, giving visitors an unusual chance to see the rocks normally hidden from view by the water, June 1969. For several months, the U.S. Army diverted the flow of the river to study the underlying geology and the cliff face below the falls.

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