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Fed grand jury investigating organized crime in NJ subpoenas contract, along with other data, for $10.5-million South Side interceptor sewer in Newark, which eventually cost $3-million more than price originally set
Penna Bd sends undercover agents to Washington, DC, to stop Penna residents from buying untaxed liquor and smuggling it back into state; practice is particularly frequent at Christmas time; agents write down license plate numbers of Penna cars parked outside liquor stores, trace smugglers' names and home addresses; smugglers, reptdly mostly well-off suburbanites and businessmen, are apprehended when they return home; illus
FPC aide E G Simpson, ruling Consol Ed should be allowed to build Storm King project, rejects assertions by NYC officials that plant would be danger to supply facilities
Appellate Ct, 4-1, reverses Mrs Crimmins' manslaughter conviction, orders new trial; holds 3 jurors visit to alleged scene of crime in Queens was 'prejudicial and violative' of her rights; Justice Martuscello criticizes failure of trial judge to permit introduction of certain proof offered by defense
The most complete picture ever to be drawn of robbery in New York has emerged from a special Police Department crime analysis intended to help patrolmen become more effective in preventing robberies.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 24, 1969, covering December 24, 1969.
Led Zeppelin
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Tom Jones
Creedence Clearwater Revival
1969Milan Blagojevic, Australian footballer and manager[†]
Milan Blagojević is an Australian retired soccer player.
1969Pernille Fischer Christensen, Danish director and screenwriter[†]
Pernille Fischer Christensen is a Danish film director and the older sister of actress Stine Fischer Christensen. She started out in the movie business when she was 20 years old as an assistant to Tómas Gislason. During that time, Gislason was closely connected to Lars von Trier, and she got to listen to Gislason and von Trier's discussions about movies. In 1993, she went to The European Film College where she met and collaborated with Nanna Arnfred. In 1999, she graduated from the National Film School of Denmark with the movie India, which later went on to win the Cinéfondations 3rd Prize at the Film festival in Cannes. After finishing film school she made a short film called Habibti My Love, which won a Robert in 2003 for best short subject.
1969Ed Miliband, English academic and politician, Minister for the Cabinet Office[†]
Edward Samuel Miliband is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero since July 2024. He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Doncaster North since 2005. Miliband was Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 2010 to 2015. Alongside his brother, David Miliband, he served in the Cabinet from 2007 to 2010 under Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
1969Luis Musrri, Chilean footballer and manager[†]
Luis Eduardo Musrri Saravia is a Chilean football coach and former player who coaches Unión Compañías in the Chilean Tercera B.
1969Oleg Skripochka, Russian astronaut and engineer[†]
Oleg Ivanovich Skripochka is a Russian engineer and cosmonaut. In 2011 he was in space serving as an Expedition 25/26 crewmember.
1969Gintaras Staučė, Lithuanian footballer and manager[†]
Gintaras Staučė is a Lithuanian football coach and former player who is currently the goalkeeping coach of the Kazakhstan national team.
1969Stanisław Błeszyński, Polish-German entomologist and lepidopterist (born 1927)[†]
Stanisław Błeszyński was a Polish entomologist and lepidopterist specializing in Crambidae, the grass moths.
1969Cortelia Clark, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1907)[†]
Cortelia Clark was an American blues singer and guitarist, known for his performances on the streets of Nashville. He won a Grammy Award for Best Folk Recording in 1967, for the album Blues in the Street, his only recording.
1969Olivia FitzRoy, English soldier and author (born 1921)[†]
Olivia Gwyneth Zoe FitzRoy, was a British author of children's books. She was the granddaughter of Muriel FitzRoy, 1st Viscountess Daventry, raised to the peerage as widow of Edward FitzRoy, the Speaker of the House of Commons from 1928 until his death in 1943; her mother was a member of the famous Guinness family. Olivia FitzRoy was one of five sisters.
1969Alfred B. Skar, Norwegian journalist and politician (born 1896)[†]
Alfred B. Skar was a Norwegian newspaper editor, writer, trade unionist and politician for the Labour and Communist parties.
1969Nigerian troops capture Umuahia, the Biafran capital.[†]
Umuahia is the capital city of Abia State in southeastern Nigeria. Umuahia is located along the rail road that lies between Port Harcourt to its south, and Enugu city to its north. Umuahia has a population of 359,230 according to the 2006 Nigerian census.
In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[†]