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1969
Neil Armstrong walks on the moon
The first manned moon landing by Apollo 11
Willy Brandt
Willy Brandt becomes Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Swearing in of Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon is sworn in as the 37th President of the United States.
1969 in other calendars
From urbe condita 2722
Armenian calendar 1417-1418
Ethiopian calendar 1961–1962
Badi calendar 125-126
Bengali calendar 1375-1376
Berber calendar 2919
Buddhist calendar 2513
Burmese calendar 1331
Byzantine calendar 7477-7478
Chinese calendar
 - era 4665-4666 or
4605-4606
 - 60 year cycle

Earth-Monkey (戊申, 45) -
Earth-Rooster (己酉, 46)

French
revolution calendar
CLXXVII - CLXXVIII
177-178
Hebrew calendar 5729-5730
Hindu calendar
 - Vikram Sambat 2025-2026
 - Shaka Samvat 1891-1892
Iranian calendar 1347-1348
Islamic calendar 1388-1389
Japanese calendar
 - Nengō (era): Shōwa 44
 - Kōki 2629
Coptic calendar 1685-1686
Korean calendar
 - Dangun era 4302
 - Juche era 58
Minguo calendar 58
Modern Olympics XIX
Seleucid calendar 2280-2281
Thai solar calendar 2512

The year 1969 marks the end of the 1960s. The first manned moon landing in human history was particularly influential for this year . Other significant events were changes of government in Germany, the USA and France. The brutal murders of the Manson Family in California and the Vietnam War also dominated the scene. Musically and culturally, the Woodstock Festival was remembered.

Events

Politics and world events

economy

Berlin TV tower

science and technology

The Eye of Storm Debbie

Culture

music

Salomé , who competed for Spain, with the song Vivo cantando ,
Lulu , who ran for Great Britain, with the song Boom Bang-A-Bang ,
Lenny Kuhr , who competed for the Netherlands, with the song De troubadour ,
Frida Boccara , who competed for France, with the song Un jour, un enfant .

society

religion

Disasters

Sports

For entries of athletics world records, see under the respective discipline under athletics .

Born

January

Michael Schumacher, 2011
Tiësto, 2007

February

Gabriel Batistuta
Jennifer Aniston
Siniša Mihajlović

March

Javier Bardem
Markus Lanz, 2009
Connor Trinneer as Commander Charles Tucker

April

Kim Fisher
Renée Zellweger

May

Wes Anderson
Cate Blanchett
Jörg Roßkopf

June

July

Gedeon Burkhard
Sahra Wagenknecht
Isabell Werth
Jennifer Lopez
Antonio Conte

August

Bernard Fanning
Oliver Geissen

September

Robert Habeck
Dweezil Zappa
Shawn Crahan
Catherine Zeta-Jones

October

Marcus Stephen
Wendi McLendon-Covey

November

Sean Combs
Matthew McConaughey
Jens Lehmann
Olivia Jones
Katrin Krabbe

December

Day unknown

Gunda Gottschalk
Guillermo Klein

Died

January

February

March

Dwight D. Eisenhower († March 28)

April

Victoria Eugénie of Spain

May

W. Lee O'Daniel

June

July

Walter Gropius
Otto Dix

August

Adolf Friedrich Duke of Mecklenburg
Otto Stern

September

Ho Chi Minh

October

Sonja Henie († October 12)

November

Ernest Gibson
Liú Shàoqí

December

Kliment Voroshilov
Alexei Pavlovich Sokolski

Day unknown

Nobel Prizes

Murray Gell-Mann

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