1969 Calendar

January 17, 1969 – Black Panther Party members Bunchy Carter and John Huggins are killed during a meeting in Campbell Hall on the campus of UCLA.

January 30, 1969 – The Beatles’ last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.

February 17, 1969 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rooster in Chinese astrology.

March 2, 1969 – Soviet and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the Ussuri River.

June 23, 1969 – Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren.

July 20, 1969 – A cease fire is announced between Honduras and El Salvador, 6 days after the beginning of the “Football War”.

August 4, 1969 – Vietnam War: at the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.

October 1, 1969 – Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.

December 1, 1969 – Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.

December 17, 1969 – The SALT I talks begin.

February 5, 1969 – Michael Sheen, Welsh actor

February 23, 1969 – Marc Wauters, Belgian cyclist

March 28, 1969 – Rodney Atkins, American country music singer-songwriter

April 6, 1969 – Bison Dele, American basketball player (disappeared 2002)

April 11, 1969 – Chisato Moritaka, Japanese singer

June 11, 1969 – Bryan Fogarty, Canadian professional ice hockey player (d. 2002)

August 4, 1969 – Michael DeLuise, American actor

August 23, 1969 – Jeremy Schaap, American sportswriter

September 2, 1969 – Cedric “K-Ci” Hailey, American singer

November 28, 1969 – Lexington Steele, American adult film actor