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MIT gets ct order banning violence during planned demonstration by November Action Coalition against defense research at inst; univ pres Johnson signed petition requesting order, believed 1st sought by school in anticipation of disorders; s to faculty on situation; faculty votes to back action
'Black Solidarity Day'; teacher attendance down sharply at heavily Negro schools
New York City's population has resumed a downward trend again after reaching a peak of 8,019,100 as of July 1, 1966, estimates obtained from the United States Census Bureau indicated yesterday.
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Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 29, 1969, covering November 4, 1969.
The Beatles
Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Rolling Stones
Blind Faith
Johnny Cash
1969Sean Combs, American rapper, producer, and actor[†]
Sean John Combs, better known by his stage name Diddy, and formerly Puff Daddy and P. Diddy, is an American rapper, record producer, and record executive. Born in Harlem and raised in Mount Vernon, Combs worked as a talent director at Uptown Records before founding his own record label, Bad Boy Records in 1993. He is credited with the discovery and development of musical artists including Mary J. Blige, Usher and the Notorious B.I.G., for whom he served as manager and hype man.
1969Matthew McConaughey, American actor and producer[†]
Matthew David McConaughey is an American actor. He achieved his breakthrough with a supporting performance in the coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused (1993). After a number of supporting roles, his first success as a leading man came in the legal drama A Time to Kill (1996). His career progressed with lead roles in the science fiction film Contact (1997), the historical drama Amistad (1997), and the war film U-571 (2000).
1969Samantha Smith, American actress[†]
Samantha A. Smith is an American actress. She is known for her role as Mary Winchester on Supernatural.
1969Carlos Marighella, Brazilian author and activist (born 1911)[†]
Carlos Marighella was a Brazilian politician, writer, and Marxist–Leninist militant. Critical of nonviolent resistance to the Brazilian military dictatorship, he founded the Ação Libertadora Nacional, a Marxist–Leninist urban guerrilla group, which was responsible for a series of bank robberies and high-profile kidnappings. He was killed by police in 1969 in an ambush. Marighella's most famous contribution to revolutionary literature was the Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla.
In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[†]