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1969

#1969

1 March 28 – ________, 34th President of the United States (b.

2 ________ – Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi visits Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

3 February 4 – In ________, Yasser Arafat is elected Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.

4 President ________ declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense.

5 January 29 – ________, American director of the Central Intelligence Agency (b.

6 ________ – Jean-Michel Saive, Belgian table tennis player

7 January 14 – An explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near ________ kills 27 and injures 314.

8 ________ – The Stonewall riots in New York City mark the start of the modern gay rights movement in the U.S.

9 ________ – Ai Jing, Chinese singer

10 November 12 – Vietnam War – My Lai Massacre: Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the ________ story.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • in 1969 noted writer Norman Mailer ran for Mayor of New York City advocating New York City secession?
  • on Christmas Eve 1969, when California lawyer and noted political activist Ricardo Cruz was a law student at Loyola Law School, he was arrested for leading a march of several hundred demonstrators protesting the newly constructed, $4 million St. Basil's Cathedral?
  • on December 26 and 27, 1969 during the War of Attrition the elite special forces unit Sayeret Matkal kidnapped a whole Egyptian P-12 radar system in a mission called Operation Rooster 53?
  • Charles S. Joelson resigned from the United States House of Representatives on September 4, 1969 in order to become a judge in the New Jersey Superior Court?
  • capital punishment in the Vatican City was legal (but not carried out) between 1929 and 1969?
  • Prince Charles was created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester in 1958, though his actual investiture did not take place until 1 July 1969?
  • "I Want You Back", the 1969 debut single by The Jackson 5, was originally intended for both Gladys Knight & the Pips and Diana Ross, and has been sampled by Blackstreet, Jay-Z, and Lil' Romeo?
  • American Zoetrope was originally housed in a warehouse in San Francisco in 1969?
  • Boston Red Sox pitcher Mike Nagy was selected as American League rookie pitcher of the year in 1969, but never pitched another full season due to injury?
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