This Year in History 1969. E-Book

kerry butters

• Herausgeber: Kerry Butters
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Beschreibung

This Year in History 1969.by Kerry Butters is a reference Book from that year, included in it are things in the News, Famous Births and Deaths, Weddings, cost of living, Music and Sport, 1969 Fun Facts etc. Everything 1969. UK and USA Facts, Great for Birthday presents or Anniversaries, Look out for other years in the series or maybe buy your own birth year.

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Table of contents

Table of Contents

Major News Events of 1969

Who Was Born This Year in 1969

Who Died This Year in 1969

Film and TV 1969

Sport of 1969

1969 Music

Cost of Living in 1969

Famous Weddings and Divorces

1969 Fun Facts

1969 Calendar

Look out for More Books in the Series

This Year in History

1969

By

Kerry Butters

Table of Contents

Major News Events of 1969

Who Was Born This Year in 1969

Who Died This Year in 1969

Film and TV 1969

Sport of 1969

1969 Music

Cost of Living in 1969

Famous Weddings and Divorces

1969 Fun Facts

1969 Calendar

Major News Events of 1969

January

Jan 1 Jack Kent Cooke, owner of NHL's LA Kings, fines each player $100 for "NOT" arguing with the referee

Jan 1 People's Democracy (PD) begin a march from Belfast to Derry, inspired by ML King's Selma to Montgomery march in the US

Jan 1 55th Rose Bowl: #1 Ohio State beats #2 Southern California, 27-16

Jan 1 35th Sugar Bowl: #9 Arkansas beats #4 Georgia, 16-2

Jan 1 35th Orange Bowl: #3 Penn State beats #6 Kansas, 15-14

Jan 2 "Fig Leaves Are Falling" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 4 performances

Jan 2 "Soviet Sport" calls Emile Zatopek a public enemy

Jan 2 Lorraine Hansberry's "To be Young, Gifted & Black," premieres in NYC

Jan 2 Luis Ferré becomes the first statehooder Governor of Puerto Rico

Jan 2 Operation Barrier Reef begins in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Jan 2 Australian Rupert Murdoch gains control of the 'News of the World'

Jan 3 John Lennon's "2 Virgins" album declared pornographic in NJ

Jan 3 Rep Adam Clayton Powell Jr seated by Congress

Jan 4 "Fig Leaves Are Falling" closes at Broadhurst NYC after 4 performances

Jan 4 France begins arms embargo against Israel

Jan 4 A People's Democracy march between Belfast and Derry is repeatedly attacked by loyalists and off-duty police officers

Jan 5 "Maggie Flynn" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 82 performances

Jan 5 Bollingen prize for poetry presented to John Berryman & Karl Shapiro

Jan 5 Neville Williams' "Chronology of the Expanding World" completed

Jan 5 USSR Venera 5 launched for 1st successful planet landing (Venus)

Jan 5 Creedence Clearwater Revival release their second album "Bayou Country", featuring singles "Good Golly, Miss Molly" and "Proud Mary"

Jan 6 Supremes release "I'm Livin' In Shame"

Jan 6 WLIW TV channel 21 in Garden City, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting

Jan 7 US Congress doubles president salary

Jan 9 First trial flight of Concorde supersonic jetliner, Bristol, England

Jan 9 Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Terence O'Neill travels to London to meet Home Secretary James Callaghan and brief him on the growing violence in Northern Ireland

Jan 10 Pirate Radio Station Free Derby begins operation by Northern Ireland

Jan 10 Sweden is the 1st Western country to recognize North Vietnam

Jan 10 USSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus

Jan 11 "Hooked on a Feeling" by BJ Thomas peaks at #5

Jan 11 Jethro Tull's This Was Jethro Tull album debuts

Jan 12 "Golden Rainbow" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 355 performances

Jan 12 Super Bowl III, Orange Bowl, Miami, FL: New York Jets beat Baltimore Colts, 16-7; MVP: Joe Namath, NY Jets, QB

Jan 12 Debut album of Led Zeppelin released first in the US

Jan 14 25 members of US aircraft carrier Enterprise die during maneuvers

Jan 14 Soyuz 4 launched; rendezvous with Soyuz 5 two days later

Jan 14 Matt Busby retires from Manchester United

Jan 14 19th NBA All-Star Game, Baltimore Civic Centre: East beats West, 123-112; MVP: Oscar Robertson, Cincinnati Royals, PG

Jan 15 Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean

Jan 15 Soyuz 5 launched by Soviet Union

Jan 15 Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Terence O'Neill announces that an official inquiry will analyse the 'troubles' in Northern Ireland

Jan 16 Soviet Soyuz 4 & Soyuz 5 perform 1st transfer of crew in space

Jan 17 Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 5 lands

Jan 18 Expanded 4 party Vietnam peace talks began in Paris

Jan 18 United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay, killing all 38 people on-board

Jan 19 8th AFL All Star Game, Gator Bowl, Jacksonville: Western Division beats Eastern Division, 38-25; MVPs: Len Dawson, KC Chiefs, QB; George Webster, Houston Oilers, LB

Jan 19 19th NFL Pro Bowl, LA Memorial Coliseum: West beats East, 10-7; MVPs: Roman Gabriel, Los Angeles Rams, QB; Merlin Olsen, Los Angeles Rams, DT

Jan 20 Richard M Nixon inaugurated as US president

Jan 20 U of Az reports 1st optical id of pulsar (in Crab Nebula)

Jan 21 22nd NHL All-Star Game, Montreal Forum: Western Division ties Eastern Division, 3-3; MVP: Frank Mahovlich, Detroit, LW

Jan 21 A partial meltdown at the Lucens nuclear reactor in Switzerland seriously contaminating the cavern containing the reactor; the plant is sealed and decommissioned

Jan 22 "Celebration" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 110 performances

Jan 22 Orbiting Solar Observatory 5 launched into earth orbit

Jan 22 Roy Campanella & Stan Musial elected to baseball Hall of Fame

Jan 23 Cream releases their last album "Goodbye"

Jan 24 Queen Juliana of the Netherlands appointed honorary citizen of Addis Ababa

Jan 24 Spanish dictator General Franco announces state of emergency

Jan 24 Deputy Prime Minister Brian Faulkner resigns from the Northern Ireland cabinet in protest at the lack of 'strong government' on the part of PM Terence O'Neill

Jan 24 Students protest the erection of steel gates around the London School of Economics

Jan 25 US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris

Jan 26 "Red, White, & Maddox" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 41 performances

Jan 26 Minister of Health and Social Services William Morgan resigns from the Northern Ireland government

Jan 26 Police break up a march by hundreds of demonstrators in central Prague

Jan 26 1st Australian Open Women's Tennis: Margaret Court wins inaugural Open event; beats American Billie Jean King 6-4, 6-1

Jan 27 14 spies hanged in Baghdad

Jan 27 9 Jews publicly executed in Damascus, Syria

Jan 27 Actress Thelma Ritter suffers a heart attack (she dies Feb 5th)

Jan 27 Ian Paisley sentenced to 3 years

Jan 27 Chuck Noll is named head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers (the youngest coach in NFL history at the time)

Jan 27 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Rod Laver takes 1st leg of his successful second Grand Slam; beats Andrés Gimeno of Spain 6-3, 6-4, 7-5

Jan 28 2nd ABA All-Star Game: West 133 beats East 127 at Louisville

Jan 28 Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win in North America

Jan 28 1969 NFL Draft: O.J. Simpson from USC first pick by Buffalo Bills

Jan 29 Jimi Hendrix and Pete Townshend wage a battle of guitars

Jan 29 Sheahan & Connolly hang on for exciting draw Australia v West Indies

Jan 30 US/Canada ISIS 1 launched to study ionosphere

Jan 30 The Beatles perform their last live gig, a 42 minute concert on the roof of Apple Corps HQ in London

Jan 31 Vice Admiral Rufus L Taylor, USN, ends term as deputy director of CIA

February

Feb 1 US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn

Feb 1 US male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood

Feb 1 WPGH TV channel 53 in Pittsburgh, PA (IND) begins broadcasting

Feb 1 In his first start driving a Ford, Richard Petty wins the Motor Trend 500 at Riverside, CA; his previous 92 NASCAR victories were in Plymouths

Feb 2 KMST TV channel 46 in Monterey-Salinas, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting

Feb 2 Stan Coveleski & Waite Hoyt are voted into baseball Hall of Fame

Feb 3 "Canterbury Tales" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 122 performances

Feb 3 Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill announces the dissolution of the Stormont parliament and the holding of new elections

Feb 4 The Palestine National Congress appoints Yasser Arafat chairman of the PLO

Feb 4 41,163, then largest NBA crowd, watches doubleheader Cin-Det, SD-Bost

Feb 4 Beatles appoint Eastman & Eastman, as general cousel to Apple

Feb 4 John Madden is named head coach of NFL's Oakland Raiders

Feb 4 Lonne Elder's "Ceremonies in Dark Old Men" premieres in NYC

Feb 5 "Turn-On," debuts and cancelled by ABC after flopping so badly

Feb 5 US population reaches 200 million

Feb 5 Vince Lombardi, becomes part owner, VP, GM and head coach of Redskins

Feb 6 Jerry Herman's "Dear World" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 132 performances

Feb 6 The New Ulster Movement forms, promoting moderate and non-sectarian policies and to assist those candidates who support Northern Ireland Prime MinisterTerence O'Neill

Feb 7 "This Is Tom Jones" debuts on ABC TV

Feb 7 Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat becomes president of PLO

Feb 7 Diane Crump becomes 1st woman jockey at a major US racetrack (Hialeah)

Feb 7 The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is removed from service

Feb 8 Last edition of Saturday Evening Post

Feb 8 Meteorite weighing over 1 ton falls in Chihuahua, Mexico

Feb 9 1st flight of the Boeing 747 jumbo jet

Feb 9 KGTO TV channel 36 in Fayetteville, AR (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting

Feb 10 LSU Pete Maravich scores 66, despite losing to Tulane 101-94

Feb 11 Diana Crump becomes 1st US woman jockey to ride against men, Hialelah

Feb 11 Dorey Funk Jr beats Gene Kiniski in Tampa, to become NWA champ

Feb 13 Mary Hopkin's Postcard album on Apple is released

Feb 13 Suriname government of Pengel resigns

Feb 16 Detroit Red Wings' captain Alex Delvecchio picks up an assist in a 6-2 defeat at Minnesota to become the 3rd player in NHL history to score 1,000 career points

Feb 16 "Andrei Rublev", Russian film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, starring Anatoly Solonitsyn and Ivan Lapikov, premieres in Moscow after a limited release in 1966

Feb 17 Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash record an album; it was never released.

Feb 17 Golda Meir sworn in as the first female Prime Minister of Israel

Feb 17 "Cloud Nine" 9th studio album by The Temptations is released (Grammy Award Best Rhythm & Blues Performance by a Duo or Group 1969, Billboard Album of the Year 1969)

Feb 18 Doug Walters scores 2nd innings century after 242 in 1st

Feb 18 PLO-attack El-Al plane in Zurich Switzerland

Feb 21 1st launching of heavy N-1 rocket at Baikonur Kazakhstan (explodes)

Feb 21 Ted Williams signs 5-year contract to manage Washington Senators

Feb 22 Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st female jockey to win at a major US track

Feb 23 Nayif Hawatimah forms Dem People's Front for Liberation of Palestine

Feb 23 WWVU (now WNPB) TV channel 24 in Morgantown, WV (PBS) 1st broadcast

Feb 23 11th Daytona 500: LeeRoy Yarbrough driving for Junior Johnson, catches Charlie Glotzbach on final lap to win; first Daytona 500 won on a last lap pass

Feb 23 Groundbreaking TV documentary series "Civilisation" presented by art historian Kenneth Clark premieres on BBC2 in the UK

Feb 24 Mariner 6 launched for Mars flyby to study planet's atmosphere

Feb 24 Northern Ireland Stormont parliament elections are held; the Unionist party fragments into 'Official Unionist' and 'Unofficial Unionist'

Feb 24 26th Golden Globes: "The Lion in Winter", Peter O'Toole, & Joanne Woodward win

Feb 24 "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" film based on novel by Muriel Spark directed by Ronald Neame, starring Maggie Smith (Academy Award Best Actress) premieres in London

Feb 25 Beatles begin recording Abbey Road album

Feb 25 Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars

Feb 25 Pension plan for baseball is agreed to

Feb 25 West Germany gives $5 million to an Arab terrorist as ransom for the passengers and crew of a hijacked jumbo jet

Feb 27 General Hafez al-Assad becomes head of Syria via military coup

Feb 27 President Nixon visits West Berlin

Feb 28 Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Springs won by Towler & Ford of Great Britain

Feb 28 Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Rodnina & Ulanov of the Soviet Union

Feb 28 Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Colorado Springs won by Gabriele Seyfert of Great Britain

Feb 28 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by Tim Wood of USA

Feb 28 Terence O'Neill re-elected as leader of the Unionist Parliamentary Party and thus confirmed as Northern Ireland Prime Minister

March

Mar 1 "Red, White, & Maddox" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 41 performances

Mar 1 After 88 weeks the Beatles' album Sgt Pepper's Lonly Hearts Club Band drops off the charts

Mar 1 Jim Morrison allegedly exposes himself on stage at the Dinner Key Auditorium in Miami, Florida

Mar 1 New York Yankees legend Mickey Mantle announces his retirement due to persistent knee injuries; finishes 18-season career with 536 home runs and .298 batting average

Mar 1 Pirate Radio 259 begins operation off the French coast

Mar 1 Phil Esposito has a goal and assist in Boston Bruins' 8-5 win over NY Rangers to give him 99 points for the season, breaking the NHL record for most points in a season (97) held by Stan Mikita

Mar 1 Tuesdee Testa becomes the first female jockey to win a race at a major American Thoroughbred track when she takes out the 3rd race at Santa Anita Park aboard Buz On

Mar 2 1st test flight of the supersonic Concorde

Mar 2 Chinese-Russian borders fight (approx 70 die)

Mar 2 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 14th Symphony

Mar 2 Boston center Phil Esposito becomes first player in NHL history to record 100 points in a season when he scores 2 3rd-period goals in the Bruins' 4-0 win over the visiting Pittsburgh Penguins

Mar 3 Apollo 9 launched for 151 Earth orbits (10 days)

Mar 4 London East End gang bosses twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray are found guilty of murder. Both will die in captivity.

Mar 5 Gold reaches then record high ($47 per ounce) in Paris

Mar 5 Gustav Heinemann elected President of West Germany

Mar 5 Joe Orton's "What the Butler Saw" premieres in London

Mar 7 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

Mar 8 16th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: North Carolina beats Duke, 85-74

Mar 10 James Earl Ray pleads guilty to murder of Martin Luther King Jr

Mar 12 11th Grammy Awards: "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" by Glen Campbell wins best record

Mar 12 120 cannabis joints found at George & Patti Harrison's home

Mar 13 Apollo 9 returns to Earth

Mar 14 Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win at Aqueduct

Mar 14 Seymour Nurse scores 258 in his last Test Cricket innings, WI v NZ

Mar 15 US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns

Mar 15 Violent Chinese-Russian border dispute leaves 100s dead

Mar 16 Boston Bruins scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period

Mar 16 Peter Stone & Sherman Edward's "1776" premieres at 46th St Theater NYC for 1217 performances

Mar 16 Viasa DC-9 crashes at Maracaibo's Grano de Oro airport, killing 155

Mar 17 Golda Meir becomes Israel's 4th PM

Mar 18 "Come Summer" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 7 performances

Mar 19 British invade Anguilla

Mar 19 Chicago 8 indicted in aftermath of Chicago Democratic convention

Mar 19 The 385 metre tall TV-mast at Emley Moor, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build- up.

Mar 20 Ethiopian athlete Abebe Bikila is paralysed in an auto-accident near Addis Ababa

Mar 21 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Mar 22 "Billy" opens & closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 1 performance

Mar 22 "Come Summer" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 7 performances

Mar 22 31st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Purdue 92-72; Bruins' 3-peat; center Lew Alcindor tournament Most Outstanding Player for 3rd consecutive year

Mar 23 Rally for Decency in Miami

Mar 24 Francis Turner is sworn in as the director of the Federal Highway Administration

Mar 25 Andes Pact signed in Peru

Mar 25 John Lennon and Yoko Ono stage their 1st bed-in for peace (Amsterdam)

Mar 25 Pakistan General Agha Mohammed Jagja Khan succeeds Ayub Chan as president

Mar 25 Ian Paisley and Ronald Bunting, loyalists in Northern Ireland are jailed for organising an illegal counter demonstration in Armagh on 30 November 1968

Mar 26 Marcus Welby MD, a TV movie is shown on ABC-TV

Mar 26 Nuclear reactor Dodewaard Neth goes into use

Mar 26 Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 launched

Mar 27 Black Academy of Arts & Letters forms in Boston

Mar 28 Pope Paul VI names JGM Willebrands cardinal

Mar 28 Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece

Mar 29 Communist New People's Army found in Philippines

Mar 29 123rd Grand National: Eddie P. Harty Sr. aboard 100/9 chance Highland Wedding wins by 12 lengths from Steel Bridge

Mar 29 14th Eurovision Song Contest: Salome for Spain ("Vivo cantando"), Lulu of United Kingdom ("Boom Bang-a-Bang"), Lenny Kuhr of Netherlands ("De troubadour"), and Frida Boccara of France ("Un jour, un enfant") all win in Madrid