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TEL AVIV, Feb. 2 -- More than 90 teen-age Arab girls were injured in Gaza this morning when Israeli forces with nightsticks drove 2,000 to 3,000 rioting students from three girls' high schools back into their classrooms.
Martinelli, Giovanni
An attempt to display a hangman's noose in a tree opposite the Iraqi Mission to the United Nations near Fifth Avenue to protest the public hanging of 14 alleged Israeli spies led to a clash with the police yesterday in which five persons were arrested.
NYC Planning Comm approves 10-yr $19-billion Master Plan for city aimed at elevating city's poor minority groups into middle class; details
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 29, 1969, covering February 3, 1969.
The Beatles
Diana Ross & The Supremes With The Temptations
Glen Campbell
Diana Ross & The Supremes
Sergio Mendes
1969Beau Biden, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 44th Attorney General of Delaware (died 2015)[†]
Joseph Robinette "Beau" Biden III was an American politician, lawyer, and officer in the Army Judge Advocate General's Corps from Wilmington, Delaware. He was the eldest child of 46th U.S. president Joe Biden and Neilia Hunter Biden, served as the 44th attorney general of Delaware from 2007 to 2015, and was a major in the Delaware Army National Guard in the Iraq War. He died of glioblastoma at the age of 46 in 2015, at which time he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor of Delaware in the 2016 gubernatorial election. A portion of the 21st Century Cures Act was named the Beau Biden Cancer Moonshot initiative after him.
1969Retief Goosen, South African golfer[†]
Retief Goosen is a South African professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour Champions. He has won two U.S. Opens, in 2001 and 2004, headed the European Tour Order of Merit in 2001 and 2002, and was in the top ten of the world rankings for over 250 weeks between 2001 and 2007. He was elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame, class of 2019.
1969C. N. Annadurai, Indian journalist and politician, 7th Chief Minister of Madras State (born 1909)[†]
Conjeevaram Natarajan Annadurai, also known as Perarignar, was an Indian politician who was the founder and first general-secretary of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK). He served as the fourth and last chief minister of Madras State from 1967 until 1969, and then as the first chief minister of Tamil Nadu for 20 days before his death in office. He was the first member of a Dravidian party to hold either post.
1969Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambican activist and academic (born 1920)[†]
Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane was a Mozambican revolutionary and anthropologist who was the founder of the Mozambican Liberation Front (FRELIMO). He served as the FRELIMO's first leader until his assassination in 1969 in Tanzania. An anthropologist by profession, Mondlane also worked as a history and sociology professor at Syracuse University before returning to Mozambique in 1963.
In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[†]