Fifty Years Later, Chappaquiddick Still Reverberates Noah Asimow | Thursday, July 18 2019 - 6:02am On July 18, 1969, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy arrived on Martha’s Vineyard to sail in the 43rd annual Edgartown Yacht Club regatta. It was a day the world would remember forever. But not because of the sailing race. Chappaquiddick Incident