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The year 1969 in film involved some significant events, with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid dominating the U.S. box office and becoming one of the highest-grossing films of all time and Midnight Cowboy, a film rated X, winning the Academy Award for Best Picture.
July 16, 1969: Launch of Apollo 11 North America taken July 16 during the translunar part of the journey Apollo 11 , with Neil Armstrong , Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins , lifted off as scheduled from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A in Florida at 9:32 a.m. local time (1332 UTC).
July 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Earliest day on which Somer's Day can fall, while August 4 is the latest; celebrated on Friday before the first Monday in August. International Tiger Day [125] Mohun Bagan Day [126] National Anthem Day ; National Thai Language Day ; Ólavsøka or Olsok, opening of the Løgting session.
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.
29 Carry On Camping: The Rank Organisation: Gerald Thomas (director); Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Barbara Windsor: 30 Che! Columbia Pictures: Richard Fleischer (director); Omar Sharif, Jack Palance, Senta Berger: J U N E: 8 That Cold Day in the Park: Warner Bros. Robert Altman (director); Sandy Dennis, Michael Murphy, Lynne Roth: 11 The First ...
July 16 – Apollo program: Apollo 11 (Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins) lifts off from Cape Kennedy toward the first human landing on the Moon. July 17 – The New York Times publicly takes back the ridicule of the rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard published on January 13, 1920, that stated that spaceflight is impossible. [5]
The chart for the week ending May 28 listed 100 Rifles as the number one film for the last week (week ending May 21) with a gross of $340,500. The last week grosses for the other films were not in line with that published previously and the grosses for this last week were added to the totals for the week ending May 28 indicating that there had ...
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