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November 21, 1969

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Headlines from November 21, 1969

AGNEW ATTACKS PRESS AS UNFAIR; NAMES 2 PAPERS; Cites New York Times and The Washington Post -They Dispute Charges

By Christopher Lydon

Agnew broadens attack on media to include newspapers; notes growing concentration of corporate media control; again says he is opposed to censorship; cites Washington Post Co ownership of newspapers as well as radio-TV station WTOP; calls harsh criticism of his s by Cong and press 'classic examples of overreaction' and says he has not been intimidated; says media should not be immune from counterattack

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1965 Tribute by Robert Kennedy Read at Funeral of His Father; Tribute by Robert Kennedy Read at Father's Rites

By Nan Robertson

funeral, St Francis Xavier Ch, Hyannis; Edward reads eulogy to his father written by Robert in '65; also reads prayer written by his mother; 18 Kennedy grandchildren take part in mass; Cardinal Cushing celebrates mass and delivers own eulogy; those at funeral include virtually every close relative by blood or marriage; Cardinal Cooke also present; Kennedy buried in Brookline, Mass; Robert's eulogy and mother's prayer are from collection of essays written about Kennedy Sr and privately printed in book The Fruitful Bough

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2 ASTRONAUTS BLAST OFF MOON AND RE-ENTER COMMAND SHIP; RETURN TO EARTH BEGINS TODAY; A SEISMIC PUZZLE

By John Noble Wilford

lunar module blasts off from moon after 31 1/2 hrs on lunar surface and docks with command ship; Bean and Conrad rejoin Gordon in command ship; module's ascent stage is crash-landed on moon; its impact sets off reverberating seismic waves in lunar interior unlike any ever recorded on earth; Profs G Latham, M E Ewing and F Press, monitoring Manned Spacecraft Center seismograph, say they are puzzled by occurrence, hold it may lead to major discovery about lunar interior, news conf; docking maneuver, which takes place a few mins earlier than scheduled, is televised; illus; Conrad and Bean rept they collected 140 lbs of lunar rocks and soil; Conrad says he fell once on lunar surface and Bean helped him up without any problems; astronauts rept they left 1 roll of movie film, containing pictures of module's descent, on moon; say they have 4 rolls of film taken during lunar walks; flight controllers rept all surface experiments are working well; hold 2 astronauts had enough oxygen left in their back packs after 2d walk to have stayed outside 2 more hrs

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 19, 1969, covering November 21, 1969.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Abbey Road by The Beatles

    Abbey Road

    The Beatles

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    6
  2. 2
    Album cover for Led Zeppelin II by Led Zeppelin

    Led Zeppelin II

    Led Zeppelin

    Last week
    15
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    3
  3. 3
    Album cover for Green River by Creedence Clearwater Revival

    Green River

    Creedence Clearwater Revival

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    11
  4. 4
    Album cover for Santana by Santana

    Santana

    Santana

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    4
    Weeks
    11
  5. 5
    Album cover for I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! by Janis Joplin

    I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!

    Janis Joplin

    Last week
    5
    Peak
    5
    Weeks
    7

Notable Births

Ken Griffey Jr.

1969Ken Griffey Jr., American baseball player and actor[†]

George Kenneth Griffey Jr., nicknamed "Junior" and "the Kid", is an American former professional baseball outfielder who played 22 years in Major League Baseball (MLB). He spent most of his career with the Seattle Mariners and Cincinnati Reds, along with a short stint with the Chicago White Sox. The first overall pick in the 1987 draft and a 13-time All-Star, Griffey is one of the most prolific home run hitters in baseball history; his 630 home runs rank as the seventh-most in MLB history. Griffey was also an exceptional defender and won 10 Gold Glove Awards in center field. He is tied for the record of most consecutive games with a home run.

Historical Events

Richard Nixon

1969U.S. President Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Satō agree on the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972. The U.S. retains rights to bases on the island, but these are to be nuclear-free.[†]

Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the 36th vice president under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961, and also as a representative and senator from California. His presidency saw the reduction of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, the Apollo 11 Moon landing, and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency and Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Nixon's second term ended early when he became the only U.S. president to resign from office, as a result of the Watergate scandal.

ARPANET

1969The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI.[†]

The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the first wide-area packet-switched network with distributed control and one of the first computer networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite. Both technologies became the technical foundation of the Internet. The ARPANET was established by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the United States Department of Defense.

Historical Context for November 21, 1969

In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[†]