1969
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[edit] Events
- January 12 - Led Zeppelin's first album is released.
- January 20 - Richard Nixon becomes president, after Lyndon Johnson.
- February 3 - Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestinian Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.
- February 25 - George Jones marries Tammy Wynette
- March 2 - The first Concorde test flight is done in France.
- April 9 - Around 300 students take over Harvard University, because they don't like the Vietnam War being fought.
- May 10 - Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam.
- May 20 - National Guard helicopters spray skin-stinging powder on Vietnam War protesters in California.
- May 31 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance" at their "Bed-In" in Montreal.
- June 8- Nixon announces that 25,000 US troops will start to leave Vietnam before September.
- June 14 - The movie Easy Rider is in cinemas.
- June 18 - A militant group called Weathermen take over Students for Democratic Society in Chicago.
- June 28 - Homosexuals riot in New York City.
- July 8 - As promised, some US troops begin to leave Vietnam.
- July 20 - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are the first people on the moon.
- August 9- The Manson Family murders.
- August 15 - The Woodstock music festival starts in Upstate New York.
- August 17 - A hurricane hits Mississippi, killing 248 people.
- September 7- Monty Python's Flying Circus airs for the first time on British television.
- September 24 - The Chicago Eight trial begins, about the leaders of the protests in 1968 at the Democratic National Convention.
- October 9 - The National Guard is called in at Chicago, because the Weathermen are protesting the trial.
- October 15 - Hundreds of thousands of people across the US protest against the Vietnam War, by not going to work.
- October 21 - Willy Brandt becomes the first SPD-Chancellor of Germany
- November 9 - A group of American Indians takes over Alcatraz Island and holds it for 19 months.
- November 13 - Up to 500,000 anti-war protesters march and protest in Washington DC.
- December 1 - The USA holds the first "draft lottery", to pick who is going to be sent to fight in Vietnam.
- December 4 - Two Black Panthers leaders, Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, are killed in their sleep by police in Chicago.
[edit] Births
- January 3 - Michael Schumacher, Formula one driver
- February 5 - Bobby Brown, singer
- February 11 - Jennifer Aniston, actress
- June 15 - Oliver Kahn, German football player
- September 25 - Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
[edit] Deaths
- January 31- Meher Baba
- March 28 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States
- June 2 - Leo Gorcey, actor
- August 9 - Sharon Tate, actress
- August 9 - Abigail Folger, heiress
- August 9 - Jay Sebring, hairstylist
- August 9 - Wojciech Frykowski, writer
- August 9 - Steven Parent
- August 10- Leno LaBianca, grocery store owner
- August 10 - Rosmary LaBianca, wife of Leno LaBianca
- August 31 - Rocky Marciano, boxer
[edit] Nobel Prizes
- Nobel Prize in Physics - Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist (for his work on the theory of elementary particles)
- Chemistry - Derek H R Barton, Odd Hassel
- Medicine - Max Delbrück, Alfred D Hershey, Salvador E Luria
- Literature - Samuel Beckett, Irish writer
- Peace - International Labour Organization
- Economics - Ragnar Frisch, Jan Tinbergen
[edit] Films released
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Easy Rider
- If....
- Intervals
- Midnight Cowboy
- True Grit
[edit] Hit songs
- "Aquarius"/"Let The Sunshine In" - Fifth Dimension
- "The Ballad of John and Yoko" - The Beatles
- "But You Know I Love You" - Kenny Rogers and The First Edition
- "The Boxer" - Simon and Garfunkel
- "In The Ghetto" - Elvis Presley
- "Cloud Nine" - The Temptations
- "Come Together" - The Beatles
- "Get Back" - The Beatles
- "Get Together" - Youngbloods
- "Good Times Bad Times" - Led Zeppelin
- "Honky Tonk Women" - Rolling Stones
- "I'd Wait A Million Years" - The Grass Roots
- "In the Year 2525" - Zager and Evans
- "Listen to the Band" - The Monkees
- "Love Child" - Diana Ross & the Supremes
- "Oh Happy Day" - Edwin Hawkins
- "Pinball Wizard" - The Who
- "Proud Mary" - Creedence Clearwater Revival
- "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" - B.J. Thomas
- "Someday We'll Be Together" - Diana Ross & the Supremes
- "Something" - The Beatles
- "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" - Crosby, Stills & Nash
- "Suspicious Minds" - Elvis Presley
- "Touch Me" - The Doors
- "Whole Lotta Love" - Led Zeppelin
[edit] New Books
- Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle - Vladimir Nabokov
- The Andromeda Strain - Michael Crichton
- The Campus Murders - Ellery Queen
- The Edible Woman - Margaret Atwood
- The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
- The Godfather - Mario Puzo
- The Green Man - Kingsley Amis
- The Inheritors - Harold Robbins
- Jirel of Joiry - C. L. Moore
- Little Painted Mouths - Manuel Puig
- The Love Machine - Jacqueline Susann
- Mary Queen of Scots - Antonia Fraser
- Naked Came the Stranger - Penelope Ashe
- Nothing Black But A Cadillac - Raymond Spence
- A Pocketful of Rye - A.J. Cronin
- Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
- Retour à Roissy - Pauline Réage
- Sounder - William H. Armstrong
- The Seven Minutes - Irving Wallace
- The Street - Mordecai Richler
- That Godless Woman - Merton H. Coleman
- The Veiled Sultan - March Cost
- War Against The Mafia - Don Pendleton