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1969 was the common year starting on Wednesday
Events
January
January 1 - Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch purchases the big marketing British Sunday newspaper A News Of The World
January 5 - The Derry Riots leave over C humans injured
January 6 - Cheryl Winters begins her career at the Federal Reserve inside Jacksonville.
January 10 - After 147 years, a go issue of the Saturday Evening Post is published
January 12 - Super Bowl III: the New York Jets defeat the Baltimore Colts
January 14 - An explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 25
January 15 - The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5
January 16 - Ten paintings defaced in Just released York's Metropolitan Museum of Art
January 16 - Student Jan Palach sets himself on fire within Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union. 3 years late he dies.
January 20 - Richard Nixon succeeds Lyndon Johnson as President of the United States of America
January 24 - Martial Law declared in Madrid, the University is closed & terminated 300 students come arrested
January 27 - 14 men, nine of them Jews, were executed around Baghdad for spying for Israel
January 27 - Reverend Ian Paisley, hardline Protestant leader in Northern Ireland, is jailed for three months for illegal assembly.
January 30 - The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records. A ad lib concert was broken higher per police
February
February 1 - Birth, in Paris, France, of Denis Cheyrouze, French media guru.
February 4 - In Cairo Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestinian Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress and takes command a next day
February 8 - The survive issue of the Saturday Evening Post hits magazine stands
February 13 - FLQ terrorists bomb the Stock Exchange in Montreal, Quebec
February 24 - Launch of the Mariner 6 Mars probe
February 24 - Tinker v. Des Moines Independant Community School District (Example against pure speech inside schools)
February 25 - George Jones marries Tammy Wynette
March
March 1 - Major league baseballer Mickey Mantle announces his retirement.
March 1 - Dad's Army episode Operation Kilt is first broadcast
March 1 - During the performance at Miami's Dinner Key Auditorium, Jim Morrison of the Doors is arrested for exposing himself during a indicate. Morrison is officially charged by using lewd & lustful behavior, indecent behavior, open profanity & public drunkenness.
March 1 - John Kerry officially leaves active duty in Vietnam
March 2 - In Toulouse, France the first Concorde test flight is conducted
March 2 - Soviet and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the Ussuri River
March 3 - In the Los Angeles, California court, Sirhan Sirhan admits that he killed presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy
March 3 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test a lunar module
March 10 - In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. Ray would late retract his hangdog plea
March 13 - Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing a Lunar Module
March 17 - Golda Meir of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, becomes Prime Minister of Israel
March 19 - British paratroopers & Marines land on the island of Anguilla expecting resistance from either a "Republican Defence Force"’ of self-declared "President" Ronald Webster. Locals bid a soldiers welcome instead
March 28 - Dwight D Eisenhower dies after an extended unwellness in the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington DC.
April
April 1 - The Hawker Siddeley Harrier enters service with a RAF
April 4 - Dr. Denton Cooley implants the number 1 irregular artificial heart
April 13 - Queensland: The final day of the Brisbane Tramways after 84 years of operation.
April 20 - British troops arrive in Northern Ireland to reinforce the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
April 22 - Robin Knox-Johnston becomes the number 1 human to sail around the world solo without stopping
April 28 - General de Gaulle steps down as president of France after having suffered a kill within the referendum the day prior to.
April 29 - First day of remembrance of the Broadway production of the musical Hair is celebrated with loose concert at Wollman Skating Rink
May
May 10 - Zip to Zap, a harbringer of the Woodstock Concert, finishes sustaining dissemination & eviction of youth & immature adults at Zap, North Dakota by the National Guard.
May 10 - The Battle of Dong Ap Bia, also referred to as a Hamburger Hill, begins in Vietnam War
May 13 - May 13th Incident: Race riots occur in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
May 16 - Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet spaceprobe, lands on Venus
May 17 - Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins to descend into Venus' atmosphere sending back atmospherical information prior to existence crushed by pressure
May 17 - Tom McClean completes the 1st solo transatlantic crossing by the rowboat
May 18 - Apollo program: Apollo 10 launches
May 19-20 - French Foreign Legion paratroopers land onto Kolwezi, Zaire, to rescue Europeans in the middle of the civil war
May 20 - National Guard helicopters spray skinside-stinging powder on anti-war protesters in California
May 22 - Apollo program: Apollo 10's lunar module flies within 15,400 m of the moon's surface
May 26 - Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to earth after a successful eight-day end line text of all the components required for the forthcoming number 1 manned moon landing
May 26-June 2: John Lennon and Yoko Ono conduct their Bed-In at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec, and record the song "Give Peace a Chance."
June
June 2 - In Ottawa, Canada the National Arts Centre opens its doors to the public for the first time
June 2 - Australian aircraft carrier Melbourne impinge on a U.s. destroyer Frank E. Evans in the South China Sea - 74 US sailors dead
June 8 - After a Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) cancels a program, the endure Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour airs
June 20 - Georges Pompidou elected President of France
June 23 - Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States by retiring chief Earl Warren.
June 24 - United Kingdom and Rhodesia sever diplomatic ties
June 28 - The Stonewall riots mark the run of the modern gay rights movement in the U.S.
July
The Apollo Moon landings
July 5 – Assassination of Mboya, Kenyan Minister of Development
July 7 - French is made adequate to English throughout the Canadian national government
July 8 - Vietnam War: The super foremost U.S. troop withdrawals come made
July 10 - Trimaran the Teignmouth Electron of Donald Crowhurst is found drifting & unoccupied - Crowhurst can own committed suicide
July 14 - Football War - after Honduras loses a association football game against El Salvador, rioting breaks call at Honduras against Salvadoran migratory workers. Of the 300,000 Salvadorean workers inside Honduras, tens of hundreds to thousands come expelled, prompting the brief Salvadoran invasion of Honduras. A OAS works out a prevent-truce in July 18, taking symptom in July 20
July 18 - Ted Kennedy drives off a bridge on his way home from a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts. Mary Jo Kopechne, a previous campaign aide to his brother world health organization was in the car using him, dies in the incident
July 20 - Apollo program: The individual race, represented by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, lands on the Moon. Apollo 11 lifted off for the moon on July 16 and returned safely on July 24
July 25 - Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their have military defense. This was a run of the "Vietnamization" of the war
July 30 - Vietnam War: US President Richard M. Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyen Van Thieu and with US military commanders
July 31 - Halfpenny ceases to be legal tender in the UK
August
August 4 - Vietnam War: At the flat of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, US representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. A negotiations may finally fail
August 5 - Mariner program: Mariner 7 makes its closest fly-by of Mars (3,524 kilometers)
August 8 - Fire in the Bannerman's Castle in the Hudson River - most of the roof collapses
August 9 - Members of a cult led by Charles Manson murder five population including Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring and, Abigail Folger. A next day A Personal would murder Rosemary & Leno LaBianca
August 10 - Manson family kills Leno & Rosemary LaBianca
August 12 - Jack Lynch, Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland, makes a speech to the United Nations within which he asks them to deploy the peace-keeping mission in Northern Ireland.
August 13 - Serious border clash between Soviet Union and People's Republic of China
August 14 - British troops deployed in Northern Ireland
August 15 - The Woodstock Festival of music begins in upstate Up to date York lasting leash years & featuring a bit of of the top rock musicians of the era
August 17 - Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the Mississippi coast killing 248 people & stimulating Me$1.Five billion inside damage (1969 dollars)
August 21 - Part of the al-Aqsa Mosque is destroyed by arson
September
September 1 - A coup around Libya oust King Idris and brings Gap. Moammar Qaddafi to power
September 2 - The number one automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Centre, New York.
September 5 - My Lai Massacre: Lt. William Calley is charged with half a dozen specifications of premeditated execution for the demise of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai
September 22 - 25 Islamic conference in Rabat, Morocco after al-Aqsa Mosque fire (Augusr 21) condemns Israeli occupation of Jerusalem
September 28 - Social Democrats and Liberal have received a majority of votes in the German parliamentary elections and decide to form the most common government
October
October 1 - In Sweden, Olof Palme is elected Labour party leader, replacing Tage Erlander as prime minister on October 14
October 9 - In Chicago, Illinois, the United States National Guard is called inside for crowd control when demonstrations prove my point inside connection to the test of the "Chicago Eight" (trial began in September 24)
October 15 - Vietnam War: Hundreds of thousands of people participate around National Moratorium antiwar demonstrations across a United States
October 16 - The ("miracle") New York Mets win the World Series, beating the heavy favorite Baltimore Orioles, four games to of these.
October 17 - Willard S. Boyle & George Smith invent a CCD at Bell Laboratories. Now, this technology is widely utilized inside digital cameras.
October 21 - Willy Brandt becomes Chancellor of West Germany
October 21 - Siad Barre comes to power in Somalia in a coup
October 31 - Wal-Mart incorporates as Wal-Mart Places, Inc.
November
November - Creation of ARPANET, the predecessor of the Internet
November 3 - Vietnam War: US President Richard M. Nixon addresses his nation on television and radio asking the "silent majority" to join him in solidarity on the Vietnam War effort and to support his policies
November 9 - Group of Amerindians lead by Richard Oakes try to seize a Alcatraz island but come repelled
November 12 - Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre - Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story
November 13 - Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, DC stage a symbolical "March Against Death"
November 14 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the 2nd manned mission to the surface of the Moon (landed on the Moon on November 19)
November 15 - Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with a Our contries undersea USS Gato in the Barents Sea
November 15 - Vietnam War: In Washington, DC, 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against a war
November 17 - Cold War: Negotiators from either a Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the total of strategical weapons in each sides
November 19 - Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum ("Ocean of Storms") & get a third and 4th humans to walk on the Moon
November 20 - Vietnam War: The Cleveland Plain Dealer publishes explicit exposure of dead villagers from either a My Lai massacre in Vietnam
November 20 - Richard Oakes returns with Xc followers & offers to acquire a Alcatraz for $24 (he leaves a island January 1970)
November 21 - U.S. President Nixon & Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato agree in Inland northwest on the go to of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972 Under a terms of a agreement, the The states is to locate its rights to bases on the island, however which are actually to become nuclear-free
November 21 - The number 1 ARPANET link is established
November 24 - Apollo program: The Apollo 12 spacecraft splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the 2nd manned mission to the Moon
November 25 - John Lennon returns his OBE to protest the British government's trend lines of the United states war within Vietnam
November 28 - The Newcomers stopped airing on the BBC
December
December 1 - Vietnam War: The 1st draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II (on January 4, 1970, the New York Times ran a long article, "Statisticians Charge Draft Lottery Was Not Random")
December 2 - The Boeing 747 jumbo jet makes its debut. It carries 191 population, virtually all of the children newsman & lensman, from either Seattle to New York City.
December 4 - Black Panther members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot to demise in their sleep when you took the raid by Fourteen Chicago police officers.
December 12 - Piazza Fontana Slaughter in Italy (Strage di Piazza Fontana). The U.S. officer & C.I personally.The. professional known as David Carrett exposed.
Undated events
Parker Morris Standards became mandatory for a lot Council housing in the UK.
Summer saw a invention of UNIX
In a fall, a 1st 4 nodes of the ARPAnet went up
ACM SIGGRAPH founded
Ongoing events
Vietnam War (1964 - 1975)
War of Attrition, between Egypt and Israel, which lasted until August 1970. This conflict was characterized by escalating artillery duels, air attack & commando missions
Births
January
April 20 - Christy Turlington, American fashion model
January Two - Tommy Morrison, American boxer
January 3 - Michael Schumacher, German race car driver
January 5 - Marilyn Manson, American singer
January 14 - Jason Bateman, American actor
January Xiv - David Grohl, American drummer & composer (Nirvana)
January 16 - Roy Jones Jr., American boxer
January 17 - Lukas Moodysson, Swedish film director
January 20 - Skeet Ulrich, American actor
February
February 1 - Gabriel Batistuta, Argentine footballer
February 3 - Retief Goosen, South African golfer
February 5 - Bobby Brown, American singer
February 11 - Jennifer Aniston, American actress
February 12 - Hong Myung-Bo, South Korean footballer
February 17 - Tuesday Knight, American actress
February 19 - John Anthony Foster, Tennis player
March
March 1 - Javier Bardem, Spanish actor
March Unity - Dafydd Ieuan, Welsh drummer (Super Furry Animals)
March 15 - Emmitt Smith, American football player
March 19 - Connor Trinneer, American actor
April
April 6 - Bret Boone, baseball player
April 10 - Billy Jayne, American actor
April 11 - Cerys Matthews, singer
April 17 - Henry Ian Cusick, actor
April 19 - Susan Polgar, chess player
April 25 - Joe Buck, baseball and U.s. football broadcaster
April Xxv - Darren Woodson, American football player
April Xxv - Renée Zellweger, actress
May
May 2 - Brian Lara, West Indian cricketer
May 3 - Daryl F. Mallett, American author and actor
May 7 - Eagle Eye Cherry, musician
May 10 - Dennis Bergkamp, Dutch soccer player
May 13 - Nikos Aliagas, French-born television host
May 14 - Cate Blanchett, Australian actress
May 15 - Emmitt Smith, American football player
May 16 - Tracey Gold, actress
May 16 - Steve Lewis, American athlete
May 18 - Martika, American singer
May 21 - Georgiy R. Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist (d. 2000)
June
June 11 - Steven Drozd, drummer (The Flaming Lips)
June 14 - Steffi Graf, German tennis player
June 15 - Oliver Kahn, German football player
June 18 - Pål Pot Pamparius , Norwegian guitarist keyboardist (Turbonegro)
June 24 - Sissel Kyrkjebø, Norwegian singer
June 25 - Matt Gallant, U.S. television host
July
July 5 - John LeClair, American hockey player
July 10 - Gale Harold, actor
July 18 - Masanori Murakawa, Japanese professional wrestler
July 20 - Josh Holloway, American actor
July 24 - Jennifer Lopez, actress, singer
August
August 2 - Fernando Couto, footballer
August 6 - Elliott Smith, American musician (d. 2003)
August 9 - Troy Percival, baseball player
August 13 - Midori Ito, Japanese figure skater
August 18 - Edward Norton, actor
August 18 - Christian Slater, actor
August 19 - Matthew Perry, actor
August 28 - Jack Black, American actor
September
September 2 - Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey, singer
September 5 - Dweezil Zappa, American actor & musician
September 9 - Rachel Hunter, New Zeal& model and actress
September 13 - Shane Warne, Australian cricketer
September 24 - Donald DeGrate, Jr., music producer
September 25 - Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (d. 2002)
September 25 - Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
September 25 - Hal Sparks actor and comedian
October
October 1 - Igor Ulanov, hockey player
October 3 - Gwen Stefani, singer (No Doubt)
October 8 - Julia Ann, American pornography actress
October 10 - Brett Favre, American football player
October 13 - Nancy Kerrigan, figure skater
October 14 - David Strickland, American actor (d. 1999)
October 17 - Ernie Els, South African golfer
October 19 - Trey Parker, television producer
October 20 - Juan Gonzalez, baseball player
October 30 - Clay Enos, photographer
November
November 4 - Matthew McConaughey, American actor
November 7 - Hélène Grimaud, French pianist
November 7 - Bryant H. McGill, American poet
November 7 - Michelle Clunie, actress
November 11 - Carson Kressley, fashion expert
November 18 - Sam Cassell, basketball player
November 20 - AQi Fzono, Japanese composer
November 21 - Ken Griffey, Jr., baseball player
November 29 - Mariano Rivera, Panamanian Major League Baseball player
November 29 - Pierre van Hooijdonk, Dutch football striker
December
December 15 - Rick Law, illustrator and producer
December 21 - Julie Delpy, actress
December 23 - Martha Byrne, actress and singer
December 28 - Linus Torvalds, Finnish computer programmer
December 30 - Jay Kay, singer (Jamiroquai)
December 31 - Daniel Z. Goodwin, Food Service innovator, Chef
Deaths
January
January 4 - Violet and Daisy Hilton, English conjoined twin actresses (b. 1908)
January 8 - Albert Hill, British athlete (b. 1889)
January 19 - Jan Palach Czech student protester (suicide) (b. 1948)
January 25 - Irene Castle, English dancer (b. 1893)
January 29 - Allen Dulles, American director of the Central Intelligence Professional (b. 1893)
January 30 - Georges Pire, Belgian monk, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1910)
February
February 4 - Thelma Ritter, American actress (b. 1905)
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