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In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[†]
1969Dionne Farris, American singer-songwriter, producer and actress[†]
Dionne Farris is an American singer and songwriter. Born and raised in New Jersey, she began singing in elementary school and competed in pageants as a teenager. In the early 1990s, she was featured on the hip hop group Arrested Development's hit single "Tennessee" (1992).
1969Jay-Z, American rapper, producer, actor, and co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records[†]
Shawn Corey Carter, known professionally as Jay-Z, is an American rapper, businessman, and record executive. Rooted in East Coast hip-hop, he was named the greatest rapper of all time by Billboard and Vibe in 2023. Known for his complex lyrical ability—which often uses double entendres and word play—and braggadocio, his music is built upon a rags to riches narrative. He served as president and chief executive officer of Def Jam Recordings from 2004 to 2007, and founded the entertainment company Roc Nation the following year.
1969Plum Sykes, English journalist and author[†]
Victoria Rowland, known both professionally and socially as Plum Sykes, is an English-born fashion journalist, novelist, and socialite.
1969Fred Hampton, American Black Panthers activist (born 1948)[†]
Fredrick Allen Hampton Sr. was an American activist and revolutionary socialist. He came to prominence in his late teens and early 20s in Chicago as deputy chairman of the national Black Panther Party and chair of the Illinois chapter. He founded the anti-racist, anti-classist Rainbow Coalition, a prominent multicultural political organization that initially included the Black Panthers, Young Patriots, and the Young Lords, and an alliance among major Chicago street gangs to help them end infighting and work for social change. As a Marxist-Leninist, Hampton considered fascism the greatest threat, saying "nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all."
1969Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot and killed during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers.[†]
The Black Panther Party was a Marxist–Leninist and black power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, California. The party was active in the United States between 1966 and 1982, with chapters in many major American cities, including San Francisco, New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Philadelphia. They were also active in many prisons and had international chapters in the United Kingdom and Algeria. Upon its inception, the party's core practice was its open carry patrols ("copwatching") designed to challenge the excessive force and misconduct of the Oakland Police Department. From 1969 onward, the party created social programs, including the Free Breakfast for Children Programs, education programs, and community health clinics. The Black Panther Party advocated for class struggle, claiming to represent the proletarian vanguard.
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500-lb World War II aerial bomb children had been playing on for 2 yrs removed by police from under Pulaski Bridge, Bklyn, after workman notices it; bomb has fuse and explosive charge but cannot be detonated; illus; defused training bomb found in garden 3 blocks away
Sen debates reform bill
LONDON, Dec. 3 -- The British Government took a happy view today of the Common Market leaders' conference in The Hague.
Lindsay stresses diverting war funds to peace needs, s, Natl League of Cities conv; scores Nixon Adm warning that end of war would not bring additional funds to cities
JERUSALEM, Dec. 3 -- Israeli commandos reported today that they had destroyed an Arab guerrilla base in southern Lebanon in response to an attack several hours earlier in the occupied Golan heights of Syria.
Sen, 58-37, approves Gore amendment to raise personal exemption to $700 next yr and $800 in '71; Sen version of bill, as it stands now, would cut taxes by $4-billion in '70 and $8.9-billion in '71 and future yrs, increase other tax revenues by $800-million in '70 and $5-billion in '71; Gore amendment also called for cut in taxes for single persons and rise in minimum standard deduction over 2 yrs to $1,000; Percy amendment was defeated, 23-72; vote on Gore amendment seen major defeat for Adm; Sen approval of change in provision for repeal of investment tax credit is 1st change in reform side of bill, raises questions about whether other such amendments can be resisted; Sen Proxmire amendment to restore to bill some provisions on foreign tax credit deleted by Sen com is defeated, 33-58; table comparing tax bills of various size families under present law, HR and Sen bills
The Public Service Commission warned yesterday that the Consolidated Edison Company faced the same shortage of power generating capacity next summer that led to a "brownout" last summer.
Natl Comm on Causes and Prevention of Violence statement on group violence warns against police use of excessive and illegal force
ALBANY, Dec. 3 -- The Court of Appeals rejected today a request by Republican legislative leaders for authority to reapportion the Senate and the Assembly in time for next year's elections.
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BRUSSELS, Dec. 3 -- The North Atlantic Treaty Organization approved political guidelines today for the tactical, or short-range, use of nuclear weapons in the defense of Western Europe against any aggression. reductions in American forces expected in the next decade, makes the use of tactical nuclear weapons almost inevitable early in any battle.