DR. KING CLEARED IN '63 MARCH CASE; Aide Seized With Him Wins Test Appeal in High Court
Ct reverses disorderly conduct conviction
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Ct reverses disorderly conduct conviction
Justice Dept says it will continue probe into possible conspiracy in assassination although there is at present no evidence to support conspiracy plot; Mrs King and Abernathy believe murder was result of conspiracy
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
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 5, 1969, covering March 11, 1969.
Glen Campbell
The Beatles
Cream
The Beatles
The Association
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.

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.

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