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Govt repts it will sign nuclear nonproliferation treaty after receiving assurances from US and USSR that peaceful uses program will not be hindered
Army retains 1st Lt W L Calley Jr on active duty for 2-1/2 mos beyond his term of service while it investigates charges he shot 'quite a number' of Vietnamese civilians; Calley is being retained at Ft Benning, Ga; Army says it will not disclose specific details on alleged crime; Ft Benning officials try to determine if there is enough evidence to convene ct-martial; Calley's atty describes allegations
36 Fordham U students fight campus guards and take over adm bldg for 7 hrs in demonstration against program; flee bldg as police approach campus; illus; 6 students arrested, at least 6 guards hurt
as chmn of Pres Comm on Income Maintenance Programs, submits rept to Nixon challenging assumption that work is answer to poverty and urging universal income supplement based solely on need
3 armed men hold up Wells Fargo armored truck, East NY sec of Bklyn, and escape with about $1.3-million in Aqueduct track receipts; map; daylight robbery is 2d largest in US
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 12, 1969, covering November 13, 1969.
The Beatles
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Johnny Cash
Santana
Janis Joplin
1969Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Somalian-American activist and author[†]
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Dutch and American writer, activist, conservative thinker and former politician. She is a critic of Islam and an advocate for the rights and self-determination of Muslim women, opposing forced marriage, honour killing, child marriage, and female genital mutilation. At the age of five, following local traditions in Somalia, Ali underwent female genital mutilation organized by her grandmother. Her father Hirsi Ali Magan—a scholar, intellectual, and a devout Muslim—was against the procedure but could not stop it from happening because he was imprisoned by the Communist government of Somalia at the time. Her family moved across various countries in Africa and the Middle East, and at 23, she received political asylum in the Netherlands, gaining Dutch citizenship five years later. In her early 30s, Hirsi Ali renounced the Islamic faith of her childhood, began identifying as an atheist, and became involved in Dutch centre-right politics, joining the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). In 2023 she announced that she had become a Christian.
1969Patrik Augusta, Czech ice hockey player[†]
Patrik Augusta is a Czech former professional ice hockey winger. He played 4 games in the National Hockey League with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Washington Capitals between 1994 and 1998. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1988 to 2006, was primarily spent in the minor leagues and later in the German Deutsche Eishockey Liga. Internationally Augusta played for the Czechoslovak national team at the 1992 Winter Olympics and 1992 World Championship, winning a bronze medal in each tournament. After retiring from play Augusta turned to coaching, working for teams in the Czech Republic.
1969Lori Berenson, American activist[†]
Lori Helene Berenson is an American who served a 20-year prison sentence for collaboration with a guerrilla organization in Peru in 1996. Berenson was convicted of collaborating with the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA), a group accused of trying to overthrow the Peruvian government by force, considered to be a terrorist organization by the Peruvian government, and on the U.S. State Department's official "terrorist organization" list from 1997–2001. Her arrest and conviction, and the circumstances surrounding her trials, drew considerable attention in both the United States and Peru.
1969Gerard Butler, Scottish actor[†]
Gerard James Butler is a Scottish actor and film producer. After studying law, he turned to acting in the mid-1990s with small roles in productions such as Mrs Brown (1997), the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), and Tale of the Mummy (1998). In 2000, he starred as Count Dracula in the gothic horror film Dracula 2000. He played Attila the Hun in the miniseries Attila (2001), then appeared in the films Reign of Fire (2002) and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life (2003) before starring in the science fiction film Timeline (2003). He played Erik, The Phantom in Joel Schumacher's 2004 musical The Phantom of the Opera.
1969Nico Motchebon, German runner[†]
Nico Motchebon is a former German 800 metres runner.
1969Iskander Mirza, Indian-Pakistani general and politician, 1st President of Pakistan (born 1899)[†]
Iskander Ali Mirza was a Bengali politician, statesman and military general who served as the Dominion of Pakistan's fourth and last governor-general of Pakistan from 1955 to 1956, and then as the Islamic Republic of Pakistan's first president from 1956 to 1958.
1969Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, D.C. stage a symbolic March Against Death.[†]
The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China, while South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations. The conflict was the second of the Indochina wars and a proxy war of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and US. The Vietnam War was one of the postcolonial wars of national liberation, a theater in the Cold War, and a civil war, with civil warfare a defining feature from the outset. Direct US military involvement escalated from 1965 until its withdrawal in 1973. The fighting spilled into the Laotian and Cambodian Civil Wars, which ended with all three countries becoming communist in 1975.
In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[†]