![]() In at least one location, the Richards-Gebaur Air Reserve Station in Missouri, induction was delayed so that one recruit could be sworn in before midnight on Monday and given the last service number, and another a few minutes later on Tuesday to be "given a Social Security number as his service number". Besides eliminating the 8-digit service number, the Army and Air Force also retired the prefixes (such as "RA" for "regular Army" for volunteers, "US" for draftees, "ER" for enlisted reservists, "O" for officer and "WA" for "women's Army"). ![]() The identifier, more commonly referred to as part of the "name, rank and serial number", was replaced with the service member's Social Security number for all people sworn in after midnight of June 1. Marines would continue to use numbers until the end of 1970 and the U.S. Assignment of a "service number" for United States Army and United States Air Force personnel was discontinued more than 50 years after the first Army service number had been issued on February 28, 1918, though the U.S.Prior to the ceremony, Welsh nationalists planted bombs to protest against the English prince's installation, and two employees of the town of Abergele, both members of the nationalist group Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru, were killed while attempting to plant a gelignite bomb using nitroglycerin in a local hotel eight hours after the ceremony, a British Army soldier was killed by a bomb when he started an Army van. Charles had been declared Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester on July 26, 1958, when he was nine years old (the position had been vacant since 1936, when the previous Prince of Wales ascended the throne as King Edward VIII), but the investiture ceremony was not carried out until Charles's 21st birthday. For the first time, the ceremony was televised live to British viewers, and was seen by an estimated half a billion viewers in the United States and in the British Commonwealth. The formal investiture of the United Kingdom's Prince Charles as the Prince of Wales took place at Caernarvon Castle in Wales, as the crown prince's mother, Queen Elizabeth II, placed the coronet (a small crown) on in his head.The following events occurred in July 1969: July 20, 1969: Neil Armstrong becomes first man on the Moon July 20, 1969: Buzz Aldrin photographed walking on the Moon (note Armstrong reflected in helmet visor) July 2, 1969: Soviet counterpart to the Saturn V, the N1 rocket fails launch attempt July 17, 1969: New York Times regrets its 1920 error about Robert H. 1969 January February March April May June July August September October November December > ![]()
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