- For other uses, see Number 1969.
- For the movie, see 1969 (movie).
Events
January-February
- January 1 - Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch purchases the largest selling British Sunday newspaper The News Of The World
- January 5 - The Derry Riots leave over 100 people injured
- January 10 - After 147 years, the last issue of the Saturday Evening Post is published
- January 14 - An explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 25
- January 15 - The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5
- January 16 - Ten paintings defaced in New York's Metropolitan Art Gallery
- January 19 (16?)- Student Jan Palach sets himself on fire in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968
- January 20 - Richard Nixon succeeds Lyndon Johnson as President of the United States of America
- January 24 - Martial Law declared in Madrid, the University is closed and over 300 students are arrested
- January 27 - 14 men, nine of them Jews, were executed in Baghdad for spying for Israel
- January 27 - Reverend Ian Paisley, radical protestant leader in Northern Ireland, is jailed for three months for illegal assembly
- January 30 - The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records. The impromptu concert was broken up by the police
- February 1 - Birth, in Paris, France, of Denis Cheyrouze, French rare books biggest specialist in the XXth Century
- February 3 - In Cairo Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestinian Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress and takes command the next day
- February 8 - The last issue of the Saturday Evening Post hits magazine stands
- February 13 - FLQ terrorists bomb the Stock Exchange in Montreal, Quebec
- February 24 - Launch of the Mariner 6 Mars probe
March-April
- March 1 - Major league baseballer Mickey Mantle announces his retirement
- March 1 - Dad's Army episode Operation Kilt is first broadcast
- March 1 - During a performance at Miami's Dinner Key Auditorium, Jim Morrison of the Doors is arrested for exposing himself during the show. Morrison is officially charged with lewd and lascivious behavior, indecent behavior, open profanity and public drunkenness.
- March 1 - John Kerry officially leaves active duty in Vietnam
- March 2 - In Toulouse, France the first Concorde test flight is conducted
- March 2 - Soviet and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the Ussuri River
- March 3 - In a Los Angeles, California court, Sirhan Sirhan admits that he killed presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy
- March 3 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module
- March 10 - In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. Ray would later retract his guilty plea
- March 13 - Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module
- March 17 - Golda Meir of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, becomes Prime Minister of Israel
- March 19 - British paratroopers and Marines land on the island of Anguilla expecting resistance from the "Republican Defence Force"’ of self-declared "President" Ronald Webster. Locals bid the soldiers welcome instead
- April 1 - The Hawker Siddeley Harrier enters service with the RAF
- April 4 - Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart
- April 20 - British troops arrive in Northern Ireland
- April 22 - Robin Knox-Johnston becomes the first person to sail around the world solo without stopping
- April 29 - First anniversary of the Broadway production of the musical Hair is celebrated with free concert at Wollman Skating Rink
May-June
July
- July 5 – Assassination of Mboya, Kenyan Minister of Development
- July 7 - French is made equal to English throughout the Canadian national government
- July 14 - Football War - after Honduras lost a soccer game against El Salvador, rioting broke out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers. Of the 300,000 Salvadorean workers in Honduras, tens of thousands were expelled, prompting a brief Salvadoran invasion of Honduras. The OAS worked out a cease-fire on July 18, taking effect on July 20
- July 18 - Edward M. Kennedy drives off a bridge on his way home from a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts. Mary Jo Kopechne, an aide who was in the car with him, dies in the incident
- July 20 - Apollo program: The human race, represented by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, lands on the Moon. Apollo 11 lifted off for the moon on July 16 and returned safely on July 24
- July 25 - Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This was the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war
- July 30 - Vietnam War: US President Richard M. Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyen Van Thieu and with US military commanders
- July 31 - Halfpenny ceases to be legal tender in the UK
August
September-October
November
- November - Creation of ARPANET, the predecessor of the Internet
- November 3 - Vietnam War: US President Richard M. Nixon addresses his nation on television and radio asking the "silent majority" to join him in solidarity on the Vietnam War effort and to support his policies
- November 10 - Sesame Street premieres
- November 12 - Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre - Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story
- November 13 - Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, DC stage a symbolic "March Against Death"
- November 14 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the surface of the Moon (landed on the Moon on November 19)
- November 15 - Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea
- November 15 - Vietnam War: In Washington, DC, 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war
- November 17 - Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides
- November 19 - Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum ("Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon
- November 20 - Vietnam War: The Cleveland Plain Dealer publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai massacre in Vietnam
- November 21 - U.S. President Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato agree in Washington on the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972 Under the terms of the agreement, the US is to retain its rights to bases on the island, but these are to be nuclear-free
- November 21 - The first ARPANET link is established
- November 24 - Apollo program: The Apollo 12 spacecraft splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to the Moon
- November 25 - John Lennon returns his OBE to protest the British government's support of the US war in Vietnam
- November 28 - The Newcomers stopped airing on the BBC
December
Undated events
Ongoing events
Year in topic
- 1969 in film
- 1969 in literature
- 1969 in music
- The National Academy of Popular Music/Songwriters Hall of Fame founded.
- August 15 - August 17: The Woodstock Music and Art Festival was held at Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, near Woodstock. Although 10,000 or 20,000 people were expected, over 400,000 attended. Among the many artists who performed were Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, Joe Cocker, The Who, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and the Grateful Dead. The weekend was rainy, the facilities were overcrowded, and attendees shared food, alcohol, and drugs, although no violence was reported. The Woodstock Festival represented the culmination of the counterculture of the 1960s and the high point of the "hippie era."
- The #1 Song was "Aquarius (Let the Sunshine In)"
- Graffiti art had fully developed into an art form, with distinctive styles, trends and schools, by 1969; graffiti art is one of the four elements of hip hop, the musical form of which is influenced by the success of the Last Poets and similar artists, beginning in 1969
- 1969 in sports
- 1969 in television
Births
- January 3 - Michael Schumacher, Formula One driver; seven-time champion of that series
- January 5 - Marilyn Manson, singer
- January 14 - Jason Bateman, actor
- January 14 - David Grohl, drummer, composer
- January 16 - Roy Jones Jr., boxer
- January 17 - Lukas Moodysson, film director
- January 20 - Skeet Ulrich, actor
- January 31 - Diego Sanchez, law professor
- February 1 - Gabriel Batistuta, Argentine football player
- February 5 - Bobby Brown, singer
- February 9 - Gabby Hayes, actor
- February 11 - Jennifer Aniston, American actress
- February 11 - Bryan Eversgerd US baseball player.
- February 11 - Shannon Long Gladstone, Australian, Playboy magazine's playmate for October 1988
- February 12 - Hong Myung-Bo, South Korean football player
- March 1 - Javier Bardem, actor
- March 1 - Rob Janssen, baseball player
- March 1 - Dafydd Ieuan, drummer with the band Super Furry Animals
- March 19 - Connor Trinneer, actor (Star Trek: Enterprise)
- April 6 - Bret Boone, Major League Baseball All-Star
- April 17 - Henry Ian Cusick, actor
- April 25 - Joe Buck, baseball and American football broadcaster
- April 25 - Darren Woodson, American football player
- May 2 - Brian Lara, Trinidadian cricketer
- May 3 - Daryl F. Mallett, American author & actor
- May 7 - Eagle Eye Cherry, musician
- May 14 - Cate Blanchett, Australian actress
- May 15 - Emmitt Smith, American football player
- May 16 - Steve Lewis, American athlete
- May 18 - Martika, Cuban-American singer
- May 26 - Alain Knaff, programmer
- June 14 - Steffi Graf, German tennis player
- June 15 - Oliver Kahn, German football player
- June 24 - Sissel Kyrkjebø, Norwegian singer
- July 5 - John LeClair, American NHL star
- July 16 - Curtis Kenneth Haug
- August 2 - Fernando Couto, football player
- August 6 - Elliott Smith, Musician
- August 13 - Midori Ito, Japanese figure skater
- August 18 - Edward Norton, actor
- August 18 - Christian Slater, actor
- August 19 - Matthew Perry, actor
- September 5 - Dweezil Zappa, actor, musician, eldest son of Frank Zappa
- September 13 - Shane Warne, Australian cricketer
- September 25 - Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (+2002)
- September 25 - Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
- October 3 - Gwen Stefani, No Doubt frontwoman
- October 10 - Brett Favre, American football player
- October 13 - Nancy Kerrigan, figure skater
- October 17 - Ernie Els, South African golfer
- October 19 - Trey Parker, co-creator of South Park
- October 20 - Juan Gonzalez, baseball player
- October 30 - Clay Enos, photographer
- November 4 - Matthew McConaughey, American actor
- November 7 - Bryant H. McGill, American poet
- November 18 - Sam Cassell, NBA basketball player
- November 20 - AQi Fzono, Japanese composer
- November 21 - Ken Griffey, Jr., baseball player
- November 29 - Mariano Rivera, baseball relief pitcher
- December 15 - Rick Law, illustrator, producer
- December 21 - Julie Delpy, actress
- December 28 - Linus Torvalds, Finnish programmer; original developer of Linux
Deaths
- January 4 - Violet and Daisy Hilton, conjoined twins, actresses
- January 8 - Albert Hill, British athlete
- January 19 - Czech student Jan Palach sets himself on fire in Wenceslas Square, Prague in protest at the communist regime and the USSR's occupation of the country.
- January 25 - Irene Castle, dancer
- January 29 - Allen Dulles, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
- February 4 - Thelma Ritter, actress
- February 4 - Fred Hampton, Black Panther
- February 4 - Mark Clark, Black Panther
- February 11 - James Lanphier, actor.
- February 20 - Ernest Ansermet, conductor
- February 26 - Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of Israel
- March 4 - Nicholas Schenck, motion-picture empresario
- March 11 - John Wyndham, author
- March 26 - John Kennedy Toole, author
- March 27 - B. Traven, writer
- March 28 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, US General of the Army, 34th president of the United States
- May 14 - Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer
- May 19 - Coleman Hawkins, jazz musician
- June 21 - Maureen Connolly, tennis star
- July 18 - Mary Jo Kopechne, congressional staffer for Edward Kennedy
- July 24 - Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (b. 1904)
- August 9 - Sharon Tate, actress
- August 27 - Ivy Compton-Burnett, English novelist
- August 31 - Rocky Marciano, boxer, retired undefeated as world heavyweight champion
- September 2 - Ho Chi Minh, President of North Vietnam
- October 4 - Natalino Otto, Italian singer
- October 12 - Sonja Henie, Olympic and World Champion figure skater (b. 1912)
- October 12 Serge Poliakoff, Russian painter
- October 21 - Jack Kerouac, US author
- October 21 - Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician
- October 30 - Pops Foster, jazz musician (b. 1892)
- November 12 - William F. Friedman, cryptanalyst
- November 15 - Iskander Mirza, first President of Pakistan
- December 5 - Her Serene Highness Princess Alice of Battenberg, mother of Prince Philip, consort of Queen Elizabeth II.
- December 31 - George Lewis, jazz musician (b. 1900)
af:1969
ast:1969
bg:1969
bs:1969
ca:1969
cs:1969
cy:1969
da:1969
de:1969
et:1969
el:1969
es:1969
eo:1969
eu:1969
fr:1969
fy:1969
gl:1969
ko:1969년
hr:1969
io:1969
is:1969
it:1969
he:1969
la:1969
lb:1969
nl:1969
ja:1969年
no:1969
pl:1969
pt:1969
ro:1969
ru:1969
simple:1969
sk:1969
sl:1969
sr:1969
fi:1969
sv:1969
tr:1969
uk:1969
wa:1969
zh:1969年
|