Historical Events In 1969

Mar 12 11th Grammy Awards: Mrs Robinson, By the Time I Get to Phoenix win

Mar 12 Paul McCartney marries Linda Louise Eastman in London

Mar 29 Communist New People's Army found in Philippines

Mar 19 Chicago 8 indicted in aftermath of Chicago Democratic convention

Mar 25 Andes Pact signed in Peru

Mar 10 James Earl Ray pleads guilty in murder of Martin Luther King Jr

Mar 12 120 joints found at George &Patti Harrison's home

Mar 02 Chinese-Russian borders fight (approximately 70 die)

Mar 26 Nuclear reactor Dodewaard Netherlands goes into use

Mar 27 Ottawa to build new international airport at Mirabel, near St-Jerome, 42 km north of Montreal , a BIG waste of money it later closes

Mar 21 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Mar 07 Lieutenant General Robert E Cushman, Jr, USMC, becomes deputy director of CIA

Mar 02 Phil Esposito becomes first NHL Player to score 100 points in a season

Mar 08 Marriage of 12 year old Marcella Rosciglione in Palermo Italy

Mar 04 RCMP to replace remaining dog teams with snowmobiles, Sargent York and his faithful dog Yukon can now rest easy..

Mar 15 Violent Chinese-Russian border dispute (100s dead)

Mar 25 Pakistan General Agha Mohammed Jagja Khan succeeds Ayub Chan as President

Mar 26 Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 launched

Mar 19 British invade Anguilla

Mar 21 John & Yoko stage their first bed-in for peace (Amsterdam Hilton)

Mar 28 In Turkey a 6.4 earthquake occurred in the Alasehir region of western Turkey.

Mar 10 James Earl Ray found guilty of the murder of Martin Luther King and sentenced to 99 years in jail

Mar 27 Launch of Mariner 7, flies 2,190 miles above southern Mars

Mar 13 Apollo 9 returns to Earth

Mar 17 Golda Meir becomes Israel's 4th Prime Minister

Mar 19 British troops take over the Caribbean island Anguilla following internal political wranglings.

Mar 12 11th Grammy Awards Mrs Robinson, By the Time I Get to Phoenix win

Mar 31 George Harrison and Patti Boyd are fined £250 each for illegal drugs

Mar 01 After 88 weeks Sergeant Pepper drops off the charts

Mar 16 Viasa DC-9 crashes at Maracaibo's Grano de Oro airport, killing 155

Mar 26 Marcus Welby MD, a TV movie is shown on ABC-TV

Mar 02 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 14th Symphony

Mar 05 Joe Orton's "What the Butler Saw", premieres in London

Mar 23 Rally for Decency (Miami)

Mar 15 US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns

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