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1969 Calendar

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•  January 16, 1969 – Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.
•  February 17, 1969 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rooster in Chinese astrology.
•  March 3, 1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
•  April 9, 1969 – The first British-built Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford.
•  May 17, 1969 – Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
•  June 22, 1969 – The Cuyahoga River catches fire, triggering a crack-down on pollution in the river.
•  July 4, 1969 – Two teens (one male, one female) are attacked at Blue Rock Springs in California. They are the second (known) victims of the Zodiac Killer. The male survives.
•  September 1, 1969 – Tran Thien Khiem became Prime Minister of South Vietnam under President Nguyen Van Thieu.
•  October 5, 1969 – The first episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus airs on BBC.
•  December 17, 1969 – Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs, stating that sightings are generated as a result of “A mild form of mass hysteria, Individuals who fabricate such reports to perpetrate a hoax or seek publicity, psychopathological persons, and misidentification of various conventional objects.”

•  January 16, 1969 – Per Yngve “Dead” Ohlin, Swedish black metal vocalist (Mayhem) (d. 1991)
•  January 21, 1969 – Tsubaki Nekoi, Japanese manga artist
•  January 22, 1969 – John Linton Roberson, American cartoonist
•  March 7, 1969 – Warrel Dane, American singer (Nevermore)
•  June 11, 1969 – Matt McGrath, American actor
•  August 20, 1969 – Billy Gardell, American actor and comedian
•  September 24, 1969 – Lisa Matthews, American model
•  October 17, 1969 – Wyclef Jean, Haitian singer
•  November 20, 1969 – Callie Thorne, American actor
•  November 21, 1969 – Ken Griffey, Jr., American baseball player