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  • Vitnam
    1969
    Vietnam War

    Troops Withdrawals

    Vitnam
    1969

    U.S. president Richard Nixon began troop withdrawals in 1969.




  • Israel
    1969
    Shimon Peres

    Minister of Immigrant Absorption

    Israel
    1969

    In 1969, Peres was appointed Minister of Immigrant Absorption.




  • Iraq
    1969
    Iran–Iraq War

    Iranian delegation

    Iraq
    1969

    Iran sent a delegation to Iraq soon after the Ba'ath coup in 1969 and, when Iraq refused to proceed with negotiations over a new treaty, the treaty of 1937 was withdrawn by Iran.




  • Moscow, Russia
    1969
    Margaret Thatcher

    Her First Visit To The Soviet Union

    Moscow, Russia
    1969

    Thatcher made her first visit to the Soviet Union in the summer of 1969 as the Opposition Transport spokeswoman.




  • Brazil
    1969
    Lula da Silva

    Marriage

    Brazil
    1969

    In 1969, he married Maria de Lourdes, who died of hepatitis in 1971, while pregnant with their first son, who also died.




  • Havana, Cuba
    Jan, 1969
    Fidel Castro

    Castro's administration's 10th anniversary

    Havana, Cuba
    Jan, 1969

    Castro publicly celebrated his administration's 10th anniversary in January 1969; in his celebratory speech he warned of sugar rations, reflecting the nation's economic problems.




  • Ottawa, Canada
    1969
    BMW

    BMW's first dealership in Canada

    Ottawa, Canada
    1969

    BMW's first dealership in Canada, located in Ottawa, was opened in 1969.


  • Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
    1969
    Magdi Yacoub

    Moving to the United States

    Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
    1969

    Moving to the United States in 1969 he became Instructor and then Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago.


  • Southern Sudan (then the Sudan)
    1969
    First Sudanese Civil War

    Aggrey Jaden Left The Movement

    Southern Sudan (then the Sudan)
    1969

    The South was first led by the late leader Aggrey Jaden; he left the movement in 1969 due to internal political disputes.


  • Southern Sudan (then the Sudan)
    1969
    First Sudanese Civil War

    Gordon Muortat Mayen Was Elected Unanimously as The New Leader of The South

    Southern Sudan (then the Sudan)
    1969

    In 1969, Gordon Muortat Mayen was elected unanimously as the new leader of the South. Southern Sudan in this time changed their name to the Nile Republic and resumed warfare against Khartoum, however some of the former leader Jaden's troops would not accept a Dinka leader and fought against the Anyanya.


  • Brentford, United Kingdom
    1969
    Microprocessor

    The CTC 1201

    Brentford, United Kingdom
    1969

    In 1969, CTC contracted two companies, Intel and Texas Instruments, to make a single-chip implementation, known as the CTC 1201.


  • U.S.
    1969
    Microprocessor

    Creating The Four-Phase Systems Inc. AL-1

    U.S.
    1969

    In 1969, Lee Boysel, based on the 8-bit arithmetic logic units (3800/3804) he designed earlier at Fairchild, created the Four-Phase Systems Inc. AL-1, an 8-bit CPU slice that was expandable to 32-bits.


  • California, U.S.
    1969
    Microprocessor

    The Origination of The project That Produced The 4004

    California, U.S.
    1969

    The project that produced the 4004 originated in 1969, when Busicom, a Japanese calculator manufacturer, asked Intel to build a chipset for high-performance desktop calculators.


  • Murfreesboro, TN, USA
    1969
    Muhammad Yunus

    Assistant Professor of Economics

    Murfreesboro, TN, USA
    1969

    From 1969 to 1972, Yunus was assistant professor of economics at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro.


  • 4424 South 188th Street, SeaTac, Washington 98188, United States
    Wednesday Jan 1, 1969
    Gary Ridgway

    Ridgway's Graduation and marriage

    4424 South 188th Street, SeaTac, Washington 98188, United States
    Wednesday Jan 1, 1969

    Ridgway graduated from Tyee High School in 1969 and married his 19-year-old high school girlfriend, Claudia Kraig.


  • Tiburon, California, U.S.
    1969
    Robin Williams

    High school graduation

    Tiburon, California, U.S.
    1969

    As both his parents worked, Williams was attended to by the family's maid, who was his main companion. When Williams was 16, his father took early retirement and the family moved to Marin County, settling in Tiburon, California. Following their move, Williams attended Redwood High School in nearby Larkspur. At the time of his graduation in 1969, he was voted "Most Likely Not to Succeed" and "Funniest" by his classmates.


  • New Jersey, U.S.
    1969
    Linux

    The Unix operating system

    New Jersey, U.S.
    1969

    The Unix operating system was conceived and implemented in 1969, at AT&T's Bell Laboratories in the United States by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna.


  • New Jersey, U.S.
    1969
    Cameras

    The First semiconductor image Sensor

    New Jersey, U.S.
    1969

    The first semiconductor image sensor was the CCD, invented by Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith at Bell Labs in 1969. While researching MOS technology, they realized that an electric charge was the analogy of the magnetic bubble and that it could be stored on a tiny MOS capacitor.


  • Denver, U.S.
    1969
    Computer animation

    Scanimate

    Denver, U.S.
    1969

    The first machine to achieve widespread public attention in the media was Scanimate, an analog computer animation system designed and built by Lee Harrison of the Computer Image Corporation in Denver. From around 1969 onward, Scanimate systems were used to produce much of the video-based animation seen on television in commercials, show titles, and other graphics. It could create animations in real time, a great advantage over digital systems at the time.


  • Burlington, Vermont, U.S.
    1969
    Ted Bundy

    Bundy visited the office of birth records in Burlington

    Burlington, Vermont, U.S.
    1969

    It was at this time in early 1969, Ann Rule (True crime writer) believes, that Bundy visited the office of birth records in Burlington and confirmed his true parentage.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    Thursday Jan 9, 1969
    Neil Armstrong

    The official announcement of Apollo 11

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    Thursday Jan 9, 1969

    The crew of Apollo 11 was officially announced on January 9, 1969, as Armstrong, Collins, and Aldrin, with Lovell, Anders, and Fred Haise as the backup crew.


  • Italy
    Saturday Jan 18, 1969
    Audrey Hepburn

    Andrea Dotti married Hepburn

    Italy
    Saturday Jan 18, 1969

    Hepburn met her second husband, Italian psychiatrist Andrea Dotti, on a Mediterranean cruise with friends in June 1968. She believed she would have more children and possibly stop working. They married on 18 January 1969.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    Monday Jan 20, 1969
    Richard Nixon

    Nixon was Inaugurated as President

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    Monday Jan 20, 1969

    Nixon was inaugurated as president on January 20, 1969, sworn in by his onetime political rival, Chief Justice Earl Warren. Pat Nixon held the family Bibles open at Isaiah 2:4, which reads, "They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks." In his inaugural address, which received almost uniformly positive reviews, Nixon remarked that "the greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker" a phrase that would later be placed on his gravestone.


  • U.S.
    Monday Jan 20, 1969
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Day for Rejoicing

    U.S.
    Monday Jan 20, 1969

    On January 20, 1969, the day Nixon was inaugurated as President, Eisenhower issued a statement praising his former vice president and calling it a "day for rejoicing".


  • Sarawak, Malaysia
    Feb, 1969
    Communist insurgency in Sarawak

    Sarawak United People's Party's leadership reversed the party's anti-Malaysia policy

    Sarawak, Malaysia
    Feb, 1969

    In February 1969, the Sarawak United People's Party's leadership reversed the party's anti-Malaysia policy following a meeting between the party's leader Stephen Yong and Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman.


  • U.S.
    1969
    1973 oil crisis

    American domestic output of oil was peaking

    U.S.
    1969

    By 1969, American domestic output of oil was peaking and could not keep pace with increasing demand from vehicles.


  • Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, U.S.
    Feb, 1969
    Black History Month

    Black History Month was first proposed

    Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, U.S.
    Feb, 1969

    Black History Month was first proposed by black educators and the Black United Students at Kent State University in February 1969.


  • San Francisco, California, U.S.
    1969
    Nancy Pelosi

    Moved to San Francisco

    San Francisco, California, U.S.
    1969

    After the couple married, they moved to New York, and then to San Francisco in 1969, where Paul Pelosi's brother, Ronald Pelosi, was a member of the City and County of San Francisco's Board of Supervisors.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    Mar, 1969
    Neil Armstrong

    Determining the first person on the Moon

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    Mar, 1969

    According to Chris Kraft, a March 1969 meeting among Slayton, George Low, Bob Gilruth, and Kraft determined that Armstrong would be the first person on the Moon, in part because NASA management saw him as a person who did not have a large ego.


  • U.S.
    1969
    1973 oil crisis

    Nixon decided to keep the quotas due to vigorous political opposition

    U.S.
    1969

    When Richard Nixon became president in 1969, he assigned George Shultz to head a committee to review the Eisenhower-era quota program. Shultz's committee recommended that the quotas be abolished and replaced with tariffs but Nixon decided to keep the quotas due to vigorous political opposition.


  • Israel
    1969
    Itzak Stern

    Death

    Israel
    1969

    Stern died at age 68.


  • West Kalimantan, Indonesia
    Tuesday Mar 25, 1969
    Communist insurgency in Sarawak

    Indonesian forces eliminated the Third Branch of the SPGF at Songkong

    West Kalimantan, Indonesia
    Tuesday Mar 25, 1969

    On 25 March 1969, Indonesian forces eliminated the Third Branch of the SPGF at Songkong in West Kalimantan following a two-day battle, wiping out the Sarawak People's Guerrilla Force's largest corps.


  • Washington, D.C., U.S.
    Friday Mar 28, 1969
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Death

    Washington, D.C., U.S.
    Friday Mar 28, 1969

    On the morning of March 28, 1969, Eisenhower died in Washington, D.C., of congestive heart failure at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, at age 78. The following day, his body was moved to the Washington National Cathedral's Bethlehem Chapel, where he lay in repose for 28 hours.


  • Geneva, Switzerland
    Mar, 1969
    United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

    Manuel Pérez-Guerrero

    Geneva, Switzerland
    Mar, 1969

    Manuel Pérez-Guerrero was appointed Secretaries-General from 1969 to 1974.


  • Yugoslavia
    Apr, 1969
    Josip Broz Tito

    Tito removed generals Ivan Gošnjak and Rade Hamović in the aftermath of the invasion of Czechoslovakia

    Yugoslavia
    Apr, 1969

    In April 1969, Tito removed generals Ivan Gošnjak and Rade Hamović in the aftermath of the invasion of Czechoslovakia due to the unpreparedness of the Yugoslav army to respond to a similar invasion of Yugoslavia.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    Monday Mar 31, 1969
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Funeral

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    Monday Mar 31, 1969

    A state funeral service was conducted at the Washington National Cathedral on March 31.


  • California, U.S.
    Tuesday Apr 8, 1969
    Internet

    Host Software

    California, U.S.
    Tuesday Apr 8, 1969

    ARPANET development was centered around the Request for Comments (RFC) process, still used today for proposing and distributing Internet Protocols and Systems. RFC 1, entitled "Host Software", was written by Steve Crocker from the University of California, Los Angeles, and published on April 7, 1969. These early years were documented in the 1972 film Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    Monday Apr 14, 1969
    Neil Armstrong

    The reason for choosing Armstrong to be the First

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    Monday Apr 14, 1969

    A press conference on April 14, 1969, gave the design of the LM cabin as the reason for Armstrong's being first; the hatch opened inwards and to the right, making it difficult for the lunar module pilot, on the right-hand side, to exit first.


  • St Mary's Road, Ealing, London, England, United Kingdom
    1969
    Freddie Mercury

    Graduation

    St Mary's Road, Ealing, London, England, United Kingdom
    1969

    Mercury studied graphic art and design at Ealing Art College, graduating with a diploma in 1969.


  • Kensington, London, England, United Kingdom
    1969
    Freddie Mercury

    Mercury joined a series of bands and sold second-hand clothes in Kensington Market in London with Roger Taylor

    Kensington, London, England, United Kingdom
    1969

    Following graduation, Mercury joined a series of bands and sold second-hand clothes in Kensington Market in London with Roger Taylor. He also held a job as a baggage handler at Heathrow Airport. Friends from the time remember him as a quiet and shy young man with a great interest in music.


  • Paris, France
    Monday Apr 28, 1969
    Charles de Gaulle

    De Gaulle resigned from the presidency

    Paris, France
    Monday Apr 28, 1969

    De Gaulle resigned the presidency at noon, 28 April 1969.


  • Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
    1969
    Freddie Mercury

    Mercury joined Liverpool-based band Ibex

    Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
    1969

    In 1969, he joined Liverpool-based band Ibex, later renamed Wreckage. He briefly lived in a flat above the Dovedale Towers, a pub close to Penny Lane in Liverpool's Mossley Hill district.


  • Washington, U.S.
    1969
    Ted Bundy

    Bundy met Elizabeth Kloepfer

    Washington, U.S.
    1969

    Bundy was back in Washington by the fall of 1969 when he met Elizabeth Kloepfer (identified in Bundy literature as Meg Anders, Beth Archer, or Liz Kendall), a divorcée from Ogden, Utah who worked as a secretary at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Their stormy relationship would continue well past his initial incarceration in Utah in 1976.


  • Khartoum, Sudan
    Sunday May 25, 1969
    First Sudanese Civil War

    The Second Military Coup

    Khartoum, Sudan
    Sunday May 25, 1969

    After a second military coup on 25 May 1969, Col. Gaafar Nimeiry became Prime Minister and promptly outlawed political parties.


  • England, United Kingdom
    Monday Jun 2, 1969
    Freddie Mercury

    Mercury was registered a citizen of the United Kingdom and colonies

    England, United Kingdom
    Monday Jun 2, 1969

    As Zanzibar was a British protectorate until 1963, Mercury was born a British subject, and on 2 June 1969 was registered a citizen of the United Kingdom and colonies after the family had emigrated to England.


  • South Vietnam
    Jul, 1969
    Richard Nixon

    Nixon visited South Vietnam

    South Vietnam
    Jul, 1969

    In July 1969, Nixon visited South Vietnam, where he met with his U.S. military commanders and President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu. Amid protests at home demanding an immediate pullout, he implemented a strategy of replacing American troops with Vietnamese troops, known as "Vietnamization".


  • North Kalimantan, Indonesia
    Sunday Jul 13, 1969
    Communist insurgency in Sarawak

    Sarawak Communist Organisation created the North Kalimantan People's Guerrilla Force

    North Kalimantan, Indonesia
    Sunday Jul 13, 1969

    To replace the decimated SPGF, the Sarawak Communist Organisation created the North Kalimantan People's Guerrilla Force at Nonok on 13 July 1969.


  • Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, U.S.
    Wednesday Jul 16, 1969
    Neil Armstrong

    Apollo 11 Launch

    Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, U.S.
    Wednesday Jul 16, 1969

    A Saturn V rocket launched Apollo 11 from Launch Complex 39 site at the Kennedy Space Center on July 16, 1969.


  • New Delhi, India
    Wednesday Jul 16, 1969
    Indira Gandhi

    Minister of Finance

    New Delhi, India
    Wednesday Jul 16, 1969

    On 17 July 1969, She became the Minister of Finance of India until 27 June 1970.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    Sunday Jul 20, 1969
    Richard Nixon

    The United States won The Race to Land Astronauts on The Moon

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    Sunday Jul 20, 1969

    After a nearly decade-long national effort, the United States won the race to land astronauts on the Moon on July 20, 1969, with the flight of Apollo 11. Nixon spoke with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin during their moonwalk. He called the conversation "the most historic phone call ever made from the White House"


  • The Moon
    Sunday Jul 20, 1969
    08:17:00 PM
    Neil Armstrong

    The Landing on the surface of the Moon

    The Moon
    Sunday Jul 20, 1969
    08:17:00 PM

    The landing on the surface of the Moon occurred several seconds after 20:17:40 UTC on July 20, 1969.


  • The Moon
    Monday Jul 21, 1969
    05:56:00 AM
    Neil Armstrong

    The First Moon walk

    The Moon
    Monday Jul 21, 1969
    05:56:00 AM

    The flight plan called for a crew rest period before extravehicular activity, but Armstrong requested the EVA be moved to earlier in the evening, Houston time. When he and Aldrin were ready to go outside, Eagle was depressurized, the hatch was opened, and Armstrong made his way down the ladder. At the bottom of the ladder Armstrong said, "I'm going to step off the LM now". He turned and set his left boot on the lunar surface at 02:56 UTC July 21, 1969, then spoke the now-famous words, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."


  • The Moon
    Monday Jul 21, 1969
    Neil Armstrong

    The Second human to walk on the Moon

    The Moon
    Monday Jul 21, 1969

    About 19 minutes after Armstrong's first step, Aldrin joined him on the surface, becoming the second human to walk on the Moon. They began their tasks of investigating how easily a person could operate on the lunar surface. Armstrong unveiled a plaque commemorating the flight, and with Aldrin, planted the flag of the United States.


  • Madrid, Spain
    Tuesday Jul 22, 1969
    Juan Carlos I

    The Spanish Parliament ratifie on Juan as The Prince of Spain

    Madrid, Spain
    Tuesday Jul 22, 1969

    Franco decided to skip a generation and name Juan de Borbón's son, Prince Juan Carlos, as his personal successor. Franco hoped the young prince could be groomed to take over the nation while still maintaining the ultraconservative and authoritarian nature of his regime. In 1969, Juan Carlos was officially designated heir-apparent and was given the new title of Prince of Spain (not the traditional Prince of Asturias). As a condition of being named heir-apparent, he was required to swear loyalty to Franco's Movimiento Nacional, which he did with little outward hesitation. His choice was ratified by the Spanish parliament on 22 July 1969.


  • North Pacific Ocean
    Thursday Jul 24, 1969
    Neil Armstrong

    Return to Earth

    North Pacific Ocean
    Thursday Jul 24, 1969

    After they re-entered the LM, the hatch was closed and sealed. While preparing for the liftoff from the lunar surface, Armstrong and Aldrin discovered that, in their bulky space suits, they had broken the ignition switch for the ascent engine; using part of a pen, they pushed the circuit breaker in to activate the launch sequence. The Eagle then continued to its rendezvous in lunar orbit, where it docked with Columbia, the command and service module. The three astronauts returned to Earth and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, to be picked up by the USS Hornet.


  • Bhutan
    1969
    Flag of Bhutan

    Current flag

    Bhutan
    1969

    Beginning in the late 1950s, Dasho Shingkhar Lam, former Secretary to Jigme Dorji Wangchuck and Sixth Speaker of the National Assembly (1971–74), was requested by the king to make several modifications to the flag; he is responsible for its current design, which has remained unchanged since 1969. The king was reportedly dissatisfied that the early square Bhutanese flags did not flutter like the rectangular Indian flag displayed on the visit of an Indian official to the country. The standard measurements of the flag of Bhutan were thereafter altered to resemble the flag of India, which was 9 feet by 6 feet.


  • England
    Wednesday Aug 20, 1969
    The Beatles

    The Last Occasion on which all Four Beatles Were Together

    England
    Wednesday Aug 20, 1969

    The completion and mixing of "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" on 20 August 1969 was the last occasion on which all four Beatles were together in the same studio.


  • South Vietnam
    Tuesday Sep 2, 1969
    Vietnam War

    Ho Chi Minh Death

    South Vietnam
    Tuesday Sep 2, 1969

    In September 1969, Ho Chi Minh died at age seventy-nine.


  • Vietnam
    Thursday Sep 4, 1969
    Ho Chi Minh

    The Mourning

    Vietnam
    Thursday Sep 4, 1969

    A week of mourning for his death was decreed nationwide in North Vietnam from 4 to 11 September 1969.


  • California, United States
    Saturday Sep 13, 1969
    River Phoenix

    Phoenix's parents marriage

    California, United States
    Saturday Sep 13, 1969

    They married on September 13, 1969, less than a year after meeting.


  • U.S.
    1969
    IBM

    Magnetic stripe card

    U.S.
    1969

    In 1969, IBM engineer Forrest Parry invented the magnetic stripe card that would become ubiquitous for credit/debit/ATM cards, driver's licenses, rapid transit cards, and a multitude of other identity and access control applications.


  • England
    Saturday Sep 20, 1969
    The Beatles

    Lennon Announced His Departure

    England
    Saturday Sep 20, 1969

    Lennon announced his departure to the rest of the group on 20 September, but agreed to withhold a public announcement to avoid undermining sales of the forthcoming album.


  • New York City, New York, U.S.
    Oct, 1969
    Igor Stravinsky

    Stravinsky Relocated To an Apartment in Essex House In New York City

    New York City, New York, U.S.
    Oct, 1969

    In October 1969, Stravinsky relocated to an apartment in Essex House in New York City. Among Stravinsky's final projects was orchestrating two preludes from The Well-Tempered Clavier by Bach, but it was never completed.


  • Vatican City
    1969
    Valentine's Day

    Removal of saint valentine from the roman catholic calendar of saints

    Vatican City
    1969

    While St. Valentine continues to be recognized by the Roman Catholic Church as a saint of the church, he was excluded from the General Roman Calendar in 1969 for lack of accurate information about him.


  • Vietnam
    Wednesday Oct 15, 1969
    Vietnam War

    The Vietnam Moratorium

    Vietnam
    Wednesday Oct 15, 1969

    On 15 October 1969, the Vietnam Moratorium attracted millions of Americans.


  • Soviet Union, (Russia)
    Monday Oct 27, 1969
    Vietnam War

    Operation Giant Lance

    Soviet Union, (Russia)
    Monday Oct 27, 1969

    On 27 October 1969, Nixon had ordered a squadron of 18 B-52s loaded with nuclear weapons to race to the border of Soviet airspace to convince the Soviet Union, in accord with the madman theory, that he was capable of anything to end the Vietnam War ("Operation Giant Lance").


  • California, U.S.
    Thursday Oct 30, 1969
    12:30:00 PM
    Internet

    Bolt Beranek & Newman and the first ARPANET link was established

    California, U.S.
    Thursday Oct 30, 1969
    12:30:00 PM

    ARPA awarded the contract to build the network to Bolt Beranek & Newman and the first ARPANET link was established between the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the Stanford Research Institute at 22:30 hours on October 29, 1969. "We set up a telephone connection between us and the guys at SRI ...", Kleinrock ... said in an interview: "We typed the L and we asked on the phone, "Do you see the L?" "Yes, we see the L," came the response. We typed the O, and we asked, "Do you see the O." "Yes, we see the O." Then we typed the G, and the system crashed ... Yet a revolution had begun" ....


  • U.S.
    1969
    Best Buy

    Sound of Music had three stores

    U.S.
    1969

    In 1969, Sound of Music had three stores and Schulze bought out his business partner.


  • U.S.
    1969
    Xerox

    Xerox acquired Scientific Data Systems (SDS)

    U.S.
    1969

    Xerox acquired Scientific Data Systems (SDS), which it renamed the Xerox Data Systems (XDS) division and which produced the Sigma line and its successor XDS 5xx series of mainframe computers in the 1960s and 1970s.


  • U.S.
    1969
    Xerox

    The laser printer was invented in 1969 by Xerox researcher Gary Starkweather

    U.S.
    1969

    The laser printer was invented in 1969 by Xerox researcher Gary Starkweather by modifying a Xerox 7000 copier. Xerox management was afraid the product version of Starkweather's invention, which became the 9700, would negatively impact their copier business so the innovation sat in limbo until IBM launched the 3800 laser printer in 1976.


  • Ecuador
    1969
    Pedro López (serial killer)

    López was imprisoned

    Ecuador
    1969

    Lopez was arrested at 21 years old for stealing a car. Soon after his imprisonment, he was raped by at least two men and in retaliation killed his attackers with a makeshift knife.


  • U.S.
    Saturday Dec 6, 1969
    Internet

    4-node network was connected

    U.S.
    Saturday Dec 6, 1969

    By December 5, 1969, a 4-node network was connected by adding the University of Utah and the University of California, Santa Barbara. Building on ideas developed in ALOHAnet, the ARPANET grew rapidly.


  • Netherlands
    1969
    April Fools' Day

    Pranks (Netherlands)

    Netherlands
    1969

    In 1969, the public broadcaster NTS in the Netherlands announced that inspectors with remote scanners would drive the streets to detect people who had not paid their radio/TV tax ("kijk en luistergeld" or "omroepbijdrage"). The only way to prevent detection was to wrap the TV/radio in aluminium foil. The next day all supermarkets were sold out of their aluminium foil, and a surge of TV/radio taxes were being paid.


  • Stockholm, Sweden
    Wednesday Dec 10, 1969
    Nobel Prize

    Economic Science's Prize

    Stockholm, Sweden
    Wednesday Dec 10, 1969

    The following year, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was awarded for the first time. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences became responsible for selecting laureates. The first laureates for the Economics Prize were Jan Tinbergen and Ragnar Frisch,The Board of the Nobel Foundation decided that after this addition, it would allow no further new prizes.


  • East Pakistan (now Bangladesh)
    1969
    Disasters with highest death tolls

    1969 East Pakistan Tornado1969 East Pakistan Tornado

    East Pakistan (now Bangladesh)
    1969

    1969 East Pakistan tornado was a tornado in East Pakistan. It began in 1969. The death toll from this tornado is estimated to be 660 people.


  • Argentina
    Saturday Dec 13, 1969
    Pope Francis

    Priesthood

    Argentina
    Saturday Dec 13, 1969

    In 1967, Bergoglio finished his theological studies and was ordained to the priesthood on 13 December 1969, by Archbishop Ramón José Castellano.


  • Canada
    1969
    Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

    Philip spoke about his views on republicanism

    Canada
    1969

    In Canada in 1969, Philip spoke about his views on republicanism: It is a complete misconception to imagine that the monarchy exists in the interests of the monarch. It doesn't. It exists in the interests of the people. If at any time any nation decides that the system is unacceptable, then it is up to them to change it.


  • United Kingdom
    Thursday Dec 18, 1969
    James Bond

    On Her Majesty's Secret Service

    United Kingdom
    Thursday Dec 18, 1969

    On Her Majesty's Secret Service is a 1969 spy film and the sixth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. It is based on the 1963 novel by Ian Fleming. Following Sean Connery's decision to retire from the role after You Only Live Twice, Eon Productions selected George Lazenby, a model with no prior acting credits, to play the part of James Bond. During the making of the film, Lazenby announced that he would play the role of Bond only once.


  • Delaware, U.S.
    1969
    Joe Biden

    Biden practiced law first as a public defender

    Delaware, U.S.
    1969

    In 1969, Biden practiced law first as a public defender and then at a firm headed by a locally active Democrat who named him to the Democratic Forum, a group trying to reform and revitalize the state party; Biden subsequently reregistered as a Democrat.


  • Vietnam
    1969
    Vietnam War

    Military Deaths In 1969

    Vietnam
    1969

    In 1969, 11,780 Americans and 21,833 Vietnamese were killed.


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