1969

1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1969th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 969th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1960s decade.

1969
Clockwise, from top left: the Woodstock Music and Art Fair is held in Bethel, New York; a memorial plaque for Patrick Rooney and Hugh McCabe, who were killed during riots in Northern Ireland, which heralded the beginning of the Troubles; Muammar Gaddafi rose to power in Libya after a coup d'état there, leading the country for 42 years; pro-LGBT protests occur in the U.S., with goals of homosexuality rights in the U.S.; Hurricane Camille becomes the most intense tropical cyclone to hit the U.S. until 2005, killing 259 people in the southern U.S.; a statue of Ho Chi Minh, who died that September; an oil spill disrupts marine life off the coast of California; Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to step foot on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission.
Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1969 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1969
MCMLXIX
Ab urbe condita2722
Armenian calendar1418
ԹՎ ՌՆԺԸ
Assyrian calendar6719
Baháʼí calendar125–126
Balinese saka calendar1890–1891
Bengali calendar1376
Berber calendar2919
British Regnal year17 Eliz. 2 – 18 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2513
Burmese calendar1331
Byzantine calendar7477–7478
Chinese calendar戊申年 (Earth Monkey)
4666 or 4459
    — to —
己酉年 (Earth Rooster)
4667 or 4460
Coptic calendar1685–1686
Discordian calendar3135
Ethiopian calendar1961–1962
Hebrew calendar5729–5730
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2025–2026
 - Shaka Samvat1890–1891
 - Kali Yuga5069–5070
Holocene calendar11969
Igbo calendar969–970
Iranian calendar1347–1348
Islamic calendar1388–1389
Japanese calendarShōwa 44
(昭和44年)
Javanese calendar1900–1901
Juche calendar58
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4302
Minguo calendarROC 58
民國58年
Nanakshahi calendar501
Thai solar calendar2512
Tibetan calendar阳土猴年
(male Earth-Monkey)
2095 or 1714 or 942
    — to —
阴土鸡年
(female Earth-Rooster)
2096 or 1715 or 943

Events

January

1969 
January 14: Explosion kills 27 on USS Enterprise

February

March

April

May

June

July

1969 
July 16: The Saturn V rocket is launched
1969 
July 20: Buzz Aldrin descends a ladder to become the second human to step onto the surface of the Moon during the Apollo 11 program

August

1969 
August 15–18: Woodstock Festival is held

September

October

November

December

Date unknown

Births

Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January

1969 
Michael Schumacher
1969 
Norman Reedus
1969 
Patton Oswalt

February

1969 
Gabriel Batistuta
1969 
Bobby Brown
1969 
Michael Sheen
1969 
Jennifer Aniston
1969 
Darren Aronofsky
1969 
Birdman

March

1969 
Javier Bardem
1969 
Jimmy Morales
1969 
Kevin Corrigan
1969 
Mariah Carey

April

1969 
Ben Mendelsohn
1969 
Paul Rudd
1969 
Gina Torres
1969 
Renée Zellweger

May

1969 
Wes Anderson
1969 
Cate Blanchett
1969 
David Boreanaz
1969 
Tucker Carlson

June

1969 
Peter Dinklage
1969 
Steffi Graf
1969 
Ice Cube
1969 
Oliver Kahn

July

1969 
Cree Summer
1969 
James Arnold Taylor
1969 
Jennifer Lopez

August

1969 
John Fetterman
1969 
Edward Norton
1969 
Christian Slater
1969 
Matthew Perry
1969 
Jack Black

September

1969 
Tyler Perry
1969 
Bong Joon-ho
1969 
Hal Sparks
1969 
Catherine Zeta-Jones

October

1969 
Zach Galifianakis
1969 
Gwen Stefani
1969 
Sir Steve McQueen
1969 
Loren Bouchard
1969 
Wendi McLendon-Covey
1969 
Trey Parker

November

1969 
Sean Combs
1969 
Matthew McConaughey
1969 
Ellen Pompeo
1969 
Gerard Butler

December

1969 
Jay-Z
1969 
Laurie Holden
1969 
Richard Hammond
1969 
Julie Delpy
1969 
Sarah Vowell
1969 
Jay Kay

Deaths

Deaths
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January

1969 
Dominique Pire

February

1969 
Boris Karloff
1969 
King Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
1969 
Levi Eshkol

March

1969 
Dwight D. Eisenhower

April

1969 
Rómulo Gallegos

May

1969 
Franz von Papen
1969 
Jeffrey Hunter

June

1969 
Judy Garland

July

1969 
Brian Jones
1969 
Walter Gropius

August

1969 
Theodor W. Adorno
1969 
Sharon Tate

September

1969 
Ho Chi Minh

October

1969 
Sonja Henie

November

1969 
Iskander Mirza

December

1969 
Kliment Voroshilov
1969 
Spencer Williams Jr.

Nobel Prizes

References

  • 1969 – Headlines A report from Rich Lamb of WCBS Newsradio 880 (WCBS-AM New York) Part of WCBS 880's celebration of 40 years of newsradio.
  • 1969 – The Year in Sound An Audiofile produced by Lou Zambrana of WCBS Newsradio 880 (WCBS-AM New York) Part of WCBS 880's celebration of 40 years of newsradio.

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