1969
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| Years: | 1966 1967 1968 - 1969 - 1970 1971 1972 |
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[change] 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.
- 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.
- 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.
[change] Births
- January 3 - Michael Schumacher, Formula one driver
- February 11 - Jennifer Aniston, actress
- June 15 - Oliver Kahn, German football player
- January 2 - Christy Turlington, American model
- January 5 - Marilyn Manson, American singer
- January 14 - Dave Grohl, American musician
- January 18 - Dave Bautista, American professional wrestler
- February 1 - Brian Krause, American actor
- 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 20 - Josh Holloway, American actor
- June 27 - Colleen Fitzpatrick, American singer and actress
- 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
- December 4 - Jay-Z, American rapper
- December 9 - Bixente Lizarazu, French footballer
- December 10 - Jens Lehmann, German footballer
- December 19 - Kristy Swanson, American actress
- December 28 - Linus Torvalds, Finnish computer scientist
- December 30 - Meredith Monroe, American actress
- Buckethead, American musician
[change] Deaths
- 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 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)
[change] 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
[change] Movies released
[change] 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
