1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. For the movie, see 1969 (movie). For the Velvet Underground live album, see 1969: The Velvet Underground Live. 1969 - Events. 1969 - January. January 1 - Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch purchases the largest selling British Sunday newspaper The News Of The World January 3 - Pele scores his 1000th goa ...

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1969 - January. January 2 - Christy Turlington, American fashion model January 2 - Tommy Morrison, American boxer January 3 - Michael Schumacher, German race car driver January 5 - Marilyn Manson, American singer January 14 - Jason Bateman, American actor January 14 - David Grohl, American drummer and composer (Nirvana; later, Foo Fighters) January 16 - Roy Jones Jr., American boxer January 16 - Per "Dead" Yngve Ohlin, Scandanavian vocalist ...

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February February 9 - Boeing 747 February 12 - Mil Mi V-12 March Aero Boero AB-115 March 2 - BAC-Aérospatiale Concorde June June 27 - Interceptor 400 August August 30 - Tupolev Tu-22M September September 15 - Cessna Citation N500CC ...

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1969 in aviation - March. March 18-19 - the Royal Air Force airlifts 300 troops to Anguilla in response to the civil unrest that had broken out on the island. 1969 in aviation - May. May 4-11 - the Daily Mail Transatlantic Air Race commemorates the 50th anniversary of Alcock and Brown's crossing. It is won by a Royal Navy F-4 Phantom, taking 4 hours ...

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Giuseppe Pinelli, a young anarchist, was first accused of the crime. Terrorist Stefano Delle Chiaie was then arrested in Caracas, Venezuela in 1989 and rendered to Italy to stand trial for his role in the Strage di Piazza Fontana, in Milan on December 12, 1969. Despite his reputation, Delle Chiaie was acquited by the Assise Court in Catanzaro in 1989, along with fellow accused Massimiliano Fachini. A June 20, 2001 conviction of Italian Neo-fascists Doctor Carlo Maria Maggi, Delfo Zorzi and Giancarlo Rognoni was overturned in Ma ...

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Strategy of tension, Strategy of tension - Strage di Piazza Fontana bombing December 12 1969, Strategy of tension - Bombing of Italicus train August 4 1974, Strategy of tension - Bologna railway bombing August 2 1980, Strategy of tension - Assassination of General Dalla Chiesa, Strategy of tension - Role of Italian Intelligence Services, Strategy of tension - Others, Strategy of tension - Books cinema theater, Strategy of tension - External link

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Varahagiri Venkata Giri (August 10, 1894 - June 23, 1980), commonly known as V. V. Giri, was the fourth president of the Republic of India (August 24, 1969 - August 23, 1974). He was born into a Telugu speaking family, residing in Berhampur in the Ganjam district of the erstwhile Madras Presidency. The town and district are now part of the state of Orissa. In 1913, he went to University College Dublin to study law, but was expelled from Ireland in 1916 after becoming involved with the Sinn Féin movement. This involvemen ...

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V. V. Giri - External link

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Yasser Arafat (Arabic: ياسر عرفات‎) (August 4 or August 24, 1929 – November 11, 2004), born Mohammed Abdel-Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (محمد عبد الرؤوف القدوة الحسيني) and also known by the kunya Abu `Ammar (أبو عمّار), was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) (1969–2004); President1 of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) (1993–2004 ...

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Yasser Arafat - Early life Yasser Arafat - Fatah and the PLO Yasser Arafat - Jordan Yasser Arafat - Lebanon Yasser Arafat - Tunisia Yasser Arafat - Palestinian Authority and peace negotiations Yasser Arafat - Political survival and marginalization Yasser Arafat - Financial dealings Yasser Arafat - Illness and death Yasser Arafat - Aftermath Yasser Arafat - Bibliography Yasser Arafat - Notes

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Andres Serrano (born August 15, 1950) is an American photographer who was notorious for his controversial piece "Piss Christ", a red-tinged photograph of a crucifix submerged in the artist's own urine. Andres Serrano - Life. Serrano is of a half Honduran, half Afro-Cuban background and was raised a strict Roman Catholic. The New-York-born artist studied 1967-1969 at the Brooklyn Museum and Art School, and lives and works in New York. His work has shown in locations as varied and prestigious a ...

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Andres Serrano - Life Andres Serrano - Work

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Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan (February 4, 1917 – August 10, 1980) was the President of Pakistan and Chief of Army Staff from 1969 to 1971, following the resignation of Ayub Khan. His rule was characterized by tensions in East Pakistan in the early 1970s that finally led to its seccession following the Bangladesh Liberation War. The twin failures, the dismemberment of the nation and the military defeat at the hands of arch rival India, forced him to r ...

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Yahya Khan - Pre-independence career

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Christian Slater (born Christian Michael Leonard Hawkins on August 18, 1969 in New York City) is an American actor. His mother is Hollywood casting director Mary Jo Slater, who gave her Star Trek-obsessed son a cameo role in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991). His father is the English actor Michael Hawkins. Slater is a father of two: his son born in 1999 and his daughter in 2001.< ...

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Christian Slater - Legal Run-ins Christian Slater - Partial filmography

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Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji (August 26, 1929–October 6, 2004), also known as Yogi Harbhajan and Yogi Bhajan, was a spiritual leader who was the head of the Sikh Dharma in the western hemisphere. He was widely known as a master of Kundalini Yoga and taught thousands to be teachers and spread the teachings. He founded the non-profit 3HO (Healthy, Happy, Holy) Organization in 1969. Under his guidance as Director of Spiritual Education, 3HO mushroomed worldwide, to 300 centers in 35 countries. In 1994, 3HO became ...

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Harbhajan Singh Yogi - External link

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Carol Moseley Braun (born August 16, 1947), American politician and lawyer, was the first (and to date only) black woman elected to the United States Senate (representing Illinois). She was also an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2004 U.S. presidential election. Moseley Braun was born in Chicago, Illinois and educated in the Chicago public school system. She graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1969 and earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Chicago in 1972. As an attorney, she was a prosecutor in the Unit ...

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Carol Moseley Braun - Electoral History Carol Moseley Braun - External link

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Adrian Samuel Young (born August 26, 1969) is the drummer from the band No Doubt. Adrian was born in Long Beach, California and exposed to rock music very early by his hippie parents. He became a fan of the band No Doubt from the start, attending their concerts after they formed in 1987. The same year he began playing the drums. In 1989, No Doubt announced that they were looking for a new drummer, and Young auditioned. He got the position, joining the band in time to be heard on one of their first hit albums, The Beacon Street Collection. At the audition, ...

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His Eminence Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani (29 October 1890 - 3 August 1979) was Secretary of the Holy Office of the Roman Curia from 1959 to 1966 when that dicastery was reorganized as the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, in which he served as Pro-Prefect, until 1968. He was the leader of the Curial conservatives during the Second Vatican Council. In September of 1969, together with Antionio Cardinal Bacci, wrote a letter to Pope Paul VI , espressing reservations to the proposed new Roman rite of the Mass, which

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Hugh David Politzer (born 31 August 1949) is an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics with David J. Gross and Frank Wilczek for their discovery of asymptotic freedom in quantum chromodynamics. Politzer was born in New York City. He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1966, received his bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in 1969, and his Ph.D. in 1974 from Harvard University, where his graduate advisor was Sidney Coleman. In his first published article, which appe ...

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Waite Charles Hoyt (September 9, 1899 – August 25, 1984) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball, one of the dominant pitchers of the 1920s. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969. Hoyt was born in Brooklyn, New York, and at the age of 15 was signed to a professional contract by New York Giants manager John McGraw. Because of his young age, he was immediately nicknamed "The Schoolboy Wonder." Hoyt would not a ...

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Waite Hoyt - External link

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The Woodstock Music and Art Festival was the most famous rock festival of its era. It was held at Max Yasgur's 600 acre (2.4 km²) dairy farm in Bethel, New York, on 15, 16, and 17 August, 1969. The Woodstock Festival represented the culmination of the counterculture of the 1960s and the ultimate climax of the "hippie era". Many of the best-known musicians of the times appeared during the rain-plagued weekend, much of which was captured in a successful 1970 movie, Woodstock. Joni Mitchell's song Woodstock encapsulated th ...

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On land, the UK Thatcher government sharpened the 1967 anti-offshore broadcasting law further, this time to permit the boarding and silencing of stations operating even in international waters, if British nationals were involved. On August 19, 1989 James Murphy, an investigator for the Office of Official Solicitor acting on behalf of the Department of Trade and Industry, led colleagues and counterparts from the Netherlands Radio Regulatory Authority to carry out a raid on the Ross Revenge in which vital equipment was wrecked or confis ...

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Radio Caroline, Radio Caroline - History, Radio Caroline - 1964-1968, Radio Caroline - Radio Caroline opens, Radio Caroline - Creation of Radio Caroline North and South, Radio Caroline - The Mi Amigo runs aground, Radio Caroline - The Radio City death, Radio Caroline - The 1967 Marine Offences Act, Radio Caroline - 1969-1971, Radio Caroline - Radio Caroline International, Radio Caroline - Caroline Television, Radio Caroline - 1972-1980, Radio Caroline - Radio Caroline returns, Radio Caroline - Radio Atlantis and Radio Seagull, Radio Caroline - Radio Mi Amigo, Radio Caroline - Loving Awareness, Radio Caroline - Dutch Marine Broadcasting Act, Radio Caroline - 1983-1988, Radio Caroline - Radio Caroline's return from the Ross Revenge, Radio Caroline - Radio Monique, Radio Caroline - The mast collapses, Radio Caroline - 1989 Joint Anglo-Dutch Raid, Radio Caroline - 1990-1991 After the Raid, Radio Caroline - 1991-present day, Radio Caroline - The RSL broadcasts, Radio Caroline - Satellite Caroline, Radio Caroline - Dutch Caroline and Caroline South, Radio Caroline - 2004, Radio Caroline - Footnotes

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Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), also known as "The King of Rock 'n' Roll", was an American singer, song producer and actor. Rolling Stone magazine claimed "Elvis Presley is rock 'n' roll" and called his body of work "acres of perfect material." During an active recording career that spanned more than two decades, Presley set and broke many records for both concert attendance and sales. Some of those records have since been matched and/or broken by other artists, but some of his records w ...

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Elvis Presley - An American phenomenon
Elvis Presley - Birth & Childhood Elvis Presley - The Sun recordings Elvis Presley - The management of Colonel Tom Parker Elvis Presley - Military service Elvis Presley - Comeback Elvis Presley - 1969 onward Elvis Presley - Movies Elvis Presley - Gospel roots
Elvis Presley - Relationships
Elvis Presley - High school and early stardom Elvis Presley - Priscilla Beaulieu Presley and some other relationships Elvis Presley - Later years
Elvis Presley - Abuse of drugs Elvis Presley - Death and burial Elvis Presley - Lasting legacy Elvis Presley - Elvis in the 21st century Elvis Presley - Musical milestones Elvis Presley - Trivia Elvis Presley - Quotes from Elvis Elvis Presley - Quotes about Elvis

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