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Andrew Breitbart
1969Feb, 1

Andrew Breitbart

Andrew Breitbart, American journalist, author, and publisher (d. 2012)
Andrew James Breitbart (; February 1, 1969 – March 1, 2012) was an American conservative journalist, writer, and political commentator who was the founder of Breitbart News and a co-founder of HuffPost.

After helping in the early stages of HuffPost and the Drudge Report, Breitbart created Breitbart News, a far-right news and opinion website. He played central roles in the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal, the firing of Shirley Sherrod, and the ACORN 2009 undercover videos controversy. Commenters such as Nick Gillespie and Conor Friedersdorf have credited Breitbart with changing how people wrote about politics by "show[ing] how the Internet could be used to route around information bottlenecks imposed by official spokesmen and legacy news outlets".

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Events on 1969

  • 2Mar

    Concorde

    In Toulouse, France, the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted.
  • 17Apr

    Robert F. Kennedy

    Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.
  • 16Jul

    Apollo 11

    Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy, Florida.
  • 20Jul

    Apollo 11

    Apollo program: Apollo 11's crew successfully makes the first manned landing on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon (July 21 UTC).
  • 30Jul

    Richard Nixon

    Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and U.S. military commanders.