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1969 Calendar

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•  February 17, 1969 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rooster in Chinese astrology.
•  March 17, 1969 – Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
•  April 4, 1969 – Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
•  April 15, 1969 – The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board.
•  May 9, 1969 – Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the military dictatorship of Brazil in São Paulo, by robbing two banks.
•  May 26, 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.
•  August 13, 1969 – The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine to enjoy a ticker-tape parade in New York. That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Richard Nixon.
•  October 1, 1969 – Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
•  November 24, 1969 – Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to the Moon.
•  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 18, 1969 – Dave Bautista, American professional wrestler
•  January 21, 1969 – Tsubaki Nekoi, Japanese manga artist
•  February 15, 1969 – Josh Marshall, American journalist
•  June 26, 1969 – Mike Myers, American baseball player
•  July 31, 1969 – Loren Dean, American actor
•  August 31, 1969 – Andrew Cunanan, American spree killer (d. 1997)
•  October 9, 1969 – P.J. Harvey, English musician
•  October 10, 1969 – Dilsa Demirbag Sten, Swedish author and journalist
•  October 28, 1969 – Ben Harper, American musician
•  November 17, 1969 – Ryotaro Okiayu, Japanese voice actor