Historical Events in 1969 (Part 3)

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• Aug 1 36th Chicago Charities College All-Star Game: NY Jets 26, All-Stars 24 (74,208)
• Aug 1 Mariner 6 sends close-up photos of Mars

• Aug 3 Cincinnati Reds with 25 hits & 10 runs in 5th edge Philadelphia Phillies 19-17 at Connie Mack Stadium
• Aug 5 Mariner 7 flies past Mars

• Aug 5 The UVF plant their first bomb in the Republic of Ireland, damaging the RTÉ Television Centre in Dublin
• Aug 8 The Beatles are photographed by Iain MacMillan crossing the street as they walk away from EMI Recording Studios, for the cover of their "Abbey Road" album [1]
• Aug 9 Manson family commits Tate-LaBianca murders

• Aug 12 Battle of the Bogside: RUC officers, backed by loyalists, entered the nationalist Bogside in armoured cars and tried to suppress the riot by using CS gas, water cannon and eventually firearms; the almost continuous rioting lasted for two days
• Aug 12 Boston Celtics sold for an NBA record $6 million

• Aug 14 British Army deploys on the streets of Northern Ireland, marking the beginning of Operation Banner
• Aug 14 In response to events in Derry, Irish nationalists hold protests throughout Northern Ireland, some of these became violent
• Aug 14 NY Mets fall 9½ games back, later to win pennant

• Aug 16 First performance of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Auditorium Theater, Chicago)
• Aug 16 V.V. Giri is elected the fourth President of India
• Aug 16 WATL TV channel 36 in Atlanta, GA begins broadcasting
• Aug 17 Hurricane Camille strikes US coastline and kills 259 people (mainly in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana)
• Aug 17 NY Jets beat NY Giants, 37-14 in their first meeting (pre-season)

• Aug 20 69 cm rainfall in Nelson County, Virginia (state record)
• Aug 21 Fire in Al-Aksa-mosque in Jerusalem
• Aug 21 First Gap clothing store opens in Ocean Avenue, San Francisco
• Aug 22 Gloria O Smith (NY) crowned 2nd Miss Black America

• Aug 23 Audrey McElmory (US) wins World Cycling Championships, Brno Czechoslovakia
• Aug 23 France's Une De Mai wins International Trot at Roosevelt Raceway Czechoslovakia (1st American to win cycling race title since 1912)
• Aug 24 Peru nationalizes US oil interests
• Aug 25 Det Lions beat Boston Patriots 22-9 in Montreal (NFL expo)
• Aug 27 Lindy's Pride wins Hambletonian Stakes
• Aug 27 Mike Procter hits six consecutive sixes (across two overs)

• Aug 29 KYUS TV channel 3 in Miles City, MT (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting

• Aug 30 3-day Texas International Pop Festival opens in Lewisville, Texas - 125,000 attend; performers include: Chicago Transit Authority; Delaney and Bonnie and Friends; Grand Funk Railroad; Janis Joplin; B.B. King; Led Zeppelin; Nazz; Sam and Dave; Sly and the Family Stone; and Johnny Winter
• Aug 30 69th US Golf Amateur Championship won by American Steve Melnyk
• Aug 30 Racial disturbances in Fort Lauderdale, Florida

• Sep 2 Ralph Houk signs 3-year contract to manage New York Yankees at $65,000 a season, then the biggest salary in MLB
• Sep 2 The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Center, New York.
• Sep 5 Frente Obrero wins Dutch Antilles national elections

• Sep 8 Suleiman Maghrabi appointed premier of Libya

• Sep 9 Allegheny Airlines flight 853 collides with a Piper Cherokee above Indiana, kills all 83 occupants
• Sep 9 The Official Languages Act comes into force in Canada - making English and French the country's official languages (replaced 1988 by new Official Languages Act) [1]
• Sep 9 WCVN TV channel 54 in Covington, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Sep 10 NY Mets sweep Montreal Expos putting them in 1st place for 1st time
• Sep 10 US performs nuclear test at Grand Valley Colorado
• Sep 11 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

• Sep 13 Baltimore Orioles, win earliest AL Eastern division title

• Sep 14 Male voters of Swiss Canton Schaffhausen reject female suffrage

• Sep 19 UCLA fires professor Angela Davis for being a communist; termination was overturned in court and she was later fired for using inflammatory language
• Sep 20 John Lennon privately announces to Paul and Ringo (George was not there) that he is leaving "The Beatles" at a London business meeting
• Sep 20 MLB Pittsburgh Pirate Bob Moose no-hits NY Mets, 4-0
• Sep 20 Virtual 'cartoon' band Archies' single "Sugar Sugar" hits #1
• Sep 21 NY Jet Steve O'Neal punts 98 yards against Denver Broncos
• Sep 21 Ron Hill wins European marathon (2:16:47.8)
• Sep 22 "Music Scene" debuts on ABC-TV
• Sep 22 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC

• Sep 23 1st broadcast of "Marcus Welby MD" on ABC-TV

• Sep 24 NY Mets clinch NL East pennant
• Sep 24 Ton Duc Thang is elected President of North Vietnam
• Sep 24 Trial of "Chicago 8" (protesters at Dem National Conv) begins
• Sep 26 Apple Records releases The Beatles 11th studio album "Abbey Road", their final recordings as a quartet; tops the charts in 11 countries
• Sep 26 Bolivia military coup under general Ovando Candia

• Sep 26 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Sep 28 Minnesota vs Baltimore, gains 530 yards passing!
• Sep 28 NFL Minnesota Vikings QB Joe Kapp passes for 7 touchdowns vs Baltimore Colts in 52-14 home win
• Sep 28 SPD wins West German Parliament elections
• Sep 29 "Bright Promise" TV Daytime Soap; debuts on NBC-TV
• Sep 29 "Letters To Laugh-In" debuts on NBC-TV
• Sep 29 "Love American Style" premieres on ABC-TV
• Sep 29 "Name Droppers" debuts on NBC-TV
• Sep 29 "Sale Of Century" debuts on NBC-TV
• Sep 29 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
• Sep 29 Jackie DeShannon gets Gold Record for "Put Little Love in Your Heart"
• Sep 29 Red Sox Rico Petrocelli hits shortstop record 40th HR of season
• Sep 29 Steve O'Neal of NY Jets, kicks longest NFL punt; 98 yards vs Denver
• Sep 30 Atlanta's 10th straight win, clinches NL West pennant
• Oct 1 Concorde 001 jet airplane test flight breaks sound barrier
• Oct 1 Guernsey & Jersey begin issuing their own postage stamps
• Oct 1 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• Oct 2 Seattle Pilots' last game in Seattle; crash to 98th season loss, 3-1 to Oakland in front of just 5,473; move to Milwaukee as the Brewers next season
• Oct 2 US performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians
• Oct 4 Last wooden passenger subway cars retired at Brooklyn Myrtle Beach
• Oct 4 UN starts issuing postage stamps at Geneva headquarters

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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
• 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 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

• 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 Oakland Darryle Lamonica passes for 6 touchdowns vs Buffalo (50-21)
• 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)

• 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
• Oct 22 Paul McCartney denies greatly exaggerated rumors of his death
• 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

• Oct 27 St Vincent & Grenadines gains associated status with Britain

• Oct 29 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Oct 29 US Supreme Court orders end to all school segregation "at once"
• Oct 29 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Oct 30 WXPO (now WNDS) TV channel 50 in Manchester, NH (IND) 1st broadcast
• Oct 31 Eastside race riot in Jacksonville, Florida

• Nov 1 The Beatles' "Abbey Road" album goes #1 in US and stays #1 for 11 weeks

• Nov 2 Quarterbacks Billy Kilmer of New Orleans and St Louis' Charlie Johnson each pass for 6 touchdowns for combined NFL record of 12 passing TDs in a game; Saints beat Cardinals, 51-42 at Busch Memorial Stadium
• Nov 3 Congo president Mobutu visits Belgium
• Nov 7 John Lennon and Yoko Ono release their second album "Wedding Album" in UK

• Nov 9 "Bridge over Troubled Water" single recorded by Simon & Garfunkel

• Nov 12 US army announces investigating William Calley for alleged massacre of civilians at Vietnamese village of My Lai in March, 19
• Nov 12 WJJY (now WJPT) TV channel 14 in Jacksonville, IL (ABC) 1st broadcast

• Nov 14 2nd Vietnam Moratorium Day in US
• Nov 14 Apollo 12 (Conrad/Gordon/Bean) launched for 2nd manned Moon landing
• Nov 15 1st Jackson Five record to enter top 100 (I Want You Back)

• Nov 15 Janis Joplin, accused of vulgar & indicent language in Tampa, Florida
• Nov 15 The 1st ever colour television commercial in the UK, for Birds Eye peas, airs on ATV in the Midlands during a Thunderbirds episode
• Nov 15 Wendy's Hamburgers, American fast food restaurant chains founded by Dave Thomas opens in Columbus, Ohio
• Nov 16 1968 Mỹ Lai massacre of between 347 and 504 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by US soldiers is first reported
• Nov 16 US President Nixon becomes first president to attend a season NFL game while in office: the Dallas Cowboys beat the Washington Redskins 41-28
• Nov 17 SALT-discussions open in Helsinki Finland
• Nov 18 Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi assigned to the Tate and LaBianca murders, will eventually convict Charles Mason for orchestrating the killings
• Nov 19 Apollo 12's Charles Conrad and Alan Bean become the 3rd and 4th humans on the Moon
• Nov 19 WENY TV channel 36 in Elmira, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting

• Nov 20 Gundappa Viswanath scores 137 on Test Cricket debut v Australia Kanpur

• Nov 21 KXIX (now KVCT) TV channel 19 in Victoria, TX (ABC) 1st broadcast
• Nov 21 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Nov 22 Isolation of a single gene announced by scientists at Harvard University
• Nov 24 Apollo 12 returns to Earth
• Nov 24 US Army Lt William L Calley charged with massacre of over 100 civilians in My Lai Vietnam in March 1968, ordered to stand trial by court martial
• Nov 24 West German President Heinemann visits The Netherlands
• Nov 25 John Lennon returns MBE to protest "against Britain's involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra thing, against our support of America in Vietnam and against Cold Turkey slipping down the charts."
• Nov 25 KC outfielder Lou Piniella is voted AL Rookie of Year

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