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<td><a href="1966" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966" title="1966">1966</a> <a href="1967.html" webstripperwas="/wiki/1967" title="1967">1967</a> <a href="1968" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968" title="1968">1968</a> – <b><strong class="selflink">1969</strong></b> – <a href="1970" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970" title="1970">1970</a> <a href="1971" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971" title="1971">1971</a> <a href="1972" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972" title="1972">1972</a></td>
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<li><a href="1969_in_archaeology" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_in_archaeology" title="1969 in archaeology">Archaeology</a></li>
<li><a href="1969_in_architecture" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_in_architecture" title="1969 in architecture">Architecture</a></li>
<li><a href="1969_in_art" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_in_art" title="1969 in art">Art</a></li>
<li><a href="1969_in_aviation" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_in_aviation" title="1969 in aviation">Aviation</a></li>
<li><a href="Category3A1969_awards" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1969_awards" title="Category:1969 awards">Awards</a></li>
<li><a href="1969_in_comics" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_in_comics" title="1969 in comics">Comics</a></li>
<li><a href="1969_in_film" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_in_film" title="1969 in film">Film</a></li>
<li><a href="1969_in_literature" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_in_literature" title="1969 in literature">Literature</a> (<a href="1969_in_poetry" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_in_poetry" title="1969 in poetry">Poetry</a>)</li>
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1969_in_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1969 in the People's Republic of China (page does not exist)">People's Republic of China</a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1969_in_Ecuador&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1969 in Ecuador (page does not exist)">Ecuador</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1969_in_Germany&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1969 in Germany (page does not exist)">Germany</a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1969_in_Greece&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1969 in Greece (page does not exist)">Greece</a></li>
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<td><a href="Gregorian_calendar" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar" title="Gregorian calendar">Gregorian calendar</a></td>
<td>1969<br />
<i><span style="font-family: serif">MCMLXIX</span></i></td>
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<td><a href="Ab_urbe_condita" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ab_urbe_condita" title="Ab urbe condita">Ab urbe condita</a></td>
<td>2722</td>
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<td><a href="Armenian_calendar" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_calendar" title="Armenian calendar">Armenian calendar</a></td>
<td>1418<br />
ԹՎ ՌՆԺԸ</td>
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<td><a href="Assyrian_calendar" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian_calendar" title="Assyrian calendar">Assyrian calendar</a></td>
<td>6719</td>
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<td><a href="Bah$C3$A1$27$C3$AD_calendar" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD_calendar" title="Bahá'í calendar">Bahá'í calendar</a></td>
<td>125–126</td>
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<td><a href="Bengali_calendar" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_calendar" title="Bengali calendar">Bengali calendar</a></td>
<td>1376</td>
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<td><a href="Berber_calendar" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berber_calendar" title="Berber calendar">Berber calendar</a></td>
<td>2919</td>
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<td><a href="Regnal_years_of_English_monarchs" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regnal_years_of_English_monarchs" title="Regnal years of English monarchs">British Regnal year</a></td>
<td>17 <a href="Elizabeth_II" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II" title="Elizabeth II">Eliz. 2</a> – 18 <a href="Elizabeth_II" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II" title="Elizabeth II">Eliz. 2</a></td>
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<td><a href="Buddhist_calendar" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_calendar" title="Buddhist calendar">Buddhist calendar</a></td>
<td>2513</td>
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<td><a href="Traditional_Burmese_calendar" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Burmese_calendar" title="Traditional Burmese calendar" class="mw-redirect">Burmese calendar</a></td>
<td>1331</td>
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<td><a href="Byzantine_calendar" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_calendar" title="Byzantine calendar">Byzantine calendar</a></td>
<td>7477–7478</td>
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<td><a href="Chinese_calendar" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_calendar" title="Chinese calendar">Chinese calendar</a></td>
<td><small><a href="Sexagenary_cycle" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagenary_cycle" title="Sexagenary cycle">戊申</a>年十一月十三日</small><br />
(4605/4665-11-13)
<div style="text-align: center"><i>— to —</i></div>
<small><a href="Sexagenary_cycle" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagenary_cycle" title="Sexagenary cycle">己酉</a>年十一月廿三日</small><br />
(4606/4666-11-23)</td>
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<td><a href="Coptic_calendar" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_calendar" title="Coptic calendar">Coptic calendar</a></td>
<td>1685–1686</td>
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<td><a href="Ethiopian_calendar" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_calendar" title="Ethiopian calendar">Ethiopian calendar</a></td>
<td>1961–1962</td>
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<td><a href="Hebrew_calendar" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_calendar" title="Hebrew calendar">Hebrew calendar</a></td>
<td>5729–5730</td>
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<td> - <i><a href="Vikram_Samvat" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikram_Samvat" title="Vikram Samvat">Vikram Samvat</a></i></td>
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<td> - <i><a href="Indian_national_calendar" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_national_calendar" title="Indian national calendar">Shaka Samvat</a></i></td>
<td>1891–1892</td>
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<td> - <i><a href="Kali_Yuga" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Yuga" title="Kali Yuga">Kali Yuga</a></i></td>
<td>5070–5071</td>
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<td><a href="Human_Era" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Era" title="Human Era">Holocene calendar</a></td>
<td>11969</td>
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<td><a href="Igbo_calendar" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igbo_calendar" title="Igbo calendar">Igbo calendar</a></td>
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<td> - <a href="Nri-Igbo" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nri-Igbo" title="Nri-Igbo">Ǹrí Ìgbò</a></td>
<td>969–970</td>
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<td><a href="Iranian_calendars" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_calendars" title="Iranian calendars">Iranian calendar</a></td>
<td>1347–1348</td>
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<td><a href="Islamic_calendar" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_calendar" title="Islamic calendar">Islamic calendar</a></td>
<td>1388–1389</td>
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<td><a href="Japanese_calendar" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_calendar" title="Japanese calendar">Japanese calendar</a></td>
<td><a href="Sh$C5$8Dwa_period" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dwa_period" title="Shōwa period">Shōwa</a> 44<br />
<small>(昭和44年)</small></td>
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<td><a href="North_Korean_calendar" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_calendar" title="North Korean calendar">Juche calendar</a></td>
<td>58</td>
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<td><a href="Julian_calendar" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar" title="Julian calendar">Julian calendar</a></td>
<td>Gregorian minus 13 days</td>
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<td><a href="Korean_calendar" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_calendar" title="Korean calendar">Korean calendar</a></td>
<td>4302</td>
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<td><a href="Taiwan" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">ROC</a> 58<br />
<small>民國58年</small></td>
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<td><a href="Thai_solar_calendar" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_solar_calendar" title="Thai solar calendar">Thai solar calendar</a></td>
<td>2512</td>
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<p>Year <b>1969</b> (<b><a href="Roman_numerals" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals" title="Roman numerals">MCMLXIX</a></b>) was a <a href="Common_year_starting_on_Wednesday" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_year_starting_on_Wednesday" title="Common year starting on Wednesday">common year starting on Wednesday</a> (link will display the full calendar) of the <a href="Gregorian_calendar" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar" title="Gregorian calendar">Gregorian calendar</a>. The year is associated with the first manned landing on the Moon (<a href="Apollo_11" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11" title="Apollo 11">Apollo 11</a>).</p>
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<a href="January_14" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_14" title="January 14">January 14</a>: Explosion kills 27 on <a href="USS_Enterprise_(CVN-65)" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(CVN-65)" title="USS Enterprise (CVN-65)">USS <i>Enterprise</i></a></div>
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<h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1969&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: January">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="January">January</span></h3>
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<li>Australian media baron <a href="Rupert_Murdoch" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch" title="Rupert Murdoch">Rupert Murdoch</a> purchases the largest selling British Sunday newspaper, <i>The <a href="News_of_the_World" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_of_the_World" title="News of the World">News of the World</a></i>.</li>
<li><a href="People$27s_Democracy" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Democracy" title="People's Democracy">People's Democracy</a> begins a march from <a href="Belfast" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belfast" title="Belfast">Belfast</a> to <a href="Derry" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derry" title="Derry">Derry</a>, <a href="Northern_Ireland" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland" title="Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a> in support of <a href="Civil_rights" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights" title="Civil rights" class="mw-redirect">civil rights</a>.</li>
<li><a href="Ohio_State_University" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_State_University" title="Ohio State University">Ohio State</a> defeats <a href="University_of_Southern_California" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Southern_California" title="University of Southern California">USC</a> in the <a href="Rose_Bowl_Game" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Bowl_Game" title="Rose Bowl Game">Rose Bowl</a> to win the national title for the 1968 season.</li>
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<li><a href="January_5" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_5" title="January 5">January 5</a> – The <a href="Soviet_Union" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> launches <i><a href="Venera_5" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_5" title="Venera 5">Venera 5</a></i> toward <a href="Venus" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus" title="Venus">Venus</a>.</li>
<li><a href="January_6" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6" title="January 6">January 6</a> – The final passenger train traverses the <a href="Waverley_Line" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waverley_Line" title="Waverley Line">Waverley Line</a>, which subsequently closed to passengers.</li>
<li><a href="January_10" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_10" title="January 10">January 10</a>
<ul>
<li>Members of the <a href="Royal_Ulster_Constabulary" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Ulster_Constabulary" title="Royal Ulster Constabulary">Royal Ulster Constabulary</a> (RUC) damage property and assault occupants in the <a href="Bogside" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogside" title="Bogside">Bogside</a> in <a href="Derry" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derry" title="Derry">Derry</a>. In response, residents erect barricades and establish <a href="Free_Derry" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Derry" title="Free Derry">Free Derry</a>.</li>
<li>The <a href="Soviet_Union" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> launches <i><a href="Venera_6" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_6" title="Venera 6">Venera 6</a></i> toward <a href="Venus" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus" title="Venus">Venus</a>.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="January_12" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_12" title="January 12">January 12</a>
<ul>
<li><i><a href="Led_Zeppelin_(album)" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin_(album)" title="Led Zeppelin (album)">Led Zeppelin</a></i>, the first <a href="Led_Zeppelin" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin" title="Led Zeppelin">Led Zeppelin</a> album, is released.</li>
<li>Martial law is declared in <a href="Madrid" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid" title="Madrid">Madrid</a>, the University is closed and over 300 students are arrested.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="January_14" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_14" title="January 14">January 14</a>
<ul>
<li>An explosion aboard the <a href="USS_Enterprise_(CVN-65)" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(CVN-65)" title="USS Enterprise (CVN-65)">USS <i>Enterprise</i></a> near <a href="Hawaii" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii" title="Hawaii">Hawaii</a> kills 27 and injures 314.</li>
<li>The Soviet Union launches <i><a href="Soyuz_4" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_4" title="Soyuz 4">Soyuz 4</a></i>.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="January_15" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_15" title="January 15">January 15</a> – The <a href="Soviet_Union" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> launches <i><a href="Soyuz_5" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_5" title="Soyuz 5">Soyuz 5</a></i>, which docked with Soyuz 4 for a transfer of crew.</li>
<li><a href="January_16" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_16" title="January 16">January 16</a> – Student <a href="Jan_Palach" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Palach" title="Jan Palach">Jan Palach</a> sets himself on fire in <a href="Prague" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague" title="Prague">Prague</a>'s <a href="Wenceslas_Square" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenceslas_Square" title="Wenceslas Square">Wenceslas Square</a> to protest the Soviet invasion of <a href="Czechoslovakia" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovakia" title="Czechoslovakia">Czechoslovakia</a>; 3 days later he dies.</li>
<li><a href="January_18" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_18" title="January 18">January 18</a> – In <a href="Washington,_D.C." webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a>, the <a href="Smithsonian" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithsonian" title="Smithsonian" class="mw-redirect">Smithsonian</a> displays the art of <a href="Winslow_Homer" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winslow_Homer" title="Winslow Homer">Winslow Homer</a> for 6 weeks.</li>
<li><a href="January_20" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_20" title="January 20">January 20</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="Richard_Nixon.html" webstripperwas="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Milhous Nixon</a> succeeds <a href="Lyndon_B._Johnson" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson" title="Lyndon B. Johnson">Lyndon Baines Johnson</a> as the 37th <a href="President_of_the_United_States_of_America" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States_of_America" title="President of the United States of America" class="mw-redirect">President of the United States of America</a>.
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37th President Richard M. Nixon</div>
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</div>
</li>
<li>After 147 years, the last issue of <i><a href="The_Saturday_Evening_Post" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saturday_Evening_Post" title="The Saturday Evening Post">The Saturday Evening Post</a></i> is published.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="January_26" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_26" title="January 26">January 26</a> – <a href="Elvis_Presley" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley" title="Elvis Presley">Elvis Presley</a> steps into American Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, recording "Long Black Limousine" thus beginning the recording of what becomes his landmark comeback sessions for the albums <i><a href="From_Elvis_in_Memphis" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Elvis_in_Memphis" title="From Elvis in Memphis">From Elvis in Memphis</a></i> and <i>Back in Memphis</i>. The sessions yield the popular and critically acclaimed singles "Suspicious Minds," "In the Ghetto" and "Kentucky Rain."</li>
<li><a href="January_27" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_27" title="January 27">January 27</a>
<ul>
<li>Fourteen men, nine of them Jews, are executed in <a href="Baghdad" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a> for spying for <a href="Israel" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a>.</li>
<li>Reverend <a href="Ian_Paisley" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Paisley" title="Ian Paisley">Ian Paisley</a>, hardline <a href="Protestant" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant" title="Protestant" class="mw-redirect">Protestant</a> leader in <a href="Northern_Ireland" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland" title="Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a>, is jailed for 3 months for illegal assembly.</li>
<li>The present-day Hetch Hetchy <a href="Moccasin,_Tuolumne_County,_California" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moccasin,_Tuolumne_County,_California" title="Moccasin, Tuolumne County, California">Moccasin</a> Powerhouse, rated at 100,000 KVA, is completed and placed in operation.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="January_28" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_28" title="January 28">January 28</a> – A <a href="Blowout_(well_drilling)" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowout_(well_drilling)" title="Blowout (well drilling)">blow-out</a> on <a href="Union_Oil" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Oil" title="Union Oil" class="mw-redirect">Union Oil</a>'s Platform <a href="1969_Santa_Barbara_oil_spill" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_Santa_Barbara_oil_spill" title="1969 Santa Barbara oil spill">spills</a> 80,000 to 100,000 barrels of crude oil into a channel and onto the beaches of <a href="Santa_Barbara_County" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Barbara_County" title="Santa Barbara County" class="mw-redirect">Santa Barbara County</a> in <a href="Southern_California" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_California" title="Southern California">Southern California</a> inspiring <a href="Wisconsin" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin" title="Wisconsin">Wisconsin</a> <a href="United_States_Senate" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">Senator</a> <a href="Gaylord_Nelson" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaylord_Nelson" title="Gaylord Nelson">Gaylord Nelson</a> to organize the first <a href="Earth_Day.html" webstripperwas="/wiki/Earth_Day" title="Earth Day">Earth Day</a> in <a href="1970" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970" title="1970">1970</a>.</li>
<li><a href="January_30" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_30" title="January 30">January 30</a> – <a href="The_Beatles" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles">The Beatles</a> give their last public performance, <a href="Let_It_Be_(movie)" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_It_Be_(movie)" title="Let It Be (movie)" class="mw-redirect">filming</a> several tracks on the roof of <a href="Apple_Records" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Records" title="Apple Records">Apple Records</a>, London.</li>
</ul>
<h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1969&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: February">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="February">February</span></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="February_2" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_2" title="February 2">February 2</a>
<ul>
<li>Two cosmonauts transfer from Soyuz 5 to Soyuz 4 via a spacewalk while the two craft are docked together, the first time such a transfer takes place. The two spacecraft undock. Soyuz 4 will reenter Earth's atmosphere and land February 17 while Soyuz 5 will have a hard landing February 18.</li>
<li>Ten paintings are defaced in New York's <a href="Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art" title="Metropolitan Museum of Art">Metropolitan Museum of Art</a>.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="February_4" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_4" title="February 4">February 4</a> – In <a href="Cairo" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo" title="Cairo">Cairo</a>, <a href="Yasser_Arafat" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasser_Arafat" title="Yasser Arafat">Yasser Arafat</a> is elected <a href="Palestine_Liberation_Organization" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Liberation_Organization" title="Palestine Liberation Organization">Palestine Liberation Organization</a> leader at the <a href="Palestinian_National_Congress" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_National_Congress" title="Palestinian National Congress" class="mw-redirect">Palestinian National Congress</a>.</li>
<li><a href="February_5" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_5" title="February 5">February 5</a> – A <a href="1969_Santa_Barbara_oil_spill" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_Santa_Barbara_oil_spill" title="1969 Santa Barbara oil spill">huge oil spill</a> off the coast of <a href="Santa_Barbara,_California" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Barbara,_California" title="Santa Barbara, California">Santa Barbara, California</a> closes the city's harbor.</li>
<li><a href="February_7" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_7" title="February 7">February 7</a> – The original Hetch Hetchy <a href="Moccasin,_Tuolumne_County,_California" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moccasin,_Tuolumne_County,_California" title="Moccasin, Tuolumne County, California">Moccasin</a> Powerhouse is removed from service.</li>
<li><a href="February_8" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_8" title="February 8">February 8</a> – The last issue of <i><a href="The_Saturday_Evening_Post" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saturday_Evening_Post" title="The Saturday Evening Post">The Saturday Evening Post</a></i> hits magazine stands.</li>
<li><a href="February_9" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_9" title="February 9">February 9</a> – The <a href="Boeing_747" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747" title="Boeing 747">Boeing 747</a> makes its maiden flight.</li>
<li><a href="February_13" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_13" title="February 13">February 13</a> – <a href="FLQ" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLQ" title="FLQ" class="mw-redirect">FLQ</a> terrorists bomb the <a href="Montreal_Stock_Exchange" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Stock_Exchange" title="Montreal Stock Exchange" class="mw-redirect">Stock Exchange</a> in <a href="Montreal,_Quebec" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal,_Quebec" title="Montreal, Quebec" class="mw-redirect">Montreal, Quebec</a>.</li>
<li><a href="February_14" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_14" title="February 14">February 14</a> – <a href="Pope_Paul_VI" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Paul_VI" title="Pope Paul VI">Pope Paul VI</a> <a href="Mysterii_Paschalis" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysterii_Paschalis" title="Mysterii Paschalis">issues</a> a <a href="Motu_proprio" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motu_proprio" title="Motu proprio">motu proprio</a> deleting many names from the <a href="Roman_calendar_of_saints" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_calendar_of_saints" title="Roman calendar of saints" class="mw-redirect">Roman calendar of saints</a> (including <a href="Valentine$27s_Day" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine%27s_Day" title="Valentine's Day">Valentine</a>, who was celebrated on that day).</li>
<li><a href="February_17" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_17" title="February 17">February 17</a> – <a href="Aquanaut" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquanaut" title="Aquanaut">Aquanaut</a> <a href="Berry_L._Cannon" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_L._Cannon" title="Berry L. Cannon">Berry L. Cannon</a> dies of <a href="Carbon_dioxide_poisoning" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_poisoning" title="Carbon dioxide poisoning" class="mw-redirect">carbon dioxide poisoning</a> while attempting to repair the <a href="SEALAB_(United_States_Navy)" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEALAB_(United_States_Navy)" title="SEALAB (United States Navy)" class="mw-redirect">SEALAB III</a> habitat off <a href="San_Clemente_Island" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Clemente_Island" title="San Clemente Island">San Clemente Island</a>, <a href="California" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>.</li>
<li><a href="February_24" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_24" title="February 24">February 24</a>
<ul>
<li>The <i><a href="Mariner_6" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner_6" title="Mariner 6" class="mw-redirect">Mariner 6</a></i> Mars probe is launched.</li>
<li><i><a href="Tinker_v._Des_Moines_Independent_Community_School_District" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker_v._Des_Moines_Independent_Community_School_District" title="Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District">Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District</a></i>: The <a href="U.S._Supreme_Court" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Supreme_Court" title="U.S. Supreme Court" class="mw-redirect">U.S. Supreme Court</a> rules that the First Amendment applies to public schools.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1969&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: March">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="March">March</span></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="March_2" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_2" title="March 2">March 2</a>
<ul>
<li>In <a href="Toulouse" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toulouse" title="Toulouse">Toulouse</a>, <a href="France" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France" title="France">France</a> the first <a href="Concorde" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde" title="Concorde">Concorde</a> test flight is conducted.</li>
<li><a href="Soviet_Union" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet</a> and <a href="People$27s_Republic_of_China" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China" title="People's Republic of China" class="mw-redirect">Chinese</a> forces clash at a border outpost on the <a href="Ussuri_River" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ussuri_River" title="Ussuri River">Ussuri River</a>.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="March_3" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_3" title="March 3">March 3</a>
<ul>
<li>In a <a href="Los_Angeles,_California" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles,_California" title="Los Angeles, California" class="mw-redirect">Los Angeles, California</a> court, <a href="Sirhan_Sirhan" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirhan_Sirhan" title="Sirhan Sirhan">Sirhan Sirhan</a> admits that he killed presidential candidate <a href="Robert_F._Kennedy" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy" title="Robert F. Kennedy">Robert F. Kennedy</a>.</li>
<li><a href="Apollo_program" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program" title="Apollo program">Apollo program</a>: <a href="NASA" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a> launches <i><a href="Apollo_9" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_9" title="Apollo 9">Apollo 9</a></i> (<a href="James_McDivitt" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McDivitt" title="James McDivitt">James McDivitt</a>, <a href="David_Scott" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Scott" title="David Scott">David Scott</a>, <a href="Rusty_Schweickart" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_Schweickart" title="Rusty Schweickart">Rusty Schweickart</a>) to test the <a href="Lunar_module" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_module" title="Lunar module" class="mw-redirect">lunar module</a>.</li>
<li>The United States Navy establishes <a href="United_States_Navy_Strike_Fighter_Tactics_Instructor_program" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy_Strike_Fighter_Tactics_Instructor_program" title="United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program">Navy Fighter Weapons School</a>(also known as TOP GUN) at <a href="Marine_Corps_Air_Station_Miramar" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Corps_Air_Station_Miramar" title="Marine Corps Air Station Miramar">Naval Air Station Miramar</a>.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="March_10" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_10" title="March 10">March 10</a>
<ul>
<li>In <a href="Memphis,_Tennessee" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis,_Tennessee" title="Memphis, Tennessee">Memphis, Tennessee</a>, <a href="James_Earl_Ray" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Earl_Ray" title="James Earl Ray">James Earl Ray</a> pleads guilty to assassinating <a href="Martin_Luther_King_Jr." webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="Martin Luther King Jr." class="mw-redirect">Martin Luther King Jr.</a> (he later retracts his guilty plea).</li>
<li>The novel <i><a href="The_Godfather_(novel)" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Godfather_(novel)" title="The Godfather (novel)">The Godfather (novel)</a></i> by <a href="Mario_Puzo" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Puzo" title="Mario Puzo">Mario Puzo</a> is <a href="Published" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Published" title="Published" class="mw-redirect">published</a>.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="March_13" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_13" title="March 13">March 13</a> – <a href="Apollo_program" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program" title="Apollo program">Apollo program</a>: <i><a href="Apollo_9" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_9" title="Apollo 9">Apollo 9</a></i> returns safely to <a href="Earth" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a> after testing the <a href="Lunar_module" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Module" title="Lunar Module" class="mw-redirect">Lunar Module</a>.</li>
<li><a href="March_17" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_17" title="March 17">March 17</a>
<ul>
<li>The <a href="Longhope,_Orkney" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longhope,_Orkney" title="Longhope, Orkney">Longhope, Orkney</a> <a href="Lifeboat_(rescue)" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifeboat_(rescue)" title="Lifeboat (rescue)">lifeboat</a> in <a href="Scotland" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a> is lost; the entire crew of 8 die.</li>
<li><a href="Golda_Meir" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golda_Meir" title="Golda Meir">Golda Meir</a> becomes the first female prime minister of <a href="Israel" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a>.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="March_18" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_18" title="March 18">March 18</a> – <a href="Operation_Menu" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Menu" title="Operation Menu">Operation Breakfast</a>, the secret bombing of Cambodia, begins.</li>
<li><a href="March_19" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_19" title="March 19">March 19</a>
<ul>
<li>British paratroopers and Marines land on the island of <a href="Anguilla" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anguilla" title="Anguilla">Anguilla</a>.</li>
<li>A 385 metres (1,263 ft) tall TV-mast at <a href="Emley_Moor" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emley_Moor" title="Emley Moor" class="mw-redirect">Emley Moor</a>, UK, collapses due to ice build-up.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="March_20" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_20" title="March 20">March 20</a> – <a href="John_Lennon" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennon" title="John Lennon">John Lennon</a> & <a href="Yoko_Ono" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Ono" title="Yoko Ono">Yoko Ono</a> are married at <a href="Gibraltar" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibraltar" title="Gibraltar">Gibraltar</a>, and proceed to their honeymoon "<a href="Bed-In" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed-In" title="Bed-In">Bed-In</a>" for peace in <a href="Amsterdam" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam" title="Amsterdam">Amsterdam</a>.</li>
<li><a href="March_22" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_22" title="March 22">March 22</a> – The landmark art exhibition <i>When Attitudes become Form</i>, curated by <a href="Harald_Szeemann" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Szeemann" title="Harald Szeemann">Harald Szeemann</a> opens at the <a href="Kunsthalle_Bern" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunsthalle_Bern" title="Kunsthalle Bern">Kunsthalle Bern</a> in Bern, Switzerland.</li>
<li><a href="March_28" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_28" title="March 28">March 28</a> – Former United States General and <a href="President_of_the_United_States.html" webstripperwas="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">President</a> <a href="Dwight_D._Eisenhower" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a> dies after a long illness in the <a href="Walter_Reed_Army_Medical_Center" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Reed_Army_Medical_Center" title="Walter Reed Army Medical Center">Walter Reed Army Medical Center</a>, <a href="Washington,_D.C." webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a>.</li>
<li><a href="March_29" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_29" title="March 29">March 29</a> – The <a href="Eurovision_Song_Contest_1969" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1969" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1969">Eurovision Song Contest 1969</a> is held in Madrid, and results in four co-winners, with 18 votes each, from <a href="Spain" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a>, the <a href="United_Kingdom" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>, the <a href="Netherlands" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a>, and <a href="France" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>.</li>
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<ul>
<li><a href="April_1" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_1" title="April 1">April 1</a> – The <a href="Hawker_Siddeley_Harrier" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Siddeley_Harrier" title="Hawker Siddeley Harrier">Hawker Siddeley Harrier</a> enters service with the <a href="Royal_Air_Force" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a>.</li>
<li><a href="April_4" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_4" title="April 4">April 4</a> – Dr. <a href="Denton_Cooley" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denton_Cooley" title="Denton Cooley">Denton Cooley</a> implants the first temporary <a href="Artificial_heart" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_heart" title="Artificial heart">artificial heart</a>.</li>
<li><a href="April_9" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_9" title="April 9">April 9</a>
<ul>
<li>The <a href="Harvard_University" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a> Administration Building is seized by close to 300 students, mostly members of the <a href="Students_for_a_Democratic_Society_(1960_organization)" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_a_Democratic_Society_(1960_organization)" title="Students for a Democratic Society (1960 organization)" class="mw-redirect">Students for a Democratic Society</a>. Before the takeover ends, 45 will be injured and 184 arrested.</li>
<li>Fermín Monasterio Pérez is killed by the <a href="ETA" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETA" title="ETA">ETA</a> in <a href="Biscay" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscay" title="Biscay">Biscay</a>, <a href="Spain" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a>, being the 4th victim in the name of <a href="Basque_nationalism" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_nationalism" title="Basque nationalism">Basque</a> nationalism.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="April_13" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_13" title="April 13">April 13</a> – <a href="Queensland" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queensland" title="Queensland">Queensland</a>: The <a href="Trams_in_Brisbane" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_Brisbane" title="Trams in Brisbane">Brisbane Tramways</a> end service after 84 years of operation.</li>
<li><a href="April_15" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_15" title="April 15">April 15</a> – The <a href="EC-121_shootdown_incident" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EC-121_shootdown_incident" title="EC-121 shootdown incident" class="mw-redirect">EC-121 shootdown incident</a>: <a href="North_Korea" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a> shoots down the aircraft over the <a href="Sea_of_Japan" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Japan" title="Sea of Japan">Sea of Japan</a>, killing all 31 on board.</li>
<li><a href="April_20" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_20" title="April 20">April 20</a>
<ul>
<li>British troops arrive in <a href="Northern_Ireland" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland" title="Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a> to reinforce the <a href="Royal_Ulster_Constabulary" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Ulster_Constabulary" title="Royal Ulster Constabulary">Royal Ulster Constabulary</a>.</li>
<li>A grassroots movement of Berkeley community members seizes an empty lot owned by the <a href="University_of_California" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California" title="University of California">University of California</a> to begin the formation of "<a href="People$27s_Park" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Park" title="People's Park">People's Park</a>".</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="April_22.html" webstripperwas="/wiki/April_22" title="April 22">April 22</a> – <a href="Robin_Knox-Johnston.html" webstripperwas="/wiki/Robin_Knox-Johnston" title="Robin Knox-Johnston">Robin Knox-Johnston</a> becomes the first person to sail around the world solo without stopping.</li>
<li><a href="April_24" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_24" title="April 24">April 24</a> – Recently formed <a href="British_Leyland" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Leyland" title="British Leyland">British Leyland</a> launches their first new model, the <a href="Austin_Maxi" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Maxi" title="Austin Maxi">Austin Maxi</a> in <a href="Portugal" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal" title="Portugal">Portugal</a> .</li>
<li><a href="April_28" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_28" title="April 28">April 28</a> – <a href="Charles_de_Gaulle" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle" title="Charles de Gaulle">Charles de Gaulle</a> steps down as president of <a href="France" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France" title="France">France</a> after suffering defeat in a <a href="French_constitutional_referendum,_1969" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_constitutional_referendum,_1969" title="French constitutional referendum, 1969">referendum the day before</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1969&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: May">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="May">May</span></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="May_10" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_10" title="May 10">May 10</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="Zip_to_Zap" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_to_Zap" title="Zip to Zap">Zip to Zap</a>, a harbinger of the Woodstock Concert, ends with the dispersal and eviction of youths and young adults at <a href="Zap,_North_Dakota" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zap,_North_Dakota" title="Zap, North Dakota">Zap, North Dakota</a> by the <a href="National_Guard_of_the_United_States" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Guard_of_the_United_States" title="National Guard of the United States">National Guard</a>.</li>
<li>The Battle of Dong Ap Bia, also known as <a href="Battle_of_Hamburger_Hill" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hamburger_Hill" title="Battle of Hamburger Hill">Hamburger Hill</a>, begins during the <a href="Vietnam_War" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="May_13" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_13" title="May 13">May 13</a> – <a href="May_13_Incident" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_13_Incident" title="May 13 Incident" class="mw-redirect">May 13 Incident</a>: <a href="Race_riot" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_riot" title="Race riot" class="mw-redirect">Race riots</a> occur in <a href="Kuala_Lumpur" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuala_Lumpur" title="Kuala Lumpur">Kuala Lumpur</a>, <a href="Malaysia" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia" title="Malaysia">Malaysia</a>.</li>
<li><a href="May_14" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_14" title="May 14">May 14</a> – Colonel <a href="Muammar_Gaddafi" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi" title="Muammar Gaddafi">Muammar Gaddafi</a> visits Mecca, <a href="Saudi_Arabia" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a>.</li>
<li><a href="May_15" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_15" title="May 15">May 15</a> – An <a href="United_States.html" webstripperwas="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a> teenager known as '<a href="Robert_R." webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_R." title="Robert R." class="mw-redirect">Robert R.</a>' dies in <a href="St._Louis,_Missouri" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis,_Missouri" title="St. Louis, Missouri" class="mw-redirect">St. Louis, Missouri</a>, of a baffling medical condition. In 1984 it will be identified as the first confirmed case of <a href="HIV/AIDS" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS" title="HIV/AIDS">HIV/AIDS</a> in <a href="North_America" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America" title="North America">North America</a>.</li>
<li><a href="May_16" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_16" title="May 16">May 16</a> – <a href="Venera_program" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_program" title="Venera program" class="mw-redirect">Venera program</a>: <i><a href="Venera_5" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_5" title="Venera 5">Venera 5</a></i>, a <a href="Soviet_Union" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet</a> spaceprobe, lands on <a href="Venus" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus" title="Venus">Venus</a>.</li>
<li><a href="May_17" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_17" title="May 17">May 17</a> – Venera program: <a href="Soviet_Union" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet</a> probe <i><a href="Venera_6" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_6" title="Venera 6">Venera 6</a></i> begins to descend into <a href="Venus" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus" title="Venus">Venus</a>' atmosphere, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.</li>
<li><a href="May_18" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_18" title="May 18">May 18</a> – <a href="Apollo_program" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program" title="Apollo program">Apollo program</a>: <i><a href="Apollo_10" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_10" title="Apollo 10">Apollo 10</a></i> (<a href="Thomas_Patten_Stafford" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Patten_Stafford" title="Thomas Patten Stafford" class="mw-redirect">Tom Stafford</a>, <a href="Gene_Cernan" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Cernan" title="Gene Cernan" class="mw-redirect">Gene Cernan</a>, <a href="John_Young_(astronaut)" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Young_(astronaut)" title="John Young (astronaut)">John Young</a>) is launched, on the full dress-rehearsal for the <a href="Moon" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon" title="Moon">Moon</a> landing.</li>
<li><a href="May_20" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_20" title="May 20">May 20</a> – <a href="United_States_National_Guard" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Guard" title="United States National Guard" class="mw-redirect">United States National Guard</a> helicopters spray skin-stinging powder on anti-war protesters in <a href="California" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>.</li>
<li><a href="May_21" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_21" title="May 21">May 21</a> – <i><a href="Rosariazo" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosariazo" title="Rosariazo">Rosariazo</a></i>: Civil unrest breaks out in <a href="Rosario,_Argentina" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosario,_Argentina" title="Rosario, Argentina" class="mw-redirect">Rosario, Argentina</a>, following the death of a 15-year-old student.</li>
<li><a href="May_22" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_22" title="May 22">May 22</a> – Apollo program: <i><a href="Apollo_10" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_10" title="Apollo 10">Apollo 10</a>'</i>s lunar module flies to within 15,400 m of the <a href="Moon" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon" title="Moon">Moon</a>'s surface.</li>
<li><a href="May_25" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_25" title="May 25">May 25</a> – <i><a href="Midnight_Cowboy" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Cowboy" title="Midnight Cowboy">Midnight Cowboy</a></i>, an <a href="X-rated" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-rated" title="X-rated" class="mw-redirect">X-rated</a>, <a href="Academy_Award" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award" title="Academy Award">oscar winning</a> <a href="John_Schlesinger" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Schlesinger" title="John Schlesinger">John Schlesinger</a> film, debuts.</li>
<li><a href="May_26" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_26" title="May 26">May 26</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="Andean_Pact" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andean_Pact" title="Andean Pact" class="mw-redirect">Andean Pact</a> (Andean Group) established.</li>
<li>Apollo program: <i><a href="Apollo_10" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_10" title="Apollo 10">Apollo 10</a></i> returns to <a href="Earth" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a>, after a successful 8-day test of all the components needed for the upcoming first manned <a href="Moon" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon" title="Moon">Moon</a> landing.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="May_26" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_26" title="May 26">May 26</a>–<a href="June_2" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2" title="June 2">June 2</a> – <a href="John_Lennon" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennon" title="John Lennon">John Lennon</a> and <a href="Yoko_Ono" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Ono" title="Yoko Ono">Yoko Ono</a> conduct their second <a href="Bed-In" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed-In" title="Bed-In">Bed-In</a>. The follow-up to the Amsterdam event is held at the <a href="Queen_Elizabeth_Hotel" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_Hotel" title="Queen Elizabeth Hotel">Queen Elizabeth Hotel</a> in <a href="Montreal,_Quebec" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal,_Quebec" title="Montreal, Quebec" class="mw-redirect">Montreal, Quebec</a>.</li>
<li><a href="May_29" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_29" title="May 29">May 29</a>
<ul>
<li><i><a href="Cordobazo" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordobazo" title="Cordobazo">Cordobazo</a></i>: A general strike and civil unrest break out in <a href="C$C3$B3rdoba,_Argentina" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%B3rdoba,_Argentina" title="Córdoba, Argentina">Córdoba, Argentina</a>.</li>
<li>Guided tours begin at the <a href="Kremlin" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremlin" title="Kremlin">Kremlin</a> and other government sites in <a href="Moscow" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a>.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="May_30" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_30" title="May 30">May 30</a> – Riots in <a href="Cura$C3$A7ao" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cura%C3%A7ao" title="Curaçao">Curaçao</a> mark the start of an Afro-Caribbean <a href="Civil_rights" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights" title="Civil rights" class="mw-redirect">civil rights</a> movement on the island.</li>
</ul>
<h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1969&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: June">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="June">June</span></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="June_3" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_3" title="June 3">June 3</a> – While operating at sea on SEATO maneuvers, the Australian aircraft carrier <a href="HMAS_Melbourne_(R21)" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAS_Melbourne_(R21)" title="HMAS Melbourne (R21)">HMAS <i>Melbourne</i></a> accidentally rammed and sliced in two the American destroyer <a href="USS_Frank_E._Evans_(DD-754)" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Frank_E._Evans_(DD-754)" title="USS Frank E. Evans (DD-754)">USS <i>Frank E. Evans</i></a> in the South China Sea, killing 74 American seamen.</li>
<li><a href="June_5" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_5" title="June 5">June 5</a> – An <a href="1969_International_Meeting_of_Communist_and_Workers_Parties" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_International_Meeting_of_Communist_and_Workers_Parties" title="1969 International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties">international communist conference</a> begins in <a href="Moscow" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a>.</li>
<li><a href="June_7" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_7" title="June 7">June 7</a> – The rock supergroup <a href="Blind_Faith" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Faith" title="Blind Faith">Blind Faith</a> play its debut gig in front of 100,000 people in London's <a href="Hyde_Park,_London" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_Park,_London" title="Hyde Park, London">Hyde Park</a>.</li>
<li><a href="June_8" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_8" title="June 8">June 8</a> – U.S. President <a href="Richard_Nixon.html" webstripperwas="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a> and <a href="South_Vietnamese" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Vietnamese" title="South Vietnamese" class="mw-redirect">South Vietnamese</a> President <a href="Nguyen_Van_Thieu" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen_Van_Thieu" title="Nguyen Van Thieu">Nguyen Van Thieu</a> meet at <a href="Midway_Atoll" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway_Atoll" title="Midway Atoll">Midway Island</a>. Nixon announces that 25,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn by September.</li>
<li><a href="June_17" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_17" title="June 17">June 17</a> – After a 23 game match, <a href="Boris_Spassky" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Spassky" title="Boris Spassky">Boris Spassky</a> defeats <a href="Tigran_Petrosian" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigran_Petrosian" title="Tigran Petrosian">Tigran Petrosian</a> to become the World Chess Champion in Moscow.</li>
<li><a href="June_18" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_18" title="June 18">June 18</a>–<a href="June_22" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_22" title="June 22">June 22</a> – The National Convention of the <a href="Students_for_a_Democratic_Society_(1960_organization)" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_a_Democratic_Society_(1960_organization)" title="Students for a Democratic Society (1960 organization)" class="mw-redirect">Students for a Democratic Society</a>, held in <a href="Chicago" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a>, collapses, and the <a href="Weatherman_(organization)" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_(organization)" title="Weatherman (organization)" class="mw-redirect">Weatherman</a> faction seizes control of the SDS National Office. Thereafter, any activity run from the National Office or bearing the name of SDS is Weatherman-controlled.</li>
<li><a href="June_20" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_20" title="June 20">June 20</a> – <a href="Georges_Pompidou" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Pompidou" title="Georges Pompidou">Georges Pompidou</a> is elected President of France.</li>
<li><a href="June_22" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_22" title="June 22">June 22</a>
<ul>
<li>The <a href="Cuyahoga_River" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuyahoga_River" title="Cuyahoga River">Cuyahoga River</a> fire helps spur an avalanche of <a href="Water_pollution" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_pollution" title="Water pollution">water pollution</a> control activities resulting in the <a href="Clean_Water_Act" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Water_Act" title="Clean Water Act">Clean Water Act</a>, <a href="Great_Lakes_Water_Quality_Agreement" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_Water_Quality_Agreement" title="Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement" class="mw-redirect">Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement</a> and the creation of the federal <a href="United_States_Environmental_Protection_Agency" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Environmental_Protection_Agency" title="United States Environmental Protection Agency">Environmental Protection Agency</a>.</li>
<li><a href="Judy_Garland" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Garland" title="Judy Garland">Judy Garland</a> dies of drug overdose in her London home.</li>
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<li><a href="June_23" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_23" title="June 23">June 23</a> – <a href="Warren_E._Burger" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_E._Burger" title="Warren E. Burger">Warren E. Burger</a> is sworn in as <a href="Chief_Justice_of_the_United_States" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Justice_of_the_United_States" title="Chief Justice of the United States">Chief Justice of the United States</a> by retiring Chief Justice <a href="Earl_Warren" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Warren" title="Earl Warren">Earl Warren</a>.</li>
<li><a href="June_24" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_24" title="June 24">June 24</a> – The <a href="United_Kingdom" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> and <a href="Rhodesia" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodesia" title="Rhodesia">Rhodesia</a> sever diplomatic ties.</li>
<li><a href="June_28" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_28" title="June 28">June 28</a> – The <a href="Stonewall_riots" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots" title="Stonewall riots">Stonewall riots</a> in <a href="New_York_City" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> mark the start of the modern <a href="Gay_rights_movement" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_rights_movement" title="Gay rights movement" class="mw-redirect">gay rights movement</a> in the U.S.</li>
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<h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1969&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: July">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="July">July</span></h3>
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<li><a href="July_1" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_1" title="July 1">July 1</a> – <a href="Charles,_Prince_of_Wales" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles,_Prince_of_Wales" title="Charles, Prince of Wales">Charles, Prince of Wales</a>, is invested with his title at <a href="Caernarfon" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caernarfon" title="Caernarfon">Caernarfon</a>.</li>
<li><a href="July_3" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_3" title="July 3">July 3</a> – <a href="Brian_Jones" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Jones" title="Brian Jones">Brian Jones</a>, musician and founder of <a href="The_Rolling_Stones" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones" title="The Rolling Stones">The Rolling Stones</a>, drowns in his swimming pool at his home in <a href="Sussex" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sussex" title="Sussex">Sussex</a>, <a href="England" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>.</li>
<li><a href="July_4" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_4" title="July 4">July 4</a> – Michael Mageau and Darlene Ferrin are shot at <a href="Blue_Rock_Springs" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Rock_Springs" title="Blue Rock Springs" class="mw-redirect">Blue Rock Springs</a> in California. They are the second (known) victims of the <a href="Zodiac_Killer" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_Killer" title="Zodiac Killer">Zodiac Killer</a>. Mageau survives the attack while Ferrin was pronounced dead-on-arrival at <a href="Kaiser_Foundation_Hospital_-_Richmond" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser_Foundation_Hospital_-_Richmond" title="Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Richmond" class="mw-redirect">Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Richmond</a>.</li>
<li><a href="July_5" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_5" title="July 5">July 5</a> – <a href="Tom_Mboya" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Mboya" title="Tom Mboya">Tom Mboya</a>, <a href="Kenya" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenya" title="Kenya">Kenyan</a> Minister of Development, is assassinated.</li>
<li><a href="July_7" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_7" title="July 7">July 7</a> – <a href="French_language" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a> is made equal to <a href="English_language.html" webstripperwas="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a> throughout the <a href="Canada" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canadian</a> national government.</li>
<li><a href="July_8" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_8" title="July 8">July 8</a> – <a href="Vietnam_War" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>: The very first U.S. troop withdrawals are made.</li>
<li><a href="July_10" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_10" title="July 10">July 10</a> – <a href="Donald_Crowhurst" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Crowhurst" title="Donald Crowhurst">Donald Crowhurst</a>'s <a href="Trimaran" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimaran" title="Trimaran">trimaran</a> <i>Teignmouth Electron</i> is found drifting and unoccupied. It is assumed that Crowhurst might have committed suicide.</li>
<li><a href="July_14" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_14" title="July 14">July 14</a>
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<li><a href="Football_War" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_War" title="Football War">Football War</a>: After <a href="Honduras" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honduras" title="Honduras">Honduras</a> loses a soccer game against <a href="El_Salvador" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Salvador" title="El Salvador">El Salvador</a>, rioting breaks out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers. Of the 300,000 Salvadoran workers in Honduras, tens of thousands are expelled, prompting a brief Salvadoran invasion of Honduras. The <a href="Organization_of_American_States" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_of_American_States" title="Organization of American States">OAS</a> works out a cease-fire on <a href="July_18" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_18" title="July 18">July 18</a>, which takes effect on <a href="July_20" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_20" title="July 20">July 20</a>.</li>
<li><a href="Act_of_Free_Choice" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Free_Choice" title="Act of Free Choice">Act of Free Choice</a> commenced in <a href="Merauke" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merauke" title="Merauke">Merauke</a>, <a href="Western_New_Guinea" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_New_Guinea" title="Western New Guinea" class="mw-redirect">West Irian</a>.</li>
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<li><a href="July_16" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_16" title="July 16">July 16</a> – <a href="Apollo_program" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program" title="Apollo program">Apollo program</a>: <i><a href="Apollo_11" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11" title="Apollo 11">Apollo 11</a></i> (<a href="Neil_Armstrong" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Armstrong" title="Neil Armstrong">Neil Armstrong</a>, <a href="Buzz_Aldrin" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzz_Aldrin" title="Buzz Aldrin">Buzz Aldrin</a>, <a href="Michael_Collins_(astronaut)" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Collins_(astronaut)" title="Michael Collins (astronaut)">Michael Collins</a>) lifts off toward the first landing on the <a href="Moon" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon" title="Moon">Moon</a>.</li>
<li><a href="July_17" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_17" title="July 17">July 17</a> – <a href="The_New_York_Times" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a> publicly takes back the ridicule of the rocket scientist <a href="Robert_H._Goddard" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Goddard" title="Robert H. Goddard">Robert H. Goddard</a> published in <a href="1920" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920" title="1920">13 Jan 1920</a> that <a href="Spaceflight" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceflight" title="Spaceflight">spaceflight</a> is impossible.<sup id="cite_ref-astronauticsnow_com-index_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-astronauticsnow_com-index-1"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a href="July_18" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_18" title="July 18">July 18</a> – <a href="Chappaquiddick_incident" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chappaquiddick_incident" title="Chappaquiddick incident">Chappaquiddick incident</a> – <a href="Edward_M._Kennedy" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_M._Kennedy" title="Edward M. Kennedy" class="mw-redirect">Edward M. Kennedy</a> drives off a bridge on his way home from a party on <a href="Chappaquiddick_Island" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chappaquiddick_Island" title="Chappaquiddick Island">Chappaquiddick Island</a>, <a href="Massachusetts" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>. <a href="Mary_Jo_Kopechne" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jo_Kopechne" title="Mary Jo Kopechne">Mary Jo Kopechne</a>, a former campaign aide to his brother, dies in the early morning hours of July 19 in the submerged car.</li>
<li><a href="July_19" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_19" title="July 19">July 19</a>
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<li><a href="Gloria_Diaz" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Diaz" title="Gloria Diaz">Gloria Diaz</a> wins the <a href="Miss_Universe" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Universe" title="Miss Universe">Miss Universe</a> Pageant, with the <a href="Philippines" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a> receiving its first title.</li>
<li><a href="John_Fairfax_(rower)" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fairfax_(rower)" title="John Fairfax (rower)">John Fairfax</a> lands in <a href="Hollywood_Beach,_Florida" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Beach,_Florida" title="Hollywood Beach, Florida" class="mw-redirect">Hollywood Beach, Florida</a> near <a href="Miami" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami" title="Miami">Miami</a> and becomes the first person to row across an ocean solo, after 180 days spent at sea on board 25' ocean rowboat 'Britannia' (left Gran Canaria on January 20, 1969).</li>
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<li><a href="July_20" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_20" title="July 20">July 20</a> – <a href="Apollo_program" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program" title="Apollo program">Apollo program</a>: The lunar module <i>Eagle</i> lands on the lunar surface. An estimated 500 million people worldwide watch in awe as <a href="Neil_Armstrong" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Armstrong" title="Neil Armstrong">Neil Armstrong</a> takes his historic first steps on the <a href="Moon_landing" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing" title="Moon landing">Moon</a> at 10:56 pm ET (02:56 UTC), the largest television audience for a live broadcast at that time.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a href="July_24" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_24" title="July 24">July 24</a>
<ul>
<li>The <i><a href="Apollo_11" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11" title="Apollo 11">Apollo 11</a></i> astronauts return from the first successful <a href="Moon" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon" title="Moon">Moon</a> landing, and are placed in biological isolation for several days, on the chance they may have brought back lunar germs. The airless lunar environment is later determined to preclude microscopic life.</li>
<li>The <a href="Soviet_Union" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> returns <a href="Gerald_Brooke" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Brooke" title="Gerald Brooke">Gerald Brooke</a> to the <a href="United_Kingdom" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> in exchange for spies Peter and Helen Kroger (<a href="Morris_Cohen_(Soviet_spy)" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Cohen_(Soviet_spy)" title="Morris Cohen (Soviet spy)" class="mw-redirect">Morris</a> and <a href="Lona_Cohen" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lona_Cohen" title="Lona Cohen">Lona Cohen</a>).</li>
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<li><a href="July_25" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_25" title="July 25">July 25</a> – <a href="Vietnam_War" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>: U.S. President <a href="Richard_Nixon.html" webstripperwas="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a> declares the <a href="Nixon_Doctrine" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_Doctrine" title="Nixon Doctrine">Nixon Doctrine</a>, stating that the <a href="United_States.html" webstripperwas="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> now expects its <a href="Asia" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia" title="Asia">Asian</a> allies to take care of their own military defense. This starts the "Vietnamization" of the war.</li>
<li><a href="July_26" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_26" title="July 26">July 26</a> – The New York Chapter of the <a href="Young_Lords" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Lords" title="Young Lords">Young Lords</a> was founded</li>
<li><a href="July_30" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_30" title="July 30">July 30</a> – <a href="Vietnam_War" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>: U.S. President <a href="Richard_M._Nixon" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_M._Nixon" title="Richard M. Nixon" class="mw-redirect">Richard M. Nixon</a> makes an unscheduled visit to <a href="South_Vietnam" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Vietnam" title="South Vietnam">South Vietnam</a>, meeting with President <a href="Nguyen_Van_Thieu" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen_Van_Thieu" title="Nguyen Van Thieu">Nguyen Van Thieu</a> and U.S. military commanders.</li>
<li><a href="July_31" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_31" title="July 31">July 31</a> – The <a href="British_halfpenny_coin" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_halfpenny_coin" title="British halfpenny coin" class="mw-redirect">halfpenny</a> ceases to be <a href="Legal_tender" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_tender" title="Legal tender">legal tender</a> in the UK.</li>
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<h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1969&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: August">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="August">August</span></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="August_4" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_4" title="August 4">August 4</a> – Vietnam War: At the apartment of <a href="France" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France" title="France">French</a> intermediary Jean Sainteny in <a href="Paris" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a>, U.S. representative <a href="Henry_Kissinger" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger" title="Henry Kissinger">Henry Kissinger</a> and North Vietnamese representative <a href="Xuan_Thuy" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuan_Thuy" title="Xuan Thuy">Xuan Thuy</a> begin secret peace negotiations. They eventually fail since both sides cannot agree to any terms.</li>
<li><a href="August_5" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_5" title="August 5">August 5</a> – <a href="Mariner_program" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner_program" title="Mariner program">Mariner program</a>: <i><a href="Mariner_7" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner_7" title="Mariner 7" class="mw-redirect">Mariner 7</a></i> makes its closest fly-by of <a href="Mars" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars" title="Mars">Mars</a> (3,524 kilometers).</li>
<li><a href="August_8" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_8" title="August 8">August 8</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="The_Beatles" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles">The Beatles</a> at 11:30 have photographer <a href="Iain_Macmillan" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Macmillan" title="Iain Macmillan">Iain Macmillan</a> take their photo on a zebra crossing on <a href="Abbey_Road" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey_Road" title="Abbey Road">Abbey Road</a>.</li>
<li>A fire breaks out in the <a href="Bannerman$27s_Castle" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bannerman%27s_Castle" title="Bannerman's Castle" class="mw-redirect">Bannerman's Castle</a> in the <a href="Hudson_River" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_River" title="Hudson River">Hudson River</a>; most of the roof collapses and crashes down to the lower levels.</li>
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<li><a href="August_9" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_9" title="August 9">August 9</a>
<ul>
<li>The Haunted Mansion attraction opens at Disneyland California. Later versions opened in Florida, Tokyo and Paris.</li>
<li>Followers of <a href="Charles_Manson" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Manson" title="Charles Manson">Charles Manson</a> murder <a href="Sharon_Tate" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Tate" title="Sharon Tate">Sharon Tate</a>, (who was eight months pregnant), and her friends: <a href="Folgers" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folgers" title="Folgers">Folgers</a> coffee heiress <a href="Abigail_Folger" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_Folger" title="Abigail Folger">Abigail Folger</a>, <a href="Wojciech_Frykowski" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojciech_Frykowski" title="Wojciech Frykowski">Wojciech Frykowski</a>, and Hollywood hairstylist <a href="Jay_Sebring" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Sebring" title="Jay Sebring">Jay Sebring</a> at the home of Tate and her husband, <a href="Roman_Polanski" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Polanski" title="Roman Polanski">Roman Polanski</a>, in <a href="Los_Angeles,_California" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles,_California" title="Los Angeles, California" class="mw-redirect">Los Angeles, California</a>. Also killed was <a href="Steven_Parent" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Parent" title="Steven Parent">Steven Parent</a>, leaving from a visit to the Polanskis' caretaker. More than 100 stab wounds are found on the victims, except for Parent, who had been shot almost as soon as the Manson Family entered the property.</li>
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</li>
<li><a href="August_10" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_10" title="August 10">August 10</a> – The Manson Family kills <a href="Leno_LaBianca" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leno_LaBianca" title="Leno LaBianca" class="mw-redirect">Leno and Rosemary LaBianca</a>, wealthy Los Angeles businesspeople.</li>
<li><a href="August_12" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_12" title="August 12">August 12</a> – Violence erupts after the <a href="Apprentice_Boys_of_Derry" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apprentice_Boys_of_Derry" title="Apprentice Boys of Derry">Apprentice Boys of Derry</a> march in <a href="Derry" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derry" title="Derry">Derry</a>, <a href="Northern_Ireland" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland" title="Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a>, resulting in a three-day communal riot known as the <a href="Battle_of_the_Bogside" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bogside" title="Battle of the Bogside">Battle of the Bogside</a>.</li>
<li><a href="August_13" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_13" title="August 13">August 13</a> – <a href="Sino-Soviet_border_conflict" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Soviet_border_conflict" title="Sino-Soviet border conflict">Serious border clashes</a> occur between the <a href="Soviet_Union" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> and the <a href="People$27s_Republic_of_China" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China" title="People's Republic of China" class="mw-redirect">People's Republic of China</a>.</li>
<li><a href="August_14" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_14" title="August 14">August 14</a> – <a href="United_Kingdom" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">British</a> troops are deployed in <a href="Northern_Ireland" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland" title="Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a> following the three-day Battle of the Bogside.</li>
<li><a href="August_15" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_15" title="August 15">August 15</a>–<a href="August_18" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_18" title="August 18">August 18</a> – The <a href="Woodstock_Festival" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock_Festival" title="Woodstock Festival" class="mw-redirect">Woodstock Festival</a> is held in upstate <a href="New_York" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York" title="New York">New York</a>, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era.</li>
<li><a href="August_17" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_17" title="August 17">August 17</a> – Category 5 <a href="Hurricane_Camille" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Camille" title="Hurricane Camille">Hurricane Camille</a>, the most powerful tropical cyclonic system at landfall in history, hits the <a href="Mississippi" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi" title="Mississippi">Mississippi</a> coast, killing 248 people and causing US$1.5 billion in damage (1969 dollars).</li>
<li><a href="August_20" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_20" title="August 20">August 20</a> – <a href="Florissant_Fossil_Beds_National_Monument" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florissant_Fossil_Beds_National_Monument" title="Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument">Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument</a> is established in Florissant, CO, USA</li>
<li><a href="August_21" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_21" title="August 21">August 21</a>
<ul>
<li>The first <a href="Gap_(clothing_retailer)" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gap_(clothing_retailer)" title="Gap (clothing retailer)" class="mw-redirect">Gap</a> store opens, in San Francisco.Donald and Doris Fisher opened the first Gap store on Ocean Avenue in San Francisco.</li>
<li><a href="Australia" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australian</a> <a href="Denis_Michael_Rohan" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Michael_Rohan" title="Denis Michael Rohan">Denis Michael Rohan</a> sets the <a href="Al-Aqsa_Mosque" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Aqsa_Mosque" title="Al-Aqsa Mosque">Al-Aqsa Mosque</a> on fire.</li>
<li>Strong violence on demonstration in <a href="Prague" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague" title="Prague">Prague</a> and <a href="Brno" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brno" title="Brno">Brno</a>, Czechoslovakia. Military force contra citizens. <a href="Prague_Spring" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring" title="Prague Spring">Prague spring</a> finally beaten.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1969&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: September">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="September">September</span></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="September_1" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_1" title="September 1">September 1</a> – A coup in <a href="Libya" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya" title="Libya">Libya</a> ousts King <a href="Idris_I_of_Libya" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idris_I_of_Libya" title="Idris I of Libya" class="mw-redirect">Idris</a>, and brings Colonel <a href="Muammar_Gaddafi" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi" title="Muammar Gaddafi">Muammar Gaddafi</a> to power.</li>
<li><a href="September_2" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2" title="September 2">September 2</a>
<ul>
<li>The first <a href="Automatic_teller_machine" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_teller_machine" title="Automatic teller machine" class="mw-redirect">automatic teller machine</a> in the United States is installed in <a href="Rockville_Centre,_New_York" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockville_Centre,_New_York" title="Rockville Centre, New York">Rockville Centre, New York</a>.</li>
<li><a href="Ho_Chi_Minh" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" title="Ho Chi Minh">Ho Chi Minh</a>, former <a href="President" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President" title="President">president</a> of the <a href="Democratic_Republic_of_Vietnam" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_Vietnam" title="Democratic Republic of Vietnam" class="mw-redirect">Democratic Republic of Vietnam</a> dies.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="September_5" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_5" title="September 5">September 5</a> – Lieutenant <a href="William_Calley" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Calley" title="William Calley">William Calley</a> is charged with 6 counts of premeditated murder, for the <a href="1968" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968" title="1968">1968</a> <a href="My_Lai_Massacre" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre" title="My Lai Massacre">My Lai Massacre</a> deaths of 109 <a href="Vietnam" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam" title="Vietnam">Vietnamese</a> civilians in <a href="My_Lai" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai" title="My Lai" class="mw-redirect">My Lai</a>, <a href="Vietnam" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam" title="Vietnam">Vietnam</a>.</li>
<li><a href="September_6" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_6" title="September 6">September 6</a> – TV series <a href="H.R._Pufnstuf" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.R._Pufnstuf" title="H.R. Pufnstuf">H.R. Pufnstuf</a> debuts on NBC</li>
<li><a href="September_9" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_9" title="September 9">September 9</a> – <a href="Allegheny_Airlines_Flight_853" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegheny_Airlines_Flight_853" title="Allegheny Airlines Flight 853">Allegheny Airlines Flight 853</a> <a href="Douglas_DC-9" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_DC-9" title="Douglas DC-9" class="mw-redirect">DC-9</a> collides in flight with a <a href="The_New_Piper_Aircraft" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Piper_Aircraft" title="The New Piper Aircraft" class="mw-redirect">Piper PA-28</a>, and crashes near <a href="Fairland,_Indiana" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairland,_Indiana" title="Fairland, Indiana">Fairland</a>, <a href="Indiana" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana" title="Indiana">Indiana</a> killing all 83 persons in both aircraft.</li>
<li><a href="September_13" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_13" title="September 13">September 13</a> – The first-ever episode of <i><a href="Scooby-Doo,_Where_Are_You!" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooby-Doo,_Where_Are_You!" title="Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!">Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!</a></i> is broadcast on <a href="CBS" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a>: "What a Night for a Knight".</li>
<li><a href="September_20" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_20" title="September 20">September 20</a> – The very last Warner Bros. cartoon of the original theatrical <a href="Looney_Tunes" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looney_Tunes" title="Looney Tunes">Looney Tunes</a> series is released: <i><a href="Injun_Trouble_(1969_film)" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injun_Trouble_(1969_film)" title="Injun Trouble (1969 film)">Injun Trouble</a></i>.</li>
<li><a href="September_22" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_22" title="September 22">September 22</a> – <a href="San_Francisco_Giant" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Giant" title="San Francisco Giant" class="mw-redirect">San Francisco Giant</a> <a href="Willie_Mays" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Mays" title="Willie Mays">Willie Mays</a> becomes the first player since <a href="Babe_Ruth" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe_Ruth" title="Babe Ruth">Babe Ruth</a> to hit 600 career <a href="Home_runs" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_runs" title="Home runs" class="mw-redirect">home runs</a>.</li>
<li><a href="September_22" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_22" title="September 22">September 22</a> – <a href="September_25" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_25" title="September 25">September 25</a> – An Islamic conference in <a href="Rabat" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabat" title="Rabat">Rabat</a>, Morocco, following the al-Aqsa Mosque fire (August 21), condemns the Israeli claim of ownership of <a href="Jerusalem" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a>.</li>
<li><a href="September_23" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_23" title="September 23">September 23</a> – <i><a href="Butch_Cassidy_and_the_Sundance_Kid" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Cassidy_and_the_Sundance_Kid" title="Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid">Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid</a></i> directed by <a href="George_Roy_Hill" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Roy_Hill" title="George Roy Hill">George Roy Hill</a> and starring <a href="Paul_Newman" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Newman" title="Paul Newman">Paul Newman</a> and <a href="Robert_Redford" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Redford" title="Robert Redford">Robert Redford</a> opens to limited release in the U.S.</li>
<li><a href="September_24" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_24" title="September 24">September 24</a> – The <i><a href="Chicago_Eight" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Eight" title="Chicago Eight" class="mw-redirect">Chicago Eight</a></i> trial begins in <a href="Chicago" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a>, <a href="Illinois" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois">Illinois</a>.</li>
<li><a href="September_25" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_25" title="September 25">September 25</a> – <a href="Organisation_of_Islamic_Cooperation" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisation_of_Islamic_Cooperation" title="Organisation of Islamic Cooperation">Organisation of the Islamic Conference</a> founded.</li>
<li><a href="September_26" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_26" title="September 26">September 26</a>
<ul>
<li>The Beatles release their <i><a href="Abbey_Road" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey_Road" title="Abbey Road">Abbey Road</a></i> album, receiving critical praise and enormous commercial success.</li>
<li><i><a href="The_Brady_Bunch" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brady_Bunch" title="The Brady Bunch">The Brady Bunch</a></i> premieres on <a href="American_Broadcasting_Company" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a>.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="September_28" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_28" title="September 28">September 28</a> – The <a href="Social_Democratic_Party_of_Germany" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Germany" title="Social Democratic Party of Germany">Social Democrats</a> and the <a href="Free_Democratic_Party_(Germany)" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Democratic_Party_(Germany)" title="Free Democratic Party (Germany)">Free Democrats</a> receive a majority of votes in the <a href="Germany" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">German</a> parliamentary elections, and decide to form a common government.</li>
</ul>
<h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1969&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: October">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="October">October</span></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="October_1" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_1" title="October 1">October 1</a>
<ul>
<li>In <a href="Sweden" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden" title="Sweden">Sweden</a>, <a href="Olof_Palme" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olof_Palme" title="Olof Palme">Olof Palme</a> is elected Labour Party leader, replacing <a href="Tage_Erlander" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tage_Erlander" title="Tage Erlander">Tage Erlander</a> as prime minister on <a href="October_14" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_14" title="October 14">October 14</a>.</li>
<li>The <a href="Beijing_Subway" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Subway" title="Beijing Subway">Beijing Subway</a> begins operation.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="October_2" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2" title="October 2">October 2</a> – A 1.2 <a href="TNT_equivalent" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalent" title="TNT equivalent">megaton</a> thermonuclear device is tested at <a href="Amchitka_Island" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amchitka_Island" title="Amchitka Island" class="mw-redirect">Amchitka Island</a>, <a href="Alaska" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska" title="Alaska">Alaska</a>. This test is code-named Project Milrow, the 11th test of the <a href="Operation_Mandrel" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mandrel" title="Operation Mandrel">Operation Mandrel</a> 1969–<a href="1970" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970" title="1970">1970</a> underground nuclear test series. This test is known as a "calibration shot" to test if the island is fit for larger underground nuclear detonations.</li>
<li><a href="October_5" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_5" title="October 5">October 5</a> – <i><a href="Monty_Python$27s_Flying_Circus" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_Flying_Circus" title="Monty Python's Flying Circus">Monty Python's Flying Circus</a></i> first airs on <a href="BBC_One" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_One" title="BBC One">BBC One</a>.</li>
<li><a href="October_9" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_9" title="October 9">October 9</a>–<a href="October_12" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_12" title="October 12">October 12</a> – <a href="Days_of_Rage" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_Rage" title="Days of Rage">Days of Rage</a>: In <a href="Chicago" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a>, the <a href="United_States_National_Guard" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Guard" title="United States National Guard" class="mw-redirect">United States National Guard</a> is called in to control demonstrations involving the radical <a href="Weatherman_(organization)" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_(organization)" title="Weatherman (organization)" class="mw-redirect">Weathermen</a>, in connection with the "<a href="Chicago_Eight" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Eight" title="Chicago Eight" class="mw-redirect">Chicago Eight</a>" Trial.</li>
<li><a href="October_15" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_15" title="October 15">October 15</a> – <a href="Vietnam_War" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>: Hundreds of thousands of people take part in <a href="Moratorium_to_End_the_War_in_Vietnam" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moratorium_to_End_the_War_in_Vietnam" title="Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam">Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam</a> demonstrations across the <a href="United_States.html" webstripperwas="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>.</li>
<li><a href="October_16" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_16" title="October 16">October 16</a> – The "miracle" <a href="New_York_Mets" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Mets" title="New York Mets">New York Mets</a> win the <a href="World_Series" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Series" title="World Series">World Series</a>, beating the heavily favored <a href="Baltimore_Orioles" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_Orioles" title="Baltimore Orioles">Baltimore Orioles</a> 4 games to 1.</li>
<li><a href="October_17" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_17" title="October 17">October 17</a>
<ul>
<li>Willard S. Boyle and George Smith invent the <a href="Charge-coupled_device" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge-coupled_device" title="Charge-coupled device">CCD</a> at <a href="Bell_Laboratories" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Laboratories" title="Bell Laboratories" class="mw-redirect">Bell Laboratories</a> (30 years later, this technology is widely used in digital cameras).</li>
<li>Fourteen black athletes are kicked off the <a href="University_of_Wyoming" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Wyoming" title="University of Wyoming">University of Wyoming</a> football team for wearing black armbands into their coach's office.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="October_21" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_21" title="October 21">October 21</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="Willy_Brandt" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Brandt" title="Willy Brandt">Willy Brandt</a> becomes Chancellor of <a href="West_Germany" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Germany" title="West Germany">West Germany</a>.</li>
<li>General <a href="Siad_Barre" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siad_Barre" title="Siad Barre">Siad Barre</a> comes to power in <a href="Somalia" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalia" title="Somalia">Somalia</a> in a coup, 6 days after the assassination of President <a href="Abdirashid_Ali_Shermarke" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdirashid_Ali_Shermarke" title="Abdirashid Ali Shermarke">Abdirashid Ali Shermarke</a>.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="October_29" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_29" title="October 29">October 29</a> – The first message is sent over <a href="ARPANET" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET" title="ARPANET">ARPANET</a>, the forerunner of the <a href="Internet" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet" title="Internet">internet</a>.</li>
<li><a href="October_31" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_31" title="October 31">October 31</a> – <a href="Wal-Mart" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wal-Mart" title="Wal-Mart" class="mw-redirect">Wal-Mart</a> incorporates as Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.</li>
</ul>
<h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1969&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: November">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="November">November</span></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="November_3" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_3" title="November 3">November 3</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="Vietnam_War" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>: U.S. President <a href="Richard_M._Nixon" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_M._Nixon" title="Richard M. Nixon" class="mw-redirect">Richard M. Nixon</a> addresses the nation on <a href="Television" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television" title="Television">television</a> and <a href="Radio" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio" title="Radio">radio</a>, asking the "silent majority" to join him in solidarity with the <a href="Vietnam_War" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a> effort, and to support his policies. Vice President <a href="Spiro_T._Agnew" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_T._Agnew" title="Spiro T. Agnew" class="mw-redirect">Spiro T. Agnew</a> denounces the President's critics as 'an effete corps of impudent snobs' and 'nattering nabobs of negativism'.</li>
<li><a href="S$C3$BCleyman_Demirel" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCleyman_Demirel" title="Süleyman Demirel">Süleyman Demirel</a> of <a href="Justice_Party_(Turkey)" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_Party_(Turkey)" title="Justice Party (Turkey)">AP</a> forms the new government of <a href="Turkey" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a> (31st government)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="November_9" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_9" title="November 9">November 9</a> – A group of Amerindians, led by <a href="Richard_Oakes_(activist)" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Oakes_(activist)" title="Richard Oakes (activist)">Richard Oakes</a>, seizes <a href="Alcatraz" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcatraz" title="Alcatraz" class="mw-redirect">Alcatraz</a> Island for 19 months, inspiring a wave of renewed Indian pride and government reform.</li>
<li><a href="November_10" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_10" title="November 10">November 10</a> – <i><a href="Sesame_Street" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Street" title="Sesame Street">Sesame Street</a></i> premieres on the <a href="National_Educational_Television" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Educational_Television" title="National Educational Television">National Educational Television</a> (NET) network.</li>
<li><a href="November_12" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_12" title="November 12">November 12</a> – <a href="Vietnam_War" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a> – <a href="My_Lai_Massacre" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre" title="My Lai Massacre">My Lai Massacre</a>: Independent investigative journalist <a href="Seymour_Hersh" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh" title="Seymour Hersh">Seymour Hersh</a> breaks the <a href="My_Lai" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai" title="My Lai" class="mw-redirect">My Lai</a> story.</li>
<li><a href="November_14" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_14" title="November 14">November 14</a> – <a href="Apollo_program" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program" title="Apollo program">Apollo program</a>: <a href="NASA" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a> launches <i><a href="Apollo_12" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_12" title="Apollo 12">Apollo 12</a></i> (<a href="Pete_Conrad" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Conrad" title="Pete Conrad">Pete Conrad</a>, <a href="Richard_F._Gordon,_Jr." webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_F._Gordon,_Jr." title="Richard F. Gordon, Jr.">Richard Gordon</a>, <a href="Alan_Bean" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Bean" title="Alan Bean">Alan Bean</a>), the second manned mission to the <a href="Moon" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon" title="Moon">Moon</a>.</li>
<li><a href="November_15" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_15" title="November 15">November 15</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="Cold_War" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a>: The <a href="Soviet_submarine_K-19" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_K-19" title="Soviet submarine K-19">Soviet submarine K-19</a> collides with the American submarine <a href="USS_Gato_(SSN-615)" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Gato_(SSN-615)" title="USS Gato (SSN-615)">USS <i>Gato</i></a> in the <a href="Barents_Sea" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barents_Sea" title="Barents Sea">Barents Sea</a>.</li>
<li><a href="Vietnam_War" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>: In <a href="Washington,_DC" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_DC" title="Washington, DC" class="mw-redirect">Washington, DC</a>, 250,000–500,000 protesters stage a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death".</li>
<li>Regular <a href="Colour_television" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_television" title="Colour television" class="mw-redirect">colour television</a> broadcasts begin on <a href="BBC1" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC1" title="BBC1" class="mw-redirect">BBC1</a> and <a href="ITV" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITV" title="ITV" class="mw-redirect">ITV</a> in <a href="United_Kingdom" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">UK</a>.</li>
<li><a href="Dave_Thomas_(American_businessman)" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Thomas_(American_businessman)" title="Dave Thomas (American businessman)" class="mw-redirect">Dave Thomas</a> opens his first restaurant in a former steakhouse on a cold, snowy Saturday in downtown <a href="Columbus,_Ohio" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus,_Ohio" title="Columbus, Ohio">Columbus, Ohio</a>. He names the chain <i><a href="Wendy$27s" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy%27s" title="Wendy's">Wendy's</a></i> after his 8-year-old daughter Melinda Lou (nicknamed Wendy by her siblings).</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="November_17" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_17" title="November 17">November 17</a> – <a href="Cold_War" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a>: Negotiators from the <a href="Soviet_Union" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> and the <a href="United_States.html" webstripperwas="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> meet in <a href="Helsinki" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helsinki" title="Helsinki">Helsinki</a>, to begin the <a href="SALT_I" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SALT_I" title="SALT I" class="mw-redirect">SALT I</a> negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.</li>
<li><a href="November_19" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_19" title="November 19">November 19</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="Apollo_program" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program" title="Apollo program">Apollo program</a>: <i><a href="Apollo_12" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_12" title="Apollo 12">Apollo 12</a></i> astronauts <a href="Pete_Conrad" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Conrad" title="Pete Conrad">Charles Conrad</a> and <a href="Alan_Bean" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Bean" title="Alan Bean">Alan Bean</a> land at <a href="Oceanus_Procellarum" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanus_Procellarum" title="Oceanus Procellarum">Oceanus Procellarum</a> ("Ocean of Storms"), becoming the third and fourth humans to walk on the <a href="Moon" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon" title="Moon">Moon</a>.</li>
<li>Soccer great <a href="Pel$C3$A9" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pel%C3%A9" title="Pelé">Pelé</a> scores his 1,000th goal.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="November_20" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_20" title="November 20">November 20</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="Vietnam_War" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>: <i><a href="The_Plain_Dealer" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Plain_Dealer" title="The Plain Dealer">The Plain Dealer</a></i> publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the <a href="My_Lai_Massacre" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_massacre" title="My Lai massacre" class="mw-redirect">My Lai massacre</a> in <a href="Vietnam" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam" title="Vietnam">Vietnam</a>.</li>
<li><a href="Richard_Oakes_(activist)" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Oakes_(activist)" title="Richard Oakes (activist)">Richard Oakes</a> returns with 90 followers and offers to buy Alcatraz for $24 (he leaves the island January 1970).</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="November_21" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_21" title="November 21">November 21</a>
<ul>
<li>U.S. President <a href="Richard_Nixon.html" webstripperwas="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a> and <a href="Japan" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japanese</a> Premier <a href="Eisaku_Sato" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisaku_Sato" title="Eisaku Sato" class="mw-redirect">Eisaku Sato</a> agree in <a href="Washington,_D.C." webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a> to the return of <a href="Okinawa" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa" title="Okinawa" class="mw-redirect">Okinawa</a> to Japanese control in 1972. Under the terms of the agreement, the U.S. retains rights to military bases on the island, but they must be nuclear-free.</li>
<li>The first <a href="ARPANET" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET" title="ARPANET">ARPANET</a> link is established (the progenitor of the global <a href="Internet" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet" title="Internet">Internet</a>).</li>
<li>The <a href="United_States_Senate" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">United States Senate</a> votes down the <a href="Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States">Supreme Court</a> nomination of <a href="Clement_Haynsworth" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Haynsworth" title="Clement Haynsworth">Clement Haynsworth</a>, the first such rejection since 1930.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="November_24" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_24" title="November 24">November 24</a> – <a href="Apollo_program" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program" title="Apollo program">Apollo program</a>: The <i><a href="Apollo_12" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_12" title="Apollo 12">Apollo 12</a></i> spacecraft splashes down safely in the <a href="Pacific_Ocean" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ocean" title="Pacific Ocean">Pacific Ocean</a>, ending the second manned mission to the <a href="Moon" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon" title="Moon">Moon</a>.</li>
<li><a href="November_25" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_25" title="November 25">November 25</a> – <a href="John_Lennon" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennon" title="John Lennon">John Lennon</a> returns his <a href="Member_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" title="Member of the Order of the British Empire" class="mw-redirect">MBE</a> medal to protest the British government's involvement in the <a href="Nigerian_Civil_War" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Civil_War" title="Nigerian Civil War">Nigerian Civil War</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1969&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: December">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="December">December</span></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="December_1" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_1" title="December 1">December 1</a> – <a href="Vietnam_War" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>: The first <a href="Draft_lottery_(1969)" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft_lottery_(1969)" title="Draft lottery (1969)">draft lottery</a> in the <a href="United_States.html" webstripperwas="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> is held since <a href="World_War_II" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> (on January 4, 1970, the <i><a href="New_York_Times" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times" title="New York Times" class="mw-redirect">New York Times</a></i> will run a long article, "Statisticians Charge Draft Lottery Was Not Random").</li>
<li><a href="December_2" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2" title="December 2">December 2</a> – The <a href="Boeing_747" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747" title="Boeing 747">Boeing 747</a> jumbo jet makes its debut. It carries 191 people, most of them reporters and photographers, from <a href="Seattle" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle" title="Seattle">Seattle, Washington</a>, to <a href="New_York_City" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>.</li>
<li><a href="December_4" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_4" title="December 4">December 4</a> – <a href="Black_Panther_Party" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party" title="Black Panther Party">Black Panther Party</a> members <a href="Fred_Hampton" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton" title="Fred Hampton">Fred Hampton</a> and <a href="Mark_Clark_(Black_Panther)" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Clark_(Black_Panther)" title="Mark Clark (Black Panther)">Mark Clark</a> are shot dead in their sleep during a raid by 14 <a href="Chicago" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a> police officers.</li>
<li><a href="December_6" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_6" title="December 6">December 6</a> – The <a href="Altamont_Free_Concert" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altamont_Free_Concert" title="Altamont Free Concert">Altamont Free Concert</a> is held at the Altamont Speedway in northern California. Hosted by the <a href="Rolling_Stones" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Stones" title="Rolling Stones" class="mw-redirect">Rolling Stones</a>, it is an attempt at a "Woodstock West" and is best known for the uproar of violence that occurred. It is viewed by many as the "end of the sixties."</li>
<li><a href="December_12" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_12" title="December 12">December 12</a> – The <a href="Piazza_Fontana_bombing" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piazza_Fontana_bombing" title="Piazza Fontana bombing">Piazza Fontana bombing</a> in Italy (Strage di Piazza Fontana) takes place.</li>
<li><a href="December_24" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_24" title="December 24">December 24</a> – <a href="Charles_Manson" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Manson" title="Charles Manson">Charles Manson</a> is allowed to defend himself at the Tate-LaBianca murder <a href="Trial" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial" title="Trial">trial</a>.</li>
<li><a href="December_28" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_28" title="December 28">December 28</a> – The <a href="Young_Lords" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Lords" title="Young Lords">Young Lords</a> took over the First Spanish Methodist Church in East <a href="Harlem" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem" title="Harlem">Harlem</a>.</li>
<li><a href="December_30" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_30" title="December 30">December 30</a> – The <a href="Linwood_bank_robbery" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linwood_bank_robbery" title="Linwood bank robbery">Linwood bank robbery</a> leaves two police officers dead.</li>
<li><a href="December_31" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_31" title="December 31">December 31</a> – The date you are commonly given when a computer's time is set to 0 in seconds. Start of the <a href="Unix_Epoch" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_Epoch" title="Unix Epoch" class="mw-redirect">Unix Epoch</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1969&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Date unknown">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Date_unknown">Date unknown</span></h3>
<ul>
<li>Common <a href="Africa" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa" title="Africa">African</a>, <a href="Madagascar" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar" title="Madagascar">Malagasy</a> and <a href="Mauritius" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius" title="Mauritius">Mauritian</a> Organization (OCAMM) (Organisation Commune Africaine Malgache et Mauricienne).</li>
<li>Reported as being the year the first strain of the <a href="AIDS_virus" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_virus" title="AIDS virus" class="mw-redirect">AIDS virus</a> (<a href="HIV" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV" title="HIV">HIV</a>) migrates to the United States via <a href="Haiti" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti" title="Haiti">Haiti</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span>[</span>4<span>]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>Summer sees the invention of <a href="Unix" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix" title="Unix">Unix</a> under the potential name "Unics" (after <a href="Multics" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics" title="Multics">Multics</a>).</li>
<li><a href="Laurence_J._Peter" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_J._Peter" title="Laurence J. Peter">Laurence J. Peter</a> and <a href="Raymond_Hull" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Hull" title="Raymond Hull">Raymond Hull</a> publish their book <i>The <a href="Peter_Principle" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle" title="Peter Principle">Peter Principle</a>: why things always go wrong</i> in New York.</li>
<li>Women are allowed membership into the Future Farmers of America (now the <a href="National_FFA_Organization" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_FFA_Organization" title="National FFA Organization">National FFA Organization</a>).</li>
<li><a href="Long_John_Silver$27s" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_John_Silver%27s" title="Long John Silver's">Long John Silver's</a> restaurant chain opens first store in <a href="Lexington,_Kentucky" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexington,_Kentucky" title="Lexington, Kentucky">Lexington, Kentucky</a>.</li>
<li><a href="The_Satanic_Bible" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Bible" title="The Satanic Bible">The Satanic Bible</a> is written and published by <a href="Anton_LaVey" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_LaVey" title="Anton LaVey">Anton LaVey</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1969&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Births">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Births">Births</span></h2>
<h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1969&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: January">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="January_2">January</span></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="January_1" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1" title="January 1">January 1</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="Regina_Kent" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina_Kent" title="Regina Kent">Regina Kent</a>, Hong Kong actress (d.1999)</li>
<li><a href="Sophie_Okonedo" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Okonedo" title="Sophie Okonedo">Sophie Okonedo</a>, <a href="Academy_Award" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award" title="Academy Award">Academy Award</a> nominated <a href="United_Kingdom" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">British</a> actress</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="January_2" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2" title="January 2">January 2</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="Dean_Francis_Alfar" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Francis_Alfar" title="Dean Francis Alfar">Dean Francis Alfar</a>, <a href="Filipino_people" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipino_people" title="Filipino people">Filipino</a> author</li>
<li><a href="Christy_Turlington" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christy_Turlington" title="Christy Turlington">Christy Turlington</a>, American fashion model</li>
<li><a href="Tommy_Morrison" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Morrison" title="Tommy Morrison">Tommy Morrison</a>, American boxer</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="January_3" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_3" title="January 3">January 3</a> – <a href="Michael_Schumacher" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Schumacher" title="Michael Schumacher">Michael Schumacher</a>, German race car driver</li>
<li><a href="January_5" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_5" title="January 5">January 5</a> – <a href="Marilyn_Manson_(person)" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Manson_(person)" title="Marilyn Manson (person)" class="mw-redirect">Marilyn Manson</a>, American rock musician</li>
<li><a href="January_6" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6" title="January 6">January 6</a> – <a href="Norman_Reedus" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Reedus" title="Norman Reedus">Norman Reedus</a>, American actor</li>
<li><a href="January_8" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_8" title="January 8">January 8</a> – <a href="Jeff_Abercrombie" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Abercrombie" title="Jeff Abercrombie" class="mw-redirect">Jeff Abercrombie</a>, American rock musician (<a href="Fuel_(band)" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_(band)" title="Fuel (band)">Fuel</a>)</li>
<li><a href="January_13" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_13" title="January 13">January 13</a> – <a href="Stephen_Hendry" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hendry" title="Stephen Hendry">Stephen Hendry</a>, British snooker player</li>
<li><a href="January_14" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_14" title="January 14">January 14</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="Jason_Bateman" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Bateman" title="Jason Bateman">Jason Bateman</a>, American actor</li>
<li><a href="David_Grohl" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Grohl" title="David Grohl" class="mw-redirect">David Grohl</a>, American rock drummer and composer (<a href="Nirvana_(band)" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_(band)" title="Nirvana (band)">Nirvana</a>, <a href="Foo_Fighters" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_Fighters" title="Foo Fighters">Foo Fighters</a>)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="January_15" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_15" title="January 15">January 15</a> – <a href="Meret_Becker" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meret_Becker" title="Meret Becker">Meret Becker</a>, German actress and musician</li>
<li><a href="January_16" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_16" title="January 16">January 16</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="Roy_Jones_Jr." webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Jones_Jr." title="Roy Jones Jr." class="mw-redirect">Roy Jones Jr.</a>, American boxer</li>
<li><a href="Per_Yngve_Ohlin" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Yngve_Ohlin" title="Per Yngve Ohlin" class="mw-redirect">Per "Dead" Yngve Ohlin</a>, Norwegian vocalist (d. <a href="1991" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991" title="1991">1991</a>)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="January_17" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_17" title="January 17">January 17</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="Lukas_Moodysson" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukas_Moodysson" title="Lukas Moodysson">Lukas Moodysson</a>, Swedish film director</li>
<li><a href="DJ_Tiesto" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Tiesto" title="DJ Tiesto" class="mw-redirect">DJ Tiesto</a>, Dutch trance DJ</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="January_18" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_18" title="January 18">January 18</a> – <a href="Dave_Batista" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Batista" title="Dave Batista">David "Batista" Bautista</a>, American professional wrestler</li>
<li><a href="January_19" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_19" title="January 19">January 19</a> – <a href="Junior_Seau" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junior_Seau" title="Junior Seau">Junior Seau</a>, American NFL player (d. <a href="2012" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012" title="2012">2012</a>)</li>
<li><a href="January_20" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_20" title="January 20">January 20</a> – <a href="Patrick_K._Kroupa" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_K._Kroupa" title="Patrick K. Kroupa">Patrick K. Kroupa</a>, American writer, hacker</li>
<li><a href="January_27" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_27" title="January 27">January 27</a> – <a href="Cornelius_(musician)" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_(musician)" title="Cornelius (musician)">Cornelius</a>, Japanese rock musician, singer and producer (<a href="Flipper$27s_Guitar" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipper%27s_Guitar" title="Flipper's Guitar">Flipper's Guitar</a>)</li>
<li><a href="January_28" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_28" title="January 28">January 28</a> – <a href="Kathryn_Morris" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn_Morris" title="Kathryn Morris">Kathryn Morris</a>, American actress</li>
<li><a href="January_29" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_29" title="January 29">January 29</a> – <a href="Hyde_(musician)" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_(musician)" title="Hyde (musician)">hyde</a>, Japanese rock musician, singer and guitarist</li>
</ul>
<h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1969&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: February">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="February_2">February</span></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="February_1" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_1" title="February 1">February 1</a> – <a href="Gabriel_Batistuta" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Batistuta" title="Gabriel Batistuta">Gabriel Batistuta</a>, Argentine footballer</li>
<li><a href="February_3" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_3" title="February 3">February 3</a> – <a href="Retief_Goosen" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retief_Goosen" title="Retief Goosen">Retief Goosen</a>, South African golfer</li>
<li><a href="February_5" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_5" title="February 5">February 5</a> – <a href="Bobby_Brown" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Brown" title="Bobby Brown">Bobby Brown</a>, American singer</li>
<li><a href="February_9" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_9" title="February 9">February 9</a> – <a href="Ian_Eagle" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Eagle" title="Ian Eagle">Ian Eagle</a>, American sports announcer</li>
<li><a href="February_11" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_11" title="February 11">February 11</a> – <a href="Jennifer_Aniston" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Aniston" title="Jennifer Aniston">Jennifer Aniston</a>, American actress</li>
<li><a href="February_12" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_12" title="February 12">February 12</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="Hong_Myung-Bo" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Myung-Bo" title="Hong Myung-Bo">Hong Myung-Bo</a>, South Korean footballer</li>
<li><a href="Brad_Werenka" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Werenka" title="Brad Werenka">Brad Werenka</a>, Canadian ice-hockey player</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="February_13" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_13" title="February 13">February 13</a> – <a href="Ahlam" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahlam" title="Ahlam">Ahlam</a>, Arabic singer</li>
<li><a href="February_15" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_15" title="February 15">February 15</a> – <a href="Fulvio_Valbusa" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulvio_Valbusa" title="Fulvio Valbusa">Fulvio Valbusa</a>, Italian cross-country skier</li>
<li><a href="February_19" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_19" title="February 19">February 19</a> – <a href="Burton_C._Bell" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burton_C._Bell" title="Burton C. Bell">Burton C. Bell</a>, American rock vocalist/lyricist</li>
<li><a href="February_20" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_20" title="February 20">February 20</a> – <a href="Keiji_Takayama" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiji_Takayama" title="Keiji Takayama" class="mw-redirect">Keiji Takayama</a>, Japanese professional wrestler</li>
<li><a href="February_21" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_21" title="February 21">February 21</a> – <a href="Petra_Kronberger" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra_Kronberger" title="Petra Kronberger">Petra Kronberger</a>, Austrian alpine skier</li>
<li><a href="February_23" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_23" title="February 23">February 23</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="Michael_Campbell" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Campbell" title="Michael Campbell">Michael Campbell</a>, New Zealand golfer</li>
<li><a href="Marc_Wauters" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Wauters" title="Marc Wauters">Marc Wauters</a>, Belgian cyclist</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="February_24" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_24" title="February 24">February 24</a> – <a href="Christine_Ng" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Ng" title="Christine Ng">Christine Ng</a>, Hong Kong actress</li>
<li><a href="February_28" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_28" title="February 28">February 28</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="Robert_Sean_Leonard" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sean_Leonard" title="Robert Sean Leonard">Robert Sean Leonard</a>, American actor</li>
<li><a href="Patrick_Monahan" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Monahan" title="Patrick Monahan">Patrick Monahan</a>, American musician and singer-songwriter</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1969&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: March">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="March_2">March</span></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="March_1" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1" title="March 1">March 1</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="Javier_Bardem" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Bardem" title="Javier Bardem">Javier Bardem</a>, Spanish actor</li>
<li><a href="Litefoot" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litefoot" title="Litefoot">Litefoot</a>, Native American actor</li>
<li><a href="Dafydd_Ieuan" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dafydd_Ieuan" title="Dafydd Ieuan">Dafydd Ieuan</a>, Welsh rock drummer (<a href="Super_Furry_Animals" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Furry_Animals" title="Super Furry Animals">Super Furry Animals</a>)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="March_4" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_4" title="March 4">March 4</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="Chaz_Bono" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaz_Bono" title="Chaz Bono">Chaz Bono</a>, American actor and advocate of gay rights</li>
<li><a href="Patrick_Roach" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Roach" title="Patrick Roach">Patrick Roach</a>, Canadian actor</li>
<li><a href="Annie_Shizuka_Inoh" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Shizuka_Inoh" title="Annie Shizuka Inoh" class="mw-redirect">Annie Shizuka Inoh</a>, Taiwanese actress</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="March_7" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_7" title="March 7">March 7</a> – <a href="Todd_Williams" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Williams" title="Todd Williams">Todd Williams</a>, American long-distance runner</li>
<li><a href="March_10" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_10" title="March 10">March 10</a> – <a href="Paget_Brewster" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paget_Brewster" title="Paget Brewster">Paget Brewster</a>, American actress</li>
<li><a href="March_11" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_11" title="March 11">March 11</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="Soraya_(musician)" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soraya_(musician)" title="Soraya (musician)">Soraya</a>, Colombian singer and multi-instrumentalist (d. <a href="2006" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006" title="2006">2006</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Terrence_Howard" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrence_Howard" title="Terrence Howard">Terrence Howard</a>, American actor</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="March_12" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_12" title="March 12">March 12</a> – <a href="Graham_Coxon" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Coxon" title="Graham Coxon">Graham Coxon</a>, English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and painter</li>
<li><a href="March_15" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_15" title="March 15">March 15</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="Timo_Kotipelto" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timo_Kotipelto" title="Timo Kotipelto">Timo Kotipelto</a>, Finnish musician</li>
<li><a href="Yutaka_Take" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yutaka_Take" title="Yutaka Take">Yutaka Take</a>, Japanese jockey</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="March_17" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_17" title="March 17">March 17</a> – <a href="Alexander_McQueen" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_McQueen" title="Alexander McQueen">Alexander McQueen</a>, British fashion designer (d. <a href="2010" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010" title="2010">2010</a>)</li>
<li><a href="March_18" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_18" title="March 18">March 18</a> – <a href="Vassily_Ivanchuk" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vassily_Ivanchuk" title="Vassily Ivanchuk">Vassily Ivanchuk</a>, Ukrainian chess grandmaster</li>
<li><a href="March_19" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_19" title="March 19">March 19</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="Patrick_Tam_Yiu_Man" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Tam_Yiu_Man" title="Patrick Tam Yiu Man" class="mw-redirect">Patrick Tam</a>, Hong Kong actor</li>
<li><a href="Connor_Trinneer" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connor_Trinneer" title="Connor Trinneer">Connor Trinneer</a>, American actor</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="March_20" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_20" title="March 20">March 20</a> – <a href="Kenneth_Keith_Kallenbach" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Keith_Kallenbach" title="Kenneth Keith Kallenbach" class="mw-redirect">Kenneth Keith Kallenbach</a>, American comedian (d. <a href="2008" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008">2008</a>)</li>
<li><a href="March_21" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_21" title="March 21">March 21</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="Ali_Daei" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Daei" title="Ali Daei">Ali Daei</a>, Iranian football player</li>
<li><a href="Maria_Luisa_Ramsey" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Luisa_Ramsey" title="Maria Luisa Ramsey" class="mw-redirect">Jaya</a>, Filipino pop singer</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="March_24" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_24" title="March 24">March 24</a> – <a href="Stephan_Eberharter" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephan_Eberharter" title="Stephan Eberharter">Stephan Eberharter</a>, Austrian alpine skier</li>
<li><a href="March_27" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_27" title="March 27">March 27</a> – <a href="Pauley_Perrette" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauley_Perrette" title="Pauley Perrette">Pauley Perrette</a>, American actress</li>
<li><a href="March_28" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_28" title="March 28">March 28</a> – <a href="Rodney_Atkins" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Atkins" title="Rodney Atkins">Rodney Atkins</a>, America country music singer-songwriter</li>
<li><a href="March_29" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_29" title="March 29">March 29</a> – <a href="Chiaki_Ishikawa" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiaki_Ishikawa" title="Chiaki Ishikawa">Chiaki Ishikawa</a>, Japanese singer (<a href="See-Saw" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/See-Saw" title="See-Saw">See-Saw</a>)</li>
<li><a href="March_31" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_31" title="March 31">March 31</a> – <a href="Samantha_Brown" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Brown" title="Samantha Brown">Samantha Brown</a>, American television host</li>
</ul>
<h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1969&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: April">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="April_2">April</span></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="April_1" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_1" title="April 1">April 1</a> – <a href="Fadl_Shaker" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fadl_Shaker" title="Fadl Shaker">Fadl Shaker</a>, Lebanese singer</li>
<li><a href="April_3" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_3" title="April 3">April 3</a> – <a href="Lance_Storm" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Storm" title="Lance Storm">Lance Storm</a>, Canadian professional wrestler</li>
<li><a href="April_6" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_6" title="April 6">April 6</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="Bret_Boone" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bret_Boone" title="Bret Boone">Bret Boone</a>, American baseball player</li>
<li><a href="Paul_Rudd" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rudd" title="Paul Rudd">Paul Rudd</a>, American actor</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="April_9" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_9" title="April 9">April 9</a> – <a href="Debbie_Schlussel" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Schlussel" title="Debbie Schlussel">Debbie Schlussel</a>, Political commentator & film critic</li>
<li><a href="April_10" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_10" title="April 10">April 10</a> – <a href="Billy_Jayne" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Jayne" title="Billy Jayne">Billy Jayne</a>, American actor</li>
<li><a href="April_11" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_11" title="April 11">April 11</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="Cerys_Matthews" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerys_Matthews" title="Cerys Matthews">Cerys Matthews</a>, Welsh singer</li>
<li><a href="Chisato_Moritaka" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisato_Moritaka" title="Chisato Moritaka">Chisato Moritaka</a>, Japanese singer</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="April_17" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_17" title="April 17">April 17</a> – <a href="Henry_Ian_Cusick" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ian_Cusick" title="Henry Ian Cusick">Henry Ian Cusick</a>, Peruvian actor</li>
<li><a href="April_19" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_19" title="April 19">April 19</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="Shannon_Lee" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_Lee" title="Shannon Lee">Shannon Lee</a>, Chinese-American actress</li>
<li><a href="Susan_Polgar" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Polgar" title="Susan Polgar">Susan Polgar</a>, Hungarian chess player</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="April_22.html" webstripperwas="/wiki/April_22" title="April 22">April 22</a> – <a href="Dion_Dublin" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dion_Dublin" title="Dion Dublin">Dion Dublin</a>, English footballer</li>
<li><a href="April_25" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_25" title="April 25">April 25</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="Joe_Buck" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Buck" title="Joe Buck">Joe Buck</a>, American baseball and football broadcaster</li>
<li><a href="Vanessa_Beecroft" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_Beecroft" title="Vanessa Beecroft">Vanessa Beecroft</a>, Italian artist</li>
<li><a href="Ren$C3$A9e_Zellweger" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9e_Zellweger" title="Renée Zellweger">Renée Zellweger</a>, American actress</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1969&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: May">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="May_2">May</span></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="May_1" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1" title="May 1">May 1</a> – <a href="Wes_Anderson" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Anderson" title="Wes Anderson">Wes Anderson</a>, American director</li>
<li><a href="May_2" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_2" title="May 2">May 2</a> – <a href="Brian_Lara" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Lara" title="Brian Lara">Brian Lara</a>, West Indian cricketer</li>
<li><a href="May_3" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_3" title="May 3">May 3</a> – <a href="Daryl_F._Mallett" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_F._Mallett" title="Daryl F. Mallett">Daryl F. Mallett</a>, American author and actor</li>
<li><a href="May_4" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_4" title="May 4">May 4</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="Micah_Aivazoff" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micah_Aivazoff" title="Micah Aivazoff">Micah Aivazoff</a>, Canadian ice hockey player</li>
<li><a href="Christina_Billotte" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Billotte" title="Christina Billotte">Christina Billotte</a>, American Musician</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="May_6" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_6" title="May 6">May 6</a> – <a href="Jim_Magilton" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Magilton" title="Jim Magilton">Jim Magilton</a>, Northern Irish footballer</li>
<li><a href="May_7" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_7" title="May 7">May 7</a> – <a href="Eagle_Eye_Cherry" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Eye_Cherry" title="Eagle Eye Cherry" class="mw-redirect">Eagle Eye Cherry</a>, Swedish-born musician</li>
<li><a href="May_9" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_9" title="May 9">May 9</a> – <a href="Amber_(performer)" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_(performer)" title="Amber (performer)">Amber</a>, Dutch musician</li>
<li><a href="May_10" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_10" title="May 10">May 10</a> – <a href="Dennis_Bergkamp" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Bergkamp" title="Dennis Bergkamp">Dennis Bergkamp</a>, Dutch soccer player</li>
<li><a href="May_12" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_12" title="May 12">May 12</a> – <a href="Kevin_Nalty" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Nalty" title="Kevin Nalty">Kevin Nalty</a>, American YouTube comedian</li>
<li><a href="May_13" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_13" title="May 13">May 13</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="Nikos_Aliagas" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikos_Aliagas" title="Nikos Aliagas">Nikos Aliagas</a>, French-born television host</li>
<li><a href="Buckethead" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckethead" title="Buckethead">Brian Carroll</a> (a.k.a. Buckethead), American guitarist</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="May_14" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_14" title="May 14">May 14</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="Cate_Blanchett" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cate_Blanchett" title="Cate Blanchett">Cate Blanchett</a>, Australian actress</li>
<li><a href="Danny_Wood" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Wood" title="Danny Wood">Danny Wood</a>, American singer (<a href="New_Kids_on_The_Block" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Kids_on_the_Block" title="New Kids on the Block">New Kids on the Block</a>)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="May_15" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_15" title="May 15">May 15</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="Hideki_Irabu" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideki_Irabu" title="Hideki Irabu">Hideki Irabu</a>, Japanese baseball player (d. 2011)</li>
<li><a href="Emmitt_Smith" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmitt_Smith" title="Emmitt Smith">Emmitt Smith</a>, American football player</li>
<li><a href="Asalah_Nasri" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asalah_Nasri" title="Asalah Nasri" class="mw-redirect">Asalah Nasri</a>, Syrian singer</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="May_16" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_16" title="May 16">May 16</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="David_Boreanaz" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Boreanaz" title="David Boreanaz">David Boreanaz</a>, American actor</li>
<li><a href="Tracey_Gold" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracey_Gold" title="Tracey Gold">Tracey Gold</a>, American actress</li>
<li><a href="Steve_Lewis_(athlete)" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Lewis_(athlete)" title="Steve Lewis (athlete)" class="mw-redirect">Steve Lewis</a>, American athlete</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="May_18" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_18" title="May 18">May 18</a> – <a href="Martika" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martika" title="Martika">Martika</a>, American singer</li>
<li><a href="May_21" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_21" title="May 21">May 21</a> – <a href="Georgiy_R._Gongadze" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgiy_R._Gongadze" title="Georgiy R. Gongadze" class="mw-redirect">Georgiy R. Gongadze</a>, Ukrainian journalist (d. <a href="2000" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000" title="2000">2000</a>)</li>
<li><a href="May_25" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_25" title="May 25">May 25</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="Stacy_London" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacy_London" title="Stacy London">Stacy London</a>, American fashion consultant and media personality</li>
<li><a href="Anne_Heche" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Heche" title="Anne Heche">Anne Heche</a>, American actress</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="May_26" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_26" title="May 26">May 26</a> – <a href="Musetta_Vander" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musetta_Vander" title="Musetta Vander">Musetta Vander</a>, South African actress</li>
</ul>
<h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1969&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: June">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="June_2">June</span></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="June_4" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_4" title="June 4">June 4</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="Rob_Huebel" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Huebel" title="Rob Huebel">Rob Huebel</a>, American comedian</li>
<li><a href="Eugene_Chung" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Chung" title="Eugene Chung">Eugene Chung</a>, Korean-American Football Player</li>
<li><a href="Takako_Minekawa" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takako_Minekawa" title="Takako Minekawa">Takako Minekawa</a>, Japanese musician, composer and writer</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="June_7" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_7" title="June 7">June 7</a> – <a href="Kim_Rhodes" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Rhodes" title="Kim Rhodes">Kim Rhodes</a>, American actress</li>
<li><a href="June_8" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_8" title="June 8">June 8</a> – <a href="J.P._Manoux" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.P._Manoux" title="J.P. Manoux">J.P. Manoux</a>, American actor</li>
<li><a href="June_11" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_11" title="June 11">June 11</a> – <a href="Steven_Drozd" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Drozd" title="Steven Drozd">Steven Drozd</a>, American rock drummer (<a href="The_Flaming_Lips" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flaming_Lips" title="The Flaming Lips">The Flaming Lips</a>)</li>
<li><a href="June_12" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_12" title="June 12">June 12</a> – <a href="Zsolt_Daczi" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zsolt_Daczi" title="Zsolt Daczi">Zsolt Daczi</a>, Hungarian rock guitarist (d. <a href="2007" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007" title="2007">2007</a>)</li>
<li><a href="June_13" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_13" title="June 13">June 13</a> – <a href="S$C3$B8ren_Rasted" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Rasted" title="Søren Rasted">Søren Rasted</a>, Danish musician (<a href="Aqua_(band)" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_(band)" title="Aqua (band)">Aqua</a>)</li>
<li><a href="June_14" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_14" title="June 14">June 14</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="Steffi_Graf" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steffi_Graf" title="Steffi Graf">Steffi Graf</a>, German tennis player</li>
<li><a href="MC_Ren" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MC_Ren" title="MC Ren">MC Ren</a>, American rapper (<a href="N.W.A" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N.W.A" title="N.W.A">N.W.A</a>)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="June_15" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_15" title="June 15">June 15</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="Oliver_Kahn" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Kahn" title="Oliver Kahn">Oliver Kahn</a>, German football goalkeeper</li>
<li><a href="Ice_Cube" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Cube" title="Ice Cube">Ice Cube</a>, American rapper and actor</li>
<li><a href="Maurice_Odumbe" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Odumbe" title="Maurice Odumbe">Maurice Odumbe</a>, Kenyan cricketer</li>
<li><a href="Jansher_Khan" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jansher_Khan" title="Jansher Khan">Jansher Khan</a>, Pakistani squash player</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="June_17" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_17" title="June 17">June 17</a> – <a href="Paul_Tergat" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Tergat" title="Paul Tergat">Paul Tergat</a>, Kenyan athlete</li>
<li><a href="June_18" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_18" title="June 18">June 18</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="Haki_Doku" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haki_Doku" title="Haki Doku">Haki Doku</a>, Albanian para-cyclist</li>
<li><a href="P$C3$A5l_Pot_Pamparius" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A5l_Pot_Pamparius" title="Pål Pot Pamparius" class="mw-redirect">Pål Pot Pamparius</a>, Norwegian rock guitarist and keyboardist (<a href="Turbonegro" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbonegro" title="Turbonegro">Turbonegro</a>)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="June_20" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_20" title="June 20">June 20</a> – <a href="Paulo_Bento" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Bento" title="Paulo Bento">Paulo Bento</a>, Portuguese football player and coach</li>
<li><a href="June_23" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_23" title="June 23">June 23</a> – <a href="Fernanda_Ribeiro" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernanda_Ribeiro" title="Fernanda Ribeiro">Fernanda Ribeiro</a>, Portuguese long-distance runner</li>
<li><a href="June_24" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_24" title="June 24">June 24</a> – <a href="Sissel_Kyrkjeb$C3$B8" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sissel_Kyrkjeb%C3%B8" title="Sissel Kyrkjebø">Sissel Kyrkjebø</a>, Norwegian singer</li>
<li><a href="June_25" webstripperwas="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_25" title="June 25">June 25</a>