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'I first met Charlie with Dennis Wilson over at Dennis's house. A lot of pretty well-known musicians around L.A. knew him too, though they'd probably deny it now. But fvck, why deny it? He was potentialy a poet, that guy. The girls were around too...
Listen, he was great. He was unreal. He was really, really good. Scary. Put him with a band that was as free as he was... see, that was the problem right there. No one was ever going to catch up with Charlie Manson 'cos he'd make up the songs as he went along. Every song was different. And they were all good. They were all simple... He'd just play a couple of chords and keep on going. The words just kept comin' out.
Listen, I actually went to Mo Ostin (head of Warner Brothers records) and suggested that they sign him. I referred him. I said, "There's this guy, Charlie Manson, he plays these unique songs and he should be on Warner Bros. records."...
I was always thinking, "What's he gonna do next?..." '
Yeah makes you wonder what might have been, maybe something simple might have changed things. I don't condone CM but he definitely had talent and who knows what might have been.
Also the same can be said of Hitler, again I don't agree with anything he's done, but he could have been an artist.
Also, and not on the same level as the others of course, David Eggers had a similar path........so much talent, but traveled the wrong road.
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Not sure what it says about anything, sometimes people are just evil. a guy I went to school with and surfed with often, ended up murdering his biz partner in a gruesome way.....you'd never have thought this guy capable of anything heinous.
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Not sure what it says about anything, sometimes people are just evil. a guy I went to school with and surfed with often, ended up murdering his biz partner in a gruesome way.....you'd never have thought this guy capable of anything heinous.
Did your buddy do this recently? Is this that case that's in the news right now?
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i'm familiar with m.gilmore. i never had any idea he was related to g.g.
there was an early english punk band called the adverts...
'gary gimore's eyes'
I'm lying in a hospital, I'm pinned against the bed. A stethoscope upon my heart, A hand against my head. They're peeling off the bandages. I'm wincing in the light. The nurse is looking anxious, And she's quivering in fright...
I'm looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes.
The doctors are avoiding me. My vision is confused. I listen to my earphones, And I catch the evening news. A murderer's been killed, And he donates his sight to science. I'm locked into a private ward. I realise that I must be...
Looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes.
Looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes.
I smash the light in anger. Push my bed against the door. I close my lids across my eyes, And wish to see no more. The eye receives the messages, And sends them to the brain. No guarantee the stimuli must be perceived the same...
When looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes.
Gary don't need his eyes to see. Gary and his eyes have parted company
well - we live in a trailer at the edge of town you never see us cause we don't come around we got twenty five rifles to keep the population down but we need you now that's why i'm hangin round
so you be good to me and i'll be good to you and in this land of conditions i am not above suspicion i won't attack you but i won't back you, yeah
well - it's so good to be here asleep on your lawn remember your guard dog i'm afraid that's gone it was such a drag to hear him whining all night long
yeah - that was me with the doves setting them free near the facotry where you built your computer - love
i hope you get the connection cause i can't take the rejection i don't believe you i don't believe you
i'm a barrel of laughs with my carbine on i keep em hoppin till the ammunition's gone but i'm still not happy feel like something's wrong
i got the revolution blues i see bloody fountains and a ten million dune buggies comin' down the mountains
i hear that laurel canyon is full of famous stars but i hate them worse than lepers and i'll kill them in their cars
Fact is, if you ain't got Neil Young's On The Beach, you ain't got shyt.
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thanks, i AM fcuked,
will the Maui move fall through??????
i guess i'll just eat poop & die already
but if it happens
keep a look out for me, ron
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Jayne! The Man they call Jayne! He robbed from the rich and he gave to the poor, He stood up to the man and he gave him what for. Our love for him now, aint hard to explain, The hero of Canton, the man they call Jayne! Our Jayne saw the Mudders' backs breakin' He saw the Mudders lament And he saw that magistrate takin' Every dollar and leavin' five cents So he said, "You can't do that to my people" "You can't crush them under your heel" Jayne strapped on his hat And in five seconds flat Stole everything Boss Higgins had to steal He robbed from the rich and he gave to the poor Stood up to the Man and he gave him what for Our love for him now ain't hard to explain The Hero of Canton, the man they call Jayne Now here is what separates heroes From common folk like you and I The man they call Jayne He turned 'round his plane And let that money hit sky He dropped it onto our houses He dropped it into our yards And the man they call Jayne He turned round his plane And headed out for the stars He robbed from the rich and he gave to the poor Stood up to the Man and he gave him what for Our love for him now ain't hard to explain The Hero of Canton, the man they call Jayne!
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Surfy, Surfy!
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i think he dated ms. fromme back in the day or sumpin'...
Nah, Ms. Fromme was George Spahn's main squeeze, not mine
In the book 'Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock-and-Roll's Legendary Neighborhood' I think Neil is quoted as saying something along the lines of 'When the news broke of the murders, all of us realized we had slept with most of the Manson girls'.
The Relationship Between Neil Young and Charles Manson
Neil Young is an elder statesman of rock, Charles Manson a notorious mass murderer, but their paths crossed for a while in 1968, with interesting results...
n 1968 Neil Young and Charles Manson were both wannabe songwriters on the Topanga Canyon scene, Young right at the scene’s centre and Manson hovering jealously on the fringes. Young, of course, had already achieved a certain amount of prominence in his time with Buffalo Springfield, who had had a minor hit with “For What It’s Worth”, and he had released his self-titled debut album to a muted reception.
Manson’s track record was less promising, as he had spent much of his life in correctional institutions, but now he had made some influential friends, notably Beach Boy Dennis Wilson, who was trying to get Manson a record deal, and who introduced Manson to Young. Coincidentally, Young and Manson share a 12 November birthday, but separated by 11 years: Manson was born in 1934, Young in 1945.
1968: Young meets Manson
Young remembers Manson as being “a little uptight, a little too intense. Frustrated artist.” (McDonough, 287) However, when Manson picked up his guitar and played a few songs, Young was strongly impressed: “[He] made up songs as he went along, new stuff all the time, no two songs were the same.” (ibid.)
Young recommended Manson to Mo Ostin, president of Warner Brothers, but it never got any further. Reminiscing years later, Young was clearly still somewhat enthralled by Manson’s force of personality: “He was an angry man. But brilliant… He sounds like Dylan when he talks.” (McDonough, 288) He went even further: “He’s like one of the main movers and shakers of time – when you look back at Jesus and all these people, Charlie was like that.” (ibid.)
1974: “Revolution Blues”
On Young’s 1974 album On the Beach, he included a song about Manson, “ Revolution Blues ”, culminating in the couplet: “I hear that Laurel Canyon is full of famous stars/ But I hate them worse than lepers, and I’ll kill them in their cars.” Subtle it’s not, but a pretty extreme sentiment for a rock star, one illustrating just how far Young has deviated from the gently melancholic country rock, the “Heart of Gold”-type stuff, that is still what he is most publicly known for.
For his part, Manson said in a 1995 interview from prison in California that all his old musician friends “didn’t give a sh*t” – except Neil Young, who once gave him a motorcycle. (McDonough, 287) When Young’s biographer related this to Young, he seemed oddly pleased to have won Manson’s approval: “So Charlie remembers me too, huh? Everybody else ripped him off. I gave him a motorcycle. I turn out to be a good guy.” (ibid.)
As an extra bonus, here's a little 'Charlie'........Steve Railsback as Manson in 'Helter Skelter', delivering Charlie's 'monologue' at the trial......taken directly from the court transcript......
-------------------- 'I just play, without thinking.' - Ace Frehley
Charles Manson is back in the spotlight as we approach the 40th Anniversary of the Manson Murders. Manson is best known as the crazed leader of the Manson Family, who was responsible for the Sharon Tate murders. What is often unknown is Manson's strange relationship with the world of music. An aspiring musician, Manson fashioned himself a singer/songwriter. He even managed to have one of his songs recorded by the Beach Boys.
Manson forged a relationship with the Beach Boys after meeting drummer Dennis Wilson in 1968. Wilson became entangled in Manson's world after picking up two hitchhikers who were Manson Family members. Wilson took the women to one of his homes to seduce them; over time, Manson and his family moved into Wilson's house. Wilson didn't seem to mind as Manson provided the drummer with all the drugs and women he wanted.
During that time, Manson played several of his songs for Wilson, who eventually passed them on to record executives and his fellow Beach Boys. He even helped Manson set up recording sessions.
The relationship between Charles Manson and Dennis Wilson eventually soured. Instead of confronting Manson and his psychotic behavior, Wilson simply chose to move out of his rented house and let the landlord deal with it.
Manson, however, continued to hound Wilson for help with his music career. Wilson eventually talked the Beach Boys into recording one of Manson's songs. Manson's song Never Learn Not To Love appeared on the Beach Boys 1969 album 20/20. The band changed several of Manson's lyrics: Manson's original lyric "cease to exist," for instance, was changed to "cease to resist."
Manson's connection to the music world didn't end there. Guns 'n' Roses included a cover of the Manson song Look at Your Game Girl on their album The Spaghetti Incident? Artist Marilyn Manson got half of his stage name from Manson.
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1969 Jan 1, President Nixon nominated Henry Cabot Lodge, former American ambassador to South Vietnam, as negotiator at the Paris Peace Talks. (www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1969.html)
1969 Jan 2, The play "To be Young, Gifted & Black," by Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) premiered in NYC. (www.aetna.com/foundation/aahcalendar/1992gifted.html)
1969 Jan 3, Police in Newark, NJ, confiscated 30,000 copies of the John Lennon, Yoko Ono album, Two Virgins. A nude photo of John and Yoko on the cover violated pornography laws in Jersey. (www.goatview.com/january03.htm)
1969 Jan 4, Spain returned the Ifni province to Morocco. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ifni)
1969 Jan 5, Henry Cabot Lodge replaced Harriman as chief US negotiator at Paris. (www.bartleby.com/67/4271.html)
1969 Jan 12, The New York Jets defeated the Baltimore Colts, 16-7, in Super Bowl III at the Orange Bowl in Miami. (AP, 1/12/99)
1969 Jan 14, An explosion on the US carrier Enterprise, 75 miles from Hawaii, resulted in 28 dead and over 300 injured. (http://tinyurl.com/64clvh)
1969 Jan 15, The Russian Soyuz 5 went into orbit. The crew then maneuvered to dock with Soyuz 4 and Yevgeny Khrunov (d.2000 at 67) became the first astronaut to transfer between linked capsules. (SFC, 5/27/00, p.A26)
1969 Jan 20, Richard Nixon in his first inaugural address proclaimed that Americans "cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another." He also said: "the greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker. This honor now beckons America." (HNQ, 6/30/98)(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F6) 1969 Jan 20, The US president’s salary doubled to $100,000. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States)
1969 Jan 22, In Massachusetts Francis Sargent (1915-1998) became governor after John Volpe was made transportation secretary in the Nixon administration. (SFC, 10/24/98, p.A22)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_W._Sargent)
1969 Jan 23, Gregorio Ordonez, deputy mayor of San Sebastian, Spain, was assassinated by an ETA terrorist. (Econ, 5/17/08, p.66)(www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/basque/stories/overview.html)
1969 Jan 25, US-North Vietnamese peace talks began in Paris. (www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1969.html)
1969 Jan 26, California was declared a disaster area after two days of flooding and mud slides. (HN, 1/26/99)
1969 Jan 27, Byron Vaughn Booth and fellow convict Clinton Robert Smith, also a robber, escaped from the California Institution for Men at Chino. The next day they bought a ticket for a flight from Los Angeles to Miami with a connection in New Orleans. National Airlines Flight 64 was hijacked over the Gulf of Mexico after the plane left New Orleans. The plane ended up landing at Camaguey, Cuba, where Cuban officials removed the hijackers. The flight continued on to Miami. Booth was arrested in Nigeria in 2001 and returned to the US. (SFC, 2/24/01, p.C14)(http://articles.latimes.com/2001/may/17/local/me-64627) 1969 Jan 27, Transamerica Corp., under the leadership of John Beckett (1918-2010), announced its wish to build a 1,000-foot tower in San Francisco. Work on the 48-floor Pyramid, designed by architect William Pereira, began in December, 1969. The 853-foot tower was completed in 1972. (SSFC, 12/27/09, p.A19)(SFC, 6/28/10, p.C4)(http://tinyurl.com/2acu688) 1969 Jan 27, Byron Vaughn Booth and fellow convict Clinton Robert Smith, also a robber, escaped from the California Institution for Men at Chino. The next day they bought a ticket for a flight from Los Angeles to Miami with a connection in New Orleans. National Airlines Flight 64 was hijacked over the Gulf of Mexico after the plane left New Orleans. The plane ended up landing at Camaguey, Cuba, where Cuban officials removed the hijackers. The flight continued on to Miami. Booth was arrested in Nigeria in 2001 and returned to the US. (SFC, 2/24/01, p.C14)(http://articles.latimes.com/2001/may/17/local/me-64627) 1969 Jan 27, In Iraq 14 people, including 9 Jews, were hanged for alleged espionage. (http://tinyurl.com/5u75cx)
1969 Jan 29, An undersea oil well off Santa Barbara, Ca., suffered a blowout and over the next 11 days released some 200,000 gallons of oil that spread over 800 square miles of ocean and soiled 35 miles of coastline. (www.geog.ucsb.edu/~jeff/sb_69oilspill/69oilspill_articles2.html) 1969 Jan 29, Allan Welsh Dulles (b.1893), US diplomat, director (CIA 1953-61), died. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Dulles)
1969 Jan, A 50-cent one-way toll became permanent on the Golden Gate Bridge following efforts to reduce congestion by Bruce Goecker (1919-2006), former mayor of Corte Madera. Soon toll bridges around the world began following suit. (SFC, 9/14/06, p.B5)
1969 Feb 2, Boris Karloff (b.1887), British actor born as William Henry Pratt, died. He is best remembered for his roles in horror films and his portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in the 1931 film Frankenstein. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Karloff) 1969 Feb 2, In Marin County, Ca., a fire destroyed a 22-room mansion at Rancho Olompali occupied by members of “the Chosen Family” led by Donald McCoy (1932-2004).” (SSFC, 10/24/04, p.B7)(SFC, 1/14/09, p.B12) 1969 Feb 2, Giovanni Martinelli (b.1885), Italian opera singer, died. He enjoyed a long career at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City and appeared at other international theatres. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Martinelli)
1969 Feb 4, John Madden (b.1934) was named head coach of NFL's Oakland Raiders. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Madden_(American_football)) 1969 Feb 4, Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat officially took over as chairman of PLO. (SFC, 11/11/04, p.A18)
1969 Feb 6, The Broadway musical "Dear World," a musical version of Jean Giraudoux’s The Madwoman of Chaillot, opened with Angel Lansbury at the Mark Hellinger Theater. (SFEC, 12/8/96, Par p.18)(www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=202004)
1969 Feb 8, The last edition of Saturday Evening Post was published. It had begun publishing in 1869. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saturday_Evening_Post) 1969 Feb 8, A meteor shower hit Mexico creating a luminance in the night sky as bright as day. A meteorite weighing over 1 ton fell in Chihuahua, Mexico. (http://wapi.isu.edu/geo_pgt/Mod05_Meteorites_Ast/mod5.htm)(TMP, KCTS-Video, 1987)
1969 Feb 9, The Boeing 747, the world's largest airplane, made its 1st commercial flight. The Juan T. Trippe, named after the founder of Pan Am, was sold in 2000 to a South Korea couple, who transformed it into an aviation themed restaurant. The venture failed in 2005 and the plane was demolished in late 2010. (www.boeing.com/commercial/747family/pf/pf_milestones.html)(SFC, 12/13/10, p.A2) 1969 Feb 9, Gabby Hayes (b.1885), American film and TV actor, died. He played the sidekick to Hopalong Cassidy and later Roy Rogers Westerns. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_%27Gabby%27_Hayes)
1969 Feb 11, A Lockheed SP2E Neptune crashed in the Santa Ana Mountains of Orange County, Ca., while on night training. 7 seamen were killed. (SFC, 5/7/08, p.B8)(http://home.att.net/~jbaugher/thirdseries15.html)
1969 Feb 13, In North Carolina the Afro-American Society students of Duke Univ. led a black student takeover of the Allen Building to spark University action on the concerns of Black students. The takeover brought attention to issues such as establishment of an Afro-American studies program, a black cultural center, and increasing the number of black faculty and students. (http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/rbmscl/uabsa/inv/)
1969 Feb 14, The new red, plastic Olivetti typewriter, designed by Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007, was released. (SFC, 1/3/08, p.B5)
1969 Feb 15, Charles Ellsworth Russell (b.1906), aka Pee Wee Russell, jazz clarinet player, died in Alexandria, Va. His albums included “Portrait of Pee Wee” (1958). (www.britannica.com/eb/article-9064474)(WSJ, 5/17/06, p.D14)
1969 Feb 17, Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash recorded an album that was never released. (http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/57340.html) 1969 Feb 17, Russia and Peru signed their first trade accord. (www.historynet.com/tdih0217.htm)
1969 Feb 18, The PLO (PFLP-GC) machine-gunned an Israeli El-Al plane in Zurich, Switzerland. One Palestinian was killed and 4 were arrested. (SFC, 5/21/02, p.A16)(www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/incidents.html)
1969 Feb 19, Elvis Presley recorded the Eddie Rabbit song "Kentucky Rain." (www.anelvisfan2001.com/KentuckyRain.html)
1969 Feb 20, Ernest Ansermet (b.1883), Swiss conductor and composer, died. (www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Ansermet-Ernest.htm)
1969 Feb 23, Pres. Nixon ordered plans for the secret bombing of Cambodia. (www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a04242670parrotsbeak)(SFEC, 4/23/00, p.A19)
1969 Feb 24, The US Supreme Court in the Tinker vs. Des Moines School District case ruled that students had the right to express opinions at odds with the government. (WSJ, 5/4/99, p.A22)(www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/comm/free_speech/tinker.html)
1969 Feb 25, In Vietnam Navy Lt. Bob Kerry (25) took part in a SEAL raid in the Mekong Delta where over a dozen women, children and old men were killed in the village of Thanh Phong. Kerry received a Bronze Star for the raid and later strongly regretted his actions. Soon after the raid Kerry lost a leg at Hon Tam Island and was later awarded a Congressional medal of Honor. In 2001 Kerry, former Gov. and Senator from Nebraska, made public his participation in the raid. In 2001 Bui Thi Luom of Thanh Phong, the only survivor from her hut of 16, said 20 people were killed "Only civilians, women and children." Kerry described the event in his 2002 memoir "When I Was a Young Man." In 2002 Gregory L. Vistica authored: "The Education of Lieutenant Kerry." (SFC, 4/26/01, p.A1)(SFC, 4/27/01, p.A3)(SSFC, 4/29/01, p.A12)(SFC, 6/1/02, p.A12)(WSJ, 1/23/03, p.D14)
1969 Feb 26, Levi Eshkol (b.1895), born in the Ukraine as Levi Shkolnik, died. He had served as the 3rd Israeli premier (1963-1969). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Eshkol) 1969 Feb 26, Karl Jaspers (b.1883), German psychiatrist, philosopher, died. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Jaspers)
1969 Feb 27, President Nixon arrived in Rome from West Berlin amid protests by thousands of students. (www.historynet.com/today_in_history?tihMonth=2&tihDay=27)
1969 Feb 28, A Los Angeles court refused Robert Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan's request to be executed. (HN, 2/28/98)
1969 Feb, Gen. Hafez al-Assad became head of Syria. (http://i-cias.com/e.o/assad_hafiz.htm)
1969 Mar 1, "Red, White, and Maddox" closed at Cort Theater in NYC after 41 performances. (www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=3452) 1969 Mar 1, Mickey Mantle of the NY Yankees announced his retirement from baseball. (HN, 3/1/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Mantle) 1969 Mar 1, Jim Morrison (d.1971), lead singer for the Doors, exposed himself at Dinner Key Auditorium in Miami before 10,000 people. An arrest warrant was issued for Morrison four days after the concert. He turned himself in, was tried the next year and convicted on two charges. Gov. Charlie Crist and Florida's Cabinet members pardoned Morrison of those convictions on Dec 9, 2010. (SFC, 12/24/02, p.A13)(AP, 12/10/10)
1969 Mar 2, Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer, completed his 14th Symphony. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._14_(Shostakovich))(http://tinyurl.com/66tpar) 1969 Mar 2, Phil Esposito of the Boston Bruins became the 1st NHL Player to score 100 points in a season. (www.nhl.com/history/030269.html) 1969 Mar 2, The Concorde jetliner's 1st test flight took place in Bristol, England. (www.xent.com/pipermail/fork/Week-of-Mon-20031013/026200.html) 1969 Mar 2, Chinese and Russian soldiers clashed on Damansky Island and approximately 70 died. The Soviet and Chinese border troops had been skirmishing since 1959 along the 2,500 mile border. Recent skirmishes were along the Ussuri River border. The Soviets used a full scale tank assault to repulse a Chinese attack on the island of Damansky. A border treaty in the 1990s gave the island to China. (www.jstor.org/pss/1957173)(WSJ, 11/19/96, p.A1)(SFC, 12/28/96, p.A13)(WSJ, 12/16/05, p.A1)(www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1971/jul-aug/marks.html)
1969 Mar 3, Sirhan Sirhan testified in a court in Los Angeles that he killed Robert Kennedy. (HN, 3/3/99) 1969 Mar 3, Apollo 9 blasted off from Cape Kennedy on a mission to test the lunar module. It carried astronauts James McDivitt, Russell Schweickart and David Scott and made 151 Earth orbits over 10 days. (AP, 3/3/98)(SSFC, 3/8/09, p.B2)
1969 Mar 4, George Wald (d.1997 at 90), Nobel Prize winner, declared his opposition to the war in Vietnam at MIT in the speech: "A Generation in Search of a Future." (SFC, 4/14/97, p.A19)
1969 Mar 5, “What the Butler Saw,” the final play of Joe Orton (1933-1967), was first performed in London. The sex farce was set in a mental hospital. (SFC, 6/12/09, p.E1)(http://talkingbroadway.org/regional/sanfran/s823.html) 1969 Mar 5, Gustav Heinemann was elected West German President. (HN, 3/5/98)
1969 Mar 6, Black Panther Anthony Garnet Bryant, aka Tony Bryant (d.1999 at 60), hijacked a National Airlines plane enroute from NY to Miami and directed it to Cuba. He was arrested in Cuba and spent a year and a half in jail and was pardoned in 1980. His 1984 book "Hijack" described his experience in Cuban prisons. (SFEC, 12/26/99, p.C10)(http://tinyurl.com/aopyo)
1969 Mar 10, James Earl Ray pleaded guilty to the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King in Memphis, Tenn., and was sentenced to 99 years in jail. Ray later repudiated that plea. (AP, 3/10/98)(HN, 3/10/98)
1969 Mar 11, Levi started to sell bell-bottomed jeans. (HN, 3/11/98)
1969 Mar 12, Paul McCartney married Linda Eastman in London. (AP, 3/12/98)
1969 Mar 13, The Apollo 9 astronauts splashed down, ending a mission that included the successful testing of the lunar module. (AP, 3/13/97) 1969 Mar 13, In Vietnam Navy Lt. John Kerry rescued Jim Rassman on the Bay Hap River while under Viet Cong fire. In 2004 Kerry became the Democratic nominee for President. (SSFC, 2/8/04, p.A1)
1969 Mar 14, US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigned under pressure for the acceptance of an allegedly illegal payment from a former business associate. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_Fortas) 1969 Mar 14, Ben Shahn (1898), Lithuanian-born American painter and photographer, died in NYC. Much of his photography of done in New York’s Lower East Side and Greenwich Village. (WSJ, 12/1/98, p.A20)(WSJ, 2/1/00, p.A24)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Shahn)
1969 Mar 15, A violent Chinese-Russian border dispute left 100s dead. (www.jstor.org/pss/1957173)
1969 Mar 16, "1776," a musical about the writing of the Declaration of Independence, opened on Broadway. (AP, 3/16/99)
1969 Mar 17, Golda Meir (d.1978) became the 4th prime minister of Israel. She held the office to 1974. (AP, 3/17/97)(AP, 12/8/97)
1969 Mar 18, President Richard M. Nixon authorized Operation Menu, the 'secret' bombing of Cambodia [see Feb 23]. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Menu)
1969 Mar 20, Senator Edward Kennedy called on the U.S. to close all bases in Taiwan. (HN, 3/20/98) 1969 Mar 20, The Chicago 8 were indicted in aftermath of Chicago Democratic convention. (www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/conventions/chicago/facts/chicago68/index.shtml) 1969 Mar 20, John Lennon married Yoko Ono in Gibraltar. (AP, 3/20/97)(HN, 3/20/98)
1969 Mar 23, The teenage crusade Rally for Decency in Miami drew some 30,000. Teenagers organized the rally after Jim Morrison (24), the lead singer of The Doors rock group, was charged with indecent exposure during a concert in Miami on March 1. (http://forum.johndensmore.com/lofiversion/index.php/t2673.html)
1969 Mar 25, John and Yoko Ono staged a bed-in for peace in Amsterdam. (HN, 3/24/98) 1969 Mar 25, Max Forrester Eastman (b.1883), US critic and essayist, died. His books included “Love and Revolution: My Journey Through an Epoch” (1964). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Eastman)
1969 Mar 26, Marcus Welby MD, a TV movie was shown on ABC-TV. It began a popular series with Robert Young and ran to 1976. (www.imdb.com/title/tt0064636/)(WSJ, 1/10/03, p.A10) 1969 Mar 26, Writer John Kennedy Toole (b.1937) committed suicide at the age of 32. His mother helped get his first and only novel, "A Confederacy of Dunces," published. It went on to win the 1981 Pulitzer Prize. (HN, 3/26/01)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kennedy_Toole) 1969 Mar 26, B. Traven (b.1890), novelist and short-story writer, died. He lived most of his life incognito in Mexico. His work included "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1934), "The Death Ship," The Rebellion of the Hanged" and "The General from the Jungle." In 1976 Michael L. Baumann authored "B. Traven, An Introduction." In 2000 Michael L. Baumann authored "Mr. Traven, I Presume." (SFEC, 10/15/00, BR p.8)(www.kirjasto.sci.fi/traven.htm) 1969 Mar 26, The Nuclear reactor in Dodewaard, Netherlands, went into use. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodewaard_nuclear_power_plant) 1969 Mar 26, Soviet weather Satellite Meteor 1 was launched. (HN, 3/25/98)
1969 Mar 28, Dwight D. Eisenhower (b.1890), the 34th president of the US, died at Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington at age 78. In 2002 Carlo D’Este authored "Eisenhower: A Soldier’s Life." In 2006 John Wukovits authored “Eisenhower. In 2007 Kasey S. Pipes authored “Ike’s Final Battle: The Road to Little Rock and the Challenge of Equality.” In 2007 Michael Korda authored “Ike: An American Hero.” (AP, 3/28/97)(WSJ, 7/12/02, p.W12)(WSJ, 3/7/07, p.D7)(AH, 6/07, p.70)(SFC, 8/22/07, p.E1)
1969 Apr 1, Lin Biao (1907-1971) was named Mao's constitutional successor. Chinese historical accounts later said Biao showed his true nature two years later as a murderous opportunist obsessed with seizing power. (AP, 7/16/07)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Biao)
1969 Apr 4, In Houston, Texas, Dr. Denton Cooley implanted the 1st temporary artificial heart. (www.nytimes.com/2007/11/27/health/27docs.html)
1969 Apr 6, Sir Wally Herbert (1934-2007), English explorer, reached the North Pole on foot. He became the first man to cross the entire frozen surface of the Arctic Ocean on foot covering the 3,720 miles in 16 months. Roy Koerner, a glaciologist accompanying Herbert, drilled more than 250 ice core samples during the journey. (AP, 6/13/07)
1969 Apr 7, The US Supreme Court in Stanley v. Georgia unanimously struck down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material. (AP, 4/7/07)
1969 Apr 9, Students and police clashed at Harvard Univ. In 1997 the incident was described by Roger Rosenblatt in his book: "Coming Apart." (WSJ, 4/15/97, p.A16) 1969 Apr 9, The maiden flight of Concorde 002 was from Filton to Bristol. (www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/aeronautics/1977-45.aspx)
1969 Apr 10, Harley Jefferson Earl (1893-1969), American car designer, died. He was a Hollywood builder of custom cars and became GM’s VP of styling from 1940-1959. He was the first to introduce tail fins in 1948. His design philosophy was "You can design a car so that every time you get in it, it’s a relief--you have a little vacation for a while." (WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)(www.motorera.com/corvette/1950/vet56-1.htm)
1969 Apr 12, Simon and Garfunkel released "The Boxer." (www.radiowest.ca/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3300&sid=72232d290dfd00e819b5932236c4c632)
1969 Apr 14, In the 41st Academy Awards "Oliver" won as best picture, Cliff Robertson won as best actor (Charly), Katherine Hepburn tied as best actress (Lion in Winter) with Barbara Streisand (Funny Girl). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/41st_Academy_Awards) 1969 Apr 14, The first major league baseball game in Canada was played in Montreal. The expansion Montreal Expos hosted their first game north of the border, marking the first time a regular season major league game is played outside of the US. The Expos won their debut at Jarry Park, edging the St. Louis Cardinals, 8-7. (HN, 4/14/98)(www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/1969_Expos) 1969 Apr 14, In NYC the student Afro-American Society seized Columbia College. (http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/stand_columbia/Timeline1965-69.html) 1969 Apr 14, A tornado struck Dacca in East Pakistan killing 660. (www.bangladeshtornadoes.org/climo/btorcli0.htm)
1969 Apr 15, North Korea shot down a US airplane above the Sea of Japan. All 31 men aboard the plane were believed dead. (www.willyvictor.com/History/Korean_Shootdown/Korea.html) 1969 Apr 15, In SF Officer Rene Lacau had a fatal heart attack during a struggle with a person suspected of stealing a car. (SFC, 1/27/07, p.A8)
1969 Apr 17, A jury in Los Angeles convicted Sirhan Sirhan of assassinating Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. 6 days later he was sentenced to death. (AP, 4/17/97)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_assassination) 1969 Apr 17, Czechoslovak Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubcek (1921-1992), considered the architect of Czechoslovakia's Prague Spring, was deposed. (AP, 4/17/97)(http://referat.kulichki.net/files/page.php?id=35421)
1969 Apr 18, George Whittell, Jr. (b.1881), born in SF to wealth amassed in real estate and mining, died. His construction of a lakefront estate at lake Tahoe, the Thunderbird Lodge, began in 1937 and was completed in 1939. (SFC, 7/21/07, p.F1)(www.thunderbirdlodge.org/theman.html)
1969 Apr 19, In Ithaca N.Y. some 80 armed, militant black students at Cornell Univ. took over Willard Straight Hall. They demanded a black studies program and cut a deal with frightened administrators for total amnesty. In 1999 Donald Alexander Downs described the events in his book: "Cornell '69." (WSJ, 5/20/99, p.A18)
1969 Apr 22, In the Golden Globe boat race, sponsored by the British Sunday Times newspaper, one man became the 1st to single-handedly sail nonstop around the world. In 2001 Peter Nichols authored "A Voyage for Madmen." (SSFC, 8/5/01, DB p.61) 1969 Apr 22, The 1st human eye transplant was performed for John Madden in Houston. (http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1969-4/1969-04-23-NBC-23.html)
1969 Apr 23, Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death for assassinating New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. The sentence was later reduced to life imprisonment. (AP, 4/23/97)(HN, 4/23/99) 1969 Apr 23, The Lebanese army battled with rioting Palestinians. (http://tinyurl.com/5m9aj6)
1969 Apr 26, Morihei Ueshiba (b.1883), Japanese martial arts master, died. He evolved aikido through a synthesis and repatterning of various Japanese martial arts forms. Ueshiba is remembered by his pupils as a master of the martial arts, whose studies transcended technical matters to include a moral and philosophical view of the world based around harmony in the face of aggression. (SFC, 5/25/09, p.E1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morihei_Ueshiba)
1969 Apr 27, Gen. Rene Barrientos (b.1919), military president of Bolivia, died in a helicopter crash. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Barrientos_Ortu%C3%B1o)
1969 Apr 28, French President Charles de Gaulle resigned his office after a referendum on the reform of the Senate and local government failed. Alain Pohrer (1909-1996), as president of the Senate, then served as interim president for 7 weeks. (SFC, 12/12/96, p.C8)(AP, 4/28/97)(Econ, 6/19/10, p.86)
1969 Apr 30, US troops in Vietnam peaked at 543,000. Over 33,000 had already been killed. (SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F6)
1969 Apr, In England Bernadette Devlin (b.1947) of Northern Ireland became the youngest woman ever elected to British Parliament. Her 1969 book, “The Price of My Soul,” did much to publicize widespread discrimination against Roman Catholics in Northern Ireland. (SFEC, 3/23/97, p.A15)(www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=6234)
1969 May 1, In SF plainclothes Officer Joseph Brodnick was fatally shot after he and a partner stopped some youths suspected of burglary. 6 people were acquitted at trial. (SFC, 1/27/07, p.A8)
1969 May 2, Franz JHMM von Papen (b.1879), German chancellor (1932), died. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_von_Papen)
1969 May 4, F. Osbert S. Sitwell (b.1892), English poet (Who Killed ***** Robin?), died at castle Montegufoni near Florence, Italy. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osbert_Sitwell)
1969 May 5, N. Scott Momaday (b.1934) received the Pulitzer Prize for Literature for “House Made of Dawn.” The Kiowa author was the first American Indian to win the prize. Norman Mailer won the general non-fiction Pulitzer Prize for “Armies of the Night” (1968). (http://tinyurl.com/5naupa)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_Pulitzer_Prize)
1969 May 7, The Cunard Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) sailed into New York Harbor for the first time under Commodore William Warwick (d.1999 at 86). (SFC, 3/16/99, p.A17)
1969 May 8, The Academy Award Oscar for best 1968 documentary was given to runner-up “Journey Into Self,” after it was found that “Young Americans,” the original winner had been shown in a theater in October, 1967, making it ineligible for the 1968 award. Alex Grasshoff had directed the “Young Americans,” a chronicle of a summer tour by the singing group. (SFC, 4/22/08, p.B5)(http://theoscarsite.com/pictures1968/journeyintoself.htm)
1969 May 10, In Louisiana the 2nd Lake Pontchartrain causeway opened. The 1st span was completed in 1956. (www.southeastroads.com/lpc.html) 1969 May 10, Malaysia held its 3rd general election since independence. Opposition advances at the polls were followed by bloody race riots. Smoldering racial tensions erupted between the Malays and the Chinese with riots that killed dozens. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysian_general_election,_1969)(SFC,11/24/97, p.A11) 1969 May 10, The Battle of Hamburger Hill began and lasted to May 20. In Vietnam US military strength peaked in this year with 550,000 men. Identified on American battle maps as Hill 937 the battle for Hamburger Hill, actually Ap Bia Mountain, which cost Americans 46 killed and 400 wounded, was one of the most significant battles of the Vietnam War as it spelled the end of major American ground combat operations. The ground gained in the battle was soon abandoned to the North Vietnamese Army, which lost some 633 soldiers killed in the fight. The American losses at Hamburger Hill, though not the most in one single action of the war, set off a firestorm of protest in the US [see May 20]. (HFA, '96, p.30)(SFC, 6/24/96, p.A15)(HNQ, 4/4/99)(SFC, 4/27/00, p.A18)
1969 May 11, The Monty Python comedy troupe formed. (www.querycat.com/faq/a99b3004b7265291928d484e51b547ea) 1969 May 11, Canada’s CBC public broadcaster announced it will no longer accept advertising from tobacco companies. (http://archives.cbc.ca/health/public_health/topics/1945-12678/) 1969 May 11, The Battle of Hamburger Hill began. [see May 10] (HFA, '96, p.30)(SFC, 6/24/96, p.A15)
1969 May 12, Winnie Mandela was detained under South Africa’s Terrorism Act and was placed in solitary confinement for seventeen months. In 1970 she was placed under house arrest. (www.answers.com/topic/winnie-madikizela-mandela)(http://tinyurl.com/cynuvn) 1969 May 12, Viet Cong sappers tried unsuccessfully to overrun Landing Zone Snoopy in Vietnam. (HN, 5/12/99)
1969 May 13, In Malaysia deadly race riots took place in Kuala Lumpur. (Econ, 5/16/09, p.49) 1969 May 13, Paul Wild, Swiss astronomer, discovered asteroid #1775, Zimmerwald. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1775_Zimmerwald)
1969 May 14, Three companies of the 101st Airborne Division failed to push North Vietnamese forces off Hill 937 (Hamburger Hill) in South Vietnam. (HN, 5/14/01) 1969 May 14, Abortion and contraception was legalized in Canada. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Canada)
1969 May 15, US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigned amid a controversy over his past legal fees. (AP, 5/15/99) 1969 May 15, Univ. of California officials fenced People’s Park and planned to build dormitories. This prompted some 3,000 protesters to try to seize it back. Gov. Reagan placed Berkeley under martial law and dispatched tear gas-spraying helicopters and riot police who shot and killed one man. (SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F7)
1969 May 16, Russia’s Venera 5 landed on Venus and returned data on atmosphere. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_5)
1969 May 18, "Canterbury Tales" closed at Eugene O'Neill in NYC after 121 performances. (www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=3455) 1969 May 18, In Vietnam two battalions of the 101st Airborne Division assaulted Hill 937 (Hamburger Hill) but could not reach the top because of muddy conditions. (HN, 5/18/00) 1969 May 18, Astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, Thomas P. Stafford and John W. Young blasted off aboard Apollo 10. (AP, 5/18/97)
1969 May 20, In Connecticut Warren Kimbro (d.2009 at 74), a member of the Black Panthers, fatally shot Alex Rackley (19), another member of the Black Panthers, who was believed to be an FBI informant. The shooting was ordered by George Sams, a local Black Panther leader. Prosecutors later alleged that Bobby Seale had ordered the murder. (AP, 2/11/09) 1969 May 20, U.S. troops of the 101st Airborne Division and South Vietnamese forces captured Ap Bia Mountain, Hill 937, after nine days of fighting entrenched North Vietnamese forces. Ap Bia was referred to as Hamburger Hill by the Americans, following one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War. (HN, 5/20/02)(AP, 5/20/08)
1969 May 21, Robert Kennedy's murderer, Sirhan Sirhan, was sentenced to death. (MC, 5/21/02)
1969 May 22, The lunar module of Apollo 10 separated from the command module and flew to within nine miles of the moon's surface in a dress rehearsal for the first lunar landing. (AP, 5/22/97)
1969 May 23, The BBC ordered 13 episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus. (www.querycat.com/faq/a99b3004b7265291928d484e51b547ea) 1969 May 23, The Who released their rock opera "Tommy." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_(album))
1969 May 25, Anne Heche, actress, was born in Aurora, OH. Her films included “Donnie Brasco” (1997) and “Volcano” (1997). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Heche) 1969 May 25, Matt Borlenghi, actor, was born in Los Angeles, CA. In the early 1990s played Brian Bodine in the soap opera “All My Children.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Borlenghi) 1969 May 25, "Midnight Cowboy" was released with an X rating. It was based on the novel by James Leo Herlihy and became the only x-rated film to win an Oscar. (www.nndb.com/films/794/000032698/) 1969 May 25, The Israeli Army made the first of four unsuccessful assaults on Arab forces in the town of Latrun, Israel. (HN, 5/25/99) 1969 May 25, Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002), Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer, departed with his crew on the reed raft Ra for from Morocco. They abandoned their trip 1 week shy of Barbados. Heyerdahl sailed across the Atlantic in his Egyptian reed boat, Ra, and reported on garbage floating everywhere in the sea. On 16 July the crew was saved by the American yacht Shenandoah. In just 56 days they had sailed a distance of 2,700 nautical miles. (V.D.-H.K.p.343)(www.shipsonstamps.org/Topics/html/kontiki.htm) 1969 May 25, Sudanese government was overthrown in a military coup. Gaafar an-Nimeiry (1930-2009), came to power with the support of communist and socialist leaders. (http://countrystudies.us/sudan/23.htm)(AP, 5/31/09)
1969 May 26, The Apollo 10 astronauts returned to Earth after a successful eight-day dress rehearsal for the first manned moon landing. (AP, 5/26/97)
1969 May 27, Walt Disney World construction began in Florida. (HN, 5/27/98)
1969 May 28, Rhys Williams (b.1897), Welsh-born Film and TV actor, died in Los Angeles. His films included “Corn is Green” (1945), “Okinawa” (1952) and “Nightmare” (1956). (www.imdb.com/name/nm0931525/)
1969 May 29, Britain's Trans-Arctic expedition made the 1st crossing of Arctic Sea ice. Roy Koerner (1932-2008), more commonly known as Fritz, was one of the four members of Sir Wally Herbert’s British Transarctic Expedition which, on April 6, 1969, stood at the North Pole. (www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1929131.ece)
1969 May 30, Refinery workers on Curacao set fires in Willemstad. Marines from the Netherlands restored order. (Econ, 5/26/07, p.38)
1969 May 31, John Lennon and Yoko Ono recorded "Give Peace a Chance" during their “Bed-In” at the Queen Elizabeth’s Hotel in Montreal. (http://digitaldreamdoor.nutsie.com/pages/lyrics2/givepeace.html)
1969 Jun 2, Australian aircraft carrier Melbourne sliced the destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half during NATO maneuvers off the shore of South Vietnam. 74 US sailors were killed. (HN, 6/2/98)(SFC, 6/19/08, p.B5)
1969 Jun 3, Last episode of Star Trek aired on NBC (Turnabout Intruder). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek)
1969 Jun 4, Armando Socarras Ramirez (22) sneaked into wheel pod of a jet parked in Havana & survived a 9-hr flight to Spain despite thin oxygen levels at 29,000 ft. (http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/168489/an/0/page/25)
1969 Jun 6, Joe Namath resigned from NFL after Pete Rozelle, football commissioner, said he must sell his stake in a bar. (www.truveo.com/id/3053870463) 1969 Jun 6, Gen. Franco closed the Gibraltar border with Spain. It stayed closed for 16 years. This effectively starved Gibraltar of workers while depriving some 9,000 former workers of much-needed jobs and of a right to claim pensions. The frontier was not fully reopened until 1985. (WSJ, 4/8/02, p.A8)(AP, 9/19/06)(http://web.mit.edu/cascon/cases/case_gib.html)
1969 Jun 7, The Johnny Cash Show premiered on ABC from the Grand Ole Opry with special guest Bob Dylan and regular cast: Tennessee Three, June Carter and Carter Family, Statler Brothers, and Carl Perkins, stepping in for Luther Perkins, who has just died accidentally in tragic fire. The series ran through 1971. (www.johnnycashonline.com/biography) 1969 Jun 7, Tommy James & the Shondells released "Crystal Blue Persuasion." (www.cashboxmagazine.com/archives/60s_files/1969.html)
1969 Jun 8, President Nixon met with Nguyen Van Thieu, President of South Vietnam, and informed him that US troop levels were going to be sharply reduced. During a joint press conference with Thieu, Nixon announced a policy of 'Vietnamization' of the war and a reduction of US troops in Vietnam. The first phase of 'Vietnamization' was to include the withdrawal of 25,000 American military personnel. (www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A715042)(http://tinyurl.com/9n3vpd)
1969 Jun 9, The U.S. Senate confirmed Warren Burger to be the new chief justice of the United States, succeeding Earl Warren. (AP, 6/9/97) 1969 Jun 9, The US Supreme Court, in Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC, ruled the Fairness Doctrine constitutional. The court said free-speech protections for broadcasters are narrower than those for publishers and pedestrians. The Red Lion case was the result of a 1964 book "Goldwater: Extremist on the Right," by Fred J. Cook. In 1987 the Federal Communications Commission voted 4-0 to rescind the Fairness Doctrine, which had required radio and television stations to present balanced coverage of controversial issues. The tighter regulation of broadcasting was based on broadcasters' use of public airwaves. (AP, 8/4/97)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Lion_Broadcasting_Co._v._FCC)(WSJ, 3/24/04, p.A4)
1969 Jun 11, John L. Lewis (b.1880), American labor organizer, died. He was the driving force behind the 1935 formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Lewis) 1969 Jun 11, Soviet and Chinese troops clashed on Sinkiang border. (AP, 6/11/03)
1969 Jun 12, Alexander Deyneka (b.1899), Soviet Russian artist, died. he came from a family of railroad workers and started out as a police photographer after graduating from art school. He made mosaics in the 1930s for Mayakovskaya metro station in central Moscow. (AFP, 2/17/11)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Deyneka)
1969 Jun 17, The raunchy musical review "Oh! Calcutta!" opened in New York. (AP, 6/17/97)
1969 Jun 17, Black Panther William Brent (1931-2006) became the 28th person this year to hijack a US airplane to Cuba. The Cubans put him in jail for two years. He published his memoir in 1996 titled "Long Time Gone." (SFC, 6/3/96, BR p.3)(SFEC, 12/26/99, p.C10)
1969 Jun 21, The 14th Symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) premiered in Moscow. (www.c4md.org/hancher/kremerata.html)
1969 Jun 22, The highly polluted Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio, caught on fire. (Hem., Oct. '95, p.83)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuyahoga_River) 1969 Jun 22, Judy Garland (47), film actress and star of "The Wizard of Oz," died in London. In 1975 Gerold Frank authored the biography "Judy." In 2000 Gerald Clarke authored "Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland." (SFEC, 10/5/97, Z1 p.6)(AP, 6/22/99)(SFEC, 6/18/00, BR p.4)
1969 Jun 23, Warren E. Burger was sworn in as chief justice of the United States by the man he was succeeding, Earl Warren. (AP, 6/23/97)
1969 Jun 27, The 3-day Denver Pop Festival opened. The peak attendance was estimated at 50,000. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver_Pop_Festival) 1969 Jun 27, Honduras and El Salvador broke diplomatic relations due to soccer match. El Salvador and Honduras fought a 4-day "Soccer War" when fans brought out long-simmering tensions during World cup qualifying matches. Some 3,000 people died in the 4-day conflict. (www.onwar.com/aced/data/sierra/soccer1969.htm)(Econ, 11/28/09, p.52)
1969 Jun 28, In the early hours 8 police officers raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village. Police raided the bar because it had refused to pay an increase in bribery. This led to a clash in what came to be called The Stonewall Rebellion, an incident considered the birth of the homosexual rights movement. Some 400 to 1,000 patrons rioted against police for 3 days The event was described by gay historian Martin Duberman in his book “Stonewall” (1993). (SFEC, 7/21/96, DB p.32)(AP, 6/27/97)(AP, 6/27/08)(SFC, 6/22/09, p.E1)(SFC, 6/26/09, p.F3)
1969 Jun, A block of flats near Segovia, Spain, collapsed killing 58 people. Developer Jesus Gil y Gil (1933-2004) was jailed for 5 years for criminal negligence, but was pardoned after 18 months. (Econ, 8/23/03, p.40)(www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1462047/Jesus-Gil.html)
1969 Jul 1, Britain's Prince Charles was invested as the Prince of Wales. (AP, 7/1/99) 1969 Jul 1, The Tokyo Stock Price Index (TOPIX) was inaugurated. (WSJ, 3/15/07, p.C1)
1969 Jul 2, Barbra Streisand (b.1942) opened for a 4-week engagement at the Las Vegas International Hotel. (www.barbrafile.com/6169.htm)
1969 Jul 3, Brian Jones (27), founder of the Rolling Stones (1962), was found dead at the bottom of Cotchford Farm swimming pool. (www.hotshotdigital.com/WellAlwaysRemember.4/BrianJones.html)
1969 Jul 4, "Give Peace a Chance" by Plastic Ono Band was released in UK. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_Peace_a_Chance) 1969 Jul 4, Some 140,000 attended the Atlanta Pop Festival featuring Led Zeppelin & Janis Joplin. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_International_Pop_Festival_(1969)) 1969 Jul 4, In San Francisco Jim (d.2007) and Artie Mitchell (d.1991) opened the Mitchell Brothers O’Farrell Theater at O’Farrell and Polk. (SFC, 10/3/97, p.A15)(SFC, 7/14/07, p.A7) 1969 Jul 4, The California Zodiac killer shot and killed a waitress in Vallejo. (SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W20) 1969 Jul 4, Darlene Ferrin (22), a waitress, was shot and killed at the Blue Rock Springs Golf Club in Vallejo. She was parked with Michael Mageau (19), who survived the shooting. The Zodiac killer reported the shooting within an hour from a pay phone. (SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W20)(SFC, 10/2/00, p.A19) 1969 Jul 4, The Italian coalition government under Mariano Rumor (1915-1990) fell apart. (www.speedylook.com/Mariano_Rumor.html) 1969 Jul 4, Erwin Blumenfeld (b.1897), German-born fashion photographer and artist, died in Rome. His autobiography “Eye to I” was published in English in 1999. In 1996 William Ewing authored “Blumenfeld: A Fetish for Beauty.” (SFC, 4/21/06, p.E13)(www.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/blumenfeld.html) 1969 Jul 4, The USSR performed nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR. (www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/pi/Monitoring/Arch/sts-table/sts-table.html)
1969 Jul 5, Wilhelm Backhaus (b.1884), German pianist (Rubinstein-1905), died. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Backhaus) 1969 Jul 5, Walter Gropius (b.1883), architect, founder (Bauhaus school of design), died. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Gropius) 1969 Jul 5, Tom Mboya (b.1930) of Kenya’s Luo tribe was assassinated in Nairobi. He was the expected successor to Pres. Jomo Kenyatta (1894-1978). (SFC,12/23/97, p.D2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Mboya)
1969 Jul 7, The first U.S. troops to withdraw from South Vietnam left Saigon. (HN, 7/7/98) 1969 Jul 7, J.S. Furnivall (b.1878), British anthropologist, died in Cambridge. He coined the term “plural society” while working as colonial servant in Burma. (Econ, 3/10/12, p.52)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sydenham_Furnivall) 1969 Jul 7, Canada's House of Commons gave final approval to a measure making the French language equal to English throughout the national government. (AP, 7/7/97) 1969 Jul 7, Der Spiegel revealed Munich's Bishop Defregger as a war criminal. Charges against Defregger were dropped in 1970. (http://tinyurl.com/5f8qts)www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,909636,00.html?iid=chix-sphere)
1969 Jul 9, Howard Luck Gossage (b.1917), American ad man, died of leukemia. He wrote the essays: Understanding Marshall McLuhan, Our Fictitious Freedom of the Press, How to Look at a Magazine and How to Look at a Billboard. In 1995 "The Book of Gossage," ed. by Bruce Bendinger, was published by The Copy Workshop. (www.ciadvertising.org/student_account/fall_01/adv382j/mgautam/PAPER2/luck.html)(Wired, Dec. '95, p.192)
1969 Jul 11, David Bowie (b.1947), British musician, released his single “Space Oddity," supposedly in conjunction with the July 20 Apollo 11 moon landing. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Oddity)
1969 Jul 14-1969 Aug 2, In West Papua the "Act of Free Choice" was conducted by the Indonesian military forces. A UN approved referendum, involving 1,026 handpicked pro-Jakarta tribal chiefs, ratified Indonesia’s 1963 annexation of West Papua. Many voted at gunpoint in the unanimous decision. In papers released in 2004, it has been revealed that US Ambassador, Marshall Green in 1969 had fore knowledge that Indonesia had no intention of allowing a Papuan vote that might prevent Indonesia from annexing West Papua as a Indonesian province; he further pointed out that any UN member would unwise to expect free or direct elections. (WSJ, 6/6/00, p.A23)(SSFC, 9/1/02, p.A15)(http://tinyurl.com/7cxq3)
1969 Jul 16, Apollo XI set out from Cape Canaveral (Cape Kennedy), Florida, with Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and Michael Collins on the first manned mission to the surface of the moon. (V.D.-H.K.p.182, 341)(AP, 7/16/97) 1969 Jul 16, Vu Ngoc Nha (d.2002), top aide to presidents Ngo Dinh Diem and Nguyen Van Thieu, was arrested in Saigon. The CIA uncovered him as the head of a Communist espionage ring. He and 2 others were convicted of treason and sentenced to life in prison. (SFC, 8/13/02, p.A20)
1969 Jul 17, An FBI memo titled "New Left and Extremist Movements" revealed Gov. Reagan’s plans for the destruction of disruptive elements on California college campuses through "psychological warfare" and other methods. (SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F8)
1969 Jul 18, A car driven by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (1932-2009), D-Mass., plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island near Martha's Vineyard. His passenger, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, died. Kennedy did not report the accident until it was discovered 9 hours later. (TMC, 1994, p.1969)(AP, 7/18/97)(Econ, 8/29/09, p.30)
1969 Jul 19, Apollo 11 and its astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins, went into orbit around the moon. The Apollo 11 lunar lander engine was built by TRW. (AP, 7/19/99)(F, 10/7/96, p.71) 1969 Jul 19, John Fairfax (1937-2012), British self-proclaimed "professional adventurer," became famous as the first person to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Two year later he rowed across the Pacific with his then-girlfriend Sylvia Cook. (AFP, 2/19/12)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fairfax_%28rower%29)
1969 Jul 20, Astronaut Neil Armstrong took his legendary "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." He and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin made the first successful landing of a manned vehicle on the moon’s Sea of Tranquility when they touched down in Apollo 11. Armstrong stepped down from the ladder of the landing module Eagle to become the first man ever to walk on the moon. The two astronauts explored the moon's surface for 2 1/2 hours, with amazed TV audiences looking on. Armstrong was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his accomplishments and his contributions to the space program. Edwin Aldrin became the second man to step foot on the moon shortly after Neil Armstrong hopped off the lunar lander Eagle at 10:56 p.m. Armstrong and Aldrin walked on the moon for about two hours during their 22-hour lunar stay. Thomas Kelly (d.2002 at 72) was the engineer who had overseen the building of the lunar module. In 2009 Buzz Aldrin authored “Magnificent desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon.” (AP, 7/20/97)(HNPD, 7/20/98)(HNQ, 9/14/00)(SFC, 3/29/02, p.A24)(Econ, 7/18/09, p.82)
1969 Jul 21, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin blasted off from the moon aboard the lunar module. (AP, 7/21/99) 1969 Jul 21, Riots in York, Pa., left 2 people dead, Lillie Belle Allen (27) along with rookie officer Henry Schaad (22). Schaad was mortally wounded 3 days before Allen was killed. Over 60 people were arrested as one city block burned. In 2001 Arthur (47) and Robert Messersmith (52) were arrested for the slaying of Allen. In 2001 Rick Lynn Knouse (48) and Gregory Henry Neff (53), former members of the Girarders white street gang, were also charged in the murders. In 2001 York Mayor Charles Robertson was arrested on homicide charges for allegedly handing out ammunition to white gang members and exhorting them to "Kill as many niggers as you can." In 2001 Thomas P. Smith was accused in the ambush shooting of Allen. In 2001 Stephen Freeland (49) and Leon Wright (53) were charged in the murder of officer Schaad. Robertson was acquitted in 2002. Messersmith and Neff were found guilty of 2nd degree murder. 6 white men were sentenced up to 3 years in prison. Wright's brother Michael implicated himself in 2003 and was charged for the murder of Schaad. In 2005 York city officials announced a $2 million settlement with the children and sisters of Lillie Belle Allen. (SFC, 4/28/01, p.A5)(SFC, 5/10/01, p.A7)(SFC, 5/17/01, p.A2)(SFC, 5/22/01, p.A5)(YD, 5/24/01)(YD, 6/25/00)(SFC, 10/31/01, p.C2)(SSFC, 10/20/02, p.A7)(SFC, 11/14/02, p.A8)(BS, 6/26/03, 5A)(SFC, 12/7/05, p.A3)
1969 Jul 22, Aretha Franklin (b.1942) was arrested in Detroit for creating a disturbance. (http://oldies.about.com/od/oldieshistory/a/july22.htm) 1969 Jul 22, Dictator Francisco Franco appointed Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon y Borbon as official successor to the position of Head of State. (www.archontology.org/nations/spain/spain_1936s/franco.php)
1969 Jul 24, The Apollo XI astronauts, two of whom had been the first men to set foot on the moon, splashed down safely in the Pacific. They were picked up by the 42,000 ton USS Hornet. The Hornet was decommissioned in 1970 and set up as a museum in 1998 in Alameda, Ca. (V.D.-H.K.p.182, 341)(AP, 7/24/97)(SFC, 8/17/98, p.A22) 1969 Jul 24, Petroleos del Peru (PETROPERU S.A.) was created (law No.17753) as a state-owned entity. (http://tinyurl.com/554vke)
1969 Jul 25, Some 70,000 attended the Seattle Pop Festival. The music festival, organized by Boyd Grafmyrem, was held at the Gold Creek Park, Woodinville, Washington, from July 25 to July 28, 1969. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Pop_Festival) 1969 Jul 25, The Nixon Doctrine was put forth in a press conference in Guam, in which he stated that the US henceforth expected its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense [see Nov 3, 1969]. (http://thenewnixon.org/2008/07/24/25-july-1969-the-nixon-doctrine/) 1969 Jul 25, A week after the Chappaquiddick accident that claimed the life of Mary Jo Kopechne, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident. (AP, 7/25/99)
1969 Jul 26, Frank Loesser, songwriter (b.1910), died. His songs included “Baby It’s Cold Outside” sung in the 1949 film “Neptune’s Daughter.” In 2008 Thomas L. Riis authored Frank Loesser. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Loesser)
1969 Jul 31, The Zodiac killer sent a poorly-spelled letter to the SF Chronicle, Examiner and Vallejo Times-Herald and took responsibility for the July 5 shootings along with a portion of a cipher. (SFC, 10/2/00, p.A19) 1969 Jul 31, Gary Allen Hinman, a California musician and UCLA Ph.D. candidate, was found murdered at his home in Topanga Canyon, Ca. Bruce Davis, a member of Charles Manson’s murderous cult, was later convicted for the murder of Gary Hinman as well as stuntman Donald “Shorty” Shea. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Brunner)(SFC, 1/29/10, p.A6)
1969 Jul, The rock group Mountain with Leslie West and Felix Pappalardi released their album Windfall 4500. (www.mp3.com/albums/17361/reviews.html) 1969 Jul, Stokely Carmichael, black power advocate, broke ties with the Black Panthers and moved to Guinea. (SFC, 11/16/98, p.A7)
1969 Aug 2, Bob Dylan made a surprise appearance at the Minn. Hibbing High School 10-year reunion. (http://oldies.about.com/od/oldieshistory/a/august2.htm) 1969 Aug 2, Richard Nixon visited Romania becoming the first president to visit a communist nation since the start of the Cold War. (HNQ, 11/20/01)(www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1464.html)
1969 Aug 5, The U.S. space probe Mariner 7 flew by Mars, sending back photographs and scientific data. It returned 127 images of the South Polar icecap and southern hemisphere. Mariner 6 also flew past Mars this year and returned 75 images of the Martian equator along with the surface temperature, atmospheric pressure and composition. (AP, 8/5/97)(SFC, 12/8/99, p.A19)
1969 Aug 6, Theodor Adorno, German philosopher, died of a heart attack. In 2008 Detlev Claussen authored “Theodor W. Adorno: One Last Genius.” (WSJ, 4/18/08, p.W5)(www.kirjasto.sci.fi/adorno.htm)
1969 Aug 8, In England Iain MacMillan took pictures of the Beatles as they crossed Abbey Road for the cover of their "Abbey Road" album. (SFEC, 8/22/99, p.T4) 1969 Aug 8, Actress Sharon Tate (26) and four other people were brutally murdered in her Beverly Hills home; cult leader Charles Manson and a group of his disciples were later convicted of the crime. The best writing on the Manson murders was by Joan Didion in "The White Album." (SFEC, 3/16/97, Z1 p.4)(AP, 8/9/97)(HN, 8/9/98)(SFEC, 9/19/99, BR p.6)
1969 Aug 9, Actress Sharon Tate and four other people were found brutally murdered in her Los Angeles home; cult leader Charles Manson and a group of his disciples were later convicted of the crime. Charles Manson's followers killed actress Sharon Tate and her three guests in her Beverly Hills home. The dead included Abigail Folger and Voyteck Freykowski. (SFEC, 3/16/97, z1 p.4)(AP, 8/9/97)(HN, 8/9/98)(MC, 8/9/02)
1969 Aug 10, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were murdered in their Los Angeles home by members of Charles Manson's cult, one day after actress Sharon Tate and four other people were found slain. (AP, 8/10/97)
1969 Aug 12, American installations at Quan-Loi, Vietnam, came under Viet Cong attack. (HN, 8/12/98) 1969 Aug 12, In Northern Ireland the Apprentice Boys, a Protestant fraternal group, led a parade that ignited rioting in the Bogside section of Londonderry, that led to the bloody period known as The Troubles. Loyalists attacks on Catholic areas set off rioting in Belfast. Eight people died and British troops were sent in. The Provisional Irish Republican Army began a 25-year sniping and bombing campaign. (SFC, 8/10/96, p.A8)(SFEC, 12/22/96, Z1 p.7)(http://tinyurl.com/ddovv8)
1969 Aug 14, British troops arrived in Northern Ireland to intervene in sectarian violence between Protestants and Roman Catholics. The outlawed Irish Republican Army came into Northern Ireland to protect and encourage Catholics and the Provisional IRA soon began terrorist actions against the British troops and Protestant civilians. This culminated in an attack on the Bogside which started on August 12 and ended Aug 14. Some 500 houses were burned to the ground, 1,500 people forced from their homes, and 9 people murdered. (SFC, 6/18/96, p.A8)(AP, 8/14/97)(HNQ, 8/17/99) 1969 Aug 14, Leonard Sidney Woolf (b.1880), English publisher, writer, died. He was the husband of writer and critic Virginia Woolf (1882-1941). His books included “The Village in the Jungle,” a novel based on his time in Sri Lanka (1904-1911). In 2006 Victoria Glendinning authored “Leonard Woolf: A Biography.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Woolf)(Econ, 9/16/06, p.93)
1969 Aug 15, The Woodstock Music and Art Fair opened in upstate New York. 400,000 young people gathered at Max Yasgur’s dairy farm in the Bethel hamlet of White Lake, N.Y. for the Woodstock music festival. Wavy Gravy (Hugh Romney) and companions from the Hog Farm Commune handled security and ran a free kitchen and "bad trips tent." The performers included Joan Baez; Crosby, Stills and Nash; Creedence Clearwater; the Grateful Dead; Jimi Hendrix; the Jefferson Airplane; Janis Joplin; Canned Heat and Ravi Shankar. The 1st group to perform was the band Sweetwater with lead singer Nansi Nevins. (TMC, 1994, p.1969)(SFC,5/17/96,p.E-1)(WSJ,10/22/96,p.A20)(SFEC,1/26/97, p.A14)(AP, 8/15/97)(SFC,10/27/97, p.C2)(SFC, 2/3/99, p.E1)(WSJ, 8/9/99, p.A16)
1969 Aug 16, Canned Heat performed "Let's Work Together" live Woodstock. (www.chromeoxide.com/canned.htm)
1969 Aug 17, Donald E. Wahlberg Jr., rocker (New Kids-Hangin' Tough), was born in Boston. (www.donniewahlberg.com/bio.htm) 1969 Aug 17, Hurricane Camille hit the Gulf Coast at Pass Christian, Miss., leaving 256 people killed in Louisiana and Mississippi. 21 people were killed in an apartment complex in Pass Christian, where they had taken refuge. Damage was later estimated at $3.8 billion. (AP, 8/17/97)(SFEC, 6/6/99, p.A17)(AP, 8/30/05)(Econ, 1/14/12, p.61) 1969 Aug 17, Mies van der Rohe (b.1886), German-born American architect, died. He founded the Int’l. Style and designed early steel-framed and glass-jacketed buildings. He coined the phrase: "Less is more." (SFC, 1/17/98, p.C5)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Mies_van_der_Rohe)
1969 Aug 18, Two concert goers died at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel, New York, one from an overdose of heroin, the other from a burst appendix. The Woodstock Music and Art Fair ended in Sullivan County, NY, with a mid-morning set performed by Jimi Hendrix. (HN, 8/18/99)(AP, 8/18/07)
1969 Aug 19, Miles Davis and associates began a 3-day session recording the album "Bitches Brew" with Tony Williams on drums at Columbia's 30th Street Studio. Other players included Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, Airto Moreira, Herbie Hancock, Bennie Maupin, John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, Chick Corea and Lenny White. The album was released in the spring of 1970 and became a commercial success. (SFEC, 7/27/97, DB p.40)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitches_Brew)
1969 Aug 20, Arlo Guthrie released "Alice's Restaurant." (www.imdb.com/title/tt0064002/)
1969 Aug 26, Donald “Shorty” Shea (b.1933), a Hollywood stuntman, was murdered about this time. The location of his body was not discovered until 1977. Manson family leader Charles Manson and family members Tex Watson, Steve Grogan aka Clem and Bruce Davis were eventually convicted of murdering Shea. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_"Shorty"_Shea)
1969 Aug 28, In Quang Nam province of Vietnam Corporal Jose Francisco Jimenez died of wounds after leading an attack that took out an antiaircraft weapon and an entrenchment of automatic weapons fire. (WSJ, 11/11/96, p.A14)
1969 Aug 31, Andrew Phillip Cunanan, serial killer, was born. His victims included fashion designer Gianni Versache. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cunanan) 1969 Aug 31, Boxer Rocky Marciano died in a light airplane crash in Iowa, the day before his 46th birthday. (AP, 8/31/97)
1969 Sep 1, There was a race riot in Hartford, Connecticut. (http://tinyurl.com/6qb7y4) 1969 Sep 1, John Lennon returned his OBE (Officer of the British Empire) medal. He said it is to protest the British government’s involvement in Biafra, its support of the US in Vietnam and the poor chart performance of his latest single, “Cold Turkey.” (www.rockhall.com/inductee/john-lennon) 1969 Sep 1, A coup in Libya overthrew the monarchy of King Idris and brought Moammar Gadhafi (27) to power. Gadhafi emerged as leader of the revolutionary government and ordered the closure of a U.S. Air Force base. (AP, 9/1/99)(SFEC, 4/9/00, p.C12)(AP, 12/30/03) 1969 Sep 1, Drew Pearson (b.1897), Washington Post columnist and newscaster, died. (www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USApearsonD.htm)
1969 Sep 2, The first Internet message was a packet switch delivered to UCLA from BBN Corp. (Bolt Beranek and Newman). The 1st 2 machines of ARPANET were connected at Prof. Len Kleinrock's lab at UCLA. The US Dept. of Defense’s Advanced Research and Projects Agency (ARPANET) launched a self-healing computer network with TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol). By the early 1980’s the military component became a separate network and the true birth of today’s Internet is marked. By 2007 some university researchers with the federal government's blessing want to scrap the Internet and start over. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070414/ap_on_hi_te/rebuilding_the_internet_8)(SFEC, 3/16/97, z1 p.3)(SFC, 8/30/99, p.C10)(SFC, 9/3/99, p.C1) 1969 Sep 2, North Vietnamese president Ho Chi Minh died. The son of a poor scholar, Ho Chi Minh led the nationalist movement of his country for three decades. Ho Chi Minh became an active socialist while in France where he petitioned for colonial reforms following World War I. His involvement with the international communist movement continued into the 1920s, meeting and working with communist leaders in Europe and the newly formed Soviet Union. He formed the Indochinese Communist Party in 1930 and its successor, the Viet-Minh, in 1941, going on to serve as president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 1945 until his death. (AP, 9/2/97)(www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/hochiminh4.html)
1969 Sep 4, The US Food and Drug Administration issued a report calling birth control pills safe, despite a slight risk of fatal blood-clotting disorders linked to the pills. (AP, 9/4/99) 1969 Sep 4, In California Gov. Ronald Reagan signed the first no-fault divorce package into law, effective January 1, 1970. (SFEC, 7/6/97, Z1 p.6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-fault_divorce) 1969 Sep 4, In Brazil Fernando Gabeira helped kidnap the US ambassador in Rio, Charles Elbrick (d.1983), to protest the military dictatorship. Elbrick was released unhurt four days later, but Gabeira was b
1969 Jan 29, An undersea oil well off Santa Barbara, Ca., suffered a blowout and over the next 11 days released some 200,000 gallons of oil that spread over 800 square miles of ocean and soiled 35 miles of coastline.
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Quote: I don't know, as a song writer he's no Stu Lanning.
just the same, i'd keep a heads up if someone here finds out that stuey-stu has been jammin' up some new tunes with witchipoo, pnkrckvxn, gracepark, buzzgirl, the rest of the femcrew, etc...
like neil, "i'm always thinkin' - 'what's he gonna do next?' "
"1969 Jan 3, Police in Newark, NJ, confiscated 30,000 copies of the John Lennon, Yoko Ono album, Two Virgins. A nude photo of John and Yoko on the cover violated pornography laws in Jersey. "
They should have ALL been confiscated.
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LOTS of manson family running from the law - moved up on the expansive and lawless "bly mtn" region outside bonanza, oregon. we lived in a shack right next to it so i went to school, did delinquent deeds, and raced dirtbikes up there with their kids.
there were some really really fvcked up things going on up that mtn on a daily basis. pretty much the ozarks of oregon.
i think charlie's well-known megalomanic charisma along with all those womens and drugs seems to have clouded brother niel's talent assesment.
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Quote: 1969 Jan 1, President Nixon nominated Henry Cabot Lodge, former American ambassador to South Vietnam, as negotiator at the Paris Peace Talks. (www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1969.html)
1969 Jan 2, The play "To be Young, Gifted & Black," by Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) premiered in NYC. (www.aetna.com/foundation/aahcalendar/1992gifted.html)
1969 Jan 3, Police in Newark, NJ, confiscated 30,000 copies of the John Lennon, Yoko Ono album, Two Virgins. A nude photo of John and Yoko on the cover violated pornography laws in Jersey. (www.goatview.com/january03.htm)
1969 Jan 4, Spain returned the Ifni province to Morocco. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ifni)
1969 Jan 5, Henry Cabot Lodge replaced Harriman as chief US negotiator at Paris. (www.bartleby.com/67/4271.html)
1969 Jan 12, The New York Jets defeated the Baltimore Colts, 16-7, in Super Bowl III at the Orange Bowl in Miami. (AP, 1/12/99)
1969 Jan 14, An explosion on the US carrier Enterprise, 75 miles from Hawaii, resulted in 28 dead and over 300 injured. (http://tinyurl.com/64clvh)
1969 Jan 15, The Russian Soyuz 5 went into orbit. The crew then maneuvered to dock with Soyuz 4 and Yevgeny Khrunov (d.2000 at 67) became the first astronaut to transfer between linked capsules. (SFC, 5/27/00, p.A26)
1969 Jan 20, Richard Nixon in his first inaugural address proclaimed that Americans "cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another." He also said: "the greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker. This honor now beckons America." (HNQ, 6/30/98)(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F6) 1969 Jan 20, The US president’s salary doubled to $100,000. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States)
1969 Jan 22, In Massachusetts Francis Sargent (1915-1998) became governor after John Volpe was made transportation secretary in the Nixon administration. (SFC, 10/24/98, p.A22)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_W._Sargent)
1969 Jan 23, Gregorio Ordonez, deputy mayor of San Sebastian, Spain, was assassinated by an ETA terrorist. (Econ, 5/17/08, p.66)(www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/basque/stories/overview.html)
1969 Jan 25, US-North Vietnamese peace talks began in Paris. (www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1969.html)
1969 Jan 26, California was declared a disaster area after two days of flooding and mud slides. (HN, 1/26/99)
1969 Jan 27, Byron Vaughn Booth and fellow convict Clinton Robert Smith, also a robber, escaped from the California Institution for Men at Chino. The next day they bought a ticket for a flight from Los Angeles to Miami with a connection in New Orleans. National Airlines Flight 64 was hijacked over the Gulf of Mexico after the plane left New Orleans. The plane ended up landing at Camaguey, Cuba, where Cuban officials removed the hijackers. The flight continued on to Miami. Booth was arrested in Nigeria in 2001 and returned to the US. (SFC, 2/24/01, p.C14)(http://articles.latimes.com/2001/may/17/local/me-64627) 1969 Jan 27, Transamerica Corp., under the leadership of John Beckett (1918-2010), announced its wish to build a 1,000-foot tower in San Francisco. Work on the 48-floor Pyramid, designed by architect William Pereira, began in December, 1969. The 853-foot tower was completed in 1972. (SSFC, 12/27/09, p.A19)(SFC, 6/28/10, p.C4)(http://tinyurl.com/2acu688) 1969 Jan 27, Byron Vaughn Booth and fellow convict Clinton Robert Smith, also a robber, escaped from the California Institution for Men at Chino. The next day they bought a ticket for a flight from Los Angeles to Miami with a connection in New Orleans. National Airlines Flight 64 was hijacked over the Gulf of Mexico after the plane left New Orleans. The plane ended up landing at Camaguey, Cuba, where Cuban officials removed the hijackers. The flight continued on to Miami. Booth was arrested in Nigeria in 2001 and returned to the US. (SFC, 2/24/01, p.C14)(http://articles.latimes.com/2001/may/17/local/me-64627) 1969 Jan 27, In Iraq 14 people, including 9 Jews, were hanged for alleged espionage. (http://tinyurl.com/5u75cx)
1969 Jan 29, An undersea oil well off Santa Barbara, Ca., suffered a blowout and over the next 11 days released some 200,000 gallons of oil that spread over 800 square miles of ocean and soiled 35 miles of coastline. (www.geog.ucsb.edu/~jeff/sb_69oilspill/69oilspill_articles2.html) 1969 Jan 29, Allan Welsh Dulles (b.1893), US diplomat, director (CIA 1953-61), died. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Dulles)
1969 Jan, A 50-cent one-way toll became permanent on the Golden Gate Bridge following efforts to reduce congestion by Bruce Goecker (1919-2006), former mayor of Corte Madera. Soon toll bridges around the world began following suit. (SFC, 9/14/06, p.B5)
1969 Feb 2, Boris Karloff (b.1887), British actor born as William Henry Pratt, died. He is best remembered for his roles in horror films and his portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in the 1931 film Frankenstein. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Karloff) 1969 Feb 2, In Marin County, Ca., a fire destroyed a 22-room mansion at Rancho Olompali occupied by members of “the Chosen Family” led by Donald McCoy (1932-2004).” (SSFC, 10/24/04, p.B7)(SFC, 1/14/09, p.B12) 1969 Feb 2, Giovanni Martinelli (b.1885), Italian opera singer, died. He enjoyed a long career at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City and appeared at other international theatres. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Martinelli)
1969 Feb 4, John Madden (b.1934) was named head coach of NFL's Oakland Raiders. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Madden_(American_football)) 1969 Feb 4, Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat officially took over as chairman of PLO. (SFC, 11/11/04, p.A18)
1969 Feb 6, The Broadway musical "Dear World," a musical version of Jean Giraudoux’s The Madwoman of Chaillot, opened with Angel Lansbury at the Mark Hellinger Theater. (SFEC, 12/8/96, Par p.18)(www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=202004)
1969 Feb 8, The last edition of Saturday Evening Post was published. It had begun publishing in 1869. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saturday_Evening_Post) 1969 Feb 8, A meteor shower hit Mexico creating a luminance in the night sky as bright as day. A meteorite weighing over 1 ton fell in Chihuahua, Mexico. (http://wapi.isu.edu/geo_pgt/Mod05_Meteorites_Ast/mod5.htm)(TMP, KCTS-Video, 1987)
1969 Feb 9, The Boeing 747, the world's largest airplane, made its 1st commercial flight. The Juan T. Trippe, named after the founder of Pan Am, was sold in 2000 to a South Korea couple, who transformed it into an aviation themed restaurant. The venture failed in 2005 and the plane was demolished in late 2010. (www.boeing.com/commercial/747family/pf/pf_milestones.html)(SFC, 12/13/10, p.A2) 1969 Feb 9, Gabby Hayes (b.1885), American film and TV actor, died. He played the sidekick to Hopalong Cassidy and later Roy Rogers Westerns. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_%27Gabby%27_Hayes)
1969 Feb 11, A Lockheed SP2E Neptune crashed in the Santa Ana Mountains of Orange County, Ca., while on night training. 7 seamen were killed. (SFC, 5/7/08, p.B8)(http://home.att.net/~jbaugher/thirdseries15.html)
1969 Feb 13, In North Carolina the Afro-American Society students of Duke Univ. led a black student takeover of the Allen Building to spark University action on the concerns of Black students. The takeover brought attention to issues such as establishment of an Afro-American studies program, a black cultural center, and increasing the number of black faculty and students. (http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/rbmscl/uabsa/inv/)
1969 Feb 14, The new red, plastic Olivetti typewriter, designed by Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007, was released. (SFC, 1/3/08, p.B5)
1969 Feb 15, Charles Ellsworth Russell (b.1906), aka Pee Wee Russell, jazz clarinet player, died in Alexandria, Va. His albums included “Portrait of Pee Wee” (1958). (www.britannica.com/eb/article-9064474)(WSJ, 5/17/06, p.D14)
1969 Feb 17, Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash recorded an album that was never released. (http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/57340.html) 1969 Feb 17, Russia and Peru signed their first trade accord. (www.historynet.com/tdih0217.htm)
1969 Feb 18, The PLO (PFLP-GC) machine-gunned an Israeli El-Al plane in Zurich, Switzerland. One Palestinian was killed and 4 were arrested. (SFC, 5/21/02, p.A16)(www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/incidents.html)
1969 Feb 19, Elvis Presley recorded the Eddie Rabbit song "Kentucky Rain." (www.anelvisfan2001.com/KentuckyRain.html)
1969 Feb 20, Ernest Ansermet (b.1883), Swiss conductor and composer, died. (www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Ansermet-Ernest.htm)
1969 Feb 23, Pres. Nixon ordered plans for the secret bombing of Cambodia. (www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a04242670parrotsbeak)(SFEC, 4/23/00, p.A19)
1969 Feb 24, The US Supreme Court in the Tinker vs. Des Moines School District case ruled that students had the right to express opinions at odds with the government. (WSJ, 5/4/99, p.A22)(www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/comm/free_speech/tinker.html)
1969 Feb 25, In Vietnam Navy Lt. Bob Kerry (25) took part in a SEAL raid in the Mekong Delta where over a dozen women, children and old men were killed in the village of Thanh Phong. Kerry received a Bronze Star for the raid and later strongly regretted his actions. Soon after the raid Kerry lost a leg at Hon Tam Island and was later awarded a Congressional medal of Honor. In 2001 Kerry, former Gov. and Senator from Nebraska, made public his participation in the raid. In 2001 Bui Thi Luom of Thanh Phong, the only survivor from her hut of 16, said 20 people were killed "Only civilians, women and children." Kerry described the event in his 2002 memoir "When I Was a Young Man." In 2002 Gregory L. Vistica authored: "The Education of Lieutenant Kerry." (SFC, 4/26/01, p.A1)(SFC, 4/27/01, p.A3)(SSFC, 4/29/01, p.A12)(SFC, 6/1/02, p.A12)(WSJ, 1/23/03, p.D14)
1969 Feb 26, Levi Eshkol (b.1895), born in the Ukraine as Levi Shkolnik, died. He had served as the 3rd Israeli premier (1963-1969). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Eshkol) 1969 Feb 26, Karl Jaspers (b.1883), German psychiatrist, philosopher, died. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Jaspers)
1969 Feb 27, President Nixon arrived in Rome from West Berlin amid protests by thousands of students. (www.historynet.com/today_in_history?tihMonth=2&tihDay=27)
1969 Feb 28, A Los Angeles court refused Robert Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan's request to be executed. (HN, 2/28/98)
1969 Feb, Gen. Hafez al-Assad became head of Syria. (http://i-cias.com/e.o/assad_hafiz.htm)
1969 Mar 1, "Red, White, and Maddox" closed at Cort Theater in NYC after 41 performances. (www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=3452) 1969 Mar 1, Mickey Mantle of the NY Yankees announced his retirement from baseball. (HN, 3/1/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Mantle) 1969 Mar 1, Jim Morrison (d.1971), lead singer for the Doors, exposed himself at Dinner Key Auditorium in Miami before 10,000 people. An arrest warrant was issued for Morrison four days after the concert. He turned himself in, was tried the next year and convicted on two charges. Gov. Charlie Crist and Florida's Cabinet members pardoned Morrison of those convictions on Dec 9, 2010. (SFC, 12/24/02, p.A13)(AP, 12/10/10)
1969 Mar 2, Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer, completed his 14th Symphony. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._14_(Shostakovich))(http://tinyurl.com/66tpar) 1969 Mar 2, Phil Esposito of the Boston Bruins became the 1st NHL Player to score 100 points in a season. (www.nhl.com/history/030269.html) 1969 Mar 2, The Concorde jetliner's 1st test flight took place in Bristol, England. (www.xent.com/pipermail/fork/Week-of-Mon-20031013/026200.html) 1969 Mar 2, Chinese and Russian soldiers clashed on Damansky Island and approximately 70 died. The Soviet and Chinese border troops had been skirmishing since 1959 along the 2,500 mile border. Recent skirmishes were along the Ussuri River border. The Soviets used a full scale tank assault to repulse a Chinese attack on the island of Damansky. A border treaty in the 1990s gave the island to China. (www.jstor.org/pss/1957173)(WSJ, 11/19/96, p.A1)(SFC, 12/28/96, p.A13)(WSJ, 12/16/05, p.A1)(www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1971/jul-aug/marks.html)
1969 Mar 3, Sirhan Sirhan testified in a court in Los Angeles that he killed Robert Kennedy. (HN, 3/3/99) 1969 Mar 3, Apollo 9 blasted off from Cape Kennedy on a mission to test the lunar module. It carried astronauts James McDivitt, Russell Schweickart and David Scott and made 151 Earth orbits over 10 days. (AP, 3/3/98)(SSFC, 3/8/09, p.B2)
1969 Mar 4, George Wald (d.1997 at 90), Nobel Prize winner, declared his opposition to the war in Vietnam at MIT in the speech: "A Generation in Search of a Future." (SFC, 4/14/97, p.A19)
1969 Mar 5, “What the Butler Saw,” the final play of Joe Orton (1933-1967), was first performed in London. The sex farce was set in a mental hospital. (SFC, 6/12/09, p.E1)(http://talkingbroadway.org/regional/sanfran/s823.html) 1969 Mar 5, Gustav Heinemann was elected West German President. (HN, 3/5/98)
1969 Mar 6, Black Panther Anthony Garnet Bryant, aka Tony Bryant (d.1999 at 60), hijacked a National Airlines plane enroute from NY to Miami and directed it to Cuba. He was arrested in Cuba and spent a year and a half in jail and was pardoned in 1980. His 1984 book "Hijack" described his experience in Cuban prisons. (SFEC, 12/26/99, p.C10)(http://tinyurl.com/aopyo)
1969 Mar 10, James Earl Ray pleaded guilty to the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King in Memphis, Tenn., and was sentenced to 99 years in jail. Ray later repudiated that plea. (AP, 3/10/98)(HN, 3/10/98)
1969 Mar 11, Levi started to sell bell-bottomed jeans. (HN, 3/11/98)
1969 Mar 12, Paul McCartney married Linda Eastman in London. (AP, 3/12/98)
1969 Mar 13, The Apollo 9 astronauts splashed down, ending a mission that included the successful testing of the lunar module. (AP, 3/13/97) 1969 Mar 13, In Vietnam Navy Lt. John Kerry rescued Jim Rassman on the Bay Hap River while under Viet Cong fire. In 2004 Kerry became the Democratic nominee for President. (SSFC, 2/8/04, p.A1)
1969 Mar 14, US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigned under pressure for the acceptance of an allegedly illegal payment from a former business associate. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_Fortas) 1969 Mar 14, Ben Shahn (1898), Lithuanian-born American painter and photographer, died in NYC. Much of his photography of done in New York’s Lower East Side and Greenwich Village. (WSJ, 12/1/98, p.A20)(WSJ, 2/1/00, p.A24)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Shahn)
1969 Mar 15, A violent Chinese-Russian border dispute left 100s dead. (www.jstor.org/pss/1957173)
1969 Mar 16, "1776," a musical about the writing of the Declaration of Independence, opened on Broadway. (AP, 3/16/99)
1969 Mar 17, Golda Meir (d.1978) became the 4th prime minister of Israel. She held the office to 1974. (AP, 3/17/97)(AP, 12/8/97)
1969 Mar 18, President Richard M. Nixon authorized Operation Menu, the 'secret' bombing of Cambodia [see Feb 23]. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Menu)
1969 Mar 20, Senator Edward Kennedy called on the U.S. to close all bases in Taiwan. (HN, 3/20/98) 1969 Mar 20, The Chicago 8 were indicted in aftermath of Chicago Democratic convention. (www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/conventions/chicago/facts/chicago68/index.shtml) 1969 Mar 20, John Lennon married Yoko Ono in Gibraltar. (AP, 3/20/97)(HN, 3/20/98)
1969 Mar 23, The teenage crusade Rally for Decency in Miami drew some 30,000. Teenagers organized the rally after Jim Morrison (24), the lead singer of The Doors rock group, was charged with indecent exposure during a concert in Miami on March 1. (http://forum.johndensmore.com/lofiversion/index.php/t2673.html)
1969 Mar 25, John and Yoko Ono staged a bed-in for peace in Amsterdam. (HN, 3/24/98) 1969 Mar 25, Max Forrester Eastman (b.1883), US critic and essayist, died. His books included “Love and Revolution: My Journey Through an Epoch” (1964). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Eastman)
1969 Mar 26, Marcus Welby MD, a TV movie was shown on ABC-TV. It began a popular series with Robert Young and ran to 1976. (www.imdb.com/title/tt0064636/)(WSJ, 1/10/03, p.A10) 1969 Mar 26, Writer John Kennedy Toole (b.1937) committed suicide at the age of 32. His mother helped get his first and only novel, "A Confederacy of Dunces," published. It went on to win the 1981 Pulitzer Prize. (HN, 3/26/01)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kennedy_Toole) 1969 Mar 26, B. Traven (b.1890), novelist and short-story writer, died. He lived most of his life incognito in Mexico. His work included "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1934), "The Death Ship," The Rebellion of the Hanged" and "The General from the Jungle." In 1976 Michael L. Baumann authored "B. Traven, An Introduction." In 2000 Michael L. Baumann authored "Mr. Traven, I Presume." (SFEC, 10/15/00, BR p.8)(www.kirjasto.sci.fi/traven.htm) 1969 Mar 26, The Nuclear reactor in Dodewaard, Netherlands, went into use. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodewaard_nuclear_power_plant) 1969 Mar 26, Soviet weather Satellite Meteor 1 was launched. (HN, 3/25/98)
1969 Mar 28, Dwight D. Eisenhower (b.1890), the 34th president of the US, died at Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington at age 78. In 2002 Carlo D’Este authored "Eisenhower: A Soldier’s Life." In 2006 John Wukovits authored “Eisenhower. In 2007 Kasey S. Pipes authored “Ike’s Final Battle: The Road to Little Rock and the Challenge of Equality.” In 2007 Michael Korda authored “Ike: An American Hero.” (AP, 3/28/97)(WSJ, 7/12/02, p.W12)(WSJ, 3/7/07, p.D7)(AH, 6/07, p.70)(SFC, 8/22/07, p.E1)
1969 Apr 1, Lin Biao (1907-1971) was named Mao's constitutional successor. Chinese historical accounts later said Biao showed his true nature two years later as a murderous opportunist obsessed with seizing power. (AP, 7/16/07)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Biao)
1969 Apr 4, In Houston, Texas, Dr. Denton Cooley implanted the 1st temporary artificial heart. (www.nytimes.com/2007/11/27/health/27docs.html)
1969 Apr 6, Sir Wally Herbert (1934-2007), English explorer, reached the North Pole on foot. He became the first man to cross the entire frozen surface of the Arctic Ocean on foot covering the 3,720 miles in 16 months. Roy Koerner, a glaciologist accompanying Herbert, drilled more than 250 ice core samples during the journey. (AP, 6/13/07)
1969 Apr 7, The US Supreme Court in Stanley v. Georgia unanimously struck down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material. (AP, 4/7/07)
1969 Apr 9, Students and police clashed at Harvard Univ. In 1997 the incident was described by Roger Rosenblatt in his book: "Coming Apart." (WSJ, 4/15/97, p.A16) 1969 Apr 9, The maiden flight of Concorde 002 was from Filton to Bristol. (www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/aeronautics/1977-45.aspx)
1969 Apr 10, Harley Jefferson Earl (1893-1969), American car designer, died. He was a Hollywood builder of custom cars and became GM’s VP of styling from 1940-1959. He was the first to introduce tail fins in 1948. His design philosophy was "You can design a car so that every time you get in it, it’s a relief--you have a little vacation for a while." (WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)(www.motorera.com/corvette/1950/vet56-1.htm)
1969 Apr 12, Simon and Garfunkel released "The Boxer." (www.radiowest.ca/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3300&sid=72232d290dfd00e819b5932236c4c632)
1969 Apr 14, In the 41st Academy Awards "Oliver" won as best picture, Cliff Robertson won as best actor (Charly), Katherine Hepburn tied as best actress (Lion in Winter) with Barbara Streisand (Funny Girl). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/41st_Academy_Awards) 1969 Apr 14, The first major league baseball game in Canada was played in Montreal. The expansion Montreal Expos hosted their first game north of the border, marking the first time a regular season major league game is played outside of the US. The Expos won their debut at Jarry Park, edging the St. Louis Cardinals, 8-7. (HN, 4/14/98)(www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/1969_Expos) 1969 Apr 14, In NYC the student Afro-American Society seized Columbia College. (http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/stand_columbia/Timeline1965-69.html) 1969 Apr 14, A tornado struck Dacca in East Pakistan killing 660. (www.bangladeshtornadoes.org/climo/btorcli0.htm)
1969 Apr 15, North Korea shot down a US airplane above the Sea of Japan. All 31 men aboard the plane were believed dead. (www.willyvictor.com/History/Korean_Shootdown/Korea.html) 1969 Apr 15, In SF Officer Rene Lacau had a fatal heart attack during a struggle with a person suspected of stealing a car. (SFC, 1/27/07, p.A8)
1969 Apr 17, A jury in Los Angeles convicted Sirhan Sirhan of assassinating Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. 6 days later he was sentenced to death. (AP, 4/17/97)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_assassination) 1969 Apr 17, Czechoslovak Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubcek (1921-1992), considered the architect of Czechoslovakia's Prague Spring, was deposed. (AP, 4/17/97)(http://referat.kulichki.net/files/page.php?id=35421)
1969 Apr 18, George Whittell, Jr. (b.1881), born in SF to wealth amassed in real estate and mining, died. His construction of a lakefront estate at lake Tahoe, the Thunderbird Lodge, began in 1937 and was completed in 1939. (SFC, 7/21/07, p.F1)(www.thunderbirdlodge.org/theman.html)
1969 Apr 19, In Ithaca N.Y. some 80 armed, militant black students at Cornell Univ. took over Willard Straight Hall. They demanded a black studies program and cut a deal with frightened administrators for total amnesty. In 1999 Donald Alexander Downs described the events in his book: "Cornell '69." (WSJ, 5/20/99, p.A18)
1969 Apr 22, In the Golden Globe boat race, sponsored by the British Sunday Times newspaper, one man became the 1st to single-handedly sail nonstop around the world. In 2001 Peter Nichols authored "A Voyage for Madmen." (SSFC, 8/5/01, DB p.61) 1969 Apr 22, The 1st human eye transplant was performed for John Madden in Houston. (http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1969-4/1969-04-23-NBC-23.html)
1969 Apr 23, Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death for assassinating New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. The sentence was later reduced to life imprisonment. (AP, 4/23/97)(HN, 4/23/99) 1969 Apr 23, The Lebanese army battled with rioting Palestinians. (http://tinyurl.com/5m9aj6)
1969 Apr 26, Morihei Ueshiba (b.1883), Japanese martial arts master, died. He evolved aikido through a synthesis and repatterning of various Japanese martial arts forms. Ueshiba is remembered by his pupils as a master of the martial arts, whose studies transcended technical matters to include a moral and philosophical view of the world based around harmony in the face of aggression. (SFC, 5/25/09, p.E1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morihei_Ueshiba)
1969 Apr 27, Gen. Rene Barrientos (b.1919), military president of Bolivia, died in a helicopter crash. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Barrientos_Ortu%C3%B1o)
1969 Apr 28, French President Charles de Gaulle resigned his office after a referendum on the reform of the Senate and local government failed. Alain Pohrer (1909-1996), as president of the Senate, then served as interim president for 7 weeks. (SFC, 12/12/96, p.C8)(AP, 4/28/97)(Econ, 6/19/10, p.86)
1969 Apr 30, US troops in Vietnam peaked at 543,000. Over 33,000 had already been killed. (SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F6)
1969 Apr, In England Bernadette Devlin (b.1947) of Northern Ireland became the youngest woman ever elected to British Parliament. Her 1969 book, “The Price of My Soul,” did much to publicize widespread discrimination against Roman Catholics in Northern Ireland. (SFEC, 3/23/97, p.A15)(www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=6234)
1969 May 1, In SF plainclothes Officer Joseph Brodnick was fatally shot after he and a partner stopped some youths suspected of burglary. 6 people were acquitted at trial. (SFC, 1/27/07, p.A8)
1969 May 2, Franz JHMM von Papen (b.1879), German chancellor (1932), died. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_von_Papen)
1969 May 4, F. Osbert S. Sitwell (b.1892), English poet (Who Killed ***** Robin?), died at castle Montegufoni near Florence, Italy. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osbert_Sitwell)
1969 May 5, N. Scott Momaday (b.1934) received the Pulitzer Prize for Literature for “House Made of Dawn.” The Kiowa author was the first American Indian to win the prize. Norman Mailer won the general non-fiction Pulitzer Prize for “Armies of the Night” (1968). (http://tinyurl.com/5naupa)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_Pulitzer_Prize)
1969 May 7, The Cunard Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) sailed into New York Harbor for the first time under Commodore William Warwick (d.1999 at 86). (SFC, 3/16/99, p.A17)
1969 May 8, The Academy Award Oscar for best 1968 documentary was given to runner-up “Journey Into Self,” after it was found that “Young Americans,” the original winner had been shown in a theater in October, 1967, making it ineligible for the 1968 award. Alex Grasshoff had directed the “Young Americans,” a chronicle of a summer tour by the singing group. (SFC, 4/22/08, p.B5)(http://theoscarsite.com/pictures1968/journeyintoself.htm)
1969 May 10, In Louisiana the 2nd Lake Pontchartrain causeway opened. The 1st span was completed in 1956. (www.southeastroads.com/lpc.html) 1969 May 10, Malaysia held its 3rd general election since independence. Opposition advances at the polls were followed by bloody race riots. Smoldering racial tensions erupted between the Malays and the Chinese with riots that killed dozens. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysian_general_election,_1969)(SFC,11/24/97, p.A11) 1969 May 10, The Battle of Hamburger Hill began and lasted to May 20. In Vietnam US military strength peaked in this year with 550,000 men. Identified on American battle maps as Hill 937 the battle for Hamburger Hill, actually Ap Bia Mountain, which cost Americans 46 killed and 400 wounded, was one of the most significant battles of the Vietnam War as it spelled the end of major American ground combat operations. The ground gained in the battle was soon abandoned to the North Vietnamese Army, which lost some 633 soldiers killed in the fight. The American losses at Hamburger Hill, though not the most in one single action of the war, set off a firestorm of protest in the US [see May 20]. (HFA, '96, p.30)(SFC, 6/24/96, p.A15)(HNQ, 4/4/99)(SFC, 4/27/00, p.A18)
1969 May 11, The Monty Python comedy troupe formed. (www.querycat.com/faq/a99b3004b7265291928d484e51b547ea) 1969 May 11, Canada’s CBC public broadcaster announced it will no longer accept advertising from tobacco companies. (http://archives.cbc.ca/health/public_health/topics/1945-12678/) 1969 May 11, The Battle of Hamburger Hill began. [see May 10] (HFA, '96, p.30)(SFC, 6/24/96, p.A15)
1969 May 12, Winnie Mandela was detained under South Africa’s Terrorism Act and was placed in solitary confinement for seventeen months. In 1970 she was placed under house arrest. (www.answers.com/topic/winnie-madikizela-mandela)(http://tinyurl.com/cynuvn) 1969 May 12, Viet Cong sappers tried unsuccessfully to overrun Landing Zone Snoopy in Vietnam. (HN, 5/12/99)
1969 May 13, In Malaysia deadly race riots took place in Kuala Lumpur. (Econ, 5/16/09, p.49) 1969 May 13, Paul Wild, Swiss astronomer, discovered asteroid #1775, Zimmerwald. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1775_Zimmerwald)
1969 May 14, Three companies of the 101st Airborne Division failed to push North Vietnamese forces off Hill 937 (Hamburger Hill) in South Vietnam. (HN, 5/14/01) 1969 May 14, Abortion and contraception was legalized in Canada. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Canada)
1969 May 15, US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigned amid a controversy over his past legal fees. (AP, 5/15/99) 1969 May 15, Univ. of California officials fenced People’s Park and planned to build dormitories. This prompted some 3,000 protesters to try to seize it back. Gov. Reagan placed Berkeley under martial law and dispatched tear gas-spraying helicopters and riot police who shot and killed one man. (SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F7)
1969 May 16, Russia’s Venera 5 landed on Venus and returned data on atmosphere. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_5)
1969 May 18, "Canterbury Tales" closed at Eugene O'Neill in NYC after 121 performances. (www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=3455) 1969 May 18, In Vietnam two battalions of the 101st Airborne Division assaulted Hill 937 (Hamburger Hill) but could not reach the top because of muddy conditions. (HN, 5/18/00) 1969 May 18, Astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, Thomas P. Stafford and John W. Young blasted off aboard Apollo 10. (AP, 5/18/97)
1969 May 20, In Connecticut Warren Kimbro (d.2009 at 74), a member of the Black Panthers, fatally shot Alex Rackley (19), another member of the Black Panthers, who was believed to be an FBI informant. The shooting was ordered by George Sams, a local Black Panther leader. Prosecutors later alleged that Bobby Seale had ordered the murder. (AP, 2/11/09) 1969 May 20, U.S. troops of the 101st Airborne Division and South Vietnamese forces captured Ap Bia Mountain, Hill 937, after nine days of fighting entrenched North Vietnamese forces. Ap Bia was referred to as Hamburger Hill by the Americans, following one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War. (HN, 5/20/02)(AP, 5/20/08)
1969 May 21, Robert Kennedy's murderer, Sirhan Sirhan, was sentenced to death. (MC, 5/21/02)
1969 May 22, The lunar module of Apollo 10 separated from the command module and flew to within nine miles of the moon's surface in a dress rehearsal for the first lunar landing. (AP, 5/22/97)
1969 May 23, The BBC ordered 13 episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus. (www.querycat.com/faq/a99b3004b7265291928d484e51b547ea) 1969 May 23, The Who released their rock opera "Tommy." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_(album))
1969 May 25, Anne Heche, actress, was born in Aurora, OH. Her films included “Donnie Brasco” (1997) and “Volcano” (1997). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Heche) 1969 May 25, Matt Borlenghi, actor, was born in Los Angeles, CA. In the early 1990s played Brian Bodine in the soap opera “All My Children.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Borlenghi) 1969 May 25, "Midnight Cowboy" was released with an X rating. It was based on the novel by James Leo Herlihy and became the only x-rated film to win an Oscar. (www.nndb.com/films/794/000032698/) 1969 May 25, The Israeli Army made the first of four unsuccessful assaults on Arab forces in the town of Latrun, Israel. (HN, 5/25/99) 1969 May 25, Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002), Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer, departed with his crew on the reed raft Ra for from Morocco. They abandoned their trip 1 week shy of Barbados. Heyerdahl sailed across the Atlantic in his Egyptian reed boat, Ra, and reported on garbage floating everywhere in the sea. On 16 July the crew was saved by the American yacht Shenandoah. In just 56 days they had sailed a distance of 2,700 nautical miles. (V.D.-H.K.p.343)(www.shipsonstamps.org/Topics/html/kontiki.htm) 1969 May 25, Sudanese government was overthrown in a military coup. Gaafar an-Nimeiry (1930-2009), came to power with the support of communist and socialist leaders. (http://countrystudies.us/sudan/23.htm)(AP, 5/31/09)
1969 May 26, The Apollo 10 astronauts returned to Earth after a successful eight-day dress rehearsal for the first manned moon landing. (AP, 5/26/97)
1969 May 27, Walt Disney World construction began in Florida. (HN, 5/27/98)
1969 May 28, Rhys Williams (b.1897), Welsh-born Film and TV actor, died in Los Angeles. His films included “Corn is Green” (1945), “Okinawa” (1952) and “Nightmare” (1956). (www.imdb.com/name/nm0931525/)
1969 May 29, Britain's Trans-Arctic expedition made the 1st crossing of Arctic Sea ice. Roy Koerner (1932-2008), more commonly known as Fritz, was one of the four members of Sir Wally Herbert’s British Transarctic Expedition which, on April 6, 1969, stood at the North Pole. (www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1929131.ece)
1969 May 30, Refinery workers on Curacao set fires in Willemstad. Marines from the Netherlands restored order. (Econ, 5/26/07, p.38)
1969 May 31, John Lennon and Yoko Ono recorded "Give Peace a Chance" during their “Bed-In” at the Queen Elizabeth’s Hotel in Montreal. (http://digitaldreamdoor.nutsie.com/pages/lyrics2/givepeace.html)
1969 Jun 2, Australian aircraft carrier Melbourne sliced the destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half during NATO maneuvers off the shore of South Vietnam. 74 US sailors were killed. (HN, 6/2/98)(SFC, 6/19/08, p.B5)
1969 Jun 3, Last episode of Star Trek aired on NBC (Turnabout Intruder). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek)
1969 Jun 4, Armando Socarras Ramirez (22) sneaked into wheel pod of a jet parked in Havana & survived a 9-hr flight to Spain despite thin oxygen levels at 29,000 ft. (http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/168489/an/0/page/25)
1969 Jun 6, Joe Namath resigned from NFL after Pete Rozelle, football commissioner, said he must sell his stake in a bar. (www.truveo.com/id/3053870463) 1969 Jun 6, Gen. Franco closed the Gibraltar border with Spain. It stayed closed for 16 years. This effectively starved Gibraltar of workers while depriving some 9,000 former workers of much-needed jobs and of a right to claim pensions. The frontier was not fully reopened until 1985. (WSJ, 4/8/02, p.A8)(AP, 9/19/06)(http://web.mit.edu/cascon/cases/case_gib.html)
1969 Jun 7, The Johnny Cash Show premiered on ABC from the Grand Ole Opry with special guest Bob Dylan and regular cast: Tennessee Three, June Carter and Carter Family, Statler Brothers, and Carl Perkins, stepping in for Luther Perkins, who has just died accidentally in tragic fire. The series ran through 1971. (www.johnnycashonline.com/biography) 1969 Jun 7, Tommy James & the Shondells released "Crystal Blue Persuasion." (www.cashboxmagazine.com/archives/60s_files/1969.html)
1969 Jun 8, President Nixon met with Nguyen Van Thieu, President of South Vietnam, and informed him that US troop levels were going to be sharply reduced. During a joint press conference with Thieu, Nixon announced a policy of 'Vietnamization' of the war and a reduction of US troops in Vietnam. The first phase of 'Vietnamization' was to include the withdrawal of 25,000 American military personnel. (www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A715042)(http://tinyurl.com/9n3vpd)
1969 Jun 9, The U.S. Senate confirmed Warren Burger to be the new chief justice of the United States, succeeding Earl Warren. (AP, 6/9/97) 1969 Jun 9, The US Supreme Court, in Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC, ruled the Fairness Doctrine constitutional. The court said free-speech protections for broadcasters are narrower than those for publishers and pedestrians. The Red Lion case was the result of a 1964 book "Goldwater: Extremist on the Right," by Fred J. Cook. In 1987 the Federal Communications Commission voted 4-0 to rescind the Fairness Doctrine, which had required radio and television stations to present balanced coverage of controversial issues. The tighter regulation of broadcasting was based on broadcasters' use of public airwaves. (AP, 8/4/97)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Lion_Broadcasting_Co._v._FCC)(WSJ, 3/24/04, p.A4)
1969 Jun 11, John L. Lewis (b.1880), American labor organizer, died. He was the driving force behind the 1935 formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Lewis) 1969 Jun 11, Soviet and Chinese troops clashed on Sinkiang border. (AP, 6/11/03)
1969 Jun 12, Alexander Deyneka (b.1899), Soviet Russian artist, died. he came from a family of railroad workers and started out as a police photographer after graduating from art school. He made mosaics in the 1930s for Mayakovskaya metro station in central Moscow. (AFP, 2/17/11)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Deyneka)
1969 Jun 17, The raunchy musical review "Oh! Calcutta!" opened in New York. (AP, 6/17/97)
1969 Jun 17, Black Panther William Brent (1931-2006) became the 28th person this year to hijack a US airplane to Cuba. The Cubans put him in jail for two years. He published his memoir in 1996 titled "Long Time Gone." (SFC, 6/3/96, BR p.3)(SFEC, 12/26/99, p.C10)
1969 Jun 21, The 14th Symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) premiered in Moscow. (www.c4md.org/hancher/kremerata.html)
1969 Jun 22, The highly polluted Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio, caught on fire. (Hem., Oct. '95, p.83)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuyahoga_River) 1969 Jun 22, Judy Garland (47), film actress and star of "The Wizard of Oz," died in London. In 1975 Gerold Frank authored the biography "Judy." In 2000 Gerald Clarke authored "Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland." (SFEC, 10/5/97, Z1 p.6)(AP, 6/22/99)(SFEC, 6/18/00, BR p.4)
1969 Jun 23, Warren E. Burger was sworn in as chief justice of the United States by the man he was succeeding, Earl Warren. (AP, 6/23/97)
1969 Jun 27, The 3-day Denver Pop Festival opened. The peak attendance was estimated at 50,000. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver_Pop_Festival) 1969 Jun 27, Honduras and El Salvador broke diplomatic relations due to soccer match. El Salvador and Honduras fought a 4-day "Soccer War" when fans brought out long-simmering tensions during World cup qualifying matches. Some 3,000 people died in the 4-day conflict. (www.onwar.com/aced/data/sierra/soccer1969.htm)(Econ, 11/28/09, p.52)
1969 Jun 28, In the early hours 8 police officers raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village. Police raided the bar because it had refused to pay an increase in bribery. This led to a clash in what came to be called The Stonewall Rebellion, an incident considered the birth of the homosexual rights movement. Some 400 to 1,000 patrons rioted against police for 3 days The event was described by gay historian Martin Duberman in his book “Stonewall” (1993). (SFEC, 7/21/96, DB p.32)(AP, 6/27/97)(AP, 6/27/08)(SFC, 6/22/09, p.E1)(SFC, 6/26/09, p.F3)
1969 Jun, A block of flats near Segovia, Spain, collapsed killing 58 people. Developer Jesus Gil y Gil (1933-2004) was jailed for 5 years for criminal negligence, but was pardoned after 18 months. (Econ, 8/23/03, p.40)(www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1462047/Jesus-Gil.html)
1969 Jul 1, Britain's Prince Charles was invested as the Prince of Wales. (AP, 7/1/99) 1969 Jul 1, The Tokyo Stock Price Index (TOPIX) was inaugurated. (WSJ, 3/15/07, p.C1)
1969 Jul 2, Barbra Streisand (b.1942) opened for a 4-week engagement at the Las Vegas International Hotel. (www.barbrafile.com/6169.htm)
1969 Jul 3, Brian Jones (27), founder of the Rolling Stones (1962), was found dead at the bottom of Cotchford Farm swimming pool. (www.hotshotdigital.com/WellAlwaysRemember.4/BrianJones.html)
1969 Jul 4, "Give Peace a Chance" by Plastic Ono Band was released in UK. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_Peace_a_Chance) 1969 Jul 4, Some 140,000 attended the Atlanta Pop Festival featuring Led Zeppelin & Janis Joplin. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_International_Pop_Festival_(1969)) 1969 Jul 4, In San Francisco Jim (d.2007) and Artie Mitchell (d.1991) opened the Mitchell Brothers O’Farrell Theater at O’Farrell and Polk. (SFC, 10/3/97, p.A15)(SFC, 7/14/07, p.A7) 1969 Jul 4, The California Zodiac killer shot and killed a waitress in Vallejo. (SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W20) 1969 Jul 4, Darlene Ferrin (22), a waitress, was shot and killed at the Blue Rock Springs Golf Club in Vallejo. She was parked with Michael Mageau (19), who survived the shooting. The Zodiac killer reported the shooting within an hour from a pay phone. (SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W20)(SFC, 10/2/00, p.A19) 1969 Jul 4, The Italian coalition government under Mariano Rumor (1915-1990) fell apart. (www.speedylook.com/Mariano_Rumor.html) 1969 Jul 4, Erwin Blumenfeld (b.1897), German-born fashion photographer and artist, died in Rome. His autobiography “Eye to I” was published in English in 1999. In 1996 William Ewing authored “Blumenfeld: A Fetish for Beauty.” (SFC, 4/21/06, p.E13)(www.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/blumenfeld.html) 1969 Jul 4, The USSR performed nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR. (www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/pi/Monitoring/Arch/sts-table/sts-table.html)
1969 Jul 5, Wilhelm Backhaus (b.1884), German pianist (Rubinstein-1905), died. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Backhaus) 1969 Jul 5, Walter Gropius (b.1883), architect, founder (Bauhaus school of design), died. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Gropius) 1969 Jul 5, Tom Mboya (b.1930) of Kenya’s Luo tribe was assassinated in Nairobi. He was the expected successor to Pres. Jomo Kenyatta (1894-1978). (SFC,12/23/97, p.D2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Mboya)
1969 Jul 7, The first U.S. troops to withdraw from South Vietnam left Saigon. (HN, 7/7/98) 1969 Jul 7, J.S. Furnivall (b.1878), British anthropologist, died in Cambridge. He coined the term “plural society” while working as colonial servant in Burma. (Econ, 3/10/12, p.52)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sydenham_Furnivall) 1969 Jul 7, Canada's House of Commons gave final approval to a measure making the French language equal to English throughout the national government. (AP, 7/7/97) 1969 Jul 7, Der Spiegel revealed Munich's Bishop Defregger as a war criminal. Charges against Defregger were dropped in 1970. (http://tinyurl.com/5f8qts)www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,909636,00.html?iid=chix-sphere)
1969 Jul 9, Howard Luck Gossage (b.1917), American ad man, died of leukemia. He wrote the essays: Understanding Marshall McLuhan, Our Fictitious Freedom of the Press, How to Look at a Magazine and How to Look at a Billboard. In 1995 "The Book of Gossage," ed. by Bruce Bendinger, was published by The Copy Workshop. (www.ciadvertising.org/student_account/fall_01/adv382j/mgautam/PAPER2/luck.html)(Wired, Dec. '95, p.192)
1969 Jul 11, David Bowie (b.1947), British musician, released his single “Space Oddity," supposedly in conjunction with the July 20 Apollo 11 moon landing. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Oddity)
1969 Jul 14-1969 Aug 2, In West Papua the "Act of Free Choice" was conducted by the Indonesian military forces. A UN approved referendum, involving 1,026 handpicked pro-Jakarta tribal chiefs, ratified Indonesia’s 1963 annexation of West Papua. Many voted at gunpoint in the unanimous decision. In papers released in 2004, it has been revealed that US Ambassador, Marshall Green in 1969 had fore knowledge that Indonesia had no intention of allowing a Papuan vote that might prevent Indonesia from annexing West Papua as a Indonesian province; he further pointed out that any UN member would unwise to expect free or direct elections. (WSJ, 6/6/00, p.A23)(SSFC, 9/1/02, p.A15)(http://tinyurl.com/7cxq3)
1969 Jul 16, Apollo XI set out from Cape Canaveral (Cape Kennedy), Florida, with Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and Michael Collins on the first manned mission to the surface of the moon. (V.D.-H.K.p.182, 341)(AP, 7/16/97) 1969 Jul 16, Vu Ngoc Nha (d.2002), top aide to presidents Ngo Dinh Diem and Nguyen Van Thieu, was arrested in Saigon. The CIA uncovered him as the head of a Communist espionage ring. He and 2 others were convicted of treason and sentenced to life in prison. (SFC, 8/13/02, p.A20)
1969 Jul 17, An FBI memo titled "New Left and Extremist Movements" revealed Gov. Reagan’s plans for the destruction of disruptive elements on California college campuses through "psychological warfare" and other methods. (SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F8)
1969 Jul 18, A car driven by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (1932-2009), D-Mass., plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island near Martha's Vineyard. His passenger, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, died. Kennedy did not report the accident until it was discovered 9 hours later. (TMC, 1994, p.1969)(AP, 7/18/97)(Econ, 8/29/09, p.30)
1969 Jul 19, Apollo 11 and its astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins, went into orbit around the moon. The Apollo 11 lunar lander engine was built by TRW. (AP, 7/19/99)(F, 10/7/96, p.71) 1969 Jul 19, John Fairfax (1937-2012), British self-proclaimed "professional adventurer," became famous as the first person to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Two year later he rowed across the Pacific with his then-girlfriend Sylvia Cook. (AFP, 2/19/12)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fairfax_%28rower%29)
1969 Jul 20, Astronaut Neil Armstrong took his legendary "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." He and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin made the first successful landing of a manned vehicle on the moon’s Sea of Tranquility when they touched down in Apollo 11. Armstrong stepped down from the ladder of the landing module Eagle to become the first man ever to walk on the moon. The two astronauts explored the moon's surface for 2 1/2 hours, with amazed TV audiences looking on. Armstrong was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his accomplishments and his contributions to the space program. Edwin Aldrin became the second man to step foot on the moon shortly after Neil Armstrong hopped off the lunar lander Eagle at 10:56 p.m. Armstrong and Aldrin walked on the moon for about two hours during their 22-hour lunar stay. Thomas Kelly (d.2002 at 72) was the engineer who had overseen the building of the lunar module. In 2009 Buzz Aldrin authored “Magnificent desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon.” (AP, 7/20/97)(HNPD, 7/20/98)(HNQ, 9/14/00)(SFC, 3/29/02, p.A24)(Econ, 7/18/09, p.82)
1969 Jul 21, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin blasted off from the moon aboard the lunar module. (AP, 7/21/99) 1969 Jul 21, Riots in York, Pa., left 2 people dead, Lillie Belle Allen (27) along with rookie officer Henry Schaad (22). Schaad was mortally wounded 3 days before Allen was killed. Over 60 people were arrested as one city block burned. In 2001 Arthur (47) and Robert Messersmith (52) were arrested for the slaying of Allen. In 2001 Rick Lynn Knouse (48) and Gregory Henry Neff (53), former members of the Girarders white street gang, were also charged in the murders. In 2001 York Mayor Charles Robertson was arrested on homicide charges for allegedly handing out ammunition to white gang members and exhorting them to "Kill as many niggers as you can." In 2001 Thomas P. Smith was accused in the ambush shooting of Allen. In 2001 Stephen Freeland (49) and Leon Wright (53) were charged in the murder of officer Schaad. Robertson was acquitted in 2002. Messersmith and Neff were found guilty of 2nd degree murder. 6 white men were sentenced up to 3 years in prison. Wright's brother Michael implicated himself in 2003 and was charged for the murder of Schaad. In 2005 York city officials announced a $2 million settlement with the children and sisters of Lillie Belle Allen. (SFC, 4/28/01, p.A5)(SFC, 5/10/01, p.A7)(SFC, 5/17/01, p.A2)(SFC, 5/22/01, p.A5)(YD, 5/24/01)(YD, 6/25/00)(SFC, 10/31/01, p.C2)(SSFC, 10/20/02, p.A7)(SFC, 11/14/02, p.A8)(BS, 6/26/03, 5A)(SFC, 12/7/05, p.A3)
1969 Jul 22, Aretha Franklin (b.1942) was arrested in Detroit for creating a disturbance. (http://oldies.about.com/od/oldieshistory/a/july22.htm) 1969 Jul 22, Dictator Francisco Franco appointed Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon y Borbon as official successor to the position of Head of State. (www.archontology.org/nations/spain/spain_1936s/franco.php)
1969 Jul 24, The Apollo XI astronauts, two of whom had been the first men to set foot on the moon, splashed down safely in the Pacific. They were picked up by the 42,000 ton USS Hornet. The Hornet was decommissioned in 1970 and set up as a museum in 1998 in Alameda, Ca. (V.D.-H.K.p.182, 341)(AP, 7/24/97)(SFC, 8/17/98, p.A22) 1969 Jul 24, Petroleos del Peru (PETROPERU S.A.) was created (law No.17753) as a state-owned entity. (http://tinyurl.com/554vke)
1969 Jul 25, Some 70,000 attended the Seattle Pop Festival. The music festival, organized by Boyd Grafmyrem, was held at the Gold Creek Park, Woodinville, Washington, from July 25 to July 28, 1969. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Pop_Festival) 1969 Jul 25, The Nixon Doctrine was put forth in a press conference in Guam, in which he stated that the US henceforth expected its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense [see Nov 3, 1969]. (http://thenewnixon.org/2008/07/24/25-july-1969-the-nixon-doctrine/) 1969 Jul 25, A week after the Chappaquiddick accident that claimed the life of Mary Jo Kopechne, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident. (AP, 7/25/99)
1969 Jul 26, Frank Loesser, songwriter (b.1910), died. His songs included “Baby It’s Cold Outside” sung in the 1949 film “Neptune’s Daughter.” In 2008 Thomas L. Riis authored Frank Loesser. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Loesser)
1969 Jul 31, The Zodiac killer sent a poorly-spelled letter to the SF Chronicle, Examiner and Vallejo Times-Herald and took responsibility for the July 5 shootings along with a portion of a cipher. (SFC, 10/2/00, p.A19) 1969 Jul 31, Gary Allen Hinman, a California musician and UCLA Ph.D. candidate, was found murdered at his home in Topanga Canyon, Ca. Bruce Davis, a member of Charles Manson’s murderous cult, was later convicted for the murder of Gary Hinman as well as stuntman Donald “Shorty” Shea. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Brunner)(SFC, 1/29/10, p.A6)
1969 Jul, The rock group Mountain with Leslie West and Felix Pappalardi released their album Windfall 4500. (www.mp3.com/albums/17361/reviews.html) 1969 Jul, Stokely Carmichael, black power advocate, broke ties with the Black Panthers and moved to Guinea. (SFC, 11/16/98, p.A7)
1969 Aug 2, Bob Dylan made a surprise appearance at the Minn. Hibbing High School 10-year reunion. (http://oldies.about.com/od/oldieshistory/a/august2.htm) 1969 Aug 2, Richard Nixon visited Romania becoming the first president to visit a communist nation since the start of the Cold War. (HNQ, 11/20/01)(www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1464.html)
1969 Aug 5, The U.S. space probe Mariner 7 flew by Mars, sending back photographs and scientific data. It returned 127 images of the South Polar icecap and southern hemisphere. Mariner 6 also flew past Mars this year and returned 75 images of the Martian equator along with the surface temperature, atmospheric pressure and composition. (AP, 8/5/97)(SFC, 12/8/99, p.A19)
1969 Aug 6, Theodor Adorno, German philosopher, died of a heart attack. In 2008 Detlev Claussen authored “Theodor W. Adorno: One Last Genius.” (WSJ, 4/18/08, p.W5)(www.kirjasto.sci.fi/adorno.htm)
1969 Aug 8, In England Iain MacMillan took pictures of the Beatles as they crossed Abbey Road for the cover of their "Abbey Road" album. (SFEC, 8/22/99, p.T4) 1969 Aug 8, Actress Sharon Tate (26) and four other people were brutally murdered in her Beverly Hills home; cult leader Charles Manson and a group of his disciples were later convicted of the crime. The best writing on the Manson murders was by Joan Didion in "The White Album." (SFEC, 3/16/97, Z1 p.4)(AP, 8/9/97)(HN, 8/9/98)(SFEC, 9/19/99, BR p.6)
1969 Aug 9, Actress Sharon Tate and four other people were found brutally murdered in her Los Angeles home; cult leader Charles Manson and a group of his disciples were later convicted of the crime. Charles Manson's followers killed actress Sharon Tate and her three guests in her Beverly Hills home. The dead included Abigail Folger and Voyteck Freykowski. (SFEC, 3/16/97, z1 p.4)(AP, 8/9/97)(HN, 8/9/98)(MC, 8/9/02)
1969 Aug 10, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were murdered in their Los Angeles home by members of Charles Manson's cult, one day after actress Sharon Tate and four other people were found slain. (AP, 8/10/97)
1969 Aug 12, American installations at Quan-Loi, Vietnam, came under Viet Cong attack. (HN, 8/12/98) 1969 Aug 12, In Northern Ireland the Apprentice Boys, a Protestant fraternal group, led a parade that ignited rioting in the Bogside section of Londonderry, that led to the bloody period known as The Troubles. Loyalists attacks on Catholic areas set off rioting in Belfast. Eight people died and British troops were sent in. The Provisional Irish Republican Army began a 25-year sniping and bombing campaign. (SFC, 8/10/96, p.A8)(SFEC, 12/22/96, Z1 p.7)(http://tinyurl.com/ddovv8)
1969 Aug 14, British troops arrived in Northern Ireland to intervene in sectarian violence between Protestants and Roman Catholics. The outlawed Irish Republican Army came into Northern Ireland to protect and encourage Catholics and the Provisional IRA soon began terrorist actions against the British troops and Protestant civilians. This culminated in an attack on the Bogside which started on August 12 and ended Aug 14. Some 500 houses were burned to the ground, 1,500 people forced from their homes, and 9 people murdered. (SFC, 6/18/96, p.A8)(AP, 8/14/97)(HNQ, 8/17/99) 1969 Aug 14, Leonard Sidney Woolf (b.1880), English publisher, writer, died. He was the husband of writer and critic Virginia Woolf (1882-1941). His books included “The Village in the Jungle,” a novel based on his time in Sri Lanka (1904-1911). In 2006 Victoria Glendinning authored “Leonard Woolf: A Biography.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Woolf)(Econ, 9/16/06, p.93)
1969 Aug 15, The Woodstock Music and Art Fair opened in upstate New York. 400,000 young people gathered at Max Yasgur’s dairy farm in the Bethel hamlet of White Lake, N.Y. for the Woodstock music festival. Wavy Gravy (Hugh Romney) and companions from the Hog Farm Commune handled security and ran a free kitchen and "bad trips tent." The performers included Joan Baez; Crosby, Stills and Nash; Creedence Clearwater; the Grateful Dead; Jimi Hendrix; the Jefferson Airplane; Janis Joplin; Canned Heat and Ravi Shankar. The 1st group to perform was the band Sweetwater with lead singer Nansi Nevins. (TMC, 1994, p.1969)(SFC,5/17/96,p.E-1)(WSJ,10/22/96,p.A20)(SFEC,1/26/97, p.A14)(AP, 8/15/97)(SFC,10/27/97, p.C2)(SFC, 2/3/99, p.E1)(WSJ, 8/9/99, p.A16)
1969 Aug 16, Canned Heat performed "Let's Work Together" live Woodstock. (www.chromeoxide.com/canned.htm)
1969 Aug 17, Donald E. Wahlberg Jr., rocker (New Kids-Hangin' Tough), was born in Boston. (www.donniewahlberg.com/bio.htm) 1969 Aug 17, Hurricane Camille hit the Gulf Coast at Pass Christian, Miss., leaving 256 people killed in Louisiana and Mississippi. 21 people were killed in an apartment complex in Pass Christian, where they had taken refuge. Damage was later estimated at $3.8 billion. (AP, 8/17/97)(SFEC, 6/6/99, p.A17)(AP, 8/30/05)(Econ, 1/14/12, p.61) 1969 Aug 17, Mies van der Rohe (b.1886), German-born American architect, died. He founded the Int’l. Style and designed early steel-framed and glass-jacketed buildings. He coined the phrase: "Less is more." (SFC, 1/17/98, p.C5)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Mies_van_der_Rohe)
1969 Aug 18, Two concert goers died at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel, New York, one from an overdose of heroin, the other from a burst appendix. The Woodstock Music and Art Fair ended in Sullivan County, NY, with a mid-morning set performed by Jimi Hendrix. (HN, 8/18/99)(AP, 8/18/07)
1969 Aug 19, Miles Davis and associates began a 3-day session recording the album "Bitches Brew" with Tony Williams on drums at Columbia's 30th Street Studio. Other players included Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, Airto Moreira, Herbie Hancock, Bennie Maupin, John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, Chick Corea and Lenny White. The album was released in the spring of 1970 and became a commercial success. (SFEC, 7/27/97, DB p.40)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitches_Brew)
1969 Aug 20, Arlo Guthrie released "Alice's Restaurant." (www.imdb.com/title/tt0064002/)
1969 Aug 26, Donald “Shorty” Shea (b.1933), a Hollywood stuntman, was murdered about this time. The location of his body was not discovered until 1977. Manson family leader Charles Manson and family members Tex Watson, Steve Grogan aka Clem and Bruce Davis were eventually convicted of murdering Shea. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_"Shorty"_Shea)
1969 Aug 28, In Quang Nam province of Vietnam Corporal Jose Francisco Jimenez died of wounds after leading an attack that took out an antiaircraft weapon and an entrenchment of automatic weapons fire. (WSJ, 11/11/96, p.A14)
1969 Aug 31, Andrew Phillip Cunanan, serial killer, was born. His victims included fashion designer Gianni Versache. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cunanan) 1969 Aug 31, Boxer Rocky Marciano died in a light airplane crash in Iowa, the day before his 46th birthday. (AP, 8/31/97)
1969 Sep 1, There was a race riot in Hartford, Connecticut. (http://tinyurl.com/6qb7y4) 1969 Sep 1, John Lennon returned his OBE (Officer of the British Empire) medal. He said it is to protest the British government’s involvement in Biafra, its support of the US in Vietnam and the poor chart performance of his latest single, “Cold Turkey.” (www.rockhall.com/inductee/john-lennon) 1969 Sep 1, A coup in Libya overthrew the monarchy of King Idris and brought Moammar Gadhafi (27) to power. Gadhafi emerged as leader of the revolutionary government and ordered the closure of a U.S. Air Force base. (AP, 9/1/99)(SFEC, 4/9/00, p.C12)(AP, 12/30/03) 1969 Sep 1, Drew Pearson (b.1897), Washington Post columnist and newscaster, died. (www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USApearsonD.htm)
1969 Sep 2, The first Internet message was a packet switch delivered to UCLA from BBN Corp. (Bolt Beranek and Newman). The 1st 2 machines of ARPANET were connected at Prof. Len Kleinrock's lab at UCLA. The US Dept. of Defense’s Advanced Research and Projects Agency (ARPANET) launched a self-healing computer network with TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol). By the early 1980’s the military component became a separate network and the true birth of today’s Internet is marked. By 2007 some university researchers with the federal government's blessing want to scrap the Internet and start over. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070414/ap_on_hi_te/rebuilding_the_internet_8)(SFEC, 3/16/97, z1 p.3)(SFC, 8/30/99, p.C10)(SFC, 9/3/99, p.C1) 1969 Sep 2, North Vietnamese president Ho Chi Minh died. The son of a poor scholar, Ho Chi Minh led the nationalist movement of his country for three decades. Ho Chi Minh became an active socialist while in France where he petitioned for colonial reforms following World War I. His involvement with the international communist movement continued into the 1920s, meeting and working with communist leaders in Europe and the newly formed Soviet Union. He formed the Indochinese Communist Party in 1930 and its successor, the Viet-Minh, in 1941, going on to serve as president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 1945 until his death. (AP, 9/2/97)(www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/hochiminh4.html)
1969 Sep 4, The US Food and Drug Administration issued a report calling birth control pills safe, despite a slight risk of fatal blood-clotting disorders linked to the pills. (AP, 9/4/99) 1969 Sep 4, In California Gov. Ronald Reagan signed the first no-fault divorce package into law, effective January 1, 1970. (SFEC, 7/6/97, Z1 p.6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-fault_divorce) 1969 Sep 4, In Brazil Fernando Gabeira helped kidnap the US ambassador in Rio, Charles Elbrick (d.1983), to protest the military dictatorship
1969 Jul 3, Brian Jones (27), founder of the Rolling Stones (1962), was found dead at the bottom of Cotchford Farm swimming pool. (www.hotshotdigital.com/WellAlwaysRemember.4/BrianJones.html)
1969 Jul 4, "Give Peace a Chance" by Plastic Ono Band was released in UK. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_Peace_a_Chance) 1969 Jul 4, Some 140,000 attended the Atlanta Pop Festival featuring Led Zeppelin & Janis Joplin. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_International_Pop_Festival_(1969)) 1969 Jul 4, In San Francisco Jim (d.2007) and Artie Mitchell (d.1991) opened the Mitchell Brothers O’Farrell Theater at O’Farrell and Polk. (SFC, 10/3/97, p.A15)(SFC, 7/14/07, p.A7) 1969 Jul 4, The California Zodiac killer shot and killed a waitress in Vallejo. (SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W20) 1969 Jul 4, Darlene Ferrin (22), a waitress, was shot and killed at the Blue Rock Springs Golf Club in Vallejo. She was parked with Michael Mageau (19), who survived the shooting. The Zodiac killer reported the shooting within an hour from a pay phone. (SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W20)(SFC, 10/2/00, p.A19) 1969 Jul 4, The Italian coalition government under Mariano Rumor (1915-1990) fell apart. (www.speedylook.com/Mariano_Rumor.html) 1969 Jul 4, Erwin Blumenfeld (b.1897), German-born fashion photographer and artist, died in Rome. His autobiography “Eye to I” was published in English in 1999. In 1996 William Ewing authored “Blumenfeld: A Fetish for Beauty.” (SFC, 4/21/06, p.E13)(www.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/blumenfeld.html) 1969 Jul 4, The USSR performed nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR. (www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/pi/Monitoring/Arch/sts-table/sts-table.html)
1969 Jul 5, Wilhelm Backhaus (b.1884), German pianist (Rubinstein-1905), died. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Backhaus) 1969 Jul 5, Walter Gropius (b.1883), architect, founder (Bauhaus school of design), died. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Gropius) 1969 Jul 5, Tom Mboya (b.1930) of Kenya’s Luo tribe was assassinated in Nairobi. He was the expected successor to Pres. Jomo Kenyatta (1894-1978). (SFC,12/23/97, p.D2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Mboya)
1969 Jul 7, The first U.S. troops to withdraw from South Vietnam left Saigon. (HN, 7/7/98) 1969 Jul 7, J.S. Furnivall (b.1878), British anthropologist, died in Cambridge. He coined the term “plural society” while working as colonial servant in Burma. (Econ, 3/10/12, p.52)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sydenham_Furnivall) 1969 Jul 7, Canada's House of Commons gave final approval to a measure making the French language equal to English throughout the national government. (AP, 7/7/97) 1969 Jul 7, Der Spiegel revealed Munich's Bishop Defregger as a war criminal. Charges against Defregger were dropped in 1970. (http://tinyurl.com/5f8qts)www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,909636,00.html?iid=chix-sphere)
1969 Jul 9, Howard Luck Gossage (b.1917), American ad man, died of leukemia. He wrote the essays: Understanding Marshall McLuhan, Our Fictitious Freedom of the Press, How to Look at a Magazine and How to Look at a Billboard. In 1995 "The Book of Gossage," ed. by Bruce Bendinger, was published by The Copy Workshop. (www.ciadvertising.org/student_account/fall_01/adv382j/mgautam/PAPER2/luck.html)(Wired, Dec. '95, p.192)
1969 Jul 11, David Bowie (b.1947), British musician, released his single “Space Oddity," supposedly in conjunction with the July 20 Apollo 11 moon landing. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Oddity)
1969 Jul 14-1969 Aug 2, In West Papua the "Act of Free Choice" was conducted by the Indonesian military forces. A UN approved referendum, involving 1,026 handpicked pro-Jakarta tribal chiefs, ratified Indonesia’s 1963 annexation of West Papua. Many voted at gunpoint in the unanimous decision. In papers released in 2004, it has been revealed that US Ambassador, Marshall Green in 1969 had fore knowledge that Indonesia had no intention of allowing a Papuan vote that might prevent Indonesia from annexing West Papua as a Indonesian province; he further pointed out that any UN member would unwise to expect free or direct elections. (WSJ, 6/6/00, p.A23)(SSFC, 9/1/02, p.A15)(http://tinyurl.com/7cxq3)
1969 Jul 16, Apollo XI set out from Cape Canaveral (Cape Kennedy), Florida, with Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and Michael Collins on the first manned mission to the surface of the moon. (V.D.-H.K.p.182, 341)(AP, 7/16/97) 1969 Jul 16, Vu Ngoc Nha (d.2002), top aide to presidents Ngo Dinh Diem and Nguyen Van Thieu, was arrested in Saigon. The CIA uncovered him as the head of a Communist espionage ring. He and 2 others were convicted of treason and sentenced to life in prison. (SFC, 8/13/02, p.A20)
1969 Jul 17, An FBI memo titled "New Left and Extremist Movements" revealed Gov. Reagan’s plans for the destruction of disruptive elements on California college campuses through "psychological warfare" and other methods. (SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F8)
1969 Jul 18, A car driven by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (1932-2009), D-Mass., plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island near Martha's Vineyard. His passenger, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, died. Kennedy did not report the accident until it was discovered 9 hours later. (TMC, 1994, p.1969)(AP, 7/18/97)(Econ, 8/29/09, p.30)
1969 Jul 19, Apollo 11 and its astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins, went into orbit around the moon. The Apollo 11 lunar lander engine was built by TRW. (AP, 7/19/99)(F, 10/7/96, p.71) 1969 Jul 19, John Fairfax (1937-2012), British self-proclaimed "professional adventurer," became famous as the first person to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Two year later he rowed across the Pacific with his then-girlfriend Sylvia Cook. (AFP, 2/19/12)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fairfax_%28rower%29)
1969 Jul 20, Astronaut Neil Armstrong took his legendary "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." He and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin made the first successful landing of a manned vehicle on the moon’s Sea of Tranquility when they touched down in Apollo 11. Armstrong stepped down from the ladder of the landing module Eagle to become the first man ever to walk on the moon. The two astronauts explored the moon's surface for 2 1/2 hours, with amazed TV audiences looking on. Armstrong was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his accomplishments and his contributions to the space program. Edwin Aldrin became the second man to step foot on the moon shortly after Neil Armstrong hopped off the lunar lander Eagle at 10:56 p.m. Armstrong and Aldrin walked on the moon for about two hours during their 22-hour lunar stay. Thomas Kelly (d.2002 at 72) was the engineer who had overseen the building of the lunar module. In 2009 Buzz Aldrin authored “Magnificent desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon.” (AP, 7/20/97)(HNPD, 7/20/98)(HNQ, 9/14/00)(SFC, 3/29/02, p.A24)(Econ, 7/18/09, p.82)
1969 Jul 21, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin blasted off from the moon aboard the lunar module. (AP, 7/21/99) 1969 Jul 21, Riots in York, Pa., left 2 people dead, Lillie Belle Allen (27) along with rookie officer Henry Schaad (22). Schaad was mortally wounded 3 days before Allen was killed. Over 60 people were arrested as one city block burned. In 2001 Arthur (47) and Robert Messersmith (52) were arrested for the slaying of Allen. In 2001 Rick Lynn Knouse (48) and Gregory Henry Neff (53), former members of the Girarders white street gang, were also charged in the murders. In 2001 York Mayor Charles Robertson was arrested on homicide charges for allegedly handing out ammunition to white gang members and exhorting them to "Kill as many niggers as you can." In 2001 Thomas P. Smith was accused in the ambush shooting of Allen. In 2001 Stephen Freeland (49) and Leon Wright (53) were charged in the murder of officer Schaad. Robertson was acquitted in 2002. Messersmith and Neff were found guilty of 2nd degree murder. 6 white men were sentenced up to 3 years in prison. Wright's brother Michael implicated himself in 2003 and was charged for the murder of Schaad. In 2005 York city officials announced a $2 million settlement with the children and sisters of Lillie Belle Allen. (SFC, 4/28/01, p.A5)(SFC, 5/10/01, p.A7)(SFC, 5/17/01, p.A2)(SFC, 5/22/01, p.A5)(YD, 5/24/01)(YD, 6/25/00)(SFC, 10/31/01, p.C2)(SSFC, 10/20/02, p.A7)(SFC, 11/14/02, p.A8)(BS, 6/26/03, 5A)(SFC, 12/7/05, p.A3)
1969 Jul 22, Aretha Franklin (b.1942) was arrested in Detroit for creating a disturbance. (http://oldies.about.com/od/oldieshistory/a/july22.htm) 1969 Jul 22, Dictator Francisco Franco appointed Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon y Borbon as official successor to the position of Head of State. (www.archontology.org/nations/spain/spain_1936s/franco.php)
1969 Jul 24, The Apollo XI astronauts, two of whom had been the first men to set foot on the moon, splashed down safely in the Pacific. They were picked up by the 42,000 ton USS Hornet. The Hornet was decommissioned in 1970 and set up as a museum in 1998 in Alameda, Ca. (V.D.-H.K.p.182, 341)(AP, 7/24/97)(SFC, 8/17/98, p.A22) 1969 Jul 24, Petroleos del Peru (PETROPERU S.A.) was created (law No.17753) as a state-owned entity. (http://tinyurl.com/554vke)
1969 Jul 25, Some 70,000 attended the Seattle Pop Festival. The music festival, organized by Boyd Grafmyrem, was held at the Gold Creek Park, Woodinville, Washington, from July 25 to July 28, 1969. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Pop_Festival) 1969 Jul 25, The Nixon Doctrine was put forth in a press conference in Guam, in which he stated that the US henceforth expected its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense [see Nov 3, 1969]. (http://thenewnixon.org/2008/07/24/25-july-1969-the-nixon-doctrine/) 1969 Jul 25, A week after the Chappaquiddick accident that claimed the life of Mary Jo Kopechne, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident. (AP, 7/25/99)
1969 Jul 26, Frank Loesser, songwriter (b.1910), died. His songs included “Baby It’s Cold Outside” sung in the 1949 film “Neptune’s Daughter.” In 2008 Thomas L. Riis authored Frank Loesser. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Loesser)
1969 Jul 31, The Zodiac killer sent a poorly-spelled letter to the SF Chronicle, Examiner and Vallejo Times-Herald and took responsibility for the July 5 shootings along with a portion of a cipher. (SFC, 10/2/00, p.A19) 1969 Jul 31, Gary Allen Hinman, a California musician and UCLA Ph.D. candidate, was found murdered at his home in Topanga Canyon, Ca. Bruce Davis, a member of Charles Manson’s murderous cult, was later convicted for the murder of Gary Hinman as well as stuntman Donald “Shorty” Shea. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Brunner)(SFC, 1/29/10, p.A6)
1969 Jul, The rock group Mountain with Leslie West and Felix Pappalardi released their album Windfall 4500. (www.mp3.com/albums/17361/reviews.html) 1969 Jul, Stokely Carmichael, black power advocate, broke ties with the Black Panthers and moved to Guinea. (SFC, 11/16/98, p.A7)
1969 Aug 2, Bob Dylan made a surprise appearance at the Minn. Hibbing High School 10-year reunion. (http://oldies.about.com/od/oldieshistory/a/august2.htm) 1969 Aug 2, Richard Nixon visited Romania becoming the first president to visit a communist nation since the start of the Cold War. (HNQ, 11/20/01)(www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1464.html)
1969 Aug 5, The U.S. space probe Mariner 7 flew by Mars, sending back photographs and scientific data. It returned 127 images of the South Polar icecap and southern hemisphere. Mariner 6 also flew past Mars this year and returned 75 images of the Martian equator along with the surface temperature, atmospheric pressure and composition. (AP, 8/5/97)(SFC, 12/8/99, p.A19)
1969 Aug 6, Theodor Adorno, German philosopher, died of a heart attack. In 2008 Detlev Claussen authored “Theodor W. Adorno: One Last Genius.” (WSJ, 4/18/08, p.W5)(www.kirjasto.sci.fi/adorno.htm)
1969 Aug 8, In England Iain MacMillan took pictures of the Beatles as they crossed Abbey Road for the cover of their "Abbey Road" album. (SFEC, 8/22/99, p.T4) 1969 Aug 8, Actress Sharon Tate (26) and four other people were brutally murdered in her Beverly Hills home; cult leader Charles Manson and a group of his disciples were later convicted of the crime. The best writing on the Manson murders was by Joan Didion in "The White Album." (SFEC, 3/16/97, Z1 p.4)(AP, 8/9/97)(HN, 8/9/98)(SFEC, 9/19/99, BR p.6)
1969 Aug 9, Actress Sharon Tate and four other people were found brutally murdered in her Los Angeles home; cult leader Charles Manson and a group of his disciples were later convicted of the crime. Charles Manson's followers killed actress Sharon Tate and her three guests in her Beverly Hills home. The dead included Abigail Folger and Voyteck Freykowski. (SFEC, 3/16/97, z1 p.4)(AP, 8/9/97)(HN, 8/9/98)(MC, 8/9/02)
1969 Aug 10, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were murdered in their Los Angeles home by members of Charles Manson's cult, one day after actress Sharon Tate and four other people were found slain. (AP, 8/10/97)
1969 Aug 12, American installations at Quan-Loi, Vietnam, came under Viet Cong attack. (HN, 8/12/98) 1969 Aug 12, In Northern Ireland the Apprentice Boys, a Protestant fraternal group, led a parade that ignited rioting in the Bogside section of Londonderry, that led to the bloody period known as The Troubles. Loyalists attacks on Catholic areas set off rioting in Belfast. Eight people died and British troops were sent in. The Provisional Irish Republican Army began a 25-year sniping and bombing campaign. (SFC, 8/10/96, p.A8)(SFEC, 12/22/96, Z1 p.7)(http://tinyurl.com/ddovv8)
1969 Aug 14, British troops arrived in Northern Ireland to intervene in sectarian violence between Protestants and Roman Catholics. The outlawed Irish Republican Army came into Northern Ireland to protect and encourage Catholics and the Provisional IRA soon began terrorist actions against the British troops and Protestant civilians. This culminated in an attack on the Bogside which started on August 12 and ended Aug 14. Some 500 houses were burned to the ground, 1,500 people forced from their homes, and 9 people murdered. (SFC, 6/18/96, p.A8)(AP, 8/14/97)(HNQ, 8/17/99) 1969 Aug 14, Leonard Sidney Woolf (b.1880), English publisher, writer, died. He was the husband of writer and critic Virginia Woolf (1882-1941). His books included “The Village in the Jungle,” a novel based on his time in Sri Lanka (1904-1911). In 2006 Victoria Glendinning authored “Leonard Woolf: A Biography.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Woolf)(Econ, 9/16/06, p.93)
1969 Aug 15, The Woodstock Music and Art Fair opened in upstate New York. 400,000 young people gathered at Max Yasgur’s dairy farm in the Bethel hamlet of White Lake, N.Y. for the Woodstock music festival. Wavy Gravy (Hugh Romney) and companions from the Hog Farm Commune handled security and ran a free kitchen and "bad trips tent." The performers included Joan Baez; Crosby, Stills and Nash; Creedence Clearwater; the Grateful Dead; Jimi Hendrix; the Jefferson Airplane; Janis Joplin; Canned Heat and Ravi Shankar. The 1st group to perform was the band Sweetwater with lead singer Nansi Nevins. (TMC, 1994, p.1969)(SFC,5/17/96,p.E-1)(WSJ,10/22/96,p.A20)(SFEC,1/26/97, p.A14)(AP, 8/15/97)(SFC,10/27/97, p.C2)(SFC, 2/3/99, p.E1)(WSJ, 8/9/99, p.A16)
1969 Aug 16, Canned Heat performed "Let's Work Together" live Woodstock. (www.chromeoxide.com/canned.htm)
1969 Aug 17, Donald E. Wahlberg Jr., rocker (New Kids-Hangin' Tough), was born in Boston. (www.donniewahlberg.com/bio.htm) 1969 Aug 17, Hurricane Camille hit the Gulf Coast at Pass Christian, Miss., leaving 256 people killed in Louisiana and Mississippi. 21 people were killed in an apartment complex in Pass Christian, where they had taken refuge. Damage was later estimated at $3.8 billion. (AP, 8/17/97)(SFEC, 6/6/99, p.A17)(AP, 8/30/05)(Econ, 1/14/12, p.61) 1969 Aug 17, Mies van der Rohe (b.1886), German-born American architect, died. He founded the Int’l. Style and designed early steel-framed and glass-jacketed buildings. He coined the phrase: "Less is more." (SFC, 1/17/98, p.C5)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Mies_van_der_Rohe)
1969 Aug 18, Two concert goers died at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel, New York, one from an overdose of heroin, the other from a burst appendix. The Woodstock Music and Art Fair ended in Sullivan County, NY, with a mid-morning set performed by Jimi Hendrix. (HN, 8/18/99)(AP, 8/18/07)
1969 Aug 19, Miles Davis and associates began a 3-day session recording the album "Bitches Brew" with Tony Williams on drums at Columbia's 30th Street Studio. Other players included Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, Airto Moreira, Herbie Hancock, Bennie Maupin, John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, Chick Corea and Lenny White. The album was released in the spring of 1970 and became a commercial success. (SFEC, 7/27/97, DB p.40)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitches_Brew)
1969 Aug 20, Arlo Guthrie released "Alice's Restaurant." (www.imdb.com/title/tt0064002/)
1969 Aug 26, Donald “Shorty” Shea (b.1933), a Hollywood stuntman, was murdered about this time. The location of his body was not discovered until 1977. Manson family leader Charles Manson and family members Tex Watson, Steve Grogan aka Clem and Bruce Davis were eventually convicted of murdering Shea. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_"Shorty"_Shea)
1969 Aug 28, In Quang Nam province of Vietnam Corporal Jose Francisco Jimenez died of wounds after leading an attack that took out an antiaircraft weapon and an entrenchment of automatic weapons fire. (WSJ, 11/11/96, p.A14)
1969 Aug 31, Andrew Phillip Cunanan, serial killer, was born. His victims included fashion designer Gianni Versache. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cunanan) 1969 Aug 31, Boxer Rocky Marciano died in a light airplane crash in Iowa, the day before his 46th birthday. (AP, 8/31/97)
1969 Sep 1, There was a race riot in Hartford, Connecticut. (http://tinyurl.com/6qb7y4) 1969 Sep 1, John Lennon returned his OBE (Officer of the British Empire) medal. He said it is to protest the British government’s involvement in Biafra, its support of the US in Vietnam and the poor chart performance of his latest single, “Cold Turkey.” (www.rockhall.com/inductee/john-lennon) 1969 Sep 1, A coup in Libya overthrew the monarchy of King Idris and brought Moammar Gadhafi (27) to power. Gadhafi emerged as leader of the revolutionary government and ordered the closure of a U.S. Air Force base. (AP, 9/1/99)(SFEC, 4/9/00, p.C12)(AP, 12/30/03) 1969 Sep 1, Drew Pearson (b.1897), Washington Post columnist and newscaster, died. (www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USApearsonD.htm)
1969 Sep 2, The first Internet message was a packet switch delivered to UCLA from BBN Corp. (Bolt Beranek and Newman). The 1st 2 machines of ARPANET were connected at Prof. Len Kleinrock's lab at UCLA. The US Dept. of Defense’s Advanced Research and Projects Agency (ARPANET) launched a self-healing computer network with TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol). By the early 1980’s the military component became a separate network and the true birth of today’s Internet is marked. By 2007 some university researchers with the federal government's blessing want to scrap the Internet and start over. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070414/ap_on_hi_te/rebuilding_the_internet_8)(SFEC, 3/16/97, z1 p.3)(SFC, 8/30/99, p.C10)(SFC, 9/3/99, p.C1) 1969 Sep 2, North Vietnamese president Ho Chi Minh died. The son of a poor scholar, Ho Chi Minh led the nationalist movement of his country for three decades. Ho Chi Minh became an active socialist while in France where he petitioned for colonial reforms following World War I. His involvement with the international communist movement continued into the 1920s, meeting and working with communist leaders in Europe and the newly formed Soviet Union. He formed the Indochinese Communist Party in 1930 and its successor, the Viet-Minh, in 1941, going on to serve as president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 1945 until his death. (AP, 9/2/97)(www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/hochiminh4.html)
1969 Sep 4, The US Food and Drug Administration issued a report calling birth control pills safe, despite a slight risk of fatal blood-clotting disorders linked to the pills. (AP, 9/4/99) 1969 Sep 4, In California Gov. Ronald Reagan signed the first no-fault divorce package into law, effective January 1, 1970. (SFEC, 7/6/97, Z1 p.6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-fault_divorce) 1969 Sep 4, In Brazil Fernando Gabeira helped kidnap the US ambassador in Rio, Charles Elbrick (d.1983), to protest the military dictatorship. Elbrick was released unhurt four days later, but Gabeira was banned from entering the US. (AP, 10/27/08)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Burke_Elbrick)
1969 Sep 6, "Cabaret" closed at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 1166 performances. (http://theatre-musical.com/cabaret/show.html)
1969 Sep 7, Senate Republican leader Everett McKinley Dirksen (b.1896) of Illinois, ("The Wizard of Ooze") died at 73 in Washington, D.C. (AP, 9/7/97)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett_Dirksen)
1969 Sep 9, Allegheny Flight 853 collided with Piper Cherokee above Indiana. 82 were killed. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegheny_Airlines_Flight_853)
1969 Sep 13, John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, presented the Plastic Ono Band in concert for the first time at the Toronto Peace Festival (Lennon's first in four years). The 1st hit by the new group, "Give Peace a Chance", made it to number 14 on the charts. (www.musicdirect.com/product/83704)
1969 Sep 14, Males of Swiss canton Schaffhausen rejected female suffrage. (www.keesings.com/search?kssp_a_id=23580n02swi&kssp_selected_tab=article)
1969 Sep 16, President Nixon ordered the withdrawal of 35,000 soldiers from Vietnam and a reduces the number required to be drafted. (www.vfwpost7591.org/vietnam_war.htm)
1969 Sep 22, Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants became the first baseball player since Babe Ruth to hit 600 home runs. (HN, 9/22/98) 1969 Sep 22, Susan Nason (8) of Foster City, Ca., was bludgeoned to death. Her body was found 2 months later near Crystal Springs. In Dec 1989 Nason's neighbor and schoolmate, Eileen Franklin-Lipsker, told police that she suddenly remembered seeing her father batter her friend and hide the body. In 1990 George Franklin was convicted in the first case to use recovered-memory testimony. Franklin was released after 6 1/2 years when a federal judge ruled a mistrial. DNA evidence showed Franklin was not responsible. (SFC, 2/4/00, p.A21)(SSFC, 2/8/04, p.A28)(http://tinyurl.com/9hl2at) 1969 Sep 22, Aleksandras Stulginskis (b.1885), the 2nd president of Lithuania, died in Kaunas. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandras_Stulginskis)
1969 Sep 23, The 1st broadcast of "Marcus Welby MD" on ABC-TV. The drama with Robert Young continued to 1976. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Welby,_M.D.)
1969 Sep 24, The trial of the "Chicago Eight" (later seven) began. Demonstrations began outside the court house, with the "Weatherman" group proclaiming the "Days of Rage" in protest of the trial. The Chicago Eight staged demonstrations at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago to protest the Vietnam War and its support by the top Democratic presidential candidate, Vice President Hubert Humphrey. These anti-Vietnam War protests were some of the most violent in American history as the police and national guardsmen beat antiwar protesters, innocent bystanders and members of the press. Five defendants (Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Rennie Davis) were convicted of crossing state lines to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic national convention; the convictions were ultimately overturned. In 1970 Harold Jacobs authored "Weatherman." In 2004 Jeremy Varon authored "Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies." (AP, 9/24/99)(SFEC, 11/7/99, p.A5)
1969 Sep 26, The family comedy series "The Brady Bunch" premiered on ABC-TV and continued to 1974. The show was created by Sherwood Schwartz (1916-2011). (AP, 9/26/99)(SFC, 7/13/11, p.C4) 1969 Sep 26, The Beatles last album, "Abbey Road," was released in the United Kingdom. The last hit LP for the "fab four" zoomed quickly to the #1 spot on the charts and stayed there for 11 weeks. (www.johnlennon.com/html/history.aspx)(HN, 9/26/99)(Beat. For., 1995, p. 58)
1969 Sep 27, The California Zodiac killer pulled a gun on two teenagers at Lake Berryessa. He stabbed them repeatedly and killed the girl. (SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W20)
1969 Sep 28, The Murchison Meteorite crashed into Australia. It was found to contain amino acids and frozen ice. (TMP, KCTS-Video, 1987)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murchison_meteorite)
1969 Sep 30, In North Carolina a tax on soft drinks went into effect. A soft drink excise tax is hereby levied and imposed on and after midnight, September 30, 1969, upon the sale, use, handling and distribution of all soft drinks, soft drink syrups and powders, base products and other items referred to in this section. An excise tax of one cent (1¢) is levied on each bottled soft drink. (http://tinyurl.com/kp2saa) 1969 Sep 30, Nazi war criminals Albert Speer, the German minister of armaments, and Baldur von Schirach, the founder of the Hitler Youth, were freed at midnight from Spandau prison after serving twenty-year prison sentences. In 2002 Joachim Fest authored the biography: "Speer: The final Verdict." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Speer)(SSFC, 10/6/02, p.M3)
1969 Sep, Marvel Comics introduced Falcon, the first African-American superhero, in an issue of its Captain America comics. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_(comics)) 1969 Sep, Susan Nason (8) of Foster City, Ca., was bludgeoned to death. Her body was found 2 months later near Crystal Springs. In Dec 1989 Nason's neighbor and schoolmate, Eileen Franklin-Lipsker, told police that she suddenly remembered seeing her father batter her friend and hide the body. In 1990 George Franklin was convicted in the first case to use recovered-memory testimony. Franklin was released after 6 1/2 years when a federal judge ruled a mistrial. DNA evidence showed Franklin was not responsible. (SFC, 2/4/00, p.A21)(SSFC, 2/8/04, p.A28)
1969 Oct 1, The Channel Islands of Guernsey & Jersey begin issuing their own postage stamps. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_postage_in_Great_Britain) 1969 Oct 1, The prototype Concorde 001, designed by the British and French, broke the sound barrier during a test flight. Commercial service began in 1976. (WSJ, 7/26/00, p.B1)(www.concordesst.com/history/events/events1.html)
1969 Oct 5, Monty Python's Flying Circus made its debut on BBC Television. It ran on British TV until 1974. (WSJ, 6/16/98, p.A17)(AP, 10/5/98) 1969 Oct 5, Lieutenant Eduardo Guerra Jimenez, a Cuban defector, entered US air space undetected and landed his Soviet-made MiG-17 at Homestead Air Force Base near Miami, Florida, where the presidential aircraft Air Force One was waiting to return President Richard M. Nixon to DC. (www.missilesofkeywest.bravepages.com/penetrated.htm)
1969 Oct 6, Special Forces Captain John McCarthy was released from Fort Leavenworth Penitentiary, pending consideration of his appeal to murder charges. A 1968 court-martial had concluded that McCarthy had murdered a Cambodian peasant. (www.fromthewilderness.com/free/hall/Mac.html)
1969 Oct 11, The Zodiac killer shot and killed SF cab driver Paul Stine (29) at Cherry and Washington in Presidio Heights. This was his last known murder. His last authenticated communication was in 1974. (SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W20)(SFC, 10/2/00, p.A19)
1969 Oct 12, Nancy Ann Kerrigan, figure skater, was born in Woburn, Mass. In 1994 she won an Olympics silver medal. (www.imdb.com/name/nm0449872/bio) 1969 Oct 12, Sonja Henie (b.1912), Norwegian ice skater (Olympic-gold-1928,32,36) and film star, died of leukemia on a flight from Paris to Oslo. Henie's career included a record 10 consecutive world championships. (SSFC, 10/5/03, Par p.2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonja_Henie) 1969 Oct 12, Serge Poliakoff (b.1900), Russian-born French modernist painter, died. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Poliakoff)
1969 Oct 13-1969 Oct 25, Pres. Nixon ordered a worldwide "secret" nuclear alert to scare the Soviets into forcing concessions from North Vietnam. Nixon called that tactic a "madman strategy," and it did not work. (SFC, 12/25/02, p.A7)
1969 Oct 15, Peace demonstrators staged activities across the US, including a candlelight march around the White House, as part Vietnam Moratorium Day. (AP, 10/15/97)(TMC, 1994, p.1969) 1969 Oct 15, The $100-million, 52-story Bank of America World Headquarters at 555 California St. in SF, was dedicated. In 1985 it was sold to Walter Shorenstein for $660 million. In 2005 a Hong Kong group offered $1.05 billion. (http://continuumacg.net/moody2.html)(SFC, 9/23/05, p.C1)
1969 Oct 16, The New York Mets capped a miraculous season, winning the World Series in Game 5, a 5-3 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. (AP, 10/16/99)
1969 Oct 18, The US federal government banned artificial sweeteners known as cyclamates because of evidence they caused cancer in laboratory rats. (AP, 10/18/97) 1969 Oct 18, The painting "Nativity" by Caravaggio was stolen from the Oratory of San Lorenzo in Palermo, Sicily. Peter Watson, English novelist, later wrote "The Caravaggio Conspiracy," an account of his 1981-1982 attempt to recover the work. (www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/dec/22/caravaggio-art-mafia-italy)(WSJ, 12/11/96, p.A20)
1969 Oct 19, US Vice President Spiro Agnew referred to anti-Vietnam War protesters as “an effete corps of impudent snobs.” (www.ieatgravel.com/?p=1396)
1969 Oct 21, Picasso painted "Painter and Infant," an allegory of artistic transmission from one generation to the next. (SFC, 7/17/01, p.A16) 1969 Oct 21, The play "Butterflies are Free," premiered in NYC at the Booth Theater. It was written by Leonard Gershe (d.2002). It closed in 1972 after 1128 performances. Director Milton Katselas (1933-2008) then directed a film version. (SFC, 3/23/02, p.A27)(www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=3299)(SFC, 11/4/08, p.B5) 1969 Oct 21, Jack Kerouac (47), Beat Generation chronicler, died of alcoholism in St. Petersburg, Fla. He wrote "On the Road" (1957), "Desolation Angels," "Vanity of Duluoz," and "Dharma Bums." Japhy Ryder the Zen hobo-poet in the book was modeled after poet Gary Snyder. In 1979 Dennis McNally authored the biography "Desolate Angel." In 1998 Ellis Amburn published "Subterranean Kerouac: The Hidden Life of Jack Kerouac." In 1999 Barry Miles published "Jack Kerouac, King of the Beats: A Portrait." In 2004 Douglas Brinkley edited “Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac.” (SFC, 6/7/96, p.A22)(SFC, 9/1/96, DB p.30)(SFEC, 5/31/98, p.A17)(SFEC, 8/9/98, BR 9 p.3)(SFEC, 1/17/99, BR p.3)(SSFC, 8/11/02, p.M1)(SSFC, 10/17/04, p.M1) 1969 Oct 21, In Somalia Marxist dictator Maj. Gen. Mohamed Siad Barre (1919-1995) staged a coup and threw PM Mohamed Ibrahim Egal in jail, where he spent 12 years. (SFC, 8/16/96, p.A18)(SFEC, 8/31/97, Par p.16)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siad_Barre)
1969 Oct 22, Giovanni Martinelli (b.1885), Italian-American opera singer (NY Met), died on his 84th birthday. (www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6001544)
1969 Oct 29, The US Supreme Court ordered immediate desegregation, superseding the previous "with all deliberate speed" ruling. (HN, 10/29/98) 1969 Oct 29, Researchers sent the first inter-node message between two sites on ARPAnet. The first e-mail message crossed the Arpanet as a team under Professor Leonard Kleinrock of UCLA communicated with a team under Douglas Englebart at Stanford. The US Dept. of Defense’s Advanced Research and Projects Agency (ARPANET) launched a self-healing computer network with TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol) [see Sep 2]. (http://tinyurl.com/lpq766)(WSJ, 1/14/99, p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET)
1969 Oct, The Nobel prize in Literature was awarded to Irish writer Samuel Beckett (1906-1989). He learned of the award while on holiday in Tunisia and avoided the ceremony. (WSJ, 7/11/97, p.A12)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Beckett) 1969 Oct, Economists Jan Timbergen (1903-1994) of the Netherlands and Ragnar Frisch of Norway were awarded the first Nobel Prize in Economics for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes. Tinbergen was a founding trustee of Economists for Peace and Security. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Tinbergen)
1969 Nov 3, Pres. Nixon elaborated his Nixon Doctrine in a televised speech. He stated that the US henceforth expected its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. At the end of the speech, Nixon asked for the support of the "great silent majority" of Americans. This was the start of the "Vietnamization" of the Vietnam War. The Doctrine argued for the pursuit of peace through a partnership with American allies [see Jul 25, 1969]. (www.watergate.info/nixon/silent-majority-speech-1969.shtml) 1969 Nov 3, The Arab League brokered a deal in Cairo that gave the PLO in Lebanon refugee camps freedom of government interference. They reached an agreement that effectively endorsed PLO freedom of action in Lebanon to recruit, arm, train, and employ fighters against Israel. The Lebanese Army protected their bases and supply lines. (www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1967to1991_lebanon_cairo_1969.php)(Econ, 6/2/07, p.46)
1969 Nov 4, Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn was expelled from Soviet Writers Union. (http://files.osa.ceu.hu/holdings/300/8/3/text/66-1-414.shtml)
1969 Nov 5, In Chicago Judge Hoffman ordered that the trial of Bobby Seale be separated from 7 others in the Chicago 8 trial. Seale, the founder of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense and one of the Chicago Eight, was later sentenced to four years in prison on sixteen counts of contempt of court. (www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Chicago7/chronology.html)(SFEC, 11/7/99, p.A5) 1969 Nov 5, Bolivia nationalized its energy sector a 2nd time. Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz, the Minister of Mines and Petroleum, nationalized the assets and concessions of the Gulf Oil Company, under the administration of General Alfredo Ovando Candia (1969-1970). (http://countrystudies.us/bolivia/60.htm)(http://tinyurl.com/blqnw7)
1969 Nov 9, A group of American Indians occupied Alcatraz Island. The story is told in the 1996 book "The Occupation of Alcatraz Island, Indian Self-Determination and the Rise of Indian Activism" by Troy R. Johnson. (SFC, 6/14/96, p. H2)(SFEC, 1/5/97, BR p.8)
1969 Nov 10, Sesame Street, a children’s show, premiered on the National Education Television network (NET), which later became PBS. Jim Henson, Jeffrey A. Moss (d.1998 at 56) and Joe Raposo were the among the creators. Moss created the Cookie Monster character and wrote such songs as "I Love Trash." Kermit Love (1916-2008) worked as the costume designer for the show. (AP, 11/10/07)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Street)(SFC, 6/27/08, p.B9) 1969 Nov 10, The SF Chronicle received a letter from the Zodiac killer containing detailed plans for a "death machine" to blow up a school bus. (SFC, 10/2/00, p.A19)
1969 Nov 12, Free-lance reporter Seymour Hersh first broke the story of the Mar 16, 1968, massacre at My Lai. The US Army admitted to the massacre of civilians at My Lai and announced an investigation of Lt William Calley. The number of civilians who were killed numbered at least 100. Lt. Calley was later found guilty of murder, and sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor. Calley was the only person ever charged in connection with the events at My Lai. The nation was shocked and divided by the claims from Calley that he was following orders and that he was a scapegoat. President Richard Nixon in 1971 ordered him released from prison and placed under house arrest, and finally a federal judge threw out all charges against Calley and ordered him freed. Although the charges were later re-instated on appeal, he served no more jail time for the massacre at My Lai. (WSJ, 10/22/96, p.A20)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_massacre)(SFEC, 4/23/00, p.A19) 1969 Nov 12, Liu Shaoqi (b.1898), former Chinese president (1959-1968), died after being tortured in prison. (AFP, 9/6/06)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Shaoqi)
1969 Nov 13, Speaking in Des Moines, Iowa, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew accused network television news departments of bias and distortion, and urged viewers to lodge complaints. (AP, 11/13/97)
1969 Nov 14, The United States launched Apollo 12 for the moon from Cape Kennedy. (AP, 11/14/97)(HN, 11/14/98)
1969 Nov 15, A quarter of a million protesters staged a peaceful demonstration in Washington, D.C., against the Vietnam War. (AP, 11/15/97)(HN, 11/15/98) 1969 Nov 15, Wendy's Hamburgers, begun by Dave Thomas, opened in Ohio. In 2008 the chain was sold to Triarc Cos., owner of the Arby’s roast beef sandwich restaurant chain. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy's)(SFC, 4/25/08, p.D3)
1969 Nov 18, Financier-diplomat Joseph P. Kennedy died in Hyannis Port, Mass., at age 81. (AP, 11/18/97)
1969 Nov 19, Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean made man's second landing on the moon. The second manned craft to land on the moon was the lunar module Intrepid. It landed on the lunar surface at 1:54 a.m. Intrepid landed 500 feet from the Surveyor 3 spacecraft. It spent 31 hours on the moon and docked with command module Yankee Clipper on November 20 and splashed down in the Pacific on November 24. (AP, 11/19/97)(HN, 11/19/98)(HNQ, 7/19/99)
1969 Nov 20, The Nixon administration announced a halt to residential use of the pesticide DDT as part of a total phase-out. (AP, 11/20/97) 1969 Nov 20, A group of 80 Native Americans, all college students, seized Alcatraz Island in the name of "Indians of All Tribes." The occupation lasted 19 months. They offered $24 in beads and cloth to buy the island, demanded an American Indian Univ., museum and cultural center, and listed reasons why the island was a suitable Indian reservation. (SFEC, 3/8/98, p.W38)
1969 Nov 21, The Senate voted down the nomination of Clement F. Haynsworth to the Supreme Court, the first time since 1930 that a candidate for the nation's highest court was rejected. (AP, 11/21/97)
1969 Nov 22, Jonathan Beckwith and others of Harvard Univ. announced the isolation of a single gene of E. coli. (http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/extract/359/18/1970)
1969 Nov 24, Gen. William Westmoreland assigned Lt. Gen. William R. Peers to investigate the My Lai incident (March 16, 1968). (www.choices.web.aplus.net/guidebooks/WAV/calley.pdf) 1969 Nov 24, Apollo 12 splashed down safely in the Pacific, ending the second manned mission to the moon. (AP, 11/24/97)
1969 Nov 25, Pres. Nixon announced an unconditional renunciation of biological weapons. (SFC, 2/19/00, p.A14)(http://tinyurl.com/9yy6bc)
1969 Nov 26, Lottery for Selective Service draftees bill was signed by President Nixon. (MC, 11/26/01)
1969 Nov 28, The Rolling Stones, English rock band, released its "Let It Bleed" album. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_It_Bleed)
1969 Nov, Interview magazine was founded by artist Andy Warhol and Gerard Malanga. It was dedicated to the cult of celebrity which fascinated Warhol, and featured cutting-edge graphics and interviews of celebrities. (www.warholstars.org/chron/1969.html)(http://tinyurl.com/ybcdjtd)
1969 Dec 1, The U.S. government held its first draft lottery since World War II in 1942. (AP, 12/1/97)(HN, 12/1/98) 1969 Dec 1, On the initiative of the French President, Georges Pompidou, the Heads of State or Government of 6 European countries met in The Hague in order to define the methods of reviving the European integration process. The Hague Summit was held to establish the goal of European monetary union. (WSJ, 3/25/98, p.A22)(www.ena.lu/hague_summit_december_1969-022500027.html)
1969 Dec 2, Kliment J. Voroshilov (b.1881), president USSR (1953-60), died. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kliment_Voroshilov)
1969 Dec 3, Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice offered John Lennon the role of Jesus Christ in Jesus Christ Superstar, but the offer was withdrawn the next day. (http://tinyurl.com/7bvup8)(http://oldies.about.com/od/oldieshistory/a/december3.htm)
1969 Dec 4, In Chicago police stormed an apartment on the West Side and killed 2 Black Panthers, Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. Panther defense minister Bobby Rush had left the site just hours earlier. (SFC, 12/15/99, p.AA4)
1969 Dec 6, The Rolling Stones staged a rock concert at the Altamount Speedway in Livermore, Ca. for some 300,000 fans. The Stones hired the Hells Angels for security. Fans were beaten and one person, Meredith Hunter, was stamped and stabbed to death by a Hell's Angel during the show. Alan Passaro (21) was tried and found not guilty because Hunter was carrying a gun. One man drowned in a nearby canal and2 people were crushed to death by a runaway car. The 1970 documentary film “Gimme Shelter” was about the Rolling Stones concert at Altamount. (SFEC, 5/23/99, Z1 p.4)(AP, 12/6/99)(SFC, 6/10/00, p.B5)(SFC, 5/26/05, p.B2)
1969 Dec 7, Lefty O’Doul (b.1897), American Major League Baseball player, died. He became an extraordinarily successful manager in the minor leagues, and also a vital figure in the establishment of professional baseball in Japan. One of his outstanding accomplishments while managing the SF Seals was developing the young Joe DiMaggio, who went on to a Hall of Fame career with the New York Yankees. His fame and popularity lived on in his hometown of San Francisco. Lefty O'Doul's Restaurant and Cocktail Lounge on Geary Boulevard, the popular restaurant and bar he founded still operates. A bridge over McCovey Cove, near the Giants' home field of AT&T Park, is named the Lefty O'Doul Bridge in his honor. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lefty_O%27Doul)
1969 Dec 8, The Los Angeles Police made a surprise attack on Black-Panthers. At two separate locations, 400 officers arrested Party members and children. During one shoot-out, Roland Freeman's body was riddled with bullets, but he survived. (www.itsabouttimebpp.com/Chapter_History/BPP_Pieces_of_History.html)
1969 Dec 12, PanAm signed for the first delivery of the new Boeing 747-100. Commercial service began Jan 21, 1970. (Econ, 11/4/06, p.21)(http://tinyurl.com/ye3vwv)
1969 Dec 13, Raymond A. Spruance (b.1886), US Admiral, died. He directed US Naval forces at the WWII Battle of Midway (1942) and the Battle of the Philippine Sea (1944). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_A._Spruance)
1969 Dec 14, The Jackson 5 appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. Michael Jackson was 11. (SFC, 6/14/05, p.D6)
1969 Dec 15, President Nixon announced the third round of Vietnam withdrawals. (http://tinyurl.com/pxh9vu)
1969 Dec 17, An estimated 50 million TV viewers watched singer Tiny Tim marry his fiancée, Miss Vicky, on NBC's "Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson. (AP, 12/17/99) 1969 Dec 17, The U.S. Air Force closed its Project "Blue Book" by finding no evidence of extraterrestrial spaceships behind thousands of UFO sightings. It had begun in 1948 as Project Sign. (AP, 12/17/97)(HNQ, 5/30/00)
1969 Dec 18, Britain's Parliament abolished the death penalty for murder. (AP, 12/18/97)
1969 Dec 20, Peter, Paul & Mary's "Leaving on a Jet Plane" reached #1. It was written by John Denver in 1967. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaving_on_a_Jet_Plane)
1969 Dec 21, Diana Ross and the Supremes make their final television appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, singing "Someday We'll Be Together", which would be the last of their 12 number one singles. (http://forums.w3oc.com/showthread.php?p=1967) 1969 Dec 21, Vince Lombardi (1913-1970), head coach of the Washington Redskins, coached his last football game and lost. (www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/was/1969.htm)
1969 Dec 28, Neil Simon's "Last of the Red Hot Lovers," premiered in NYC. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_of_the_Red_Hot_Lovers)
1969 Dec 30, Pres. Nixon signed the Tax Reform Act of 1969. The US Congress had enacted legislation that created a minimum tax (later known as the Alternative Minimum Tax, AMT) after the IRS revealed that about 155 high-income households had paid no tax in 1966. It was part of the Tax Reform Act of 1969 and became operative in 1970. The AMT was designed to make sure everyone pays some tax. (www.worldcat.org/wcpa/top3mset/79655)(www.house.gov/jec/tax/amt.htm)(SFC, 12/14/05, p.A1) 1969 Dec 30, The US Federal Aviation Administration certified the Boeing 747-100 for commercial service. (www.boeing.com/commercial/747family/pf/pf_milestones.html) 1969 Dec 30, In the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos (1917-1989) won an unprecedented second term as president. (http://philippines-archipelago.com/history/marcos_regime.html)
1969 Dec 31, In Clarksville, Pa., Joseph Yablonski was murdered with his wife and daughter. Yablonski had lost an election for the presidency of the United Mine Workers 3 weeks earlier. [see Jan 5, 1970] (SFC, 11/8/99, p.C2) 1969 Dec 31, Salvatore Baccaloni (b.1900), Italian opera basso buffa and actor, died in NYC. His films included “Full of Life” (1957). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvatore_Baccaloni)
1969 Dec, The world premier of "Requiem for a Young Poet" by Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918-1970) was conducted by Michael Gielen in Dusseldorf. Zimmermann committed suicide 9 moths later. (WSJ, 4/20/99, A20)(http://tinyurl.com/9eknvf) 1969 Dec, A US recession began. It lasted to November 1970. (WSJ, 7/22/98, p.A12)(http://biz.yahoo.com/investopedia/081215/4566.html?.v=1) 1969 Dec, In New Jersey the boiling water Oyster Creek nuclear power plant was completed. It used water from two rivers in a system of once-through cooling that discharges slightly warmer water into canal connected to Barnegat Bay, New Jersey. (www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Early_closure_for_Oyster_Creek_0912101.html) 1969 Dec, The modern Irish Republican Army was founded in Belfast with the aim of forcing Northern Ireland out of the United Kingdom. The modern “provisional wing of the IRA” was founded with Joe Cahill (1920-2004) as the 1st Belfast commander. The original IRA was founded in 1919. (SFC, 7/26/04, p.B4)(AP, 7/29/05)
1969 Fernando Botero (b.1932), surrealist Colombian painter, created "The Butcher's Table," a pig's head laughing at his own slaughter. (WSJ, 3/17/00, p.W12)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Botero) 1969 Artists Douglas Huebler (1924-1997), Robert Barry (b.1936) and Lawrence Weiner (b.1942) held an exhibition in NYC that was credited by a critic in 1971 as originating the conceptual art movement. This was an emphasis on art as an idea rather than an object in a reaction to the pop and op art of the 1960s. (SFC, 7/15/97, p.A18) 1969 Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) created his "Carnal Clock" series of collages. (WSJ, 9/25/97, p.A20)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rauschenberg) 1969 Artist Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) wrote his seminal article "Sentences on Conceptual Art" and stated that "Ideas can be works of art." (SFC, 1/29/98, p.C5) 1969 London artists Gilbert Proesch and George Passmore wrote their four “Laws of Sculptors.” They later became known simply as Gilbert and George. (SFC, 2/16/08, p.E1)
1969 Robert H. Boyle wrote: "The Hudson River: A Natural and Unnatural History." (Nat. Hist, 3/96, p.5)
1969 Vine Deloria Jr. (1933-2005), Sioux scholar, authored “Custer Died for Your Sins.” His work galvanized social and institutional changes involving native Americans. (SFC, 11/15/05, p.B4)
1969 Joan Erikson (1902-1997), psychologist, wrote "The Universal Bead." (SFC, 8/9/97, p.A19)(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9990822?dopt=Abstract)
1969 George MacDonald Fraser (1925-2008), British writer, authored the novel “Flashman,” the 1st in a series celebrating the adventures of Sir Harry Paget Flashman. Brigadier-General Sir Harry Paget Flashman is a fictional character originally created by the author Thomas Hughes in his semi-autobiographical work Tom Brown's Schooldays, first published in 1857. In this book, set at Rugby School, Flashman is the notorious bully, who persecutes its eponymous hero Tom Brown. (WSJ, 11/5/05, p.P8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Paget_Flashman)
1969 Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), American architect and futurist, authored his "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth." (Wired, 9/96, p.34)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller)
1969 Frances (b.1915) and Joseph Gies (1916-2006) wrote "Life in a Medieval City." (MT, Fall ‘96, p.7)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Gies_and_Joseph_Gies)
1969 Peter V. Glob (1911-1985), Danish archeologist, authored "The Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved." (AM, 7/97, p.62)(www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Peter-Glob)
1969 Eric F. Goldman (1915-1989), American historian, authored "The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson." (SFC, 6/2/00, p.D4)(http://wist.info/g/goldman_eric_f/)
1969 David Halberstam (1934-2007), American journalist, authored "The Best and the Brightest," a book about the men who managed the US war in Vietnam. (SFC, 2/15/03, p.A24)
1969 Grace Halsell (1923-2000) authored "Soul Sister: The Journal of a White Woman Who Turned Herself Black and Went to Live and Work in Harlem and Mississippi." (SFC, 8/18/00, p.D8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Halsell)
1969 Alan Harrington (d.1997 at 79) published "The Immortalist." It was about a future utopia in which death has been conquered by technology. (SFC, 5/29/97, p.C4)
1969 Anton LaVey (1930-1997), American occultist, published his "Satanic Bible" in SF. (SFC,11/8/97, p.A22)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_LaVey)
1969 Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (d.1969) wrote "On Death and Dying." The book helped to launch the hospice movement in the US. (SFC, 5/31/97, p.A13)(AP, 8/25/04)
1969 Vera Brodsky Lawrence (1909-1996), pianist, editor and historian of American music, published "The Piano Music of Louis Moreau Gottschalk" (1829-1934) in 5 volumes. (SFC, 9/22/96, C12)(www.amrhome.net/contents/gotcmp.txt)
1969 Seymour Lubetzky (d.2002 at 104), former US Library of Congress cataloger and UCLA professor, published "Principles of Cataloging," which became a staple for library schools. (SFC, 4/17/03, p.A22)
1969 Marvin Minsky (b.1927), American cognitive scientist, and Seymour Papert (b.1928), computer scientist, published "Perceptrons: An Introduction to Computational Geometry." It was a mathematical proof that devices, as they existed, could never "learn" to recognize complex shapes and so could never become more than interesting toys. (Wired, 5/97, p.146)
1969 Bernard Rudofsky (1905-1988), Austrian-born American writer, architect, laid out some practical guidelines to urban design in his book “Streets for People: A Primer for Americans.” (SFCM, 8/1/04, p.25)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Rudofsky)
1969 D.W. Sciama (1926-1999) published his book "The Physical Foundations of General Relativity." (TNG, Klein, p.154)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_William_Sciama)
1969 Prof. Edward Shils (1911-1995), Univ. of Chicago sociologist, published "Dreams of Plenitude, Nightmares of Scarcity" in which he compared the radicalism of the 1930s to that of the 1960s. (WSJ, 7/21/97, p.A22)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Shils)
1969 Herbert Stein (1916-1999) told the story of the Kennedy-Johnson tax cut in his book: "The Fiscal Revolution in America." (WSJ, 5/30/96, p.A14)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Stein)
1969 Gay Talese (b.1932) authored “The Kingdom and the Power,” an inside story of the NY Times from the post war period through the 1960s. (WSJ, 1/21/06, p.P11)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Talese)
1969 "The Andromeda Strain" by Michael Crichton (1942-2008) was published. (SFEC, 8/11/96, p.A5)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton)
1969 Diane de Prima (b.1941) authored "Memoirs of a Beatnik." (SSFC, 4/22/01, BR p.5)(http://louisville.edu/library/uarc/diprima.html)
1969 Clifford Irving (b.1930), American writer, published "Fake," the story of Hungarian art forger Elmyr de Hory (1906-1976). The int'l. de Hory scam became public in 1967. Irving and De Hory were featured in the 1975 Orson Welles film "F" for Fake. (SFC, 7/29/99, p.E6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Irving)
1969 Leo Kanowitz (1926-2007), UC Hastings law professor, authored “Women and the Law: The Unfinished Revolution.” (SFC, 1/1/08, p.A9)(http://tinyurl.com/7povpw)
1969 James Michener (1907-1997), American writer, authored "Presidential Lottery." (SFC,10/17/97, p.A17)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Michener)
1969 Mario Puzo (1920-1999) wrote his novel "The Godfather." It was made into a hit movie in 1972. (WSJ, 5/1/97, p.A16)
1969 Chauncey Starr (1912-2007), international proponent of nuclear power, authored his article “Social Benefits Versus Social Risks” in Science magazine. This ostensibly launched the scientific field of risk analysis. (SFC, 4/21/07, p.B5)
1969 Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) authored "Slaughterhouse-Five." It was set in Dresden, Germany, during the allied bombing of the city on Feb 13, 1945. He also wrote "Mother Night" (1961) which was made into a film in 1996. (WSJ, 10/22/96, p.A20)(WSJ, 11/1/96, p.A11)
1969 Della Reese (b.1931) hosted her talk show "Della" for one season on TV. (SFEC,1/19/97, Par p.22)(www.imdb.com/title/tt0063892/)
1969 "Hee-Haw," a syndicated TV show, debuted. It satirized country life with a mixture of music and comedy. (AP, 1/10/09)
1969 George Vicas (d.1997 at 71) produced a TV film for NBC on Artur Rubinstein. Vicas won an Emmy for this documentary. (SFC,10/29/97, p.A21)(http://tinyurl.com/8lvxqq)
1969 Toshiko Akiyoshi (b.1929), jazz pianist and composer, married saxophonist Lou Tabackin. (SFEM, 10/5/97, p.16)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiko_Akiyoshi)
1969 Captain Beefheart (aka Don Van Vliet, b.1941) and His Magic Band recorded "Trout Mask Replica." In 1999 a 5-CD Beefheart set was released by Revenant Records. In 1999 Bill Harkleroad published: "Lunar Notes: Zoot Horn Rollo's Captain Beefheart Experience." In 2002 Mike Barnes authored "Captain Beefheart: The Biography." (SFEC, 6/6/99, DB p.46)(SSFC, 3/17/02, p.M3)
1969 Luciano Berio (1925-2003), Italian composer, composed his 10-minute imagistic piano duet "Memory." "The piece is punctuated at unpredictable intervals with jarring discords." (SFC, 11/1/96, p.C13)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_Berio)
1969 Dave Brubeck (b.1920) composed "The Gates of Justice," a 45-minute oratorio for chorus, tenor, bass-baritone, brass, percussion and jazz trio. (SFEC, 4/6/97, DB p.33)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Brubeck)
1969 Credence Clearwater Revival put out its "Willy and the Poorboys" LP. The cover featured a photo of the band in front of the Duck Kee Market in Oakland. Creedence had a hit this year with "Oh! Lord, I'm stuck in Lodi again. (SFC, 9/12/98, p.A19)(WSJ, 7/21/99, p.CA1)
1969 Placido Domingo made his SF Opera debut in "La Boheme." (SFEC, 8/17/97, DB p.45)
1969 The Flying Burrito Brothers released their first album. The group included Gram Parsons (1946-1973) and Chris Hillman (b.1944) of the Byrds, and pedal steel guitar player Pete Kleinow (1934-2007). (SFC, 1/16/07, p.B5)
1969 Merle Haggard (b.1937) made a hit with his song "Okie From Muskogee" and "The Fightin’ Side of Me." (SSFC, 12/10/00, Par p.7)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Haggard)
1969 The Iron Butterfly rock group scored a hit with the 17-minute tune "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida." (SFC, 5/31/99, p.A20)
1969 The group It's A Beautiful Day recorded "White Bird." (SFEC, 12/19/99, DB p.41)
1969 Kenny Rogers (b.1938) made a hit with his song "Don’t Take Your Love to Town." (SSFC, 5/20/01, Par p.22)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Rogers)
1969 Oliver, born as William Oliver Swofford (1945-2000), recorded the hits "Jean" and "Good Morning Starshine." (SFC, 2/16/00, p.C2)(www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=20124)
1969 The album “The Stooges” spent 11 weeks on the Billboard album chart peaking at No. 106. It included the song “I Wanna Be Your Dog,” which became the group’s signature number. The punk band formed in Michigan in 1967 and included guitarist Ron Asheton (1948-2009), drummer Scott Asheton, singer Iggy Pop (born as Jim Osterberg) and bassist Dave Alexander. In 2007 Paul Trynka authored “Iggy Pop: Open Up and Bleed.” (SFC, 1/8/09, p.B5)
1969 Warner Bros. released the Bernie Krause album "In a Wild Sanctuary." It was an album of nature oriented sounds. In 1999 Krause authored "Into a Wild Sanctuary: A Life in Music and Natural Sound." (SFEC, 5/16/99, BR p.4)
1969 San Francisco guitarist Carlos Santana (b.1947) and his band recorded their first album featuring such tunes as "Evil Ways." Other members included Jose Chepito Areas (percussionist), Michael Carrabello (percussionist), David Brown (bassist), Gregg Rolie (keyboardist) and Michael Shrieve (drums). The band was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. (SFC, 1/12/98, p.E1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Santana)
1969 Shel Silverstein (1930-1999) wrote the song "A Boy Named Sue," which became a hit for Johnny Cash. Silverstein, a playwright and cartoonist, established himself as a children's writer and published the classic "The Giving Tree" in 1964. (SFC, 5/11/99, p.A19)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shel_Silverstein)
1969 Skip Spence (1946-1999), the original drummer for the Jefferson Airplane and founding guitarist-member of Moby Grape, recorded his folk-psychedelic solo album, "Oar." He gave the Bay Area band, Pud, a new name - the Doobie Brothers. He recorded the "Oar" album fresh from involuntary commitment at New York's Bellevue Hosp. In 1999 the album "More Oar - A Tribute to the Skip Spence Album" was released. (SFC, 4/17/99, p.A19)(WSJ, 9/20/99, p.A26)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip_Spence)
1969 Dusty Springfield (d.1999), English pop singer, recorded her album "Dusty in Memphis." (SFC, 3/4/99, p.D2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dusty_Springfield)
1969 Rod Stewart (b.1945), English singer, made his solo debut with "The Rod Stewart Album." (USAT, 3/24/99, p.5E)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Stewart)
1969 Sir Michael Tippett, British composer, premiered his 3rd opera "The Knot Garden" based on a love scene between two men. (SFC, 1/10/98, p.A19)
1969 Tony Williams (1945-1997), American jazz drummer, left Miles Davis and helped form the Jazz-rock fusion trio Lifetime with guitarist John McLaughlin and organist Larry Young. (SFC, 2/25/97, p.B2)(www.jazzhouse.org/gone/lastpost2.php3?edit=920671037)
1969 Neil Young (b.1945, Canadian singer and songwriter, produced his solo album with the title track "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere." (WSJ, 4/28/99, p.A16)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Young)
1969 Frank Zappa recorded a song entitled "Electric Aunt Jemima" on his album Uncle Meat. (www.tranglos.com/marek/yes/tr_146.html)
1969 In Fremont, New Hampshire, Austin Wiggin led his 3 daughters, named The Shaggs, to record "Philosophy of the World." The recording became an underground legend and in 1999 RCA Victor released a CD version. Writer Irwin Chusid devoted a chapter to the group in his 1999 book "Songs in the Key of Z." (WSJ, 3/2/99, p.A17)(http://tinyurl.com/7v9tqa)
1969 The Roman Rite of the Catholic Mass was replaced by the Novus Ordo Missae, whereby the Latin liturgy was replaced by the native language of the individual congregations. (WSJ, 5/5/97, p.A19)
1969 Sep 2, The first Internet message was a packet switch delivered to UCLA from BBN Corp. (Bolt Beranek and Newman). The 1st 2 machines of ARPANET were connected at Prof. Len Kleinrock's lab at UCLA. The US Dept. of Defense’s Advanced Research and Projects Agency (ARPANET) launched a self-healing computer network with TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol). By the early 1980’s the military component became a separate network and the true birth of today’s Internet is marked. By 2007 some university researchers with the federal government's blessing want to scrap the Internet and start over. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070414/ap_on_hi_te/rebuilding_the_internet_8)(SFEC, 3/16/97, z1 p.3)(SFC, 8/30/99, p.C10)(SFC, 9/3/99, p.C1)
Quote: 1969 Sep 2, The first Internet message was a packet switch delivered to UCLA from BBN Corp. (Bolt Beranek and Newman). The 1st 2 machines of ARPANET were connected at Prof. Al Gore's lab at UCLA. The US Dept. of Defense’s Advanced Research and Projects Agency (ARPANET) launched a self-healing computer network with TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol). By the early 1980’s the military component became a separate network and the true birth of today’s Internet is marked. By 2007 some university researchers with the federal government's blessing want to scrap the Internet and start over. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070414/ap_on_hi_te/rebuilding_the_internet_8)(SFEC, 3/16/97, z1 p.3)(SFC, 8/30/99, p.C10)(SFC, 9/3/99, p.C1)
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I yam what I yam -- but is it art? A recent battle in the art world pits billionaire Ronald Perelman against multimillionaire art dealer Larry Gagosian over an unfinished sculpture of Popeye. By Crispin Sartwell
February 12, 2013
One of the biggest problems in our politics is that people don't think for themselves. We let radio and television hosts, pundits and politicians tell us what to believe. And one of the biggest problems in our arts is that people don't enjoy for themselves. We let museum curators, gallery owners, critics and professors tell us what to feel.
A recent battle in the art world illustrates the point. The billionaire Ronald Perelman is suing the multimillionaire art dealer Larry Gagosian on the grounds, among others, that Gagosian overvalued an unfinished sculpture of Popeye (yes, the Sailor Man) by Jeff Koons. Perelman purchased this item for $4 million.
In parallel to the David of Michelangelo, I will refer to the disputed work as the Popeye. A judge will eventually decide what the Popeye is really worth. My own view is that it is worth precisely what its component materials are worth, or perhaps a bit less, due to the costs that would be incurred in hauling it away and melting it down or crushing it. If called as an expert witness, I will testify to that effect.
Of course, people whine about postmodern art or Jeff Koons or whatever all the time. But I come with a cure, for Perelman and for us all: Stop letting other people tell you what to like.
Believe this: Your own actual preferences are more or less as good as anyone else's. You should start with that premise, even if it's false, for if you don't trust your own taste, you will be surrounded by things you don't like.
So if you really do dislike something, whether it's by Robert Rauschenberg or the
Decemberists, Philip Glass or Marcel Proust, Bruce Springsteen or Martha Graham, just say so. I have a doctorate in aesthetics, and I give you permission.
If, as I often do, you express aloud your view that Allen Ginsberg sucks, you're not hurting anyone. And it's just possible you have a point. Stop pretending to like Picasso.
I think the last Taylor Swift album is a better, more important and more interesting work of art than "Finnegans Wake." I think "Fast Five" — which, amazingly, features both Vin Diesel and the Rock — is a better film than "Lincoln," obviously and by a long way. There, I said it.
I imagine you might despise me now or regard me as a philistine. I'm good with that.
One good thing about the authorities at the upper end of the art world — for example the top galleries of New York — is that they can be ignored. I propose we do so. In this, the worst of all possible aesthetic worlds, taste is dictated by people like Gagosian and is commonly confused with cash or cachet. There's art, for example, in Oklahoma, or Gabon; perhaps we should concentrate on that for a while.
The basic structure of our aesthetic culture is this: The authorities tell you who's a
genius, and because you do not want to appear unsophisticated or uncomprehending, you simulate appreciation. This is a formula for aesthetic disaster on the Popeye scale. If you pretend to like things you don't, you will undergo aesthetic and financial suffering. You'll be paying for things — movie or museum tickets, for example — and getting back only irritation or boredom. You will impoverish your very soul.
Of course, people can learn to like something they don't like now, and there can be good reasons to try. That a top art dealer is telling you it's good, however, or that it costs $4 million, or that it's hanging at MOMA, or that it got a good review in the New Yorker, I propose, does not in itself provide such a reason.
The learning can start with an argument, as long as people sincerely say what they
actually think. So let's yell a bit at each other about "Lincoln." That is one of the things art, or in this case "art," is for. That would be fun, and it could potentially be clarifying with regard to what "Lincoln" means and whether it's good.
But if we're scared to state our actual opinions frankly — or if we reach the terrible point of self-abandonment at which we have no idea what we like anymore — no communication about art can take place. We've created a situation in which art is something that cultural authorities merely inflict on people — no doubt, in their delusions, for those people's own good.
If we let people like Gagosian tell us what art is or what important art is or what good art is, we, like Perelman, deserve the art we get and the price we pay.
Crispin Sartwell teaches philosophy at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa. His most recent book is "Political Aesthetics."
Quote: As an extra bonus, here's a little 'Charlie'........Steve Railsback as Manson in 'Helter Skelter', delivering Charlie's 'monologue' at the trial......taken directly from the court transcript......
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Quote: And if young Adolf had found gallery representation and Charlie got signed by WB, how different the world could be?
Polanski might still even be making films in America.
And what if Vincent hadn't had Theo, coulda been a 2nd Jack the Ripper haunting the streets Arles.
Fascinating post btw!
One of the more indelible things I remember from college was watching a movie about an artist who could paint fruit bowls or people sitting in a chair and yet had no idea how to use his own imagination. He later used his power to make fun of those who could and did. He made fun of their art. These were our Picassos and Miros. And his name was Hitler.
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Quote: And if young Adolf had found gallery representation and Charlie got signed by WB, how different the world could be?
Polanski might still even be making films in America.
And what if Vincent hadn't had Theo, coulda been a 2nd Jack the Ripper haunting the streets Arles.
Fascinating post btw!
One of the more indelible things I remember from college was watching a movie about an artist who could paint fruit bowls or people sitting in a chair and yet had no idea how to use his own imagination. He later used his power to make fun of those who could and did. He made fun of their art. These were our Picassos and Miros. And his name was Hitler.
how nice to see this cheery thread revived!
my main man david bowie (and he would know!), called hitler 'the first superstar of the 20th century'.
he was prescient about 'the end of painting', and so willed himself to become the pukka/uber/greatest/most fab 'performance artist'.
and of course, the cognescenti live in fear to this very day, knowing that 'they saved hitler's c@ck'.
here is a nice video to make us all feel better about both charlie manson, charlie de gaulle, and der furher.
note fascist stylee hand jive starting at 1:47. this works well when dealing with kooks in the lineup, kooks who post here on the bb, and your pets (dog, cat, fish or turtle...).
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1969 Sep 2, The first Internet message was a packet switch delivered to UCLA from BBN Corp. (Bolt Beranek and Newman). The 1st 2 machines of ARPANET were connected at Prof. Len Kleinrock's lab at UCLA. The US Dept. of Defense’s Advanced Research and Projects Agency (ARPANET) launched a self-healing computer network with TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol). By the early 1980’s the military component became a separate network and the true birth of today’s Internet is marked. By 2007 some university researchers with the federal government's blessing want to scrap the Internet and start over.
