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HR Armed Services Com, 31-0, approves Adm proposal to draft 19-yr-olds first through lottery system; rejects proposal by com group to end deferments for coll students
some prominent supporters of moratorium say massive outpourings of Amers opposed to war will force Nixon to alter his policy; several newspapers express concern in eds that country seems to be moving into era in which foreign policy is made in the sts; supporters of moratorium uphold procedure as proper and effective; view is summed up by Harriman in E Meadow, LI, rally; Mansfield agrees; 2d-day repts indicate that demonstration, when added up from coast to coast, was 'massive indeed'; Abernathy marches in Los Angeles; White House gives every indication Nixon continues in his earlier determination not to be influenced by demonstrations; Muskie scores Nixon for opposing rather than embracing demonstrations; McGovern expresses similar view; march in Atlanta illus
Mayor Lindsay yesterday unveiled a master plan designed to remake downtown Brooklyn with $500-million worth of office buildings, department stores and apartment houses connected by an underground network of pedestrian passages.
pledges, if elected, to unleash an 'unprecedented attack' on Mafia, position paper; says he is fully aware of its infiltration into legitimate businesses; calls on fellow Ital-Amers to stop 'being on defensive' when organized crime is mentioned; scores Lindsay anti-crime record; links crime rise to his handling of situation; urges Lindsay and Marchi to join him in appealing to Nixon to retain US Atty Morgenthau until end of his term that he might continue his conviction record against crime syndicate; says he will ask Legis to change law to increase prison terms for persons who refuse to testify before grand jury even after they have been granted immunity
club wins World Series against Baltimore, 4-1
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 15, 1969, covering October 17, 1969.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Rolling Stones
Johnny Cash
Blind Faith
Iron Butterfly
1969Ernie Els, South African golfer and sportscaster[â ]
Theodore Ernest Els is a South African professional golfer. A former World No. 1, he is nicknamed "the Big Easy" due to his physical stature along with his fluid golf swing. Among his more than 70 career victories are four major championships: the U.S. Open in 1994 at Oakmont and in 1997 at Congressional, and The Open Championship in 2002 at Muirfield and in 2012 at Royal Lytham & St Annes. He is one of six golfers to twice win both the U.S. Open and The Open Championship.
1969JesĂșs Ăngel GarcĂa, Spanish racewalker[â ]
JesĂșs Ăngel GarcĂa Bragado is a Spanish race walker. He has competed at eight Olympic Games, the most Olympic appearances ever in athletics. He was married to gymnast Carmen Acedo. He retired in 2021 after the Tokyo Olympics.
1969Wood Harris, American actor[â ]
Sherwin David "Wood" Harris is an American actor. He first garnered attention for his role as Motaw in the Jeff Pollack film Above the Rim (1994), prior to portraying high school football player Julius Campbell in the Walt Disney Pictures film Remember the Titans (2000) and Jimi Hendrix in the Showtime television film Hendrix (2000). He attained further recognition for his portrayal of drug kingpin Avon Barksdale on the HBO crime drama The Wire (2002â2008). Harris also played the role of cocaine dealer Ace, based on the life of Azie Faison, in the crime film Paid in Full in 2002.
1969Wyclef Jean, Haitian-American rapper, producer, and actor[â ]
Nel Ust Wyclef Jean is a Haitian rapper, singer, and record producer. Born in Haiti, Jean emigrated to the United States as a child. He gained fame as a founding member of the Fugees, a New Jerseyâbased hip hop trio he formed in 1990 with Lauryn Hill and Pras Michel, serving as the group's lead producer and guitarist. Their second album The Score (1996) became one of the best-selling albums of all time. Following the Fugees' success, Jean launched a solo career with Wyclef Jean Presents The Carnival (1997), which featured the Billboard Hot 100-top ten hit "Gone till November".
1969Rick Mercer, Canadian comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter[â ]
Richard Vincent "Rick" Mercer is a Canadian comedian, television personality, political satirist, and author. He is best known for his work on the CBC Television comedy shows This Hour Has 22 Minutes and Rick Mercer Report. He is the author of four books based on content from the shows and the two part memoir consisting of Talking to Canadians and The Road Years. Mercer has received more than 25 Gemini Awards for his work on television.
1969The Caravaggio painting Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence is stolen from the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo.[â ]
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of his life, he moved between Naples, Malta, and Sicily. His paintings have been characterized by art critics as combining a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, which had a formative influence on Baroque painting.
In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[â ]