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1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1969th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 969th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1960s decade.
May 9, 1969: excursion train on the Salt Lake, Garfield and Western Railway as part of the 1969 Golden Spike Centennial . May 1 – Semiconductor company AMD is founded. May 10 – Zip to Zap, a harbinger of the Woodstock Concert, ends with the dispersal and eviction of youth and young adults at Zap, North Dakota, by the National Guard.
Aiken was granted a stay of execution by U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas (who happened to be vacationing at his summer home in Goose Prairie, Washington) less than 72 hours before his trip to the gallows; Wheat had been given a temporary reprieve by Potter Stewart the day before. [40]
Pope Paul VI issued Mysterii Paschalis, a motu proprio, deleting many names from the Roman calendar of saints, including Valentine, who was celebrated on this day. Died: Vito Genovese, 71, Italian-born American mobster, died of a heart attack while imprisoned at the federal medical center in Springfield, Missouri. Genovese, nicknamed "The King ...
25 July – The Family Law Reform Act 1969 receives royal assent and comes partly into effect in England and Wales. It reduces the age of majority from 21 to 18 (with effect from 1 January 1970); allows a bastard child to inherit on the intestacy of a parent; and allows competent 16- and 17-year-olds to consent to medical treatment.
July 13 is the 194th day of the year ... in the Gregorian calendar; 171 days remain until the end of the year. Events ... 1969 – Ken Jeong, American actor, ...
On the third day of nine consecutive days of heavy rainfall in southern California, mudslides killed nine people in their homes north of Los Angeles in a single day. [80] The final death toll would be 95 people (including 57 rain related traffic accidents, 18 drownings and 15 mudslides), [ 81 ] and $138,000,000 in damage (roughly $975 million a ...
Mariner 7 transmitted the closest pictures taken, up to that time, of the planet Mars, after the American interplanetary probe came within 2,000 miles (3,200 km) of the Martian surface. The 31 images were received at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California , a little more than five minutes after having been sent from a distance of ...