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March 11, 1969

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STORM MAY ALTER APOLLO LANDING; Astronauts See Whitecaps in Atlantic Target Area

By John Noble Wilford

stormy seas and high winds in recovery zone threaten to force change in time and place of splashdown; Bermuda tracking station forced to shut down antenna because of high winds; McDivitt repts seeing whitecaps from space; 3 alternate recovery zones listed; astronauts take pictures of earth, fire craft's main rocket; craft is now in orbit with 288-mi apogee and 113-mi perigee; flight plan schedule

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 5, 1969, covering March 11, 1969.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Wichita Lineman by Glen Campbell

    Wichita Lineman

    Glen Campbell

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    17
  2. 2
    Album cover for Yellow Submarine by The Beatles

    Yellow Submarine

    The Beatles

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    5
  3. 3
    Album cover for Goodbye by Cream

    Goodbye

    Cream

    Last week
    9
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    4
  4. 4
    Album cover for The Beatles [White Album] by The Beatles

    The Beatles [White Album]

    The Beatles

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    13
  5. 5
    Album cover for Greatest Hits by The Association

    Greatest Hits

    The Association

    Last week
    5
    Peak
    4
    Weeks
    11

Notable Births

Terrence Howard

1969Terrence Howard, American actor and producer[†]

Terrence Dashon Howard is an American actor performing on film and television. He has received a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and two Independent Spirit Awards.

Soraya (musician)

1969Soraya, Colombian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 2006)[†]

Soraya Raquel Lamilla Cuevas was a Colombian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, arranger and record producer.

Notable Deaths

John Wyndham

1969John Wyndham, English author (born 1903)[†]

John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was an English science fiction writer best known for his works published under the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes. Some of his works were set in post-apocalyptic landscapes. His best known works include The Day of the Triffids (1951), filmed in 1962, and The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), which was filmed in 1960 as Village of the Damned, in 1995 under the same title, and again in 2022 in Sky Max under its original title.

Historical Context for March 11, 1969

In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[†]