On this day
March 10, 1969
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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Headlines from March 10, 1969
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100 Barnard Girls Move Into Columbia Dormitories; Barnard Girls Move Into Rooms Given to Them by Columbia Boys
About 100 Barnard girls move into 2 Columbia men's dormitories in effort to dramatize demands of students at both insts for coeduc dormitory arrangements this fall; illus; action has not been officially sanctioned by either inst but student com sponsoring it holds action violates neither inst's visiting rules
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Peking Deploys Civilians Along Border With Soviet; Chinese Civilians Are Deployed On Tense Border With Soviet
China repts civilians and regular Army forces have been deployed with regular border patrols on Siberian frontier; USSR intensifies civil defense training and duty schedules in schools and factories near border, sets up field hq near exposed border points; speculation on motivations behind present tensions and likely outcome
Music on My Birthday
Billboard 200
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 5, 1969, covering March 10, 1969.
- 1
Wichita Lineman
Glen Campbell
- Last week
- 3
- Peak
- 1
- Weeks
- 17
- 2
Yellow Submarine
The Beatles
- Last week
- 2
- Peak
- 2
- Weeks
- 5
- 3
Goodbye
Cream
- Last week
- 9
- Peak
- 3
- Weeks
- 4
- 4
The Beatles [White Album]
The Beatles
- Last week
- 1
- Peak
- 1
- Weeks
- 13
- 5
Greatest Hits
The Association
- Last week
- 5
- Peak
- 4
- Weeks
- 11
Notable Births
1969Paget Brewster, American actress[†]
Paget Valerie Brewster is an American actress. She first received recognition for her recurring role as Kathy on the fourth season of Friends. She gained wider recognition as FBI Supervisory Special Agent Emily Prentiss on CBS's Criminal Minds. Brewster was a regular cast member of the show from 2006 to 2012, then made two guest appearances before returning as a regular in 2016.
Historical Events
1969In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. He later unsuccessfully attempts to recant.[†]
Memphis is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, and its county seat. Situated along the Mississippi River, it had a population of 633,104 at the 2020 census, making it the second-most populous city in Tennessee, the fifth-most populous in the Southeast, and the 28th-most populous in the nation. Memphis is the largest city proper on the Mississippi River and anchors the Memphis metropolitan area that includes parts of Arkansas and Mississippi, the 45th-most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. with 1.34 million residents.
Historical Context for March 10, 1969
In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[†]