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Events on the year of 1969 in history

Events
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02 Jan 1969 "Fig Leaves Are Falling" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 4 performances
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02 Jan 1969 "Soviet Sport" calls Emile Zatopek a public enemy
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03 Jan 1969 Rep Adam Clayton Powell Jr seated by Congress
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04 Jan 1969 "Fig Leaves Are Falling" closes at Broadhurst NYC after 4 performances
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04 Jan 1969 France begins arms embargo against Israel
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05 Jan 1969 "Maggie Flynn" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 82 performances
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05 Jan 1969 Bollingen prize for poetry presented to John Berryman and Karl Shapiro
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05 Jan 1969 USSR Venera 5 launched for 1st successful planet landing (Venus)
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05 Jan 1969 The Troubles: The Royal Ulster Constabulary raid the Bogside area of Derry, damaging property and beating residents. In response, residents erect barricades and establish Free Derry.
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06 Jan 1969 WLIW TV channel 21 in Garden City, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting
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07 Jan 1969 US Congress doubles President salary
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09 Jan 1969 1st trial flight of Concorde
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10 Jan 1969 Sweden (1st Western country) recognizes North Vietnam
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10 Jan 1969 USSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus
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10 Jan 1969 Pirate Radio Station Free Derby begins operation by Northern Ireland
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11 Jan 1969 "Hooked on a Feeling" by BJ Thomas peaks at #5
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11 Jan 1969 Jethro Tull's This Was Jethro Tull album debuts
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12 Jan 1969 "Golden Rainbow" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 355 performances
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12 Jan 1969 The New York Jets of the American Football League defeat the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League to win Super Bowl III in what is considered to be one of the greatest upsets in sports history.
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12 Jan 1969 Super Bowl III New York Jets beat Baltimore Colts, 16-7 in Miami; Super Bowl MVP Joe Namath, New York Jets, Quarterback
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12 Jan 1969 "Golden Rainbow" closes at Shubert Theater New York City NY after 355 performances
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13 Jan 1969 Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" album
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13 Jan 1969 Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" album
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14 Jan 1969 An accidental explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 27 people.
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14 Jan 1969 Soyuz 4 launched; rendezvous with Soyuz 5 two days later
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14 Jan 1969 25 members of US aircraft carrier Enterprise die during maneuvers
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15 Jan 1969 The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5.
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15 Jan 1969 Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
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15 Jan 1969 Soyuz 5 launched by Soviet Union
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16 Jan 1969 Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.
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16 Jan 1969 Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in protest against the Soviets' crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.
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16 Jan 1969 Soviet Soyuz 4 & Soyuz 5 perform 1st transfer of crew in space
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16 Jan 1969 Jan Palach immolates himself to protest Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
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17 Jan 1969 Beatles release Yellow Submarine album in the UK
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17 Jan 1969 Soyuz 5 lands
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17 Jan 1969 Black Panther Party members Bunchy Carter and John Huggins are killed during a meeting in Campbell Hall on the campus of UCLA.
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17 Jan 1969 Debut album of Led Zeppelin released in US
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18 Jan 1969 United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay killing all 32 passengers and six crew members.
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18 Jan 1969 Soyuz 5 returns to Earth
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18 Jan 1969 Expanded 4 party Vietnam peace talks began in Paris
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19 Jan 1969 Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire three days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest about the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turns into another major protest.
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19 Jan 1969 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
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19 Jan 1969 AFL Pro Bowl West beats East 38-25
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20 Jan 1969 University of Arizona reports 1st optical id of pulsar (in Crab Nebula)
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20 Jan 1969 East Pakistani police kill student activist Amanullah Asaduzzaman. The resulting outrage is in part responsible for the Bangladesh Liberation War.
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20 Jan 1969 Richard M Nixon inaugurated as President
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21 Jan 1969 22nd NHL All-Star Game: West beat East 3-3 at Montreal
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22 Jan 1969 "Celebration" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 110 performances
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22 Jan 1969 A gunman attempts to assassinate Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
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22 Jan 1969 Billy Preston becomes the 5th Beatle
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22 Jan 1969 Orbiting Solar Observatory 5 launched into earth orbit
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22 Jan 1969 "Celebration" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City NY for 110 performances
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22 Jan 1969 Roy Campanella & Stan Musial elected to baseball Hall of Fame
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23 Jan 1969 Cream releases their last album "Goodbye"
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23 Jan 1969 Cream releases their last album "Goodbye"
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24 Jan 1969 Queen Juliana appointed honorary citizen of Addis Ababa
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24 Jan 1969 Spanish General Franco announces state of emergency
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25 Jan 1969 US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris
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26 Jan 1969 "Red, White, and Maddox" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 41 performances
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26 Jan 1969 "Red, White, & Maddox" opens at Cort Theater New York City NY for 41 performances
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27 Jan 1969 Actress Thelma Ritter suffers a heart attack (she dies February 5th)
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27 Jan 1969 14 spies hung in Baghdad
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27 Jan 1969 9 Jews publicly executed in Damascus Syria
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27 Jan 1969 Noordiers vicar Ian Paisley sentenced to 3 years
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28 Jan 1969 Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win in North America
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28 Jan 1969 2nd ABA All-Star Game West 133 beats East 127 at Louisville
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29 Jan 1969 Jimi Hendrix & Peter Townshend wage a battle of guitars
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29 Jan 1969 Sheahan & Connolly hang on for exciting draw Australia vs West Indies
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30 Jan 1969 Beatles perform their last gig together, a free concert
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30 Jan 1969 The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
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30 Jan 1969 Beatles perform their last gig together, a 42-minute free concert on the roof of Apple HQs
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30 Jan 1969 US/Canada ISIS 1 launched to study ionosphere
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31 Jan 1969 Beatles perform last live gig (42-min concert on roof of Apple HQs)
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31 Jan 1969 Vice Admiral Rufus L Taylor, USN, ends term as deputy director of CIA
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01 Feb 1969 Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself in concert
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01 Feb 1969 WPGH TV channel 53 in Pittsburgh, PA (IND) begins broadcasting
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02 Feb 1969 KMST TV channel 46 in Monterey-Salinas, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
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02 Feb 1969 Stan Coveleski and Waite Hoyt are voted into baseball Hall of Fame
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03 Feb 1969 The Palestine National Congress appointed Yasser Arafat head of PLO
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03 Feb 1969 In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.
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04 Feb 1969 41,163, then largest NBA crowd, watches doubleheader Cin-Det, SD-Bost
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04 Feb 1969 Beatles appoint Eastman and Eastman, as general cousel to Apple
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04 Feb 1969 Yassar Arafats takes over as Chairman of PLO
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04 Feb 1969 Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
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05 Feb 1969 "Turn-On, " debuts and cancelled by ABC after flopping so badly
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05 Feb 1969 US population reaches 200 million
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05 Feb 1969 Vince Lombardi, becomes part owner, vp, gm and head coach of Redskins
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06 Feb 1969 "Dear World" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 132 performances
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07 Feb 1969 "This Is Tom Jones, " debuts on ABC TV
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07 Feb 1969 Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat becomes President of PLO
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07 Feb 1969 Diane Crump becomes 1st woman jockey at a major US racetrack (Hialeah)
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08 Feb 1969 Last edition of Saturday Evening Post
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08 Feb 1969 Allende meteorite falls near Pueblito de Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico.
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09 Feb 1969 Boeing 747 made its 1st commercial flight
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09 Feb 1969 KGTO TV channel 36 in Fayetteville, AR (ABC / NBC) begins broadcasting
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09 Feb 1969 First test flight of the Boeing 747.
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10 Feb 1969 LSU Pete Maravich scores 66, despite losing to Tulane 101-94
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11 Feb 1969 Diana Crump becomes 1st US woman jockey to ride against men, Hialelah
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11 Feb 1969 Dorey Funk Jr beats Gene Kiniski in Tampa, to become NWA champion
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13 Feb 1969 Mary Hopkin's Postcard album on Apple is released
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13 Feb 1969 Suriname government of Pengel resigns
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17 Feb 1969 Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash record an album (never released)
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17 Feb 1969 Golda Meir sworn in as Israel's 1st female prime minister
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18 Feb 1969 Hawthorne Nevada Airlines Flight 708 crashes into Mount Whitney killing all on board.
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18 Feb 1969 Doug Walters scores 2nd innings century after 242 in 1st
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18 Feb 1969 PLO-attack El-Al plane in Zurich Switzerland
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19 Feb 1969 1st Test flight of Boeing 747 jumbo jet
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21 Feb 1969 1st launching of heavy N-1 rocket at Baikonur Kazachstan (explodes)
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21 Feb 1969 Ted Williams signs 5-year contract to manage Washington Senators
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22 Feb 1969 Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st female jockey to win at a major US track
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22 Feb 1969 1st female US thoroughbred pari-mutuel jockey win (Barbara Jo Rubin)
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23 Feb 1969 Nayif Hawatimah forms Democratic People's Front for Liberation of Palestine
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23 Feb 1969 WWVU (now WNPB) TV channel 24 in Morgantown WV (PBS) 1st broadcast
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24 Feb 1969 Mariner 6 launched for Mars fly-by
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25 Feb 1969 Beatles begin recording for the Abbey Road album
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25 Feb 1969 Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars
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25 Feb 1969 Pension plan for baseball is agreed to
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27 Feb 1969 General Hafez al-Assad becomes head of Syria via military coup
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27 Feb 1969 President Nixon visits West-Berlin
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28 Feb 1969 Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Rodnina & Ulanov of USSR
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28 Feb 1969 Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Colorado Springs won by Gabriele Seyfert GDR
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01 Mar 1969 "Red, White, and Maddox" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 41 performances
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01 Mar 1969 After 88 weeks Sgt Pepper drops off the charts
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01 Mar 1969 Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself at Dinner Key Auditorium
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01 Mar 1969 Pirate Radio 259 begins operation off the French coast
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02 Mar 1969 1st test flight of the supersonic Concorde
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02 Mar 1969 Chinese-Russian borders fight (approximately 70 die)
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02 Mar 1969 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 14th Symphony
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02 Mar 1969 Phil Esposito becomes 1st NHL Player to score 100 points in a season
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02 Mar 1969 Soviet and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the Ussuri River.
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02 Mar 1969 In Toulouse, France, the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted.
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03 Mar 1969 Apollo 9 launched for 151 Earth orbits (10 days)
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03 Mar 1969 Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
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05 Mar 1969 Gold reaches then record high ($47 per ounce) in Paris
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05 Mar 1969 Gustav Heinemann elected President of West-Germany
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08 Mar 1969 Marriage of 12 year old Marcella Rosciglione in Palermo
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10 Mar 1969 In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. He later unsuccessfully attempts to retract his plea.
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10 Mar 1969 James Earl Ray pleads guilty in murder of Martin Luther King Jr
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12 Mar 1969 11th Grammy Awards: Mrs Robinson, By the Time I Get to Phoenix win
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12 Mar 1969 120 joints found at George & Patti Harrison's home
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12 Mar 1969 Paul McCartney marries Linda Louise Eastman in London
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13 Mar 1969 Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
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13 Mar 1969 Apollo 9 returns to Earth
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14 Mar 1969 Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win at Aqueduct
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14 Mar 1969 Seymour Nurse scores 258 in his last Test Cricket innings, West Indies vs New Zealand
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15 Mar 1969 US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns
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15 Mar 1969 Violent Chinese-Russian border dispute (100s dead)
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16 Mar 1969 "1776" opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 1217 performances
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16 Mar 1969 A Viasa McDonnell Douglas DC-9 crashes in Maracaibo, Venezuela, killing 155.
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16 Mar 1969 Boston Bruins scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period
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16 Mar 1969 Peter Stone & Sherman Edward's "1776" premieres at 46th St Theater NYC for 1217 performances
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16 Mar 1969 Viasa DC-9 crashes at Maracaibo's Grano de Oro airport, killing 155
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17 Mar 1969 Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
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17 Mar 1969 Golda Meir becomes Israel's 4th Prime Minister
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18 Mar 1969 "Come Summer" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 7 performances
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18 Mar 1969 The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.
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19 Mar 1969 The 385 metres (1,263 ft) tall TV-mast at Emley Moor transmitting station, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build-up.
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19 Mar 1969 British invade Anguilla
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19 Mar 1969 Chicago 8 indicted in aftermath of Chicago Democratic convention
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20 Mar 1969 Abebe Bikila's auto-accident, near Addis Ababa
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20 Mar 1969 Beatle John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar
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20 Mar 1969 US President Nixon proclaims he will end Vietnam war in 1970
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21 Mar 1969 John & Yoko stage their 1st bed-in for peace (Amsterdam Hilton)
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21 Mar 1969 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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22 Mar 1969 "Billy" opens and closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 1 performance
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22 Mar 1969 "Come Summer" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 7 performances
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22 Mar 1969 31st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Purdue 92-72 UCLA wins its 5th national championship in 6 years
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23 Mar 1969 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Port Charlotte Golf Invitational
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23 Mar 1969 Rally for Decency (Miami)
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25 Mar 1969 During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).
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25 Mar 1969 Andes Pact signed in Peru
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25 Mar 1969 John & Yoko stage their 1st bed-in for peace (Amsterdam)
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25 Mar 1969 Pakistan General Agha Mohammed Jagja Khan succeeds Ayub Chan as President
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26 Mar 1969 Marcus Welby MD, a TV movie is shown on ABC-TV
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26 Mar 1969 Nuclear reactor Dodewaard Netherlands goes into use
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26 Mar 1969 Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 launched
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27 Mar 1969 Black Academy of Arts & Letters forms in Boston
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27 Mar 1969 Launch of Mariner 7, flies 2,190 miles above southern Mars
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28 Mar 1969 Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece.
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28 Mar 1969 Pope Paul VI names JGM Willebrands cardinal
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29 Mar 1969 Communist New People's Army found in Philippines
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30 Mar 1969 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Port Malabar Golf Invitational
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31 Mar 1969 George Harrison & Patti Boyd are fined
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01 Apr 1969 Royal Canadian Mint formally forms as a Crown Corp
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01 Apr 1969 Seattle Pilots trade minor league outfielder Lou Piniella to Royals
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01 Apr 1969 The Hawker Siddeley Harrier enters service with the Royal Air Force.
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02 Apr 1969 Milwaukee Bucks sign (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor)
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03 Apr 1969 Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.
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04 Apr 1969 Denton Cooley gets 1st temporary artificial heart
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04 Apr 1969 Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
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05 Apr 1969 Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities.
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07 Apr 1969 Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material
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07 Apr 1969 Ted Williams begins managing Washingston Senators, they lose to Yanks 8-4
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07 Apr 1969 The Internet's symbolic birth date: Publication of RFC 1.
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08 Apr 1969 1st Baseball game in Canada - Montreal Expos beats New York Mets 10-9
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08 Apr 1969 Expansion teams Royals, Expos, Padres and Pilots win their 1st games
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09 Apr 1969 1st flight of Concorde 002 (Filton-Bristol)
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09 Apr 1969 Chicago Cub Billy Williams hits 4 consecutive doubles beat Phillies 11-3
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09 Apr 1969 The first British-built Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford.
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09 Apr 1969 The "Chicago Eight" plead not guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
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11 Apr 1969 South African President Frederik de Klerk marries Marike Willemse
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12 Apr 1969 Simon and Garfunkel releases "Boxer"
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12 Apr 1969 Simon & Garfunkel releases "The Boxer"
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13 Apr 1969 33rd Golf Masters Championship George Archer wins, shooting a 281
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14 Apr 1969 1st major league baseball game outside US played (Montreal Canada)
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14 Apr 1969 41st Academy Awards - "Oliver, " C Robertson and K Hepburn / Striesand win
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14 Apr 1969 Student Afro-American Society seized at Columbia College
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14 Apr 1969 Tornado strikes Dacca East Pakistan killing 540
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14 Apr 1969 41st Academy Awards - "Oliver", Cliff Robertson & Katharine Hepburn/Barbra Streisand win
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14 Apr 1969 KEET TV channel 13 in Eureka CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
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15 Apr 1969 The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board.
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15 Apr 1969 North Korea shoots at US airplane above Japanese sea
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17 Apr 1969 Communist Party of Czechoslovakia chairman Alexander Dubček is deposed.
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17 Apr 1969 Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.
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17 Apr 1969 Czechoslovakia's Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubcek deposed
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17 Apr 1969 Montr
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17 Apr 1969 The Band (formerly The Hawks), perform their 1st concert
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17 Apr 1969 Bernadette Devlin elected to British House of Commons
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18 Apr 1969 Melina Mercouri establishes Greek Aid Fund
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19 Apr 1969 "Oliver", Cliff Robertson & Katharine Hepburn win 51st Academy Awards
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20 Apr 1969 23rd Tony Awards Great White Hope & 1776 win
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20 Apr 1969 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
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21 Apr 1969 Record 1,152 starters compete in Boston Marathon
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21 Apr 1969 73rd Boston Marathon won by Yoshiaki Unetani of Japan in 2:13:49
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22 Apr 1969 British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston wins the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race and completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world.
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22 Apr 1969 1st human eye transplant performed
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22 Apr 1969 Joe Frazier KOs Dave Zyglewick in 1:36 for heavyweight boxing title
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22 Apr 1969 Robin Knox-Johnston ends 312 day non-stop sailing
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23 Apr 1969 Over 1000 square miles flooded in Shantung Province China
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23 Apr 1969 Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy
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23 Apr 1969 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Jim Chestney
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23 Apr 1969 Los Angeles Laker Jerry West scores 53 points
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24 Apr 1969 Paul McCartney says there is no truth to the rumours he is dead
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24 Apr 1969 General Lin Piao succeeds Mao, is seriously wounded
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24 Apr 1969 Lebanese army in battle with Palestinians
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24 Apr 1969 US B-52's drop 3,000 ton bombs at Cambodian boundary
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25 Apr 1969 BBC Radio serial "Dales" 5,400th and last episode
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25 Apr 1969 5,400th and last radio broadcast of "Mrs Dale's Diary" on BBC Radio
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26 Apr 1969 "Celebration" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 110 performances
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26 Apr 1969 "George M!" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 435 performances
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26 Apr 1969 Firestone World Bowling Tournament (Mercury Open) won by Jim Godman
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27 Apr 1969 Carol Mann wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational
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28 Apr 1969 King Crismson with Greg Lake and Ian McDonald debuts
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28 Apr 1969 Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.
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29 Apr 1969 "Trumpets of the Lord" opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 7 performances
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30 Apr 1969 Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney 3rd no-hitter beats Houston Astros, 10-0
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30 Apr 1969 WEDB TV channel 40 in Berlin NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
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01 May 1969 43 Unification church couples wed in New York City
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01 May 1969 Houston Don Wilson 2nd no-hitter beats Cin Reds, 4-0
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01 May 1969 Leonard Tose buys NFL Philadelphia Eagles for $16,155,000
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01 May 1969 Pirate Radio Station 259 (England / France) begins transmitting
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02 May 1969 British liner Queen Elizabeth II leaves on maiden voyage to New York
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02 May 1969 The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 departs on her maiden voyage to New York City.
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03 May 1969 "Trumpets of the Lord" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 7 performances
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03 May 1969 95th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack on Majestic Prince wins in 2:01.8
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04 May 1969 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational
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05 May 1969 23rd NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3
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05 May 1969 Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Armies of the Night)
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07 May 1969 2nd ABA championship: Oakland Oaks beat Indiana Pacers, 4 games to 1
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07 May 1969 Lieutenant General Robert E Cushman, Jr, USMC, becomes Deputy Director of CIA
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08 May 1969 Cambodia recognizes German DR
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08 May 1969 Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Sacra Ritum Congregation
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09 May 1969 BPAA All-Star Bowling Tournament won by Billy Hardwick
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09 May 1969 Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the military dictatorship of Brazil in São Paulo, by robbing two banks.
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10 May 1969 Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Ap Bia begins with an assault on Hill 937. It will ultimately become known as Hamburger Hill.
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10 May 1969 Apollo 10 transmit 1st color pictures of Earth from space
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10 May 1969 Turtles play the White House, Mark Volman falls off stage 5 times
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10 May 1969 US troops begin attack on Hill 937/Hamburger Hill
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11 May 1969 Carol Mann wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
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11 May 1969 Monty Python comedy troupe forms
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12 May 1969 Kenneth H Wallis achieved record speed for an autogiro-179 KPH
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13 May 1969 Race riots, later known as the 13 May incident, take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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14 May 1969 Abortion & contraception legalized in Canada
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14 May 1969 Last Chevrolet Corvair built
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15 May 1969 People's Park: California Governor Ronald Reagan has an impromptu student park owned by University of California at Berkeley fenced off from student anti-war protestors, sparking a riot called Bloody Thursday.
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15 May 1969 Associate Justice Abe Fortas resigns from Supreme Court
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16 May 1969 US nuclear sub Guitarro sinks off San Francisco
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16 May 1969 Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, lands on Venus.
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16 May 1969 Barbra Streisand appears at a Friars Club Tribute
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16 May 1969 Students occupies Magden House Amsterdam
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16 May 1969 The Who's Pete Townsend & Roger Daltrey charged with assault
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16 May 1969 US sub Guitarro sinks at the pier at San Francisco Bay Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA
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16 May 1969 Venera 5 lands on Venus, returns data on atmosphere
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17 May 1969 "My Wife, My Dog, My Cat, " by Maskman and The Agents hits #92
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17 May 1969 Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
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17 May 1969 "My Wife, My Dog, My Cat" by Maskman & The Agents hits #92
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17 May 1969 95th Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Majestic Prince wins in 1:55.6
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17 May 1969 Baltimore, Cleveland & Pittsburgh agree to go from NFC to the AFC in the NFL
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17 May 1969 Russian probe Venera 6 landed on Venus
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18 May 1969 Apollo 10 (Stafford / Cernan / Young) launched toward lunar orbit
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18 May 1969 Apollo program: Apollo 10 is launched.
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18 May 1969 "Canterbury Tales" closes at Eugene O'Neill NYC after 122 performances
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18 May 1969 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA St Louis Women's Golf Invitational
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20 May 1969 The Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ends.
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20 May 1969 US troop capture Hill 937/Hamburger Hill Vietnam
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21 May 1969 Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, known as Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old student.
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21 May 1969 After 9,015 at bats Hank Aaron is lifted for a pinch hitter, Mike Lum, who doubled in a 15-3 victory over the New York Mets
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21 May 1969 Robert Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death
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21 May 1969 Slovan Bratislava wins 9th Europe Cup II in Basel
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22 May 1969 Apollo 10 's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon's surface.
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22 May 1969 Stafford & Cernan pilot Apollo 10 LEM 9.4 miles (15km) above lunar surface
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23 May 1969 Who release rock opera "Tommy"
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23 May 1969 BBC orders 13 episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus
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23 May 1969 Lauwerszee Dike in Holland closes
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23 May 1969 The Who release the rock opera "Tommy"
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24 May 1969 Beatles' "Get Back" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks
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25 May 1969 "Midnight Cowboy" released with an X rating
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25 May 1969 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
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25 May 1969 Sudanese government is overthrown in a military coup
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26 May 1969 John andYoko begin their 2nd bed-in (Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal)
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26 May 1969 Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.
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26 May 1969 Apollo 10 astronauts returned to Earth
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27 May 1969 Jerry Lewis Show second run, last airs on NBC-TV
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27 May 1969 Walt Disney World construction begins
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28 May 1969 AC Milan wins 14th Europe Cup 1 in Madrid
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29 May 1969 General strike in Córdoba, Argentina, leading to the Cordobazo civil unrest.
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29 May 1969 Britain's Trans-Arctic expedition makes 1st crossing of Arctic Sea ice
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30 May 1969 People revolt in Willemstad, Curacao
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30 May 1969 Derek Clayton runs world record marathon (2:08:33.6) at Antwerp
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30 May 1969 Gibraltar adopts constitution
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31 May 1969 "Dear World" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 132 performances
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31 May 1969 "Gitarzan" by Ray Stevens peaks at #8
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31 May 1969 John Lennon andYoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance"
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31 May 1969 Stevie Wonder releases "My Cherie Amore"
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31 May 1969 "Gitarzan" by Ray Stevens peaks at #8
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31 May 1969 John Lennon & Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance"
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31 May 1969 Stevie Wonder releases "My Cherie Amour"
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01 Jun 1969 Tobacco advertising is banned on Canadian radio and TV
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02 Jun 1969 Australian aircraft carrier "Melbourne" slices US destroyer "Frank E Evans" in half, killing 74 (South Vietnam)
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03 Jun 1969 Last episode of Star Trek airs on NBC (Turnabout Intruder)
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03 Jun 1969 Melbourne–Evans collision: off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne cuts the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half.
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04 Jun 1969 22-year-old man sneaks into wheel pod of a jet parked in Havana and survives 9-hr flight to Spain despite thin oxygen levels at 29,000 ft
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04 Jun 1969 Beatles release Ballad Of John andYoko / Old Brown Shoe, in US
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04 Jun 1969 Nicky Hopkins quits rock & rolls, Jeff Beck Group
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05 Jun 1969 Dutch Antilles government of Kroon resigns
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05 Jun 1969 Race riot in Hartford Connecticut
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05 Jun 1969 The International communist conference begins in Moscow.
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06 Jun 1969 Joe Namath resigns from NFL after Pete Rozelle, football commissioner, said he must sell his stake in a bar
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07 Jun 1969 "Johnny Cash Show, " debuts on ABC-TV
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07 Jun 1969 101st Belmont: Braulio Baeza aboard Arts and Letters wins in 2:28.8
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07 Jun 1969 Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash combine on a Grand Ole Opry TV special
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07 Jun 1969 Tommy James and Shondells release "Crystal Blue Persuasion"
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07 Jun 1969 Washingston Senators draft Jeff Burroughs #1
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08 Jun 1969 "Smothers Brothers comedy Hour, " last airs on CBS-TV
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08 Jun 1969 21st Emmy Awards: Get Smart, Don Adams and Susan St. James
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08 Jun 1969 Brian Jones leaves The Rolling Stones
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08 Jun 1969 KDNL TV channel 30 in Saint Louis, MO (IND) begins broadcasting
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08 Jun 1969 Mickey Mantle Day, 60,096 saw #7 retired (I was there-BTG)
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08 Jun 1969 Nixon says 25,000 US troops would leave Vietnam by end of August
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08 Jun 1969 Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor replaces Brian Jones
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08 Jun 1969 Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
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09 Jun 1969 Brian Jones quits (sic) Rolling Stones because of his drug problems
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09 Jun 1969 Warren Burger confirmed as US Chief Justice
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11 Jun 1969 "The Ballad Of John andYoko" by The Beatles hit #1 in the UK
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11 Jun 1969 David Bowie releases "Space Oddity"
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13 Jun 1969 Governor of Texas Preston Smith signs a bill into law converting the former Southwest Center for Advanced Studies, originally founded as a research arm of Texas Instruments, into the University of Texas at Dallas.
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13 Jun 1969 Mick Taylor leaves John Mayall Band & joins the Rolling Stones
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13 Jun 1969 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2111 Tselina
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14 Jun 1969 Oakland Athletics Reggie Jackson gets 10 RBIs to beat Red Sox 21-7
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14 Jun 1969 John & Yoko appear on David Frost's British TV Show
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15 Jun 1969 "Hee Haw" with Roy Clark and Buck Owens premieres on CBS TV
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15 Jun 1969 69th US Golf Open: Orville Moody shoots a 281 at Champs Golf Club - Houston, Texas
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15 Jun 1969 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
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15 Jun 1969 Mets help their power needs by adding 1st baseman Donn Clendenon
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15 Jun 1969 "Hee Haw" with Roy Clark & Buck Owens premiers on CBS TV
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16 Jun 1969 Supreme Court rules suspension of Adam Clayton Powell Jr from House
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17 Jun 1969 "Oh! Calcutta!" opens in NYC (almost entirely in the nude)
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19 Jun 1969 State troopers ordered to Cairo Ill, to quell racial disturbances
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20 Jun 1969 Georges Pompidou sworn in as President of France
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20 Jun 1969 White Rhodesia agrees to race separation
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20 Jun 1969 150,000 attend Newport '69, Jimi Hendrix gets $120,000 to appear
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21 Jun 1969 John Pennel pole vaults world record (5.45 m)
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21 Jun 1969 Zager and Evans release "In the Year 2525"
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21 Jun 1969 1st reported hearing of pirate radio WGHP (With God's Help Peace)
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21 Jun 1969 Zager & Evans release "In the Year 2525"
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22 Jun 1969 The Cuyahoga River catches fire in Cleveland, Ohio, drawing national attention to water pollution, and spurring the passing of the Clean Water Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.
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22 Jun 1969 Aretha Franklin arrested in Detroit for creating a disturbance
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23 Jun 1969 French government of Couve de Murville resigns
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23 Jun 1969 Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren.
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23 Jun 1969 Software Industry IBM announced that effective January 1970 it would price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry.
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23 Jun 1969 Joe Frazier beats Jerry Quarry for the heavyweight boxing title
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23 Jun 1969 Warren E Burger sworn in as Supreme Court Chief Justice
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25 Jun 1969 Longest tennis match in Wimbledon history, Pancho Gonzalez beats Charles Pasarell in 112 game (5hr12m) marathon
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25 Jun 1969 Longest tennis match in Wimbeldon history, Pancho Gonzalez beats
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27 Jun 1969 Honduras / El Salvador breaks diplomatic relations due to soccer match
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27 Jun 1969 Police raid Stonewall Gay Bar in Greenwich Village, NY, about 400 to 1,000 patrons riot against police, it lasts 3 days
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27 Jun 1969 50,000 attend Denver Pop Festival
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27 Jun 1969 Police raid the Stonewall Gay Bar in Greenwich Village, NY, about
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28 Jun 1969 Stonewall Riots begin in New York City, marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement.
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29 Jun 1969 1st Jewish worship service at White House
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30 Jun 1969 Derek Clayton of Australia sets Marathon record at 2:08:34
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30 Jun 1969 Spain cedes Ifni to Morocco
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01 Jul 1969 Charles Philip Arthur George invested as Prince of Wales
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01 Jul 1969 John andYoko are hospitalized after a car crash
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01 Jul 1969 Shelby Singleton buys Sun Records from Sam Phillips
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02 Jul 1969 Ireland bowl out WI for 25 at Londonderry, win by 9 wkts
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02 Jul 1969 Leslie West and Felix Pappalardi form rock group Mountain
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03 Jul 1969 78,000 attend Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island
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03 Jul 1969 Space Race: The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N-1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad.
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04 Jul 1969 "Give Peace a Chance" by Plastic Ono Band is released in the UK
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04 Jul 1969 140,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival featuring Led Zep and Janis Joplin
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04 Jul 1969 76th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Ann Jones beats Billie J King (36 63 62)
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04 Jul 1969 Italian Rumor government resigns
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05 Jul 1969 83rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats J Newcombe (64 57 64 64)
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06 Jul 1969 Filming begins on "Ned Kelly" starring Mick Jagger
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06 Jul 1969 Frente Obrero y Liberacion (FOL) forms in Curacao
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08 Jul 1969 Thor Heyerdahl and reed raft Ra II land in Barbados 57 days from Morocco
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08 Jul 1969 US troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam
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10 Jul 1969 Chilean Association of Librarians created
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10 Jul 1969 NL votes to split into 2 divisions
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11 Jul 1969 Rolling Stones release "Honky Tonk Woman"
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11 Jul 1969 David Bowie releases "Space Oddity"
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11 Jul 1969 Rolling Stones release "Honky Tonk Woman"
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12 Jul 1969 98th British Golf Open: Tony Jacklin shoots a 280 at Royal Lytham
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13 Jul 1969 Russia launches unmanned Luna 15 to Moon
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14 Jul 1969 "Futbol War" between El Salvador and Honduras begins
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14 Jul 1969 Soccer war - Salvador-Honduras (1000 dead)
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14 Jul 1969 WMUL (now WPBY) TV channel 33 in Huntington, WV (PBS) 1st broadcast
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14 Jul 1969 Football War: After Honduras loses a soccer match against El Salvador, riots break out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers.
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14 Jul 1969 The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation.
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14 Jul 1969 "Futbol War" between El Salvador & Honduras begins
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15 Jul 1969 Cincinnati Red Lee May hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader
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15 Jul 1969 Rod Carew ties the record with his 7th steal of home in a season
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16 Jul 1969 Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy, Florida.
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16 Jul 1969 Apollo 11, carrying 1st men to land on the Moon, launched
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18 Jul 1969 After a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts drives an Oldsmobile off a bridge and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, dies.
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18 Jul 1969 Joe Namath agrees to sell interest in Bachelors 3, to stay in NFL
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18 Jul 1969 Mary Jo Kopechne & Sen Kennedy plunge off Chappaquiddick bridge
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19 Jul 1969 Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit
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20 Jul 1969 Carol Mann wins LPGA Danbury Lady Carling Golf Open
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20 Jul 1969 Eddy Merckx wins Tour de France
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20 Jul 1969 Apollo program: Apollo 11's crew successfully makes the first landing on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon later that day (Eastern Time Zone).
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20 Jul 1969 A cease fire is announced between Honduras and El Salvador, six days after the beginning of the "Football War".
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20 Jul 1969 1st men on Moon, Neil Armstrong & Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11
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21 Jul 1969 Neil Armstrong steps on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT)
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21 Jul 1969 Russia's Luna 15 impacts moon after 52 lunar orbits
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22 Jul 1969 Aretha Franklin arrested for disturbing the peace in Detroit
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22 Jul 1969 USSR launches Sputnik 50 & Molniya 1-12 communications satellite
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23 Jul 1969 40th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 9-3 at RFK Memorial, Washington DC
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23 Jul 1969 All star MVP: Willie McCovey (SF Giants)
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23 Jul 1969 NL beats AL 9-3 in 40th All Star Game (RFK Stadium, Washington)
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23 Jul 1969 NL beats AL for 7th consecutive time
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24 Jul 1969 Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
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24 Jul 1969 Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in a record 907th major league game
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24 Jul 1969 Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in US Army on appeal
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25 Jul 1969 1st performance of Crosby, Stills, Nash andYoung (Fillmore East, NY)
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25 Jul 1969 Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of an accident a week after the Chappaquiddick car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne
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25 Jul 1969 Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war.
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25 Jul 1969 70,000 attend Seattle Pop Festival
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26 Jul 1969 Sharon Sites Adams, 39, becomes 1st lady to solo sail the Pacific
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27 Jul 1969 15th LPGA Championship won by Betsy Rawls
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27 Jul 1969 Pioneer 10 launched
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29 Jul 1969 Mariner 6 begins transmitting far-encounter photos of Mars
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30 Jul 1969 Astros Denis Menke and Jim Wynn hit grandslams in 9th inn vs. Mets
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30 Jul 1969 KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
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30 Jul 1969 Mariner 6 passes Venus on 3410 km (74 photos)
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30 Jul 1969 Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyen Van Thieu and U.S. military commanders.
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30 Jul 1969 Barbra Striesand opens for Liberace at International Hotel, Las Vegas
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31 Jul 1969 KWIH TV channel 44 in Winona, MN (IND) begins broadcasting
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31 Jul 1969 National Guard mobilizes in racial disturbances in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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31 Jul 1969 Mariner 6 flies past Mars
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01 Aug 1969 110,000 attend Atlantic City Pop Festival
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01 Aug 1969 36th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: New York Jets 26, All-Stars 24 (74,208)
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02 Aug 1969 Bob Dylan makes surprise appearance at Hibbing HS Minn 10th reunion
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02 Aug 1969 President Nixon visits Romania
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03 Aug 1969 Reds beats Phillies 19-17
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03 Aug 1969 Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational
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04 Aug 1969 Willie Stargell is 1st to hit a HR outside of Dodger Stadium
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04 Aug 1969 Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.
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05 Aug 1969 Mariner 7 flies past Mars
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05 Aug 1969 Pirate Willie Stargell is 1st to hit a ball out of Dodger Stadium
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05 Aug 1969 Mariner program: Mariner 7 makes its closest fly-by of Mars (3,524 kilometers).
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06 Aug 1969 Baltimore Orioles pull their 3rd triple play (5-4-3 vs. Kansas City Royals)
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08 Aug 1969 At a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan takes the photo that becomes the cover of the Beatles album Abbey Road.
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09 Aug 1969 "Zorba" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 305 performances
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09 Aug 1969 Manson family commits Tate-LaBianca murders
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09 Aug 1969 Followers led by Charles Manson murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate (wife of Roman Polanski), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men's hairstylist Jay Sebring and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent.
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10 Aug 1969 Don Sutton breaks his 13-game losing streak to Cubs with a 4-2 win
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10 Aug 1969 A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
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11 Aug 1969 Don Drysdale retires because of damage to his right shoulder
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11 Aug 1969 Pitts Steelers beat the New York Giants 17-13 in Montreal (NFL expo)
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12 Aug 1969 Violence erupts after the Apprentice Boys of Derry march in Derry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom resulting in a three-day communal riot known as the Battle of the Bogside.
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12 Aug 1969 Boston Celtics sold for an NBA record $6 million
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13 Aug 1969 Baltimore Oriole Jim Palmer no-hits Oakland Athletics, 8-0
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13 Aug 1969 Temp Commissioner Bowie Kuhn elected for 7-year term by unanimous vote
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13 Aug 1969 The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine to enjoy a ticker tape parade in New York, New York. That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, California, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Richard Nixon.
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13 Aug 1969 Temporary baseball commisioner Bowie Kuhn formally appointed
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14 Aug 1969 Operation Banner: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland.
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14 Aug 1969 British troops intervenes militarily in Northern Ireland
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14 Aug 1969 NY Mets fall 9
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15 Aug 1969 the Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in upstate New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era.
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15 Aug 1969 Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in NY State (Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm)
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16 Aug 1969 WATL TV channel 36 in Atlanta, Georgia begins broadcasting
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16 Aug 1969 Woodstock rock festival begins in New York
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17 Aug 1969 51st PGA Championship: Ray Floyd shoots a 276 at NCR Golf Club - Dayton, Ohio
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17 Aug 1969 New York Jets beat the New York Giants 37-14 in their 1st meeting (pre season)
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17 Aug 1969 Hurricane Camille claims more than 250
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18 Aug 1969 Mick Jagger accidentally shot while filming "Ned Kelly"
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19 Aug 1969 Chicago Cub Ken Holtzman no-hits Atlanta Braves, 3-0
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20 Aug 1969 69 cm rainfall in Nelson Co., Virginia (state record)
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21 Aug 1969 Fire in Al-Aksa-mosque in Jerusalem
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22 Aug 1969 Beatles record a video for "Long & Winding Road"
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22 Aug 1969 Gloria O Smith, (NY), crowned 2nd Miss Black America
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22 Aug 1969 Hurricane Camille strikes U.S. Gulf Coast kills 255
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23 Aug 1969 Audrey McElmory (US) wins World Cycling Championships, Brno
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23 Aug 1969 Audrey McElmory (US) wins World Cycling Championships, Brno, Czechoslovakia (1st American to win cycling race title since 1912)
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24 Aug 1969 Carol Mann wins LPGA Tournament of Champs Golf Tournament
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24 Aug 1969 Peru nationalizes US oil interests
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25 Aug 1969 Det Lions beat Boston Patriots 22-9 in Montr
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27 Aug 1969 Mike Procter hits six consecutive sixes (across two overs)
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29 Aug 1969 Joe Pepitone quits Yanks after being fined $500 for leaving the bench
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29 Aug 1969 KYUS TV channel 3 in Miles City, MT (ABC / NBC) begins broadcasting
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30 Aug 1969 69th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Steve Melnyk
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30 Aug 1969 120,000 attend Texas International Pop Festival
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30 Aug 1969 25,000 attend 2nd Annual Sky River Rock Festival, Tenino Washington
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30 Aug 1969 Racial disturbances in Fort Lauderdale Florida
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31 Aug 1969 25,000 attend New Orleans Pop Festival
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01 Sep 1969 Libyan revolution, Col Moammar Gadhafi deposes King Idris
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01 Sep 1969 A coup in Libya brings Muammar Gaddafi to power.
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01 Sep 1969 Trần Thiện Khiêm becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam under President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu.
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02 Sep 1969 New York Yankee Joe Pepitone is reinstated
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02 Sep 1969 Ralph Houk signs 3-year contract to manage Yankees at $65,000 a season
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05 Sep 1969 Frente Obrero wins Dutch Antilles national elections
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05 Sep 1969 My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lieutenant William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
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06 Sep 1969 "Cabaret" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 1166 performances
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07 Sep 1969 83rd US Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith Court beats Nancy Richey (62 62)
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07 Sep 1969 Rod Laver completes his 2nd grand slam winning US Tennis Open
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07 Sep 1969 US amateur Womens Tennis: Margaret Court beat Virginia Wade (46 63 60)
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08 Sep 1969 89th US Mens Tennis: Rodney G Laver beats Tony Roche (79 61 62 62)
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08 Sep 1969 Suleiman Maghrabi appointed Premier of Libya
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08 Sep 1969 US amateur Mens Tennis: Stan Smith beats Bob Lutz (97 63 61)
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09 Sep 1969 Allegheny 853 collides with Piper Cherokee above Indiana, kills 82
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09 Sep 1969 Seaplane crashes at Indianapolis, kills 83
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09 Sep 1969 WCVN TV channel 54 in Covington, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
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09 Sep 1969 Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 DC-9 collides in flight with a Piper PA-28 and crashes near Fairland, Indiana.
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09 Sep 1969 In Canada, the Official Languages Act comes into force, making French equal to English throughout the Federal government.
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10 Sep 1969 New York Mets sweep Montreal Expos putting them in 1st place for 1st time
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10 Sep 1969 US performs nuclear test at Grand Valley, Colorado
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13 Sep 1969 Baltimore Orioles, win earliest AL Eastern division title
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13 Sep 1969 Bobby Bonds is baseballs 4th 30-HR, 30-steal player
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14 Sep 1969 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Wendell-West Golf Open
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14 Sep 1969 Males of Swiss kanton Schaffhausen rejects female suffrage
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14 Sep 1969 The US Selective Service selects September 14 as the First Draft Lottery Date.
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15 Sep 1969 Cards Steve Carlton sets record by striking out 19 New York Mets in a game
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18 Sep 1969 Tiny Tim and Miss Vicky get engaged
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20 Sep 1969 18th Ryder Cup: Draw, 16-16 at Royal Birkdale, England
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20 Sep 1969 Pittsburgh Pirate Bob Moose no-hits New York Mets, 4-0
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20 Sep 1969 Pitts Pirate Bob Moose no-hits NY Giants, 4-0
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21 Sep 1969 58th Davis Cup: USA beats Romania in Cleveland (5-0)
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21 Sep 1969 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open
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21 Sep 1969 Ron Hill wins European marathon (2:16:47.8)
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21 Sep 1969 NY Jet Steve O'Neal punts 98 yards against Denver Broncos
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22 Sep 1969 "Music Scene" debuts on ABC-TV
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22 Sep 1969 Willie Mays hits his 600 HR off Mike Corkins
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22 Sep 1969 SF Giant Willie Mays, becomes 2nd player to hit HR # 600
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23 Sep 1969 1st broadcast of "Marcus Welby MD" on ABC-TV
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23 Sep 1969 The Chicago Eight trial opens in Chicago.
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23 Sep 1969 Northern Star starts rumor that Paul McCartney is dead
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24 Sep 1969 1st Elvis convention, 2500 fans attend in Cincinnati
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24 Sep 1969 New York Mets clinch NL East pennant
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24 Sep 1969 Ton Duc Thang elected President of North Vietnam
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24 Sep 1969 Trial of "Chicago 8" (protesters at Democratic National Convention) begins
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24 Sep 1969 Trial of "Chicago 8" (protesters at Dem Natl Conv) begins
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25 Sep 1969 The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is signed.
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26 Sep 1969 Beatles release "Abbey Road" album
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26 Sep 1969 Bolivia military coup under general Ovando Candia
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26 Sep 1969 Abbey Road, the last recorded album by The Beatles, is released.
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26 Sep 1969 Beatles release "Abbey Road" album
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28 Sep 1969 Joe Kapp (Minnesota Vikings) passes for 7 touchdowns vs. Baltimore Colts (52-14)
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28 Sep 1969 Minnesota vs. Baltimore, gains 530 yards passing!
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28 Sep 1969 SPD wins West German Parliament elections
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29 Sep 1969 "Bright Promise, " TV Daytime Soap; debuts on NBC-TV
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29 Sep 1969 "Letters To Laugh-In, " debuts on NBC-TV
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29 Sep 1969 "Love American Style, " premieres on ABC-TV
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29 Sep 1969 "Name Droppers, " debuts on NBC-TV
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29 Sep 1969 "Sale Of Century, " debuts on NBC-TV
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29 Sep 1969 Jackie DeShannon gets Gold Record for "Put Little Love in Your Heart"
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29 Sep 1969 Red Sox Rico Petrocelli hits shortstop record 40th HR of season
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29 Sep 1969 "Love American Style," premiers on ABC
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29 Sep 1969 7th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 7-6
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29 Sep 1969 Steve O'Neal of NY Jets, kicks longest NFL punt; 98 yards vs Denver
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01 Oct 1969 Concorde 001 test flight breaks sound barrier
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01 Oct 1969 Guernsey and Jersey begin issuing their own postage stamps
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01 Oct 1969 Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
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02 Oct 1969 Seattle Pilots last game in Seattle, lose 3-1 to As in front of 5,473
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04 Oct 1969 Last wooden passenger subway cars retired at Brooklyn Myrtle Beach el
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04 Oct 1969 UN starts issuing postage stamps at Geneva headquarters
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05 Oct 1969 Carol Mann wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
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05 Oct 1969 Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks 55-yard field goal
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05 Oct 1969 The first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus airs on BBC One.
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06 Oct 1969 WMPB TV channel 67 in Baltimore, Maryland (PBS) begins broadcasting
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07 Oct 1969 WJMN TV channel 3 in Escanaba, MI (ABC / NBC) begins broadcasting
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08 Oct 1969 The opening rally of the Days of Rage occurs, organized by the Weather Underground in Chicago.
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09 Oct 1969 In Chicago, the United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection with the trial of the "Chicago Eight" that began on September 24.
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11 Oct 1969 Blues artist Muddy Waters involved in a car crash that kills 3
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11 Oct 1969 Soyuz 6 launched; Soyuz 7 & 8 follow in next 2 days
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12 Oct 1969 1st time 5 people in space
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12 Oct 1969 KHOF (now KAGL) TV ch 30 in San Bernardino / Glenda, CA (IND) begins
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12 Oct 1969 KDB-AM in Santa Barbara CA changes call letters to KAPN
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12 Oct 1969 Soyuz 7 is launched
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12 Oct 1969 Yoko Ono suffers another miscarriage
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13 Oct 1969 Billy Martin (97-65) is fired as manager of AL West-winning Twins
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13 Oct 1969 Soyuz 8 is launched
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14 Oct 1969 Palme government forms in Sweden
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14 Oct 1969 Race riots in Springfield, Massachusetts
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14 Oct 1969 T Agee and Ed Kranepool HR, Agee makes 2 great catches, Mets win 5-0
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14 Oct 1969 The United Kingdom introduces the British fifty-pence coin, which replaces, over the following years, the British ten-shilling note, in anticipation of the decimalization of the British currency in 1971, and the abolition of the shilling as a unit of currency anywhere in the world.
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15 Oct 1969 Vietnam War; The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam is held in Washington D.C. and across the US. Over two million demonstrate nationally; about 250,000 in Washington D.C..
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15 Oct 1969 Bank of America World Headquarters (555 California) dedicated
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15 Oct 1969 Madison Square Garden TV Network begins (Rangers vs North Stars)
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15 Oct 1969 Oriole Earl Weaver becomes 1st manager ejected in a world series (World Series #66)
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15 Oct 1969 Vietnam Moratorium Day; millions nationwide protest the war
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16 Oct 1969 100-1 shot New York Mets beat Orioles 5-3 and win 66th World Series in 5
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16 Oct 1969 Met Cleon Jones awarded 1st base when shoe polish on ball proves he is hit by a pitch, he scores on a HR in World Series
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17 Oct 1969 New York Nets move from Comack to Island Garden, Hempstead, New York
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17 Oct 1969 Plastic Ono Band's "Cold Turkey" is released in UK
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17 Oct 1969 Soyuz 7 returns to Earth
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18 Oct 1969 Federal government bans use of cyclamates artificial sweeteners
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18 Oct 1969 Jefferson Airplanes Paul Kanter, arrested for marijuana possession
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18 Oct 1969 Rod Stewart joins Small Faces
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18 Oct 1969 Soyuz 8 returns to Earth
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19 Oct 1969 J Bock and S Harnicks musical "Rothschilds, " premieres in New York City
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19 Oct 1969 Mary Mills wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic
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19 Oct 1969 The first Prime Minister of Tunisia in twelve years, Bahi Ladgham, is appointed by President Habib Bourguiba.
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19 Oct 1969 Oakland Darryle Lamonica passes for 6 touchdowns vs Buffalo (50-21)
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20 Oct 1969 WKYH (now WYMT) TV channel 57 in Hazard, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting
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21 Oct 1969 Maj General Mohamed Siad Barre becomes President of Somali
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21 Oct 1969 Willy Burns elected chancellor of West Germany
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21 Oct 1969 A coup d'état in Somalia brings Siad Barre to power and establishes a socialist republic in Somalia.
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21 Oct 1969 Bloodless coup in Somalia (National Day)
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22 Oct 1969 Paul McCartney denies rumors of his death
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22 Oct 1969 KAPN-AM in Santa Barbara CA changes call letters to KDB-AM
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23 Oct 1969 "Jimmy" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 84 performances
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26 Oct 1969 Carol Mann wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open
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26 Oct 1969 WHMA (now WJSU) TV channel 40 in Anniston, AL (CBS) 1st broadcast
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27 Oct 1969 Nobel prize for economy awarded to John Tinbergen
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27 Oct 1969 Ralph Nader sets up a consumer organization known as Nader's Raiders
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27 Oct 1969 St Vincent & the Grenadines gains associated status with Britain
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29 Oct 1969 Supreme Court orders end to all school desegregation "at once"
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29 Oct 1969 Tom Seaver voted NL Cy Young Award
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29 Oct 1969 The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
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30 Oct 1969 WXPO (now WNDS) TV channel 50 in Manchester, NH (IND) 1st broadcast
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31 Oct 1969 George Harrison's "Something" is released in UK
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31 Oct 1969 Race riot in Jacksonville Florida
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02 Nov 1969 NFL record of 12 passing touchdowns, New Orleans Billy Kramer and St. L Charlie Johnson pass for 6 touchdowns each
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03 Nov 1969 Congo President Mobutu visits Belgium
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03 Nov 1969 Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon addresses the nation on television and radio, asking the "silent majority" to join him in solidarity on the Vietnam War effort and to support his policies.
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06 Nov 1969 1st Cy Young Award tie (Mike Cuellar, Baltimore & Denny McLain, Det)
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07 Nov 1969 John andYoko release their 2nd album "Wedding Album" in the UK
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10 Nov 1969 "Sesame Street" premieres on PBS TV
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10 Nov 1969 "Sesame Street" premieres on PBS TV
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11 Nov 1969 Beatles with Billy Preston release "Get Back" in the UK
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11 Nov 1969 Jim Morrison arrested on an airplane by the FBI for drunkenness
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12 Nov 1969 Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union
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12 Nov 1969 US army announces investigating William Calley for alleged massacre of civilians at Vietnamese village of My Lai in March, 19
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12 Nov 1969 WJJY (now WJPT) TV channel 14 in Jacksonville, IL (ABC) 1st broadcast
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13 Nov 1969 VP Spiro T Agnew accused network TV news departments of bias and distortion
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14 Nov 1969 2nd Vietnam Moratorium Day in US
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14 Nov 1969 Apollo 12 (Conrad / Gordon / Bean) launched for 2nd manned Moon landing
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14 Nov 1969 Apollo 12 launched for 2nd manned Moon landing
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15 Nov 1969 1st commercial ad on English TV: Birds-Eye Peas on ATV (Midland)
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15 Nov 1969 1st Jackson Five record to enter top 100 (I Want You Back)
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15 Nov 1969 Janis Joplin, accused of vulgar and indicent language in Tampa, Florida
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15 Nov 1969 250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Wash DC against the Vietnam War
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16 Nov 1969 1968 massacre of civilians at Mylai South Vietnam, by US is 1st reported
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17 Nov 1969 SALT-discussions open in Helsinki Finland
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19 Nov 1969 WENY TV channel 36 in Elmira, New York (ABC) begins broadcasting
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19 Nov 1969 Apollo 12's Conrad & Bean become 3rd & 4th humans on the Moon
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20 Nov 1969 Alcatraz Island off SF, is seized by militant Native Americans
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20 Nov 1969 Pele scores his 1,000th soccer goal
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21 Nov 1969 KXIX (now KVCT) TV channel 19 in Victoria, TX (ABC) 1st broadcast
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22 Nov 1969 Isolation of single gene announced by scientists at Harvard University
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24 Nov 1969 Lt William L Calley, charged with massacre of over 100 civilians in My Lai Vietnam in March 1968, ordered to stand trial by court martial
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24 Nov 1969 West German President Heinemann visits Netherlands
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24 Nov 1969 Apollo 12 returns to Earth
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25 Nov 1969 Kansas City outfielder Lou Piniella is voted AL Rookie of Year
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25 Nov 1969 John Lennon returns his MBE
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26 Nov 1969 35th Heisman Trophy Award: Steve Owens, Oklahoma (RB)
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26 Nov 1969 Lottery for Selective Service draftees bill signed by President Nixon
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26 Nov 1969 Creams' final concert (Royal Albert Hall)
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28 Nov 1969 Ted Sizemore becomes 7th Dodger to win NL Rookie of Year
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29 Nov 1969 Beatles' "Come Together," single goes #1
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30 Nov 1969 57th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Saskatchewan, 29-11
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01 Dec 1969 US government holds its 1st draft lottery since WWII
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01 Dec 1969 Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.
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02 Dec 1969 "Buck White" opens at George Abbott Theater NYC for 7 performances
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02 Dec 1969 Boeing 747 jumbo jet 1st public preview (Seattle to NYC)
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03 Dec 1969 John Lennon is offered role of Jesus Christ in Jesus Christ Superstar
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04 Dec 1969 Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot and killed in their sleep during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers.
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05 Dec 1969 The four node ARPANET network is established.
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06 Dec 1969 "Buck White" closes at George Abbott Theater NYC after 7 performances
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06 Dec 1969 300,000 attend Altamont California, rock concert feature Rolling Stones
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06 Dec 1969 Meredith Hunter is killed by Hells Angels during a Rolling Stones concert at the Altamont Speedway in California.
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08 Dec 1969 Greek DC-6B crashes in storm at Athens, 93 killed
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08 Dec 1969 Police surprise attack on Black-Panthers in LA
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08 Dec 1969 An Olympic Airways Douglas DC-6 strikes a mountain outside of Keratea, Greece, killing 90—the worst crash of a DC-6.
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09 Dec 1969 U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers proposes his plan for a ceasefire in the War of Attrition; Egypt and Jordan accept it over the objections of the PLO, which leads to civil war in Jordan in September 1970.
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11 Dec 1969 Libya adopts constitution
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12 Dec 1969 "Hello Dolly" with Barbra Striesand premieres
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12 Dec 1969 Years of Lead: Piazza Fontana bombing – The offices of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in Piazza Fontana, Milan, are bombed.
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12 Dec 1969 "Hello Dolly" with Barbra Streisand premieres
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12 Dec 1969 Bill Toomey (track and field) achieves world record-score (8417 points)
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12 Dec 1969 Bomb attack on bank in Milan, 14 killed
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13 Dec 1969 Billy Martin fired as Twins' manager
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13 Dec 1969 Arlo Guthrie releases "Alice's Restaurant"
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14 Dec 1969 "La Strada" opens / closes at Lunt Fontanne NYC for 1 performance
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14 Dec 1969 Jackson Five made their 1st appearance on "Ed Sullivan Show"
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14 Dec 1969 Bishen Bedi takes 7-98 (career-best) vs Australia at Calcutta
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15 Dec 1969 San Francisco Fire Department replaces leather helmets with plastic ones
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15 Dec 1969 Plastic Ono Band, play their only concert at London's Lyceum Ballroom
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16 Dec 1969 "War is Over! If You Want It, Happy Christmas from John andYoko" posters begin appearing
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16 Dec 1969 British House of Commons votes 343-185 abolishing the death penalty
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17 Dec 1969 The SALT I talks begin.
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17 Dec 1969 Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs.
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17 Dec 1969 50 million TV viewers see singer Tiny Tim marry Miss Vicky, on Tonight Show
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17 Dec 1969 USAF closes Project Blue Book, concluding no evidence of extraterrestrial spaceships behind thousands of UFO sightings
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18 Dec 1969 "Coco" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 333 performances
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18 Dec 1969 Capital punishment in the United Kingdom: Home Secretary James Callaghan's motion to make permanent the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965, which had temporarily suspended capital punishment in England, Wales and Scotland for murder (but not for all crimes) for a period of five years.
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18 Dec 1969 Britain abolishes death penalty
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19 Dec 1969 Beatle's 7th Christmas album is released
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20 Dec 1969 Peter, Paul & Mary's "Leaving on a Jet Plane" reaches #1
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21 Dec 1969 The United Nations adopts the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
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21 Dec 1969 Vince Lombardi (Redskins) coaches his last football game, losing
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21 Dec 1969 Diana Ross final TV appearance as a Supreme (Ed Sullivan Show)
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22 Dec 1969 Pete Marovich sets NCAA record of hitting 30 of 31 foul shots
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24 Dec 1969 Charles Manson is allowed to defend himself at the Tate–LaBianca murder trial.
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25 Dec 1969 5 Israeli gunboats escape from Cherbourg harbor
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25 Dec 1969 India all out for 163 at Madras vs Australia, Ashley Mallett 5-91
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28 Dec 1969 Dallas Cowboy kicker Mike Clark, attempting an on-side kick against Cleveland, misses the ball
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28 Dec 1969 Neil Simon's "Last of the Red Hot Lovers" premieres in New York NY
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29 Dec 1969 New York Times reports Curt Flood will sue baseball & challenge the reserve clause
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31 Dec 1969 Congo-Brazzaville becomes People's republic, under Major Ngouabi
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