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December 1, 1969: Congressman Pirnie drawing the first number. The first draft lottery in the United States since 1942 (and the first in peacetime) was held, and September 14 was the first of the 366 days of the year selected, with Congressman Alexander Pirnie of New York making the first selection. [1]
) [1] was a one-off, 75-minute TV special originally broadcast in colour on 31 December 1969, [2] to celebrate the major pop hits of the 1960s. [3] (Not to be confused with the 2007 BBC series of the same name and on the same subject). The show was a co-production between the United Kingdom's BBC and West Germany's ZDF broadcasters. The latter ...
December 10, 1995 April 24, 2011 ABC November 27, 2011 April 20, 2014 Hallmark Channel: November 30, 2014 [3] present 72 years 70 Today (NBC News) NBC January 14, 1952 present 18,000+ Longest-running morning show. 72 years 2 The Victory Hour: WTVR: January 13, 1952 [4] 1966 [5] Longest-running Christian television program WWBT: 1966 present 71 ...
The Flint War Council was a series of meetings of the Weather Underground Organization and associates in Flint, Michigan, that took place 27–31 December 1969. [78] During these meetings, the decisions were made for the Weather Underground Organization to go underground [34] and to "engage in guerilla warfare against the U.S. government."
December 1 – Chicago: Blues musician Magic Sam dies at the age of 32 of a heart attack. December 1 – Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II (on January 4, 1970, The New York Times will run a long article, "Statisticians Charge Draft Lottery Was Not Random").
December 4, 1953 (as WWOR-TV) August 31 Corpus Christi, Texas: KVDO-TV: 22 Independent 1968 Galveston/Houston, Texas: KVVV-TV: 16 Independent February 1968 September 13 Ventura/Los Angeles, California: KKOG-TV: 16 December 14, 1968 Unknown date Jamestown-Buffalo, New York: WNYP-TV: 26 Independent 1966 Returned to the air in 1988 as WTJA Marion ...
February 19 – At exactly 4:31 p.m. at the CBS Studio Center, with Jim Nabors saying the line "How interesting – and did she?", Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. shoots its final scene and completes its run. March 29 – Lulu performs " Boom Bang-a-Bang " at the Eurovision Song Contest 1969 in Madrid, and ends up in a four-way tie for first place, with ...
Joseph Albert "Jock" Yablonski (March 3, 1910 – December 31, 1969) was an American labor leader in the United Mine Workers in the 1950s and 1960s known for seeking reform in the union and better working conditions for miners.