Historical Events In 1969

Jan 23 Cream releases their last album "Goodbye"

Jan 17 Beatles release Yellow Submarine album in UK

Jan 07 US Congress doubles presidential salary

Jan 04 France begins arms embargo against Israel

Jan 27 Actress Thelma Ritter suffers a heart attack (she dies Feb 5th)

Jan 02 "Soviet Sport" calls Emile Zatopek a public enemy

Jan 06 Supremes release "I'm Livin' In Shame"

Jan 09 The supersonic airliner, Concorde, makes its first test flight

Jan 14 Twenty-five crewmen aboard the carrier Enterprise are killed in an explosion off the coast of Hawaii.

Jan 10 USSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus

Jan 10 Pirate Radio Station Free Derby begins operation by Northern Ireland

Jan 18 Soyuz 5 returns to Earth

Jan 27 14 spies hung in Baghdad

Jan 11 Jethro Tull's This Was Jethro Tull album debuts

Jan 27 9 Jews publicly executed in Damascus Syria

Jan 03 Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr seated by Congress

Jan 20 U of Arizona reports first optical id of pulsar (in Crab Nebula)

Jan 24 Spanish General Franco announces state of emergency

Jan 02 FLQ bombs are discovered in Ottawa.

Jan 18 Expanded 4 party Vietnam peace talks began in Paris

Jan 29 Sheahan &Connolly hang on for exciting draw Australia vs West Indies

Jan 13 Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" album

Jan 17 Debut album of Led Zeppelin released in US

Jan 03 John Lennon's "2 Virgins" album declared pornographic in New Jersey

Jan 05 Marilyn Manson, american entertainer.

Jan 27 Noordiers vicar Ian Paisley sentenced to 3 years

Jan 16 Jan Palach immolates himself to protest Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia

Jan 29 Jimi Hendrix &Peter Townshend wage a battle of guitars

Jan 05 USSR Venera 5 launched for first successful planet landing (Venus)

Jan 05 Neville Williams' "Chronology of the Expanding World" completed

Jan 14 25 members of US aircraft carrier Enterprise die during maneuvers

Jan 07 US Congress doubles presidential salary

Jan 05 USSR Venera 5 launched for first successful planet landing (Venus)

Jan 05 Neville Williams' "Chronology of the Expanding World" completed

Jan 31 Vice Admiral Rufus L Taylor, USN, ends term as deputy director of CIA

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