1969

1969 (MCMLXIX) was .
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 16-24 - The Apollo 11 mission makes Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin the first people on the Moon.
August 9 - The Manson Family murders the actress Sharon Tate and members of her family.
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 10 - Sesame Street first aired.
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 - Renee 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 17 - Kazuki Kitamura, Japanese actor
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
January 1 - Barton MacLane, American actor (b. 1902)
January 1 - Bruno Soderstrom, Swedish track and field athlete (b. 1881)
January 4 - Paul Chambers, American jazz double bassist (b. 1935)
January 9 - Jacques van Egmond, Dutch racing cyclist (b. 1908)
January 17 - Grazyna Bacewicz, Polish composer (b. 1909)
January 19 - Jan Palach, Czech activist (b. 1948)
January 30 - Dominique Pire, Belgian friar (b. 1910)
January 31 - Meher Baba, Indian mystic (b. 1894)
February
February 2 - Boris Karloff, English actor (b. 1887)
February 23 - Madhubala, Indian actress (b. 1933)
February 23 - King Saud of Saudi Arabia (b. 1902)
February 26 - Levi Eshkol, 3rd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1895)
March
March 24 - Joseph Kasa-Vubu, 1st President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1917)
March 28 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States (b. 1890)
April
May
May 2 - Franz von Papen, 22nd Chancellor of Germany (b. 1879)
May 3 - Zakir Husain, 3rd President of India (b. 1897)
June
June 8 - Robert Taylor, American actor (b. 1911)
June 22 - Judy Garland, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
July
July 3 - Brian Jones, British musician (the Rolling Stones) (b. 1942)
August
August 6 - Theodor W. Adorno, German philosopher (b. 1903)
August 9 - Sharon Tate, American actress (b. 1943)
August 31 - Rocky Marciano, American boxer (b. 1923)
September
September 2 - Ho Chi Minh, 1st President of Vietnam (b. 1890)
October
October 12 - Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater (b. 1912)
October 21 - Jack Kerouac, American writer and poet (b. 1922)
November
November 8 - Vesto Slipher, American astronomer (b. 1875)
November 12 - Iskander Mirza, 1st President of Pakistan (b. 1899)
November 12 - Liu Shaoqi, 2nd President of China (b. 1898)
November 18 - Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American businessman (b. 1888)
November 21 - Mutesa II of Buganda, President of Uganda (b. 1924)
December
December 13 - Spencer Williams Jr., American actor (b. 1893)
December 17 - Artur da Costa e Silva, 27th President of Brazil (b. 1899)
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 Delbruck, 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
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Cactus Flower
Easy Rider
Midnight Cowboy
Shart
The Wild Bunch
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
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