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1969 Eurovision Song Contest
 Joint Winners in a 4-way tie: United Kingdom Lulu 'Boom Bang-A-Bang' Spain Salome 'Viva Cantando' France Frida Boccara 'Un Jour, Un Enfant' Holland Lennie Kuhr 'De Troubador' |
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1969 Academy Awards - The 'Oscars' Best Actor: John Wayne (
True Grit ) |
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1969 - General
The Average Wage: £24.16s.5d
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Leary is cleared of drugs related charges Cilla Black marries her manager Bobby Willis Snooker's 'Pot Black' is launched on television French President Charles DeGaulle is forced to resign Cricket's John Player Sunday League starts Colonel Gaddafi seizes power in Libya Midnight Cowboy is the first 'X'-rated film to win an Oscar Ho Chi Minh, 'The father of Vietnam' dies The PASCAL computer language is developed ITA's Emley Moor transmitter mast collapses |
Unemployment
quoted at 557,700 Bobby Charlton is awarded the O.B.E. The R.A.F. gets it's first Harrier jump-jet Troop withdrawals begin from Vietnam British troops move into Northern Ireland Britain abolishes capital punishment Rhodesia becomes a Republic North Sea oil is first discovered The voting age is reduced from 21 to 18 Lulu marries BeeGee Maurice Gibb |
Christopher Cockerell,
the inventor of the hovercraft, is knighted
Alexander Solzhenitsyn is expelled from the Russian Writers Union
The first in-vitro human egg fertilisation is achieved by Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards
Sony introduce the U-Matic colour video cassette recorder
The world's longest bridge, over 23 miles, is completed in Louisiana
The Home Secretary orders
the destruction of Britain's obsolete
'Dr Who' style police boxes as personal radios become commonplace
Grand Prix drivers Lucien Bianchi, Paul Hawkins, Gerhard Mitter and
Moises Solana
lose their lives in race crashes, bringing the decade total to 21
Ian Paisley is jailed for 3 months for unlawful assembly
Singer Peter Frampton leaves 'The Herd' to go solo
1st Sir Learie Constantine becomes Britain's first black life peer
1st Rupert Murdoch wins the take-over battle with Robert Maxwell for 'The News of the World'
6th James Lister, director of 'Gilligan's Island' and 'Wild, Wild West' dies
11th 'Just William' creator Richmal Crompton dies aged 78
14th Sir Matt Busby announces his retirement as manager of Manchester United Football Club
23rd The government rejects proposals to legalise cannabis
30th The Beatles make their last ever public appearance, from the roof of Apple Studios in London
E.P.s are excluded from the pop chart listings
Allen Klein is adopted as The Beatles' advisor
Elvis records in Memphis for the first time since 1955
2nd Horror king Boris Karloff dies
8th Beatle George Harrison has his tonsils removed at University College Hospital in London
9th The Boeing 747 'Jumbo Jet' makes its maiden flight near Seattle, U.S.A.
9th Actor George 'Gabby' Hayes dies
14th Radio presenter Kenneth Horne dies
23rd Ex-test cricketer the Reverend David Sheppard is appointed Bishop of Woolwich
28th Robert Kennedy's assassin Sirhan Sirhan is refused a request to be executed
1st Princess Anne carries out her first public engagement
1st The Doors' Jim Morrison is arrested for lewd behaviour and drunkenness after a show in Miami
2nd Concorde 001makes its maiden flight from Toulouse
5th At the No.1 court in the Old Bailey the Kray twins are sentenced to life for murder
10th James Earl Ray is sentenced to 99 years imprisonment
11th 'Day Of The Triffids' author John Wyndham dies aged 65
12th Beatle Paul McCartney marries Kodak heiress Linda Eastman
20th Beatle John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar
25th Bandleader Billy Cotton dies aged 69
28th Ex-American President Dwight D. Eisenhower dies
9th Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight from Filton, Bristol
18th Bernadette Devlin, aged 21, is elected as M.P. for Mid-Ulster
22nd The liner Queen Elizabeth II starts her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York
23rd Sirhan Sirhan is sentenced to the gas chamber ( later commuted )
25th Mrs Dale's Diary ends its run on B.B.C.Radio after more than 5,400 episodes
May 1969
3rd Jimi Hendrix is arrested in Toronto for possession of heroin
6th In Belfast, Ian Paisley is freed under a wide-ranging amnesty
9th The Vatican drops St.Christopher from the liturgical calendar
12th Martin Lamble, the Freeport Convention drummer, is killed in a crash on the M1
16th Soviet spacecraft Venera 5 sends back data before crashing on the surface of Venus
18th Graham Hill wins the Monaco Grand Prix for a record fifth time
27th Jeffrey Hunter, first Captain of Star Trek's 'Enterprise', dies as the result of a head trauma
Cilla Black has plastic surgery on her nose
8th Brian Jones quits The Rolling Stones
8th American actor Robert Taylor dies of lung cancer aged 57
13th Actress Martita Hunt dies aged 69
16th Earl Alexander of Tunis dies
20th High grade crude oil deposits are discovered in the North Sea
21st American tennis player 'Little Mo' Connolly dies aged 34
22nd Entertainer Judy Garland dies, aged 47, after an accidental overdose of sleeping pills
25th 'Pancho' Gonzales beats Charlie Pasarell in the longest ever tennis singles match - 112 games
28th Banks open on a Saturday for the last time
Golfer Tony Jacklin wins the Open at Lytham St.Annes
The 16th Newport Jazz Festival is held in Rhode Island
1st The Investiture of Prince Charles as the 19th Prince of Wales takes place at Caernarvon Castle
3rd Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones is found dead at his home of a drugs overdose
5th The Rolling Stones hold their free concert in Hyde Park
21st
Neil Armstrong becomes the first
man to walk on the moon at 03:56 BST
During the American moon landing the Russians land an unmanned space craft
500 miles away
26th Elvis recommences live performances
Kiki Dee becomes the first British girl singer to be signed by Motown
1st The old halfpenny is withdrawn from circulation
8th The Charles Manson 'family' murder Sharon Tate and 4 others
8th Handley-Page, Britain's oldest aircraft manufacturer, calls in the receivers
16th Start of the 'Woodstock' 3 day pop festival attended by 450,000 people in New York State
31st Bob Dylan stars in the second Isle of Wight pop festival
31st Undefeated ex-World Heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano dies, aged 45, in a plane crash
Singer James Taylor breaks his arm and leg in a motorcycle accident
All five members of The Equals are injured in an autobahn accident in Germany during a gale
Deep Purple's Ritchie Blackmore marries German dancer Barbel Hardie
4th The Vietcong call a 3-day truce in memory of Ho Chi Minh
5th ITV makes its first colour television transmissions
16th BIBA opens as a department store in Kensington
21st Police storm a 'Hippy' squat at 144 Piccadilly, London
24th Ton Duc Thang succeeds Ho Chi Minh as President in Vietnam
The Moody Blues form their 'Threshold' record label
5th Monty Python's Flying Circus is first broadcast, seen on BBC2
14th The 7-sided 50p piece is introduced into circulation
15th The print unions finally allow Rupert Murdoch's purchase of 'The Sun' newspaper
24th
47 are hurt in a prisoner riot at Parkhurst sparked by the early release
of Soviet spy Peter Kroger
31st 75,000 people see Bob Dylan top
the bill at the Isle of Wight pop festival
Torrey Canyon owners, Barracuda Tankers, pay £3 million compensation to England and France
3rd
Work finally begins on the National Theatre building
13th Quintuplets are born to Mrs Irene Hanson after fertility
treatment
14th Colonel Gaddafi nationalises all foreign banks in Libya
18th Joseph P. Kennedy dies, father of the Kennedy brothers John, Robert and Edward
18th Bandleader and composer Ted Heath dies aged 69
19th M.P.s approve a bill to set up a new 'Ulster Defence Regiment' to replace the 'B Specials'
25th The government authorises licences for 12 new local radio stations
27th The Rolling Stones play a concert at Madison Square Garden
December 1969
Barry Gibb
leaves The BeeGees to go solo
2nd 98 people are arrested following a pitch invasion during a Springbok rugby game in Aberdeen
6th Four people are killed at the notorious Altamont Pop Festival in the U.S.A.
12th Bernadette Devlin is sentenced to 6 months imprisonment for inciting riot
13th The American Supreme Court orders 4 Southern states to end all segregation by February 1970
17th Tiny Tim marries 17 year old Vicki Budinger live on American television
18th The 'experimental' ban on capital punishment in Britain becomes permanent