Events Date 1969 October | History by KabAstro

Monty Python's Flying Circus

Oct 5 TV sketch comedy series "Monty Python's Flying Circus" premieres on BBC1

Oct 6 MLB American League Championship: Baltimore Orioles beat Minnesota Twins, 3 games to 0
Oct 6 MLB National League Championship: New York Mets sweep Atlanta Braves, 3 games to 0
Oct 6 WMPB TV channel 67 in Baltimore, MD (PBS) begins broadcasting
Oct 7 WJMN TV channel 3 in Escanaba, MI (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
Oct 8 The opening rally of the Days of Rage occurs, organized by the Weather Underground in Chicago, Illinois.

Someday We'll Be Together

Oct 9 The Supremes release single "Someday We'll Be Together", Diana Ross' last recording with the group

Music History

Oct 10 "Jesus Christ Superstar" soundtrack album by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice is recorded

Oct 10 British progressive rock band King Crimson releases their debut album "In The Court Of The Crimson King"
Oct 11 -28] Rome: 2nd bishop synod

Music History

Oct 11 American blues musician Muddy Waters involved in a car crash that kills 3

Event of Interest

Oct 11 Soyuz 6 launched; Soyuz 7 & 8 follow in next 2 days

Oct 11 Three people shot dead during street violence in the loyalist Shankill area of Belfast
Oct 12 1st time 5 people in space simultaneously (Soyez 6 & Soyez 7)
Oct 12 KDB-AM in Santa Barbara, California changes call letters to KAPN
Oct 12 KHOF (now KAGL) TV channel 30 in San Bernardino/Glenda, California (IND) begins
Oct 12 Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 7 is launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in southern Kazakhstan

Sports History

Oct 13 Billy Martin (97-65) is fired as manager of AL West-winning Twins

Baseball Player and Manager Billy Martin

Oct 13 Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 8 is launched
Oct 14 Palme government forms in Sweden
Oct 14 Race riots in Springfield, Massachusetts
Oct 14 The United Kingdom introduces the 50p (fifty-pence) coin, replacing the ten-shilling note, in anticipation of currency decimalisation in 1971
Oct 14 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

Country Music Association Awards

Oct 15 3rd Country Music Association Awards: Johnny Cash and Tammy Wynette win

Sports History

Oct 15 Baltimore's Earl Weaver becomes first manager since 1935 to be ejected World Series game as his Orioles slump to a 2-1 Game 4 defeat to NY Mets at Shea Stadium

Oct 15 Bank of America World Headquarters (555 California) dedicated
Oct 15 Madison Square Garden TV Network begins (Rangers vs North Stars)
Oct 15 Vietnam Moratorium Day; millions nationwide protest the war
Oct 16 Baseball World Series: 100-1 shot NY Mets beat Baltimore Orioles, 5-3 at Shea Stadium for upset 4-1 series win; MVP: Mets 1B Donn Clendenon
Oct 16 Met Cleon Jones awarded 1st base when shoe polish on ball proves he is hit by a pitch, he scores on a HR in World Series
Oct 16 Soyuz 6 returns to Earth
Oct 17 NY Nets move from Comack to Island Garden, Hempstead NY
Oct 17 Plastic Ono Band's "Cold Turkey" is released in UK
Oct 17 Soyuz 7 returns to Earth

Music History

Oct 18 British singer Rod Stewart joins rock band Small Faces

Oct 18 Federal government bans use of cyclamates artificial sweeteners
Oct 18 Jefferson Airplane's Paul Kanter arrested for marijuana possession
Oct 18 Soyuz 8 returns to Earth
Oct 19 Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick's musical "The Rothschilds", starring Halden, Jill Clayburgh, and Robby Benson opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, NYC; runs for 505 performances, winning 2 Tony Awards
Oct 19 Oakland Darryle Lamonica passes for 6 touchdowns vs Buffalo (50-21)

F1 World Champion

Oct 19 Scottish Matra-Ford driver Jackie Stewart finishes 4th in season ending Mexican Grand Prix to win his first F1 World Drivers Championship by 26 points from Jacky Ickx of Belgium

Oct 20 WKYH (now WYMT) TV channel 57 in Hazard, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting
Oct 21 Bloodless coup in Somalia (National Day)

Election of Interest

Oct 21 German statesman Willy Brandt is elected chancellor of West Germany (1969-1974)

Oct 21 Leonard Gersh's "Butterflies are Free" premieres in NYC
Oct 21 Maj Gen Mohamed Siad Barre becomes President of Somali
Oct 22 KAPN-AM in Santa Barbara CA changes call letters to KDB-AM

Music History

Oct 22 Paul McCartney denies greatly exaggerated rumors of his death

Oct 23 "Jimmy" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 84 performances
Oct 24 Pakistani cricketing brothers Hanif, Mushtaq and Sadiq Mohammad start their only Test together; drawn 1st Test v NZ in Karachi
Oct 26 WHMA (now WJSU) TV channel 40 in Anniston, AL (CBS) 1st broadcast
Oct 27 Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to John Tinbergen