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August 15–18 – The Woodstock Festival is held in upstate New York, featuring some of the era's top rock musicians. August 17 – Category 5 Hurricane Camille, the most powerful tropical cyclonic system at landfall in history, hits the Mississippi coast, killing 248 people and causing US$1.5 billion in damage (1969 dollars).
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.
Launch of the Ford Capri, a four-seater sporting coupe designed to compete with the likes of the MG B and which Ford expects to become a top 10 seller in the United Kingdom. [9] 27 January London School of Economics students occupy the University of London Union building in Malet Street in protest at the temporary closure of the LSE. [10]
August 13, 1969: Chicago ticker-tape parade for the crew of Apollo 11. The three Apollo 11 astronauts rode in ticker-tape parades in their honor in New York and Chicago, with an estimated six million attendees. On the same evening in Los Angeles there was an official state dinner to celebrate the flight, attended by members of Congress, 44 ...
The uprising that took place at The Stonewall Inn 51 years ago this week was the spark that set off a powder keg, paving the way for acceptance and equality of gay, lesbian and transgender people ...
The following is the 1969–70 network television schedule for the three major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1969 through August 1970. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1968–69 ...
Conrad was a 20-year-old bank teller at the Society National Bank in Cleveland when he walked out at the end of his workday on a Friday in 1969 with a paper bag containing $215,000, authorities said.
February 8, 1969, was the last date for an issue of the weekly magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, [32] though it was placed on newsstands and sent to subscribers a week earlier. [33] The Post would be resurrected a year later as a semi-monthly magazine.