Historical Events In 1969

Feb 18 PLO-attack El-Al plane in Zurich Switzerland

Feb 28 Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Colorado Springs won by Gabriele Seyfert GDR

Feb 05 Vince Lombardi, becomes part owner, vice president, general manager &head coach of Redskins

Feb 07 Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat becomes president of PLO

Feb 28 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by Tim Wood USA

Feb 21 First launching of heavy N-1 rocket at Baikonur Kazachstan (explodes)

Feb 19 First Test flight of Boeing 747 jumbo jet

Feb 01 Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself in concert

Feb 08 Last edition of Saturday Evening Post

Feb 09 World's largest airplane, Boeing 747, makes first commercial flight

Feb 28 Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Springs won by Towler & Ford of Great Britain

Feb 01 US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn

Feb 25 Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars

Feb 01 US male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood

Feb 05 US population reaches 200 million

Feb 11 Dorey Funk Jr beats Gene Kiniski in Tampa, to become NWA champion

Feb 23 Nayif Hawatimah forms Democratic People's Front for Liberation of Palestine

Feb 23 Start of hovercraft service between Vancouver and Nanaimo; first scheduled hovercraft service in Canada didn't last too many logs in the water

Feb 27 General Hafez al-Assad becomes head of Syria via military coup

Feb 04 Yassar Arafat takes over as chairman of PLO

Feb 21 Ted Williams signs 5-year contract to manage Washington Senators

Feb 07 "This Is Tom Jones," debuts on ABC TV

Feb 08 Meteorite weighing over 1 ton falls in Chihuahua, México

Feb 08 First test flight of the Boeing 747 Jumbo jet

Feb 13 Suriname government of Pengel resigns

Feb 04 Beatles appoint Eastman &Eastman, as general counsel to Apple

Feb 24 Mariner 6, first spacecraft to fly by Mars, launched

Feb 27 President Nixon visits West-Berlin

Feb 24 Mariner 6 launched for Mars fly-by

Feb 28 Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Rodnina & Ulanov of USSR

Feb 05 "Turn-On," debuts &cancelled by ABC after flopping so badly

Feb 11 In Montreal Quebec Canadian and West Indian student demonstrators destroy $1.4 million computer and set fire to data centre at Sir George Williams University

Feb 25 Beatles begin recording for the Abbey Road album

Feb 03 the Palestine National Congress appoints Yasser Arafat head of the Palestine Liberation Organization

Feb 13 Mary Hopkin's Postcard album on Apple is released

« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next Page »