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Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[†]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 9, 1969, covering July 12, 1969.
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Blood| Sweat & Tears
Tom Jones
The 5th Dimension
Henry Mancini
Bob Dylan
The Who
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Iron Butterfly
1969Chantal Jouanno, French politician, French Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports[†]
Chantal Jouanno is a French politician who served as Minister of Sports in the government of Prime Minister François Fillon from 14 November 2010 and 26 September 2011, succeeding to Roselyne Bachelot and being replaced by David Douillet, before taking office as senator on 1 October 2011. She was a close ally of president Sarkozy and former president of ADEME.
1969Alan Mullally, English cricketer and sportscaster[†]
Alan Mullally is an English former first-class cricketer, who played Tests and ODIs. Mullally grew up in Western Australia, and played for the Australian Under-19 side against their West Indian counterparts in 1987/88.
1969Anne-Sophie Pic, French chef[†]
Anne-Sophie Pic is a French chef best known for regaining three Michelin stars for her restaurant, Maison Pic, in southeast France. She is the fourth female chef to win three Michelin stars, and was named the Best Female Chef by The World's 50 Best Restaurants in 2011. She currently holds 10 Michelin stars.
1969Jesse Pintado, Mexican-American guitarist (died 2006)[†]
Jesus "Jesse" Ernesto Pintado Andrade was a Mexican-American guitarist best known as a guitarist for the British grindcore band Napalm Death.
1969Henry George Lamond, Australian farmer and author (born 1885)[†]
Henry George Lamond was an Australian farmer and writer, notable for his novels about the land, people and animals of outback Queensland. In addition to his fiction and non-fiction books, he wrote over 900 essays and articles for magazines including Walkabout. At one point in his career he was considered to be the Australian 'Thompson Seton'.
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NYC Mayor Lindsay attends neighborhood street carnival, Woodside, Queens, held for 2d yr at request of 9-yr-old boy, victim of disease, who heard broadcast announcement about similar carnival and asked to have his own
NY Times survey on school funding finds taxpayer revolts, triggered by resentment over rising property taxes, has resulted in 30 school dists in Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester Counties going on austerity budgets; also notes sharp cutback or elimination of summer programs; list of dists rejecting school budgets in '69, situation in some dists discussed
Mills repts HR com has tentatively approved 2d batch of reforms as part of reform pkg
US Appeals Ct reverses '68 conviction for conspiring to counsel draft evasion; illus
US grand jury indicts 15 former prison officials and guards on charges of performing brutal acts against inmates at Tucker and Cummins State Farms and at 2 county penal farms; J L Bruton, former supt at Tucker farm, and 2 others had been previously charged in Ark cts but counts had been quashed by Ark Sup Ct; indictments returned after testimony from 70 witnesses; some specific charges detailed
Defense Dept reveals that Army is conducting open-air tests of nerve gas and other deadly chemicals at Dugway Proving Ground, Edgewood Arsenal and Ft McClellan; information was made available by Army Sec Resor during HR subcom hearings in May; shows Army conducted open-air tests on 67 different gas weapons at Dugway and 47 at Ft McClellan between Apr and June; Army reptd 239 gas weapons were tested or will be tested at Edgewood during Apr and Oct and that 358 will be tested at Dugway during next 3 mos; types of fases and delivery devices noted; subcom chmn Reuss gratified that Army has recognized pub interest by revealing gen extent of testing
new Vietcong govt issues communique denouncing Nguyen Van Thieu proposal as farce and as 'perfidious trickery'; restates its position on pol solution; says its position is 'most realistic way'; Pham Dang Lam says he will officially put proposal forward at next session of Paris Ulks; communique scores US and Nguyen Van Thieu
real estate indus yields 'under protest' to city's demand for new code regulating rents of 400,000 uncontrolled apts; if city accepts code, rents can be raised maximum of 5% for 1-yr lease, 10% for 2 yrs and 15% for 3 yrs, computed as of May 31 '68; refunds for overcharging would be retroactive to Jan; Tompkins says new changes are in violation of intent of new law and are forced on indus; Nathan comments; Manes enumerates areas of agreement
Fed ct, ruling dams and causeways included in expressway plans are subject to Cong authority, holds Army Engineers Corps exceeded its authority and bars road; groups opposing expressway noted; details on ruling; Rockefeller aide says decision does not question need for pk; map
Western diplomats speculate on long-term significance of his obvious efforts to relax tensions with West while renewing warnings to China to negotiate
Treas sets interest rate rise to 5%, retroactive to June 1; Cong approval expected; maturity on new bonds will be 5 yrs 10 mos, with bonds sold in same denominations as now; Under Sec Volcker holds Treas merely seeks to maintain and gradually increase amt of savings flowing into bonds, primarily through payroll withholding plan, news conf; Treas will reduce to $5,000 from $20,000 maximum amt of bonds individual may buy in yr to bar big shift in savings from other insts; sales of Freedom Shares will be ended after 6 mot became of rise
Nixon declares Nguyen Van Thieu proposal opens way for rapid settlement of conflict, statement; Vietcong spokesman in Paris scores proposal