February 1969 calendar

Events

• 01 Feb 1969 Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself in concert
• 02 Feb 1969 KMST TV channel 46 in Monterey-Salinas, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 03 Feb 1969 The Palestine National Congress appoints Yasser Arafat head of Palestinian Liberation Organization.
• 04 Feb 1969 41,163, then largest NBA crowd, watches doubleheader Cin-Det, SD-Bost
• 05 Feb 1969 Turn-On, debuts and cancelled by ABC after flopping so badly
• 06 Feb 1969 Dear World opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 132 performances
• 07 Feb 1969 This Is Tom Jones, debuts on ABC TV
• 08 Feb 1969 Last edition of Saturday Evening Post.
• 09 Feb 1969 Boeing 747 made its 1st commercial flight
• 10 Feb 1969 LSU Pete Maravich scores 66, despite losing to Tulane 101-94.
• 11 Feb 1969 Diana Crump becomes first US woman jockey to ride against men, Hialelah.
• 13 Feb 1969 Suriname government of Pengel resigns.
• 14 Feb 1969 Vito Genovese, US mafia chief, dies at age 71.
• 17 Feb 1969 Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash record an album (never released).
• 18 Feb 1969 PLO-attack El-Al plane in Zurich Switzerland
• 19 Feb 1969 1st Test flight of Boeing 747 jumbo jet
• 21 Feb 1969 Ted Williams signs five-year contract to manage Washington Senators.
• 22 Feb 1969 Barbara Jo Rubin wins a United States thoroughbred horse race making history as the first woman to do so.
• 23 Feb 1969 WWVU (now WNPB) TV channel 24 in Morgantown, WV (PBS) 1st broadcast
• 24 Feb 1969 Mariner 6 launched for Mars flyby
• 25 Feb 1969 Beatles begin recording Abbey Road album
• 27 Feb 1969 US President Richard Nixon visits West Berlin.
• 28 Feb 1969 Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Colorado Springs won by Gabriele Seyfert, German Democratic Republic.

Famous Birthday

• Jennifer Aniston

  American actress, best known as "Rachel," the sexy waitress on the immensely popular television comedy show, "Friends," which premiered in...

• Bobby Brown

  American musician whose breakthrough album was "Don't Be Cruel," 1988.

• Darren Aronofsky

  American film director, screenwriter and film producer.

• David Douillet

  French assistant manager at the Crédit Lyonnais bank.

• Thomas Jane

  American actor director and producer.

• Michael Sheen

  Movie Actor.

• Robert Sean Leonard
• Brian Krause

  American actor.

• Brian Krause

  American actor.

• Pat Monahan
• Shana Zadrick
• Claudia Michelsen
• Mary McCormack

  American actress and producer.

• James Dean Bradfield
• Robert Pack

  American basketball player: guard, Mavericks.

• Joshua Redman

  American musician, a legendary saxophonist by the age of 25.

• Ange Barde
• Michael Campbell

  New Zealand-Australian golfer.

• Mark Chmura

  American sports figure accused of sexual abuse of a teen-age girl.

• David Abiker
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Famous Deaths

• Thelma Ritter

  American actress (Born 1905).

• Thelma Ritter

  American actress (Born 1905).

• [George] Gabby Hayes

  Actor (Albuquerque, Colorado), dies at 83.

• Manuel Plaza Reyes

  Chilean marathoner (1928 Olympics - Gold Medalist), dies at 68.

• James Lanphier

  Actor (Flight of Lost Balloon), dies at 48.

• Johanna EFG Tourniaire

  Actress (Potasch & Perlemoer), dies at 80.

• Jose de Capriles

  Mexican-born US Olympic fencer.

• Wolfe Barzell

  Actor (Blue Angel), dies of heart attack at 72.

• Joseph Messner

  Composer, dies at 75.

• Kenneth Green

  Actor (Penrod), dies of heart attack at 61.

• Madge Blake

  American actress (Born 1899).

• King Saud

  of Saudi Arabia (Born 1902).

• Eduardo C Mondlane

  President of Mozambique, is murdered.

• Dragisa Cvetkovic

  Serbian premier of Yugoslavia (1939-), dies at age 76.

• Abd al-Aziz

  Abd al-Rahman al-Faisal al-Saud King Saudia dies at age 67.

• Eduardo Mondlane

  Mozambican independence founder (Born 1920).

• Ernest Ansermet

  Swiss musician and author, a noted conductor for his productions of Stravinsky, DeFalla and Prokofiev.

• Levi Eshkol

  The third Prime Minister of Israel from 1963 until his death from a heart attack in 1969.

• Karl Jaspers

  German philosophy professor, medical doctor, psychiatrist and neurologist.

• Jan Zajic

  Czechoslovakian activist, a student and patriot who became a national hero when he burned himself to death in response to the Soviet...

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Tommy James and the Shondells - Crimson And Clover
2. Sly & the Family Stone - Everyday People
3. Brooklyn Bridge - Worst That Could Happen
4. The Doors - Touch Me
5. The Foundations - Build Me Up Buttercup

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Marmalade - Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da
2. Amen Corner - (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice
3. Fleetwood Mac - Albatross
4. The Scaffold - Lily The Pink
5. The Move - Blackberry Way