1969 facts for kids
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
Decades: | 1930s 1940s 1950s – 1960s – 1970s 1980s 1990s |
Years: | 1966 1967 1968 – 1969 – 1970 1971 1972 |
1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. It was the last year of the 1960s.
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Events
- January 12 – Led Zeppelin's first album is released.
- January 20 – Richard Nixon becomes President of the United States, after Lyndon Johnson.
- February 3 – Yasser Arafat becomes Palestinian Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.
- April 9 – Around 300 students take over Harvard University, because they do not like the Vietnam War being fought.
- May 10 – Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam.
- May 20 – National Guard helicopters spray skin-stinging powder on Vietnam War protesters in California.
- May 31 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance" at their "Bed-In" in Montreal.
- June 8 – Nixon announces that 25,000 US troops will start to leave Vietnam before September.
- July 8 – As promised, some US troops begin to leave Vietnam.
- July 20 – The Apollo 11 mission makes Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are the first people on the Moon.
- August 15 – The Woodstock music festival starts in Upstate New York.
- August 17 – Hurricane Camille hits Mississippi, killing 248 people.
- August 31 – Boxer Rocky Marciano dies in a plane crash on the day before his 46th birthday.
- September 1 – King Idris I of Libya is removed from power in a coup.
- September 7 – Monty Python's Flying Circus airs for the first time on British television.
- October 15 – Hundreds of thousands of people across the US protest against the Vietnam War by not going to work.
- October 21 – Willy Brandt becomes the first SPD-Chancellor of Germany
- November 9 – A group of American Indians takes over Alcatraz Island and holds it for 19 months.
- November 13 – Up to 500,000 anti-war protesters march and protest in Washington DC.
- December 1 – The United States holds the first "draft lottery", to pick who is going to be sent to fight in Vietnam.
Births
- January 2 – Christy Turlington, American model
- January 3 – Michael Schumacher, German Formula one driver
- January 5 – Marilyn Manson, American singer
- January 14 – Dave Grohl, American musician
- January 16 – Roy Jones, Jr., American professional boxer
- January 18 – Dave Bautista, American professional wrestler
- February 1 – Brian Krause, American actor
- February 11 – Jennifer Aniston, American actress
- March 6 – Greg Scott, English television presenter
- April 25 – Renée Zellweger, American actress
- May 14 – Cate Blanchett, Australian actress
- May 25 – Stacy London, American fashion consultant
- June 14 – Steffi Graf, German tennis player
- June 15 – Oliver Kahn, German football player
- June 27 – Colleen Fitzpatrick, American singer and actress
- July 20 – Josh Holloway, American actor
- July 24 – Jennifer Lopez, American singer and actress
- July 27 – Triple H, American professional wrestler
- August 6 – Elliott Smith, American singer and musician (d. 2003)
- August 18 – Edward Norton, American actor
- August 19 – Matthew Perry, American actor
- August 28 – Jack Black, American actor, comedian, and musician
- October 24 - Adela Noriega, Mexican television actress
- November 10 – Jens Lehmann, German football player
- December 4 – Jay-Z, American rapper
- December 9 – Bixente Lizarazu, French footballer
- December 19 – Kristy Swanson, American actress
- December 28 – Linus Torvalds, Finnish computer scientist
- Buckethead, American musician
Deaths
- January 1 – Barton MacLane, American actor (b. 1902)
- January 31 – Meher Baba, Indian mystic (b. 1894)
- February 26 – Levi Eshkol, 3rd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1895)
- March 28 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States (b. 1890)
- June 2 – Leo Gorcey, American actor (b. 1917)
- June 22 – Judy Garland, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
- August 9 – Sharon Tate, American actress (b. 1943)
- August 31 – Rocky Marciano, American boxer (b. 1923)
- September 2 – Ho Chi Minh, President of North Vietnam (b. 1890)
- October 21 – Jack Kerouac, American writer and poet (b. 1922)
Nobel Prizes
- Nobel Prize in Physics – Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist (for his work on the theory of elementary particles)
- Chemistry – Derek H R Barton, Odd Hassel
- Medicine – Max Delbrück, Alfred D Hershey, Salvador E Luria
- Literature – Samuel Beckett, Irish writer
- Peace – International Labour Organization
- Economics – Ragnar Frisch, Jan Tinbergen
Movies released
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Midnight Cowboy
- Shart
Hit songs
- "Aquarius"/"Let The Sunshine In" – Fifth Dimension
- "The Ballad of John and Yoko" – The Beatles
- "But You Know I Love You" – Kenny Rogers and The First Edition
- "The Boxer" – Simon and Garfunkel
- "In The Ghetto" – Elvis Presley
- "Cloud Nine" – The Temptations
- "Come Together" – The Beatles
- "Get Back" – The Beatles
- "Good Times Bad Times" – Led Zeppelin
- "Honky Tonk Women" – Rolling Stones
- "I'd Wait A Million Years" – The Grass Roots
- "Listen to the Band" – The Monkees
- "Pinball Wizard" – The Who
- "Proud Mary" – Creedence Clearwater Revival
- "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" – B.J. Thomas
- "Something" – The Beatles
- "Suspicious Minds" – Elvis Presley
- "Touch Me" – The Doors
- "Whole Lotta Love" – Led Zeppelin
New Books
- Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle – Vladimir Nabokov
- The Andromeda Strain – Michael Crichton
- The Edible Woman – Margaret Atwood
- The Godfather – Mario Puzo
- The Green Man – Kingsley Amis
Images for kids
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January 14: Explosion kills 27 on USS Enterprise
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July 16: The Saturn V rocket launches
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July 20: Buzz Aldrin descends a ladder to become the second human to step onto the surface of the Moon during the Apollo 11 program
See also
In Spanish: 1969 para niños
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