1969
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1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar.
Events
- 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 War being fought.
- May 10 – Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam.
- May 20 – National Guard helicopters spray skin-stinging powder on Vietnam War protesters in California.
- May 31 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance" at their "Bed-In" in Montreal.
- June 8 – Nixon announces that 25,000 US troops will start to leave Vietnam before September.
- July 8 – As promised, some US troops begin to leave Vietnam.
- July 16–24 – The Apollo 11 mission makes Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin the first people on the Moon.
- August 9 – The Manson Family murders the actress Sharon Tate and members of her family.
- August 15 – The Woodstock music festival starts in Upstate New York.
- August 17 – Hurricane Camille hits Mississippi, killing 248 people.
- August 31 – Boxer Rocky Marciano dies in a plane crash on the day before his 46th birthday.
- September 1 – King Idris I of Libya is removed from power in a coup.
- September 7 – Monty Python's Flying Circus airs for the first time on British television.
- October 15 – Hundreds of thousands of people across the US protest against the Vietnam War by not going to work.
- October 21 – Willy Brandt becomes the first SPD-Chancellor of Germany
- November 9 – A group of American Indians takes over Alcatraz Island and holds it for 19 months.
- November 10 - Sesame Street first aired.
- November 13 – Up to 500,000 anti-war protesters march and protest in Washington DC.
- December 1 – The United States holds the first "draft lottery", to pick who is going to be sent to fight in Vietnam.
Births
- January 2 – Christy Turlington, American model
- January 3 – Michael Schumacher, German Formula one driver
- January 5 – Marilyn Manson, American singer
- January 14 – Dave Grohl, American musician
- January 16 – Roy Jones, Jr., American professional boxer
- January 18 – Dave Bautista, American professional wrestler
- February 1 – Brian Krause, American actor
- February 11 – Jennifer Aniston, American actress
- March 6 – Greg Scott, English television presenter
- April 25 – Renée Zellweger, American actress
- May 14 – Cate Blanchett, Australian actress
- May 25 – Stacy London, American fashion consultant
- June 14 – Steffi Graf, German tennis player
- June 15 – Oliver Kahn, German football player
- June 24 – Nicodemo Gentile, Italian lawyer
- June 27 – Colleen Fitzpatrick, American singer and actress
- July 17 - Kazuki Kitamura, Japanese actor
- July 20 – Josh Holloway, American actor
- July 24 – Jennifer Lopez, American singer and actress
- July 27 – Triple H, American professional wrestler
- August 6 – Elliott Smith, American singer and musician (d. 2003)
- August 18 – Edward Norton, American actor
- August 19 – Matthew Perry, American actor
- August 28 – Jack Black, American actor, comedian, and musician
- October 24 - Adela Noriega, Mexican television actress
- November 10 – Jens Lehmann, German football player
- December 4 – Jay-Z, American rapper
- December 9 – Bixente Lizarazu, French footballer
- December 19 – Kristy Swanson, American actress
- December 28 – Linus Torvalds, Finnish computer scientist
- Buckethead, American musician
Deaths
January
- January 1 – Barton MacLane, American actor (b. 1902)
- January 1 – Bruno Söderström, Swedish track and field athlete (b. 1881)
- January 4 – Paul Chambers, American jazz double bassist (b. 1935)
- January 9 – Jacques van Egmond, Dutch racing cyclist (b. 1908)
- January 17 – Grażyna Bacewicz, Polish composer (b. 1909)
- January 19 – Jan Palach, Czech activist (b. 1948)
- January 30 – Dominique Pire, Belgian friar (b. 1910)
- January 31 – Meher Baba, Indian mystic (b. 1894)
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- February 2 – Boris Karloff, English actor (b. 1887)
- February 23 – Madhubala, Indian actress (b. 1933)
- February 23 – King Saud of Saudi Arabia (b. 1902)
- February 26 – Levi Eshkol, 3rd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1895)
March
April
May
- May 2 – Franz von Papen, 22nd Chancellor of Germany (b. 1879)
- May 3 - Zakir Husain, 3rd President of India (b. 1897)
June
- June 8 – Robert Taylor, American actor (b. 1911)
- June 22 – Judy Garland, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
July
- July 3 – Brian Jones, British musician (the Rolling Stones) (b. 1942)
August
- August 6 - Theodor W. Adorno, German philosopher (b. 1903)
- August 9 – Sharon Tate, American actress (b. 1943)
- August 31 – Rocky Marciano, American boxer (b. 1923)
September
- September 2 – Ho Chi Minh, 1st President of Vietnam (b. 1890)
October
- October 12 – Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater (b. 1912)
- October 21 – Jack Kerouac, American writer and poet (b. 1922)
November
- November 8 – Vesto Slipher, American astronomer (b. 1875)
- November 12 - Iskander Mirza, 1st President of Pakistan (b. 1899)
- November 12 – Liu Shaoqi, 2nd President of China (b. 1898)
- November 18 - Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American businessman (b. 1888)
- November 21 – Mutesa II of Buganda, President of Uganda (b. 1924)
December
- December 13 – Spencer Williams Jr., American actor (b. 1893)
- December 17 - Artur da Costa e Silva, 27th President of Brazil (b. 1899)
Nobel Prizes
- Nobel Prize in Physics – Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist (for his work on the theory of elementary particles)
- Chemistry – Derek H R Barton, Odd Hassel
- Medicine – Max Delbrück, Alfred D Hershey, Salvador E Luria
- Literature – Samuel Beckett, Irish writer
- Peace – International Labour Organization
- Economics – Ragnar Frisch, Jan Tinbergen
Movies released
Hit songs
- "Aquarius"/"Let The Sunshine In" – Fifth Dimension
- "The Ballad of John and Yoko" – The Beatles
- "But You Know I Love You" – Kenny Rogers and The First Edition
- "The Boxer" – Simon and Garfunkel
- "In The Ghetto" – Elvis Presley
- "Cloud Nine" – The Temptations
- "Come Together" – The Beatles
- "Get Back" – The Beatles
- "Good Times Bad Times" – Led Zeppelin
- "Honky Tonk Women" – Rolling Stones
- "I'd Wait A Million Years" – The Grass Roots
- "Listen to the Band" – The Monkees
- "Pinball Wizard" – The Who
- "Proud Mary" – Creedence Clearwater Revival
- "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" – B.J. Thomas
- "Something" – The Beatles
- "Suspicious Minds" – Elvis Presley
- "Touch Me" – The Doors
- "Whole Lotta Love" – Led Zeppelin
New Books
1969 Media
January 14: Explosion kills 27 on USS Enterprise
July 16: The Saturn V rocket is launched
July 20: Buzz Aldrin descends a ladder to become the second human to step onto the surface of the Moon during the Apollo 11 program
August 15–18: Woodstock Festival is held
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Norman Reedus speaking at the 2019 San Diego Comic-Con International in San Diego, California.
Dave Bautista at GalaxyCon Minneapolis in 2019
Patton Oswalt speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con International in San Diego, California.
Gabriel Omar Batistuta (Avellaneda, 1º febbraio 1969) è un dirigente sportivo, allenatore di calcio ed ex calciatore argentino, di ruolo attaccante. (from it.wp)
R&B singer Bobby Brown of New Edition interviewed on Sister Circle Live
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