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This year in history
In the year 1969

	January 3rd	German formula one driver, Michael Schumacher, was born in Hurth Hermulheim, Germany. He is the most successful Formula One driver ever, in terms of his race statistics.
	January 10th	The last issue of The Saturday Evening Post magazine was published. It was first printed in 1821 and remained in circulation for 147 years in the United States. It was a current events and popular fiction magazine.
	January 20th	The first ever pulsar was discovered by Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish of the University of Cambridge, England.
	February 2nd	British actor, Boris Karloff, died at the age of 82. He was one of the most famous horror actors ever to appear on the silver screen.
	February 3rd	Yasser Arafat was appointed as leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
	February 9th	The first test flight of the Boeing 747 airplane took place. It is one of the most popular and recognizable airplanes of modern times.
	February 22nd	The Beatles rock band performed their last recording session as a group.
	March 7th	Golda Meir was elected as the first female (and only to date - 2006) prime minister of Israel.
	March 29th	During the fourteenth Eurovision Song Contest in Madrid, Spain, four different songs tie for the first place. The countries tied were, England, Holland, Spain and France.
	April 4th	First ever temporary artificial heart was implanted.
	April 23th	Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death for assassinating New York senator Robert F. Kennedy. His sentence was afterwards reduced to life in prison.
	April 25th	American actress, Renee Zellweger, was born in Katy, Texas. In 1996 she was catapulted to instant fame after starring in the hit movie "Jerry Maguire" along with actor Tom Cruise.
	June 14th	German tennis player, Steffi Graf, was born in Mannheim. She is generally considered to be one of the greatest female tennis players of all time, having won 22 Grand Slam singles titles.
	June 15th	American rapper and actor, Ice Cube, was born in Los Angeles, California. He is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential hip-hop musicians of all time.
	June 16th	British military commander, Harold Alexander, died at the age of 77. He was one of the highest ranking allied officers during the course of the second world war who at the end of the war the Supreme Commander of Allied Armies in Italy.
	July 16th	The Apollo 11 space craft was launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. It was the first manned space mission to land on the moon.
	July 20th	The Apollo 11 spacecraft landed on the Moon. it was the first manned mission to land on the Moon
	July 21st	American astronauts, Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin, became the first men to walk on the Moon, as part of the Apollo 11 mission.
	August 9th	Members of the cult led by Charles Manson murdered five people in the Beverly Hills home of the film director Roman Polanski .
	August 10th	Leno & Rosemary LaBianca, were murdered by Charles Manson and members of his cult.
	August 15th	The Woodstock Music and Art Festival opened at a dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York. It lasted three days and for many exemplified the counterculture of the 1960s and the hippie era. Most of the best known musicians of the time performed in the festival.
	August 16th	After a police raid on Spahn Ranch, Charles Manson was arrested.
	August 31st	American boxer, Rocky Marciano, died at the age of 45. He is considered one of the greatest heavyweights of all time and the only boxing champion of any weight class to retire undefeated and without any draws.
	September 1st	A revolution took place in Libya and as a results Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi assumed power.
	September 7th	The Monty Python, (under the name Monty Python's Flying Circus) recorded their first episode for the BBC.
	September 25th	English actress, Catherine Zeta-Jones, was born in Swansea, Wales. She is married to actor Michael Douglas, with whom she has two children.
	September 26th	The Beatles released their Abbey Road album in the United Kingdom.
	September 26th	The television series, The Brady Bunch, premiered on the ABC channel. It was one of the most successful family themed sitcoms of the 60's - 70's.
	October 5th	The first broadcast of Monty Python's Flying Circus took place.
	October 21st	A coup d'etat in Somalia brings Siad Barre to power. He ruled Somalia for 22 years under what is considered as one of the most brutal dictatorships ever to rule an African country. Somalia has had no official government body ever since Siad Barre was deposed in 1991 (as of 2006).
	October 29th	The first-ever link between two computers was established on the ARPANET, the predecessor of the modern day Internet.
	November 4th	American actor, Matthew McConaughey, was born in Texas.
	November 12th	Journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the story about the My Lai Massacre committed by American troops in Vietnam. During the incident American troops massacred hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians. The story created widespread outrage around the world and significantly diminished support for the war in Vietnam.
	November 14th	NASA launched the Apollo 12 which was the second manned mission to the Moon.
	November 15th	Soviet submarine K-19 collided with American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
	November 15th	The first Wendy's fast food restaurant opened in Dublin, Ohio.
	December 8th	An Olympic Airways passenger flight crashed near Athens resulting in the death of 93 people.

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