1969 (MCMLXIX Roman numerals are numeral system of ancient Rome based on letters of the alphabet, which are combined to signify the sum of their values. The first ten Roman numerals are) was a common year starting on Wednesday This is the calendar for any common year starting on Wednesday . Examples: Gregorian years 1997, 2003 and 2014 or Julian year 1903 (see bottom tables) (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar The Gregorian calendar is the internationally accepted civil calendar. It was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII, after whom the calendar was named, by a decree signed on 24 February 1582, a papal bull known by its opening words Inter gravissimas. The reformed calendar was adopted later that year by a handful of countries, with other countries. The year is associated with the first manned landing on the Moon (Apollo 11 The Apollo 11 space flight landed the first humans on Earth's Moon on July 20, 1969. The mission, carried out by the United States, is considered a major accomplishment in the history of exploration and represented a victory by the U.S. in the Cold War Space Race with the Soviet Union).
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Events of 1969
January 14 January 14 is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 351 days remaining until the end of the year: Explosion kills 27 on USS EnterpriseJanuary
- January 1 January 1 is the first day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 364 days remaining until the end of the year . The preceding day is December 31 of the previous year – Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC, KSG is an Australian-born American media magnate and the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of News Corporation purchases the largest selling British Sunday newspaper, The News of the World The News of the World is a British tabloid newspaper published every Sunday. It is published by News Group Newspapers of News International, itself a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, and can be considered the Sunday sister paper of The Sun. The newspaper concentrates on celebrity-based scoops and populist news. Its fondness for sex.
- January 1 January 1 is the first day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 364 days remaining until the end of the year . The preceding day is December 31 of the previous year – People's Democracy begins a march from Belfast Belfast is the capital of and the largest city in Northern Ireland. It is the seat of devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly. It is the largest urban area in Northern Ireland, the second-largest city in Ireland and the 15th-largest city in the United Kingdom. It is the main settlement in the province of Ulster. The city of to Derry Derry or Londonderry is the second-biggest city in Northern Ireland and the fourth-biggest city on the island of Ireland. The name Derry is an Anglicisation of the word Doire or Doire Cholmchille meaning "oak-wood of Colm Cille" , the original name of the city in Irish. In 1613, the city was granted a Royal Charter by King James I and, Northern Ireland Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west. At the time of the 2001 UK Census, its population was 1,685,000, constituting about 30% of the island's total population and about 3% of the population of in support of civil rights Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from unwarranted infringement by governments and private organizations, and ensure one's ability to participate in the civil and political life of the state without discrimination or repression.
- January 1 January 1 is the first day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 364 days remaining until the end of the year . The preceding day is December 31 of the previous year – Ohio State Ohio State University is a public research university located in Columbus, Ohio. It was founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and is currently the second largest university campus in the United States. Ohio State is currently ranked by U.S. News & World Report as the best public university in Ohio, among the top 150 universities in the defeats USC The University of Southern California is a private, nonsectarian, research university located in the University Park neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, USA. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university in the Rose Bowl The Rose Bowl Game is an annual American college football bowl game, usually played on January 1 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. When New Year's Day falls on a Sunday, the game is then played on the following Monday. The Rose Bowl is nicknamed "The Granddaddy of Them All" because it is the oldest bowl game. It was first played to win the national title for the 1968 season.
- January 5 January 5 is the fifth day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 360 days remaining until the end of the year – Members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) damage property and assault occupants in the Bogside in Derry. In response, residents erect barricades and establish Free Derry.
- January 5 – The Soviet Union launches Venera 5 toward Venus.
- January 9 – In Washington, D.C., the Smithsonian displays the art of Winslow Homer for 6 weeks.
- January 10 – After 147 years, the last issue of The Saturday Evening Post is published.
- January 10 – The Soviet Union launches Venera 6 toward Venus.
- January 12 – Super Bowl III: The New York Jets of the American Football League defeat the heavily favored Baltimore Colts of the National Football League 16–7.
- January 12 – Led Zeppelin I, Led Zeppelin's first studio recorded album, is released.
- January 13 – Elvis Presley steps into American Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, recording "Long Black Limousine" thus beginning the recording of what becomes his landmark comeback sessions for the albums From Elvis in Memphis and Back in Memphis. The sessions yield the popular and critically acclaimed singles "Suspicious Minds," "In the Ghetto" and "Kentucky Rain."
- January 14 – The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 4.
- January 14 – An explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 27 and injures 314.
- January 15 – The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5, which will dock with Soyuz 4 for a transfer of crew.
- January 16 – Two cosmonauts transfer from Soyuz 5 to Soyuz 4 via a spacewalk while the two craft are docked together, the first time such a transfer takes place. The two spacecraft undock. Soyuz 4 will reenter Earth's atmosphere and land January 17 while Soyuz 5 will have a hard landing January 18.
- January 16 – Ten paintings are defaced in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- January 16 – Student Jan Palach sets himself on fire in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia; 3 days later he dies.
- January 20 – Richard Milhous Nixon succeeds Lyndon Baines Johnson as the 37th President of the United States of America.
- January 24 – Martial law is declared in Madrid, the University is closed and over 300 students are arrested.
- January 27 – Fourteen men, 9 of them Jews, are executed in Baghdad for spying for Israel.
- January 27 – Reverend Ian Paisley, hardline Protestant leader in Northern Ireland, is jailed for 3 months for illegal assembly.
- January 27 – The present-day Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse, rated at 100,000 KVA, is completed and placed in operation.
- January 28 – A blow-out on Union Oil's Platform spills 80,000 to 100,000 barrels of crude oil into a channel and onto the beaches of Santa Barbara County in Southern California inspiring Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson to organise the first Earth Day in 1970
- January 30 – The Beatles give their last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records. The impromptu concert was broken up by the police.
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Miles Davis live at Antibes Jazz Festival, Antibes, France, 1969. youtube.com.
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