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In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[â ]
1969Tracy Caldwell Dyson, American chemist and astronaut[â ]
Tracy Caldwell Dyson is an American chemist and NASA astronaut. She was a mission specialist on Space Shuttle Endeavour flight STS-118 in August 2007 and has participated in two long-duration missions to the International Space Station, Expedition 23 and 24 from April to September 2010 and Expedition 70 and 71 from March to September 2024. She has completed four spacewalks, logging nearly 24 hours of extravehicular activity.
1969Stig Tøfting, Danish footballer[â ]
Stig Tøfting, commonly known as Tøffe, is a former Danish professional footballer and assistant coach, who most recently was the assistant of Erik Rasmussen at AGF.
1969The Troubles: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland as political and sectarian violence breaks out, marking the start of the 37-year Operation Banner.[â ]
The Troubles were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland conflict, it began in the late 1960s and is usually deemed to have ended with the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. Although the Troubles mostly took place in Northern Ireland, at times violence spilled over into parts of the Republic of Ireland, England, and mainland Europe.
example, in rept on Nixon message to Cong on Fed revenue sharing with states and local govts, shows that Southern school dists could theoretically receive funds even though they are not in compliance with Fed desegregation guidelines, but their large grants under Fed educ programs could still be withdrawn
allies mount wide counteroffensive; enemy has lost more than 1,000 men in 3 1/2 days of fighting, allies have lost about 200; B-52s stage unusually heavy strikes; 28 enemy shellings reptd; allied officials are unsure whether enemy attacks are intended to end or interrupt lull; US marines have killed 213 enemy near Danang; 20 marines killed, 177 wounded; US forces kill 79 enemy near Cambodian border; enemy shells 2 Amer camps near Locninh; illus; map
20 injured when 2 LIRR trains collide in Penn Central's E River tunnel near Queens end blocking tunnel for most of day; illus: map; Ronan seeks Fed probe, news conf; suspects faulty Penn Central signals; says MTA will make ind probe; BLFE chmn Riker charges signal in tunnel near collision had been defective for 2 wks; Assemblyman Kuzeman pledges state probe of commuter hazards; LIRR cancels 22 trains; LIRR train stalls in E River tunnel during morning rush causing 45-min delay
Irish Repub Prime Min Lynch, in surprise TV appearance, asks GB to apply immediately to UN for urgent dispatch of peace force to Ulster; holds Royal Ulster Constabulary is no longer acceptable as impartial police force and doubts Brit troops could keep order, even if summoned; holds it evident that Belfast Govt is no longer in control of situation; declares that partition of Ireland and policy of Prot-dominated Govt are at root of problem; asks GB to open talks with Dublin to rev const position of Northern Ireland and assure that 'police attacks on people of Derry' cease immediately; says many of those injured in riots do not wish to be treated in Ulster hosps and he has therefore directed Irish Repub Army to set up field hosps on border near Londonderry; broadcast follows long Cabinet meeting for which all mins had been recalled from vacation; Chichester-Clark charges Lynch with 'clumsy and intolerable intrusion into our internal affairs'; says he will hold Lynch personally responsible for worsening situation by his 'inflammatory remarks'; earlier made TV address in attempt to restore calm; violence continues into 2d night, Londonderry; police fire 2 dozen shots to protect themselves from gasoline bombs; rioting spreads to Dungiven, Newry, Armagh, other towns; Devlin reptdly has been conspicuous figure behind barricades, breaking stones and urging Cath youths on; Belfast Govt bans further marches; seen reluctant to call in Brit troops for fear of losing autonomy
astronauts hailed by over 1-million people, Chicago; illus; they are welcomed by Daley at new Civic Center; illus; astronauts and Paine made hon citizens of Chicago; talk to thousands of youths, Grant Pk; 4 hrs before ceremonies, 500 Negro youths affiliated with st gangs marched on center to demand more construction jobs for Negroes
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with 2 fellow astronauts and families is hailed in motorcades and ceremonies, NYC, Chicago and Los Angeles, on 1-day transcontinental trip
illus with wife at state dinner for Apollo 11 astronauts, Los Angeles
sources close to investigation say double-agent role of reptd victim in case was 1st indicated by photographs showing him in conversation with N Vietnamese intelligence officers; man was reptdly photographed secretly at undisclosed Cambodian site; account of incident obtained from various sources, including interrogation of man in which polygraph test was administered and sodium pentathol (truth serum) was used, discussed; CIA directive that man be executed said to have been revoked after man was killed; other details on case; Army investigation expected to take at least another wk; Repr Rodino, acting on behalf of 1 of accused (Capt R Marasco), calls on Army to release more information
USSR and China disclose new and apparently bloody clash along Central Asian frontier between Sinkiang and Kaiakhstan; each, in notes to each other, charges illegal intrusion, rept dead and wounded, and Russians rept taking 2 Chinese prisoners; clash apparently near Cruzhba, town on Russian side at juncture of rr between 2 countries never completed on Chinese side; Hsinhua repts shooting continues; discloses an earlier incident; recent troop reinforcements in area noted; map
Nickerson charges Stockmeister and Rockefeller with felony for what he says was selling vote for state apptmt, suit to invalidate Stockmeister's apptmt to State Civil Service Comm; denies partisan motive; Rockefeller repr rejects charge