This Year in History 1969: What Happened in 1969?

By Kerry Butters

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

• Language: English
• Publisher: Diamond Book Publishing
• Release date: Jul 7, 2019
• ISBN: 9788834152782

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MAJOR NEWS EVENTS OF 1969

January

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

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

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

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

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

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

January 2 Soviet Sport calls Emile Zatopek a public enemy

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

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

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

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

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

January 3 Rep Adam Clayton Powell Jr seated by Congress

January 4 Fig Leaves Are Falling closes at Broadhurst NYC after 4 performances

January 4 France begins arms embargo against Israel

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

January 5 Maggie Flynn closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 82 performances

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

January 5 Neville Williams' Chronology of the Expanding World completed

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

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

January 6 Supremes release I'm Livin' In Shame

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

January 7 US Congress doubles president salary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

January 12 Golden Rainbow closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 355 performances

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

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

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

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

January 14 Matt Busby retires from Manchester United

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

January 15 Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean

January 15 Soyuz 5 launched by Soviet Union

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

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

January 17 Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 5 lands

January 18 Expanded 4 party Vietnam peace talks began in Paris

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

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

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

January 20 Richard M Nixon inaugurated as US president

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

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

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

January 22 Celebration opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 110 performances

January 22 Orbiting Solar Observatory 5 launched into earth orbit

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

January 23 Cream releases their last album Goodbye

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

January 24 Spanish dictator General Franco announces state of emergency

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

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

January 25 US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris

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

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

January 26 Police break up a March by hundreds of demonstrators in central Prague

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

January 27 14 spies hanged in Baghdad

January 27 9 Jews publicly executed in Damascus, Syria

January 27 Actress Thelma Ritter suffers a heart attack (she dies February 5th)

January 27 Ian Paisley sentenced to 3 years

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

January 30 US/Canada ISIS 1 launched to study ionosphere

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

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

February

February 1 US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn

February 1 US male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

February 5 US population reaches 200 million

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

February 6 Jerry Herman's Dear World opens at Marchk Hellinger Theater NYC for 132 performances

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

February 7 This Is Tom Jones debuts on ABC TV

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

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

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

February 8 Last edition of Saturday Evening Post

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

February 9 1st flight of the Boeing 747 jumbo jet

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

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

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

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

February 13 Marchy Hopkin's Postcard album on Apple is released

February 13 Suriname government of Pengel resigns

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

February 21 Ted Williams signs