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In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[†]
1969Steven Chamuleau, Dutch cardiologist[†]
Steven Anton Jozef Chamuleau is a cardiologist and professor at the University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU) in the Netherlands, specializing in cardiac regenerative therapy, valvular disease and cardiac imaging.
1969Jeremy Davies, American actor[†]
Jeremy Boring, known professionally as Jeremy Davies, is an American actor. He is known for playing Ray Aibelli in Spanking the Monkey (1994), Corporal Timothy Upham in Saving Private Ryan (1998), Private Toffler in Ravenous (1999), Snow in Solaris (2002), Bill Henson in Dogville (2003), Charles Manson in Helter Skelter (2004), Sergeant Gene DeBruin in Rescue Dawn (2006) and Daniel Faraday on the series Lost (2008–2010).
1969Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Puerto Rican screenwriter and producer[†]
Javier "Javi" Grillo-Marxuach is a television screenwriter and producer, and podcaster, known for his work as writer and producer on the first two seasons of the ABC television series Lost, as well as other series including Charmed and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
1969Ben Harper, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Benjamin Charles Harper is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Harper plays an eclectic mix of blues, folk, soul, reggae, and rock music, and he is known for his guitar-playing skills, vocals, live performances, and activism. He has released twelve studio albums, mostly through Virgin Records, and has toured internationally.
1969Wolfgang Kocevar, Austrian politician[†]
Wolfgang Kocevar is an Austrian politician and member of the Landtag of Lower Austria. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he has been a State List member since March 2023. He has been mayor of Ebreichsdorf since 2010.
1969Noriyoshi Omichi, Japanese baseball player and coach[†]
Noriyoshi Omichi is a Japanese former professional baseball Infielder, and current the third squad hitting coach for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
1969Constance Dowling, American model and actress (born 1920)[†]
Constance Dowling was an American model turned actress of the 1940s and 1950s.
strike cripples GE production; Jennings demands Sec Shultz resign because of Shultz comment suggesting GE resists union wage demands because Nixon's anti-inflation policies squeeze profits; accuses Shultz of taking partisan stand in dispute; Shultz spokesman says Shultz has no comment; Shultz, in news program, indicates there will be no Fed intervention in strike except for efforts of mediation service; GE, in effort to keep plants operating, announces that its facilities will be open for employes who want to work; scuffles at some plants occur as some strikers attempt to block entrance of some employes; more than a score of arrests reptd; pickets said to parade peacefully in most locations; co issues statement explaining its offer; says strike seems to boil down to assault on co bargaining approach; IUE and UE file charges of unfair labor practices against co, contending it refused to bargain; illus
Defense Dept announces plans to consolidate, reduce, realign or close 307 bases and activities in 42 states and overseas to save $609-milllon a yr; Cong sources rept major closings in NYS include Suffolk County Air Force Base, Stewart Air Force Base and USAF operations at Niagara Falls Internatl Airport; Rockefeller, Javits and Goodell question closing of NYS facilities; Newburgh, NY, officials say closing of Stewart will have heavy econ impact on city
US intelligence repts indicate that USSR has in place, or going into place, about 1,350 ICBMs, about 300 more land-based units than US and 150 more than reptd by US officials last spring; USSR is believed to have tested and to have ready to deploy a new liquid-fueled ICBM; is also testing medium-range ballistic missile although 700 such units are already in place, aimed at targets in W Eur and Asia
Brezhnev s, Czech-USSR friendship rally, Moscow
Sen com, re-writing HR-approved tax reform bill, permits foundations to finance educ TV-radio programs if they comply with fairness doctrine
Mayor Lindsay has reported spending four times as much money on his election campaign as either of his two major rivals.
Drs R Frisch (Norway) and J Tinbergen (Netherlands) named joint winners of 1st Nobel Prize in Economic Science for work in econometrics, mathematical expression of econ theory; new award was set up in '68 by Sveriges Riksbank to mark its 300th anniv
Yugoslavia: Banja Luka, about 200 miles west of Belgrade, destroyed by quake; 20 known dead and 400 hurt; 60,000 inhabitants homeless; troops and Red Cross rushed to city; 2 quakes had hit city earlier; Premier Ribicik, in city; leakage of dangerous chems into Vrbas River that flows through city poses problem for rescue crews; damage illus; map
Helou confs with Karami, army comdr Gen Bustani, other officials, reptdly decides to compromise with commandos; Bustani reptdly will fly to Cairo to open talks with commandos; Govt reptdly accepts principle of 'coordination', will enlarge area in which commandos may operate, but not let them set up bases across nation; Fatah broadcast says orgn does not oppose coordination as long as it is aimed at strengthening Palestine revolution and Arab front and is based on rejection of peaceful settlement; Govt officials view broadcast as promising, although they will not agree to formula; tacit cease-fire goes into effect; unidentified commandos not believed to be part of command group involved in conflict with Govt set Amer-owned oil tank afire, S of Sidon; Al Fatah repts some army units are still shooting in Arkoub region of southern Lebanon; Govt sources rept commandos have withdrawn from several key points, including Bint Jbeil and 3 Tripoli police stations; USSR Amb Azimov meets with Helou; curfew is relaxed in Bierut; Middle East New Agency repts Bustani plans talks in Cairo; decision apparently is outcome of Nasser efforts; Iraqi Deputy Premier Ammash arrives in Cairo with Pres al-Bakr message for Nasser on crisis; map
Odinga and 7 colleagues placed under house arrest on charges that Kenya People's Union organized anti-Govt demonstration that led to riot; 11 persons were killed and 78 hurt; Odinga charges incident was planned as way to eliminate opposition in forthcoming elections
ROME, Oct. 27 -- Pope Paul VI made virtual commitments today to grant the major requests of the world's bishops for broader, more permanent, more effective participation in the governing processes of the Roman Catholic Church.