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('''
MCMLXIX ''') was a
Common Year Starting On Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar).
:''For the .
- March 1 - Major league Baseball er Mickey Mantle announces his retirement.
- March 1 - During a performance at Miami 's Dinner Key Auditorium, Jim Morrison of The Doors is arrested for exposing himself during the show. Morrison is officially charged with lewd and lascivious behavior, indecent behavior, open profanity and public drunkenness.
- March 2 - In Toulouse , France the first Concorde test flight is conducted
- March 2 - Soviet and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the Ussuri River
- March 3 - In a Los Angeles, California court, Sirhan Sirhan admits that he killed presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy
- launches Apollo 9 to test the Lunar Module
- March 10 - In Memphis, Tennessee , James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr . Ray would later retract his guilty plea
- returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module
- March 17 - Golda Meir of Milwaukee, Wisconsin , USA, becomes Prime Minister Of Israel
- March 17 - The Longhope Lifeboat in Scotland is lost, the entire crew of eight die.
- March 18 - Operation Breakfast: Starts the secret bombing campaign of Cambodia (until may 1970).
- March 19 - British paratroopers and Marines land on the island of Anguilla .
- March 28 - Dwight D Eisenhower dies after a long illness in the Walter Reed Army Medical Center , Washington DC.
- May 10 - Zip to Zap, a harbinger of the Woodstock Concert, ends with dispersal and eviction of youth and young adults at Zap, North Dakota by the National Guard.
- May 10 - The Battle Of Dong Ap Bia , also known as the Hamburger Hill , begins in Vietnam War
- s occur in Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia
- May 14 - Colonel Qaddafi had made his phenomenal visit to Mecca.
- , a Soviet spaceprobe, lands on Venus
- Venera 6 begins to descend into Venus ' atmosphere sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure
- May 17 - Tom McClean completes the first solo transatlantic crossing by a rowboat
- launches
- May 19 - May 20 - French Foreign Legion Paratrooper s land onto Kolwezi , Zaire , to rescue Europeans in a middle of a civil war
- May 20 - National Guard helicopters spray skin-stinging powder on anti-war protesters in California
- 's lunar module flies within 15,400 m of the Moon 's surface
- returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the upcoming first manned Moon landing
- and Yoko Ono conduct their Bed-In at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec , and record the song " Give Peace A Chance " on May 31 .
- May 29 - Guided tours begin at the Kremlin and other government sites in Moscow
- May 30 - Riots in Curaçao , marking the start for a movement for Afro-Caribbean Civil Rights on the island.
- July 5 – Assassination of Mboya , Kenya n Minister of Development
- July 7 - French is made equal to English throughout the Canadian national government
- July 8 - Vietnam War : The very first U.S. troop withdrawals are made
- July 10 - Trimaran the ''Teignmouth Electron'' of Donald Crowhurst is found drifting and unoccupied - Crowhurst might have committed suicide
- July 14 - Premiere of the film Easy Rider
- July 14 - Football War - after Honduras loses a soccer game against El Salvador , rioting breaks out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers. Of the 300,000 Salvadorean workers in Honduras, tens of thousands are expelled, prompting a brief Salvadoran invasion of Honduras. The OAS works out a cease-fire on July 18 , taking effect on July 20
- July 18 - Ted Kennedy drives off a bridge on his way home from a party on Chappaquiddick Island , Massachusetts . Mary Jo Kopechne , a former campaign aide to his brother who was in the car with him, dies in the incident
- and Buzz Aldrin , lands on the Moon . '' Apollo 11 '' lifted off for the moon on July 16 and returned safely on July 24
- declares the Nixon Doctrine stating that the United States now expects its Asia n allies to take care of their own military defense. This was the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war
- makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyen Van Thieu and with US military commanders
- July 31 - Halfpenny ceases to be Legal Tender in the UK
- November - Creation of ARPANET , the predecessor of the Internet
- addresses his nation on Television and Radio asking the "silent majority" to join him in solidarity on the Vietnam War effort and to support his policies
- November 9 - Group of Amerindians lead by Richard Oakes seize the Alcatraz island for 19 months, inspiring a wave of renewed Indian pride and government reform
- - Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story
- stage a symbolic " March Against Death "
- launches Apollo 12 , the second manned mission to the surface of the Moon (landed on the Moon on November 19 )
- collides with the American submarine USS ''Gato'' in the Barents Sea
- , 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war
- November 15 - Regular Colour Television broadcasts begin on BBC1 and ITV in UK .
- and the United States meet in Helsinki to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides
- astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum ("Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth Human s to walk on the Moon
- '' publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam
- November 20 - Richard Oakes returns with 90 followers and offers to buy the Alcatraz for $24 (he leaves the island January 1970)
- November 21 - U.S. President Nixon and Japan ese Premier Eisaku Sato agree in Washington on the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972. Under the terms of the agreement, U.S. retains rights to military bases on island, but must be nuclear-free.
- November 21 - The first ARPANET link is established which was the progenitor of the global Internet .
- November 21 - The Senate voted down the Supreme Court nomination of Clement F. Haynsworth , the first such rejection since 1930.
- spacecraft splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean , ending the second manned mission to the Moon
- November 25 - John Lennon returns his OBE to protest the British government's support of the US war in Vietnam
- 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 15 - Meret Becker , German actress and musician
- January 16 - Roy Jones Jr. , American boxer
- January 16 - Per "Dead" Yngve Ohlin , Scandanavian vocalist
- January 17 - Lukas Moodysson , Swedish film director
- January 18 - David "Batista" Bautista , American professional wrestler.
- January 20 - Patrick K. Kroupa , American writer, hacker
- May 2 - Brian Lara , West Indian cricketer
- May 3 - Daryl F. Mallett , American author and actor
- May 6 - Jim Magilton , Northern Irish footballer
- May 7 - Eagle Eye Cherry , Swedish-born musician
- May 10 - Dennis Bergkamp , Dutch soccer player
- May 13 - Nikos Aliagas , French-born television host
- May 14 - Cate Blanchett , Australian actress
- May 15 - Emmitt Smith , American football player
- May 16 - Tracey Gold , American actress
- May 16 - Steve Lewis , American athlete
- May 18 - Martika , American singer
- May 21 - Georgiy R. Gongadze , Ukrainian journalist (d. 2000 )
- September 2 - Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey , American singer
- September 5 - Dweezil Zappa , American actor and musician
- September 9 - Rachel Hunter , New Zealand model and actress
- September 13 - Shane Warne , Australian cricketer
- September 24 - Donald DeGrate, Jr. , American music producer
- September 25 - Hansie Cronje , South African cricketer (d. 2002 )
- September 25 - Hal Sparks , American actor and comedian
- September 25 - Catherine Zeta-Jones , Welsh actress
- September 26 - Paul Warhurst , English football player
- October 1 - Igor Ulanov , Russian hockey player
- October 2 - Mitch English , American actor and television host
- October 3 - Gwen Stefani , American singer ( No Doubt )
- October 8 - Julia Ann , American porn actress
- October 10 - Brett Favre , American football player
- October 13 - Nancy Kerrigan , American figure skater
- October 14 - David Strickland , American actor (d. 1999 )
- October 17 - Ernie Els , South African golfer
- October 19 - Trey Parker , American television producer
- October 20 - Juan Gonzalez , baseball player
- October 21 - Angela Vincent , Australian actress
- October 30 - Clay Enos , American photographer
- November 4 - Matthew McConaughey , American actor
- November 7 - Michelle Clunie , American actress
- November 7 - Hélène Grimaud , French pianist
- November 7 - Bryant H. McGill , American poet
- November 10 - Jens Lehmann , German football player
- November 11 - Carson Kressley , American fashion expert
- November 12 - Heinz-Christian Strache , Austria n politician
- November 17 - Jean-Michel Saive , Belgian table tennis player
- November 18 - Sam Cassell , basketball player
- November 20 - AQi Fzono , Japanese composer
- November 21 - Ken Griffey, Jr. , baseball player
- November 28 - Lexington Steele , African-American actor and film director
- November 29 - Mariano Rivera , Panamanian Major League Baseball player
- November 29 - Pierre Van Hooijdonk , Dutch footballer
- November 29 - Chris Baker , American race car driver
