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1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1969th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 969th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1960s decade.
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Top Rock Tracks 1969 #1, from The Allman Brothers Band -...
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Events. January 4 – NBC expands the Huntley-Brinkley Report...
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AD 69 ( LXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as the Year of the consulship of Galba and Vinius (or, less frequently, year 822 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination AD 69 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno ...
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January 12 – Led Zeppelin's first album is released.January 20 – Richard Nixon becomes President of the United States, after Lyndon Johnson.February 3 – Yasser Arafat becomes Palestinian Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.April 9 – Around 300 students take over Harvard University, because they do not like the Vietnam Warbeing fought.January 2 – Christy Turlington, American modelJanuary 3 – Michael Schumacher, German Formula onedriverJanuary 5 – Marilyn Manson, American singerJanuary 14 – Dave Grohl, American musicianJanuary
1. January 1 – Barton MacLane, American actor (b. 1902) 2. January 1 – Bruno Söderström, Swedish track and field athlete (b. 1881) 3. January 4 – Paul Chambers, American jazz double bassist (b. 1935) 4. January 9 – Jacques van Egmond, Dutch racing cyclist (b. 1908) 5. January 17 – Grażyna Bacewicz, Polish composer (b. 1909) 6. January 19 – Jan Palach, Czech activist (b. 1948) 7. January 30 – Dominique Pire, Belgian friar (b. 1910) 8. January 31 – Meher Baba, Indian mystic (b. 1894)
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1. February 2 – Boris Karloff, English actor (b. 1887) 2. February 23 – Madhubala, Indian actress (b. 1933) 3. February 23 – King Saud of Saudi Arabia (b. 1902) 4. February 26 – Levi Eshkol, 3rd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1895)
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1. March 24 – Joseph Kasa-Vubu, 1st President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1917) 2. March 28 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States (b. 1890)
Nobel Prize in Physics – Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist (for his work on the theory of elementary particles)Chemistry – Derek H R Barton, Odd HasselMedicine – Max Delbrück, Alfred D Hershey, Salvador E LuriaLiterature – Samuel Beckett, Irish writer"Aquarius"/"Let The Sunshine In" – Fifth Dimension"The Ballad of John and Yoko" – The Beatles"But You Know I Love You" – Kenny Rogersand The First Edition"The Boxer" – Simon and GarfunkelAda or Ardor: A Family Chronicle – Vladimir NabokovThe Andromeda Strain – Michael CrichtonThe Edible Woman – Margaret AtwoodThe Godfather – Mario PuzoAug 3, 2015 · Media in category "1969 advertisements in the United States". The following 17 files are in this category, out of 17 total. 080171-upstage-advert-snc.jpg 800 × 668; 128 KB. 1969 AMC SCRambler ADV-quarter mile.jpg 221 × 314; 27 KB. 1969 WLW-D TV GUIDE - DICK BAY.JPG 640 × 976; 125 KB.
Aug 23, 2018 · On July 20, 1969, two American astronauts landed on the moon and became the first humans to walk on the lunar surface. The event marked the culmination of a nearly decade-long intense push to...
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Jan 5, 2021 · Written by Tom Matthews. Last Updated on 5th January 2021. What happened in 1969? The war ended. The swinging sixties quivered with change. A chain of famous events in 1969 would change the world for the good and bad, leaving its mark in history as one of the most culturally defining years to date.
May 31, 2019 · MOON LANDING PARTIES. On July 21, 1969, the collective eyes of the world were fixed on black-and-white TV screens as astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped out of Apollo 11 and walked on the moon ...