Historical Events In 1969
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
Mar 05 The premiere issue of the rock magazine, Creem, is published.
Mar 20 US President Nixon proclaims he will end Vietnam war in 1970
Mar 07 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
Mar 05 Gustav Heinemann elected President of West-Germany
Mar 01 New York Yankees' Mickey Mantle announces his retirement from baseball
Mar 20 Beatle John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar
Mar 03 Apollo 9 launched into 151 Earth orbits (10 days)
Mar 05 Gold reaches then record high ($47 per ounce) in Paris France
Mar 02 The first test flight of the supersonic Concorde
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