April 1969 calendar

Events

• 01 Apr 1969 Seattle Pilots trade minor league outfielder Lou Piniella to Kansas City Royals.
• 02 Apr 1969 Milwaukee Bucks sign Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor).
• 04 Apr 1969 Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
• 07 Apr 1969 Ted Williams begins managing Washington Senators, they lose to New York Yankees 8-4.
• 08 Apr 1969 Expansion teams Royals, Expos, Padres and Pilots win their 1st games
• 09 Apr 1969 Chicago Cubs' Billy Williams hits four consecutive doubles, beat Philadelphis Phillies 11-3.
• 11 Apr 1969 South African President Frederik de Klerk marries Marike Willemse.
• 12 Apr 1969 Simon and Garfunkel releases Boxer
• 13 Apr 1969 33rd Golf Masters Championship: George Archer wins, shooting a 281.
• 14 Apr 1969 41st Academy Awards - Oliver, Cliff Robertson, and Katharine Hepburn/ Barbra Streisand win.
• 15 Apr 1969 North Korea shoots at US airplane above Japanese sea.
• 17 Apr 1969 Bernadette Devlin elected to British House of Commons.
• 18 Apr 1969 Melina Mercouri establishes Greek Aid Fund
• 20 Apr 1969 23rd Tony Awards: Great White Hope and 1776 win.
• 21 Apr 1969 73rd Boston Marathon won by Yoshiaki Unetani of Japan in 2:13:49.
• 22 Apr 1969 Robin Knox-Johnston ends 312-day non-stop sailing.
• 23 Apr 1969 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Jim Chestney.
• 24 Apr 1969 Gen Lin Piao succeeds Mao, is seriously wounded
• 25 Apr 1969 BBC Radio serial Dales 5,400th and last episode
• 26 Apr 1969 Celebration closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 110 performances
• 27 Apr 1969 Carol Mann wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational.
• 28 Apr 1969 Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.
• 29 Apr 1969 Trumpets of the Lord opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 7 performances
• 30 Apr 1969 WEDB TV channel 40 in Berlin, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting

Famous Birthday

• Renée Zellweger

  American Oscar-winning actress whose her big Hollywood break-through was the romantic interest in "Jerry Maguire," a 1996 movie starring Tom...

• Paul Rudd

  American actor.

• Marlène Mourreau
• Olivia Del Rio
• Bruno Le Maire

  French politician who served as the French Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fishing from 2009 to 2012.

• Clotilde Courau
• Felix Baumgartner
• Jesse James (customizer)
• Toby Stephens

  English actor.

• Melinda Clarke

  American actress.

• Robin Meade

  American model singer and journalist.

• Brasilia (Brazil)
• Piersilvio Berlusconi
• Shannon Lee
• Sayako Kuroda

  Japanese daughter of Akihito.

• Omar Harfouch
• Arnaud Boetsch

  French professional tennis player since 1987, European Champion and Winner of Orange Bowl in 1985.

• Paul Adelstein

  American actor.

• Ben Mendelsohn
• Cory Booker

  American lawyer and politician.

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Famous Deaths

• Denton Cooley

  American heart surgeon famous for performing the first implantation of a total artificial heart.

• Arthur Walter Kramer

  Composer, dies at 78.

• Fortunio Bonanova

  Actor (My Best Gal, Havana Rose), dies at 74.

• Ludvig Irgens Jensen

  Composer, dies at 74.

• Piotr F Scharoff

  Russ / Italian actor / director (Chechov), dies at 82.

• Krzystzof Komeda

  Composer, dies at 37.

• Dino Terranova

  Actor (Young Dillinger), dies at 65.

• Johannes Rontgen

  Composer, dies at 70.

• Rex Evans

  Actor (Frankenstein meets the Wolfman, Zara), dies at 65.

• Harley J Earl

  American automobile designer (Born 1893).

• Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg

  Queen of Spain (Born 1887).

• Helena Rubinstein

  American cosmetic manufacturer, dies at about age 89.

• Shelby Storck

  American television producer (Born 1917).

• Ain-Ervin Mere

  Estonian Nazi (Born 1903).

• Rene Barrientos

  President of Bolivia (Born 1919).

• Morihei Ueshiba

  Japanese martial artist and founder of aikido (Born 1883).

• Helena Rubinstein

  American cosmetic manufacturer, dies at about age 89.

• Gabriel M-E-R Chevallier

  French Author (La Peur), dies at 73.

• Margarita Xirgu

  Spanish stage actress, who was greatly popular throughout her country and Latin America.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Tommy Roe - Dizzy
2. The 5th Dimension - Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)
3. Blood, Sweat & Tears - You've Made Me So Very Happy
4. The Isley Brothers - It's Your Thing
5. The Zombies - Time Of The Season

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Peter Sarstedt - Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)
2. Desmond Dekker & The Aces - The Israelites
3. Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
4. Dean Martin - Gentle On My Mind
5. Mary Hopkin - Goodbye