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1969 ( MCMLXIX) 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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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)
February
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)
March
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 PuzoAD 69. 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 Domini. Anno Domini inscription at Klagenfurt Cathedral, Austria. The terms anno Domini ( AD) and before Christ ( BC) [a] are used when designating years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. The term anno Domini is Medieval Latin and means "in the year of the Lord" [1] but is often presented using "our Lord" instead of "the Lord", [2] [3 ...
Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held from August 15 to 18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, 40 miles (65 km) southwest of the town of Woodstock.
- August 15–17, 1969 (scheduled), August 15–18, 1969 (actual)
- Bethel, New York
- 1969; 54 years ago
This category has the following 36 subcategories, out of 36 total. 1969 by city (6 C) 1969 by continent (23 C) 1969 by country (198 C, 42 P)
August 17 – Category 5 Hurricane Camille, the most powerful tropical cyclonic system at landfall in history, hits the Mississippi coast, killing 248 people and causing US$1.5 billion in damage (1969 dollars). August 20 – Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument is established in Florissant, Colorado.
