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10th anniv ceremonies; Nixon and Trudeau meet, ss; illus; other notables include Sens Javits and Goodell, Sec Rogers, Nixon aide Dr Kissinger, NYS Gov Rockefeller, R Moses and Sec Volpe
Sen Armed Services Com, 10-7, approves Adm request for $793.5-million to begin construction of first 2 Safeguard installations; Symington, noting sharp split, says it is first time in his 17 yrs on com that there has been such div and when minority rept would be filed; Safeguard opponents heartened by com vote; believe they have 49 'hard' votes against deployment, with 46 Sens supporting Adm and 5 uncommitted; com members and their votes listed
Salvador and Honduras break ties in dispute, brought to head by recent soccer rivalry; details; map; each nation charges other with violation of human rights and calls on OAS to back its case
Knowles urges probe of AMA Pol Action Com to determine if it acted ethically in what he describes as long effort to block his apptmt, press conf, Boston; com and AMA trustees bd are believed to be prime obstacles that delayed apptmt and then forced Nixon to drop it; Knowles lauds Finch; says if Nixon has campaign 'debts' to pay he should do so; says trustees are fearful of any middle pol positions; holds they would have opposed any man really qualified for post; doubts opposition will continue now that his apptmt has been blocked; holds AMA does not reflect views of all its members
HR, in voice vote, approves joint resolution that would continue withholding at present rates through end of July; Madden, during debate, protests failure to include reforms in bill
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 25, 1969, covering June 28, 1969.
Original Cast Recording
The 5th Dimension
Blood| Sweat & Tears
Soundtrack
Iron Butterfly
1969Tichina Arnold, American actress and singer[†]
Tichina Rolanda Arnold is an American actress. She began her career as a child actor, appearing in supporting roles in Little Shop of Horrors (1986) and How I Got into College (1989) before being cast as Pamela "Pam" James on the Fox sitcom Martin, whom she portrayed from 1992 until the show ended in 1997. Arnold also portrayed the family matriarch Rochelle on the UPN/CW sitcom Everybody Hates Chris from 2005 to 2009, and reprised the role in the animated revival Everybody Still Hates Chris (2024-). She portrayed Judi Mann in the TV Land original sitcom Happily Divorced from 2011 to 2013, and from 2014 to 2017, she acted the lead role of Cassie Calloway on Survivor's Remorse. As of 2018, Arnold portrays Tina Butler in the CBS sitcom series The Neighborhood. From 2018 to 2019, she acted the role of Paulette in the South African series Lockdown.
1969Stéphane Chapuisat, Swiss footballer[†]
Stéphane Chapuisat is a Swiss former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is currently the sporting director of BSC Young Boys.
1969Fabrizio Mori, Italian hurdler[†]
Fabrizio Mori is an Italian hurdler, best known for his gold medal at the 1999 World Championships.
1969Stonewall riots begin in New York City, marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement.[†]
The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous riots and demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Although the demonstrations were not the first time American LGBTQ people fought back against government-sponsored persecution of sexual minorities, the Stonewall riots marked a new beginning for the gay rights movement in the United States and around the world.
In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[†]