The Year 1969
History and Politics
Violent fighting in Northern Ireland between Protestants and Roman Catholics.
Sirhan Sirhan tried and convicted of the murder of Senator Robert Kenendy.
Jan Palach, A Czech student, publicly burns himself to death in Prague in protest of Soviet occipation.
Richard M. Nixon inaugurated as 37th President of the US.
Al Fatah leader Yasir Arafat elected Chairman of Executive Committee of Plestine Liberation Organization;
shifts his main guerrila forces to Jordan; Arab terrorist bomb explodes in Jerusalem supermarket.
Carribean island of Anguilla votes to breal all ties with Britian.
Levi Eshkol, Isreali Prime Minister dies.
Gustav Heinemann elected President of W. Germany.
James Earl Ray sentenced to 99 years in prison for assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Mrs. Golda Meir becomes Isreal's 4th Prime Minister.
The "Chicago Eight" found not quilty after trial.
Dwight D. Eisenhower dies.
De Gaulle resigns as President of France.
US and Japan agree on the return to Japan of the Ryukyu Islands (including Okinawa) in 1972.
Georges Pompidou elected President of France.
First US troops withdraw from Vietnam; by the end of the year, 75,000 have been sent home.
Senator Edward Kennedy, driving a car at Chappaquiddick Island, Mass., plunges
into a pond, body of woman passenger Mary Jo Kopechne found in car.
Ho Chi Minh, President of N. Vietnam dies.
British army sends 600 troops into Belfast to quell rioting.
More than 100 US combat deaths reported in one week inVietnam.
US Army Staff Sgt. David Mitchell and Lt. William Calley ordered to stand
trial on murder charges for massacre of civilians at Mylai, Vietnam.
Abe Fortas, Supreme Court justice, resigns after disclosure of
questionable dealings with convicted financier.
President Nixon appoints Warren Burger Chief of Justice of the Supreme Court.
Science, Technology, Growth
The Concorde, Anglo-French supersonic aircraft makes its first test flight.
Apollo 10 astronauts bring lunar module within 9.4 miles of the moon's surface.
Apollo 11, launched from Cape Kennedy, lands lunar module on moon's
surface July 20; Neil Armstrong steps out on the moon July 21
and Apollo 11 returns with its crew July 24.
US astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan L. Bean land on moon in Apollo 12
lunar module; return to Earth with samples of material from lunar surface.
In Thailand, a new species of swallow, the white-eyed river martin is discovered.
Lease sale in Alaska for oil fields brings in one single day the sum of $900,220,590.
J. Weber if the Univ. of maryland observes gravitational waves,
first postulated by Albert Einstein in 1916.
US government, heeding the results of laboratory experiments linking food additives to
cancer, removes cyclamates from the market and limits use of monosodium glutamate.
Two Mariner space probes send back pictures of surface of Mars.
US government takes steps to ban use of the insecticide DDT.
Nobel Prize for Economic Science; R. Frisch (Norw.) and Niko
Tinbergen (Dutch) for their developement of econmetrics.
Nobel Prize for Physics: Murray Gell-Mann (US) for work on the theory of elementary particles.
Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology: M. Delbruck, A.D. Hershey, and S.E. Luria
(All US) for their work on the genetic structure of viruses.
Daily Life
Suffragan Bishop Matthias Defregger, Minich, is indentified as the subject
of a Nazi war crimes investigation in Italy.
Camille, the strongest hurricane to strike the US since 1935, devastates Miss. Golf Coast.
Rains in California cause mud slides that destroy or damage 10,000 homes and kill 100.
New York Mets defeat Baltimore Orioles, 5-3, to win World Series.
Joseph Patrick Kennedy dies.
Rocky Marciano, US boxer dies.
Ohio State defeats S. California in Rose Bowl, 27-16.
George Archer wins the Masters (golf).
General Motors recalls almost 5 million cars for adjustment of mechanical defects.
Representatives of 39 nations meet in Rome to survey pollution of the seas.
The Sydney-to-Hobart sailing race won by "Morning Cloud" owned and skippered by Edward Heath.
British cycling champion Peter Buckley dies following a training accident.
Inflation becomes a worldwide problem.
Lilliebaelt suspention bridge (Den) and Newport Bridge (US) completed.
Trouser outfits become acceptable for everyday wear by women.
Bodies of actress Sharon Tate (wife of Roman Polanski) and 4 others found at her Los Angeles
home; Charles Manson, leader of hippie commune nearby, indicted for the crime with several others.
World and European amateur hockey titles won by USSR in Stockholm.
Soviet spies Helen and Peter Kroger exchanged for Brit. lecturer Gerald Brooke.
World population growing by about 2% annually, estimated at 3.5 billion.
Approx. 225 milliom telephones are in service all over the world, 114 million of them in the US.
Prince Philip maintains that Britian's royal family will have to ask Parliment to increase the queen's allowance.
US tean retains Davis Cup, defeating Rumanians 5-0.
Off Cuttyhunk, Mass., EJ Kirker lands a 72 lb. stripped bass; AJ Bielevich, fishing off Isle of Shoals, Mass.,
catches a 98 lb. 12 oz. ocean bonito; GD Perez brings in a 1,153 lb. Pacific blue marlin near Guam.
Boris Spassky defeats Tigran Petrosian to win world chess championship.
The Montreal Canadians win the Stanley Cup hockey championship.
For the 4th year in a row, and for the 8th year out of the past 10, Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlin leads
as the rebound leader in the NBA; Chamberlin also holds most of the other NBA records.
Rod Laver, 31, wins Grand Slam of tennis for the second time.
"Majestic Prince," Willie Hartack up, wins Preakness and Kentucky Derby.
Lew Alcindor emerges as one of the greatest stars of basketball, playing for UCLA.
Pro Golfing Assc. names Orville Moody "Golfer of the Year" after his winning of the US Open.
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