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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