altitude and on a different orbital plane than the Apollo 11 altitude above the lunar surface, and to land at the Mare Crisium after the American lunar module's landing at the Mare Tranquillitatis to depart first. However, what an author would describe later as something that "would have been an engineering triumph if it had worked" failed when Luna 15 crashed upon landing. Born: Ken Jeong, American TV and film comedian; as Kendrick Kang-Joh Jeong in Detroit Died: Muhammad Shahidullah, 84, Bengali educator, linguist and author July 14, 1969 (Monday) Bombers, tanks and army troops from El Salvador staged a surprise attack on neighboring Honduras in what would later be called the "Football War" or "Soccer War" because it came a few weeks after El Salvador's defeat of Honduras during the qualifying rounds for soccer football's 1970 World Cup. The Honduras government said that troops crossed into the Honduran border town of Amatillo in the south and El Poy in the west, and that bombs had been dropped on the cities of Nueva Ocotepeque, Santa Rosa de Copán, Gracias and Choluteca. Before a ceasefire could be negotiated on July 18, the war would leave "4,000 dead, the number being about equally divided between the two sides and including civilians killed." The modern U.S. "War on Drugs" began as U.S. President Nixon sent a message to Congress calling for "a comprehensive legislative proposal" to control narcotics and to "place in a single statute, a revised and modern plan for control". Congress would pass the Controlled Substances Act in 1970. U.S. Treasury Secretary David M. Kennedy announced that the United States Mint would discontinue issuing United States currency in amounts higher than $100. Rizal Technological University, located in the Philippines in the Manila suburb of Mandaluyong, held its first classes, as "The College of Rizal". It now has more than 30,000 students. Heydar Aliyev became the most powerful politician in Azerbaijan (at the time, one of the constituent republics of the USSR), after he was elevated to the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Azerbaijan SSR. After the breakup of the Soviet Union, Aliyev would serve as President of Azerbaijan from 1993 to 2003. Died: "Clarence", 7, an American lion who had appeared in the 1965 children's film Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion and for four seasons in the CBS television show Daktari. Often on tour at various expositions