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May 26, 1969

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Headlines from May 26, 1969

APOLLO 10 HEADS FOR SPLASHDOWN IN PACIFIC TODAY; 3 Astronauts Have Shaves, Suggest Scripture Reading and Check Out Spaceship CARRIER IS STANDING BY Samoa Plans Welcoming -- Director 'Almost Certain' of a July Moon Landing Apollo 10 Aims for Splashdown Today

By John Noble Wilfordspecial To the New York Times

craft passes halfway point on its return trip to earth; astronauts shave with shaving cream, safety razors and towels, becoming 1st men to shave in space; Stafford requests that passages from Books of Psalms and Isaiah be read at his ch, Seabrook Meth, near Houston; astronauts show pictures of cabin during 10-min color telecast; map shows splashdown site in S Pacific

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CANDIDATES SCORE DUAL ADMISSIONS FOR CITY COLLEGE; Badillo and Procaccino Join Marchi in Attacking Plan on Slum Enrollments 3 Mayoral Candidates Criticize Dual Admissions for C.C.N.Y.

By Sylvan Fox

Mayoral candidates Badillo, Procaccino and Marchi score admissions program; Badillo urges strengthened SEEK program; Lindsay urges all withhold final judgment pending more details and Higher Educ Bd rev; fear expressed that program will raise present 82 avg as entrance requirement because of ltd freshman openings

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 21, 1969, covering May 26, 1969.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Hair by Original Cast Recording

    Hair

    Original Cast Recording

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    43
  2. 2
    Album cover for Blood; Sweat & Tears by Blood| Sweat & Tears

    Blood; Sweat & Tears

    Blood| Sweat & Tears

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    17
  3. 3
    Album cover for Nashville Skyline by Bob Dylan

    Nashville Skyline

    Bob Dylan

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    4
  4. 4
    Album cover for Galveston by Glen Campbell

    Galveston

    Glen Campbell

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    7
  5. 5
    Album cover for Donovan's Greatest Hits by Donovan

    Donovan's Greatest Hits

    Donovan

    Last week
    5
    Peak
    4
    Weeks
    14

Notable Births

John Baird (Canadian politician)

1969John Baird, Canadian politician, 10th Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs[†]

John Russell Baird is a retired Canadian politician. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2011 to 2015 in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. He had been a member of the federal cabinet, in various positions, since 2006. Previously he was a provincial cabinet minister in Ontario during the governments of Premiers Mike Harris and Ernie Eves. Baird resigned from Harper's cabinet on February 3, 2015, and as a Member of Parliament on March 16, 2015.

1969Siri Lindley, American triathlete and coach[†]

Siri Lindley is an American triathlon coach and former professional triathlete. She is the 2001 ITU Triathlon World Champion as well as the winner of the 2001 and 2002 ITU Triathlon World Cup series and 2001 ITU Aquathlon World Championships. She has coached a number of Olympic and Ironman athletes and champions, including Mirinda Carfrae, Leanda Cave, Sarah True, and Susan Williams. In 2014, she was selected to be a member of the inaugural International Triathlon Union (ITU) Hall of Fame class.

Notable Deaths

Paul Hawkins (racing driver)

1969Paul Hawkins, Australian racing driver (born 1937)[†]

Robert Paul Hawkins was an Australian motor racing driver. The son of a racing motorcyclist-turned-church minister, Hawkins was a capable single-seater driver but really made his mark as an outstanding sports car competitor driving Ford GT40s and Lola T70s. In 1969 Hawkins was included in the FIA list of graded drivers, an elite group of 27 drivers who by their achievements were rated the best in the world.

Allan Lockheed

1969Allan Haines Loughead, American engineer, co-founded the Lockheed Corporation (born 1889)[†]

Allan Haines Lockheed was an American aviation engineer and businessman. He formed the Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company along with his brother, Malcolm Loughead, which became Lockheed Corporation.

Historical Events

Apollo program

1969Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first crewed Moon landing.[†]

The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program led by NASA, which landed the first humans on the Moon in 1969. Apollo followed Project Mercury that put the first Americans in space. It was conceived in 1960 as a three-person spacecraft during President Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration. Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal for the 1960s of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" in an address to Congress on May 25, 1961. It was the third American human spaceflight program to fly, preceded by Project Gemini conceived in 1961 to extend spaceflight capability in support of Apollo.

Historical Context for May 26, 1969

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