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April 7, 1969

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 2, 1969, covering April 7, 1969.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Wichita Lineman by Glen Campbell

    Wichita Lineman

    Glen Campbell

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    21
  2. 2
    Album cover for Blood; Sweat & Tears by Blood| Sweat & Tears

    Blood; Sweat & Tears

    Blood| Sweat & Tears

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    10
  3. 3
    Album cover for Ball by Iron Butterfly

    Ball

    Iron Butterfly

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    8
  4. 4
    Album cover for Goodbye by Cream

    Goodbye

    Cream

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    8
  5. 5
    Album cover for In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly

    In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

    Iron Butterfly

    Last week
    6
    Peak
    5
    Weeks
    38

Notable Births

Ricky Watters

1969Ricky Watters, American football player[†]

Richard James Watters is an American former professional football player who was a running back for the San Francisco 49ers, Philadelphia Eagles, and Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL). Watters played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, where he played wide receiver on the school's 1988 national champion team. In the NFL, he won a second championship in Super Bowl XXIX with the 49ers.

Historical Events

Internet

1969The Internet's symbolic birth date: Publication of RFC 1.[†]

The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a network of networks that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the interlinked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), electronic mail, internet telephony, streaming media and file sharing.

Historical Context for April 7, 1969

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