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Apollo 11 astronauts N A Armstrong and Col Aldrin will leave medal on moon to hon him
Commerce Dept repts more than half of $16.4-billion rise in 2d qr GNP represents higher prices
Govt sources confirm Gen Franco will designate Juan Carlos to succeed him as chief of state; date of succession uncertain; Prince illus; lives quietly with his family near Madrid
ICC upholds rrs argument that carriers lose money operating passenger trains; warns Cong that unless changes are made in carrier and Govt policies, passenger service, except for commuter and high-density corridor service, will not survive long; chmn V M Brown warns rrs cannot be required to continue operations that constitute 'unreasonable financial burdens', lr to Sen Magnuson; urges immediate Cong probe; ICC study of '68 passenger operations of 8 rrs indicates rrs would have saved $118-million had they not operated passenger trains
NYSE govs weigh granting some form of exch membership to insts; Haack, citing competitive challenge, says insts might be given access to exch through discount on comms, lr to exch members
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 16, 1969, covering July 18, 1969.
Original Cast Recording
Soundtrack
Blood| Sweat & Tears
The 5th Dimension
Tom Jones
1969Elizabeth Gilbert, American author[†]
Elizabeth Gilbert is an American journalist and author. She is best known for her 2006 memoir Eat, Pray, Love, which has sold over 30 million copies and has been translated into over 30 languages. The book was also made into a film of the same name in 2010.
1969The Great Sasuke, Japanese wrestler and politician[†]
Masanori Murakawa , best known under his ring name The Great Sasuke , is a Japanese professional wrestler, professional wrestling promoter and politician. He is the founder of Michinoku Pro Wrestling (MPW). Aside from professional wrestling, he is also a former Iwate Prefectural Assembly legislator. He has wrestled in Japan and in the United States in various professional wrestling promotions. He is said to have an incredible tolerance for pain, mainly in reference to the injuries he has had including a cracked skull on two occasions.
1969Mary Jo Kopechne, American educator and secretary (born 1940)[†]
Mary Jo Kopechne was an American secretary, and one of the campaign workers for U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign, a close team known as the "Boiler Room Girls". In 1969, she asphyxiated when a car driven by U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy left a narrow road on Chappaquiddick Island and overturned into Poucha Pond after they had left a party. According to reports, Kennedy left the party at 11:15 p.m. Kopechne's body and the car were not reported until the next morning, approximately nine to ten hours later.
In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[†]