1969

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Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Nobel Prizes 5 Films released 6 Hit songs 7 New Books

[edit] Events

• January 12 - Led Zeppelin's first album is released.
• January 20 - Richard Nixon becomes president, after Lyndon Johnson.
• February 3 - Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestinian Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.
• February 25 - George Jones marries Tammy Wynette
• March 2 - The first Concorde test flight is done in France.
• April 9 - Around 300 students take over Harvard University, because they don't like the Vietnam War being fought.
• May 10 - Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam.
• May 20 - National Guard helicopters spray skin-stinging powder on Vietnam War protesters in California.
• May 31 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance" at their "Bed-In" in Montreal.
• June 8- Nixon announces that 25,000 US troops will start to leave Vietnam before September.
• June 14 - The movie Easy Rider is in cinemas.
• June 18 - A militant group called Weathermen take over Students for Democratic Society in Chicago.
• June 28 - Homosexuals riot in New York City.
• July 8 - As promised, some US troops begin to leave Vietnam.
• July 20 - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are the first people on the moon.
• August 9- The Manson Family murders.
• August 15 - The Woodstock music festival starts in Upstate New York.
• August 17 - A hurricane hits Mississippi, killing 248 people.
• September 7- Monty Python's Flying Circus airs for the first time on British television.
• September 24 - The Chicago Eight trial begins, about the leaders of the protests in 1968 at the Democratic National Convention.
• October 9 - The National Guard is called in at Chicago, because the Weathermen are protesting the trial.
• October 15 - Hundreds of thousands of people across the US protest against the Vietnam War, by not going to work.
• October 21 - Willy Brandt becomes the first SPD-Chancellor of Germany
• November 9 - A group of American Indians takes over Alcatraz Island and holds it for 19 months.
• November 13 - Up to 500,000 anti-war protesters march and protest in Washington DC.
• December 1 - The USA holds the first "draft lottery", to pick who is going to be sent to fight in Vietnam.
• December 4 - Two Black Panthers leaders, Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, are killed in their sleep by police in Chicago.

[edit] Births

• January 3 - Michael Schumacher, Formula one driver
• February 5 - Bobby Brown, singer
• February 11 - Jennifer Aniston, actress
• June 15 - Oliver Kahn, German football player
• September 25 - Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress

[edit] Deaths

• January 31- Meher Baba
• March 28 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States
• June 2 - Leo Gorcey, actor
• August 9 - Sharon Tate, actress
• August 9 - Abigail Folger, heiress
• August 9 - Jay Sebring, hairstylist
• August 9 - Wojciech Frykowski, writer
• August 9 - Steven Parent
• August 10- Leno LaBianca, grocery store owner
• August 10 - Rosmary LaBianca, wife of Leno LaBianca
• August 31 - Rocky Marciano, boxer

[edit] Nobel Prizes

• Nobel Prize in Physics - Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist (for his work on the theory of elementary particles)
• Chemistry - Derek H R Barton, Odd Hassel
• Medicine - Max Delbrück, Alfred D Hershey, Salvador E Luria
• Literature - Samuel Beckett, Irish writer
• Peace - International Labour Organization
• Economics - Ragnar Frisch, Jan Tinbergen

[edit] Films released

• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• Easy Rider
• If....
• Intervals
• Midnight Cowboy
• True Grit

[edit] Hit songs

• "Aquarius"/"Let The Sunshine In" - Fifth Dimension
• "The Ballad of John and Yoko" - The Beatles
• "But You Know I Love You" - Kenny Rogers and The First Edition
• "The Boxer" - Simon and Garfunkel
• "In The Ghetto" - Elvis Presley
• "Cloud Nine" - The Temptations
• "Come Together" - The Beatles
• "Get Back" - The Beatles
• "Get Together" - Youngbloods
• "Good Times Bad Times" - Led Zeppelin
• "Honky Tonk Women" - Rolling Stones
• "I'd Wait A Million Years" - The Grass Roots
• "In the Year 2525" - Zager and Evans
• "Listen to the Band" - The Monkees
• "Love Child" - Diana Ross & the Supremes
• "Oh Happy Day" - Edwin Hawkins
• "Pinball Wizard" - The Who
• "Proud Mary" - Creedence Clearwater Revival
• "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" - B.J. Thomas
• "Someday We'll Be Together" - Diana Ross & the Supremes
• "Something" - The Beatles
• "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" - Crosby, Stills & Nash
• "Suspicious Minds" - Elvis Presley
• "Touch Me" - The Doors
• "Whole Lotta Love" - Led Zeppelin

[edit] New Books

• Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle - Vladimir Nabokov
• The Andromeda Strain - Michael Crichton
• The Campus Murders - Ellery Queen
• The Edible Woman - Margaret Atwood
• The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
• The Godfather - Mario Puzo
• The Green Man - Kingsley Amis
• The Inheritors - Harold Robbins
• Jirel of Joiry - C. L. Moore
• Little Painted Mouths - Manuel Puig
• The Love Machine - Jacqueline Susann
• Mary Queen of Scots - Antonia Fraser
• Naked Came the Stranger - Penelope Ashe
• Nothing Black But A Cadillac - Raymond Spence
• A Pocketful of Rye - A.J. Cronin
• Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
• Retour à Roissy - Pauline Réage
• Sounder - William H. Armstrong
• The Seven Minutes - Irving Wallace
• The Street - Mordecai Richler
• That Godless Woman - Merton H. Coleman
• The Veiled Sultan - March Cost
• War Against The Mafia - Don Pendleton