August 1969 calendar

Events

• 01 Aug 1969 36th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: New York Jets 26, All-Stars 24 (74,208)
• 02 Aug 1969 Bob Dylan makes surprise appearance at Hibbing HS Minn 10th reunion
• 03 Aug 1969 Reds beats Phillies 19-17
• 04 Aug 1969 Willie Stargell is first to hit a home run outside of Dodger Stadium.
• 05 Aug 1969 Mariner 7 flies past Mars
• 06 Aug 1969 Baltimore Orioles pull their third triple play (5-4-3 versus Kansas City Royals).
• 09 Aug 1969 Zorba closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 305 performances
• 10 Aug 1969 Don Sutton breaks his 13-game losing streak to Cubs with a 4-2 win
• 11 Aug 1969 Don Drysdale retires because of damage to his right shoulder
• 12 Aug 1969 Boston Celtics team sold for an NBA record $6 million.
• 13 Aug 1969 Temp Commissioner Bowie Kuhn elected for 7-year term by unanimous vote
• 14 Aug 1969 British troops intervene militarily in Northern Ireland.
• 15 Aug 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair opens in New York State (Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm).
• 16 Aug 1969 WATL TV channel 36 in Atlanta, Georgia begins broadcasting
• 17 Aug 1969 51st PGA Championship: Ray Floyd shoots a 276 at NCR Golf Club - Dayton, Ohio
• 18 Aug 1969 Mick Jagger accidentally shot while filming Ned Kelly
• 19 Aug 1969 Chicago Cubs' Ken Holtzman no-hits Atlanta Braves, 3-0.
• 20 Aug 1969 69 cm rainfall in Nelson Co., Virginia (state record)
• 21 Aug 1969 Fire in Al-Aksa-mosque in Jerusalem
• 22 Aug 1969 Beatles record a video for Long & Winding Road
• 23 Aug 1969 Audrey McElmory (US) wins World Cycling Championships, Brno, Czechoslovakia (first American to win cycling race title since 1912).
• 24 Aug 1969 Carol Mann wins LPGA Tournament of Champs Golf Tournament
• 27 Aug 1969 Mike Procter hits six consecutive sixes (across two overs)
• 29 Aug 1969 Joe Pepitone quits Yanks after being fined $500 for leaving the bench
• 30 Aug 1969 69th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Steve Melnyk
• 31 Aug 1969 25,000 attend New Orleans Pop Festival.

Famous Birthday

• Edward Norton

  American, actor, director, writer and producer known for his incredible dramatic range.

• Matthew Perry

  American actor, best known for his role as Chandler Bing in the long-running hit TV series, "Friends.

• Jack Black

  Movie Actor.

• Laurent Delahousse

  French journalist and TV host on France 2 national channel.

• Elliott Smith

  American singer-songwriter and musician.

• Christian Slater

  American actor.

• Donnie Wahlberg

  American musician who, along with Jon and Jordan Knight, McIntyre and Wood, was the a member of the group "The New Kids On The Block.

• Cesar Millan

  Mexican dog trainer.

• Jason Priestley

  Vancouver, British Columbia -- Actor (Brandon-Beverly Hills 90210).

• Valérie Bénaïm
• Vladimir Jugovic
• Stéphane Tapie
• Midori Ito

  Tokyo, Japan -- Ice skater (1992 Olympics - Silver Medalist).

• Max Cavalera

  Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sepultura Soulfly Nailbomb and Cavalera Conspiracy).

• Lucero (singer)
• Sheryl Sandberg
• Faye Wong

  Chinese singer-songwriter and actress.

• Sébastien Demorand
• Tanita Tikaram

  German-English singer-songwriter.

• Nate Dogg

  American rapper, Nathaniel Dwayne Hale.

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Famous Deaths

• Rocky Marciano

  American boxer who won the heavyweight title in 1952 by defeating Joe Walcott.

• Abigail Folger

  American noted family, the heiress to the Folger Coffee fortune and a debutante, formally introduced into polite society 2/21/1961.

• Theodor Adorno

  German philosopher, social theorist and music critic.

• Jay Sebring

  American beautician who owned an up-scale salon in Hollywood.

• Steven Parent

  American homicide victim by dint of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

• Joseph Kosma

  Hungarian-French pianist and composer (d. 1969).

• Mildred Davis

  Actress (Haunted Spooks), dies of coronary at 68.

• Russ Morgan

  Scranton, Pennsylvania -- Orchestra leader (Welcome Aboard).

• Sigrid Gurie

  Brooklyn, New York -- Actor (Algiers, Sofia, Refugee).

• Henri EJA de Page

  Belgian lawyer.

• Clarence R Hennecke

  Actor (Keystone Kops), dies at 74.

• Ottmar Gerster

  Composer, dies at 72.

• Claire Whitney

  Silent film actress (Blind Fools), dies at 79.

• George P Marshall

  president of Washington Redskins, dies at age 72.

• Clarence Dickinson

  Composer, dies at 96.

• Erika Mann

  German actress and writer, the eldest daughter of novelist Thomas Mann and Katia Mann.

• Otto Stern

  German-American physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1969).

• Ivy Compton-Burnett

  English novelist (Born 1884).

• Wojciech Frykowski

  Polish-American actor and author (d. 1969).

• Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer

  German eugenicist and Nazi physician (Born 1896).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Zager & Evans - In The Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)
2. The Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women
3. Tommy James and the Shondells - Crystal Blue Persuasion
4. Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue
5. Blood, Sweat & Tears - Spinning Wheel

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Thunderclap Newman - Something In The Air
2. The Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women
3. Elvis Presley - In The Ghetto
4. Robin Gibb - Saved By The Bell
5. Plastic Ono Band - Give Peace A Chance