January 1969 calendar

Events

• 02 Jan 1969 Fig Leaves Are Falling opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 4 performances
• 03 Jan 1969 Rep Adam Clayton Powell Jr seated by Congress
• 04 Jan 1969 Fig Leaves Are Falling closes at Broadhurst NYC after 4 performances
• 05 Jan 1969 Maggie Flynn closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 82 performances
• 06 Jan 1969 WLIW TV channel 21 in Garden City, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 07 Jan 1969 US Congress doubles Presidential salary.
• 09 Jan 1969 1st trial flight of Concorde
• 10 Jan 1969 Pirate Radio Station Free Derby begins operation by Northern Ireland
• 11 Jan 1969 Hooked on a Feeling by BJ Thomas peaks at #5
• 12 Jan 1969 Golden Rainbow closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 355 performances
• 13 Jan 1969 Beatles release Yellow Submarine album
• 14 Jan 1969 25 members of US aircraft carrier Enterprise die during maneuvers.
• 15 Jan 1969 Soyuz 5 launched by Soviet Union
• 16 Jan 1969 Soviet Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform 1st transfer of crew in space
• 17 Jan 1969 Beatles release Yellow Submarine album in the UK
• 18 Jan 1969 Expanded four-party Vietnam peace talks begin in Paris, France.
• 19 Jan 1969 AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-25.
• 20 Jan 1969 University of Arizona reports first optical identification of pulsar (in Crab Nebula).
• 21 Jan 1969 22nd NHL All-Star Game: West beat East 3-3 at MontrTal, Quebec, Canada.
• 22 Jan 1969 Celebration opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 110 performances
• 23 Jan 1969 Cream releases their last album Goodbye
• 24 Jan 1969 Queen Juliana is appointed honorary citizen of Addis Ababa.
• 25 Jan 1969 US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris, France.
• 26 Jan 1969 Red, White, and Maddox opens at Cort Theater NYC for 41 performances
• 27 Jan 1969 14 spies hung in Baghdad
• 28 Jan 1969 Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win in North America
• 29 Jan 1969 Sheahan and Connolly hang on for exciting draw Australia versus West Indies.
• 30 Jan 1969 Beatles perform their last gig together, a free concert
• 31 Jan 1969 Beatles perform last live gig

Famous Birthday

• Marilyn Manson

  American shock-rocker, rising to the top of the charts on a platform of drag, nudity, arson, drugs and Satanism.

• Christy Turlington

  Model.

• Michael Schumacher

  German racing driver.

• Dave Grohl

  American musician, a drummer with the group Nirvana, replacing Chad Channing.

• Norman Reedus

  American actor and model known for his roles as Daryl Dixon in the AMC series The Walking Dead and Murphy MacManus in the 1999 film The...

• Jason Bateman

  American actor in four TV series, including "Silver Spoons" and "It's Your Move," 1984.

• Karina Lombard

  Tahitian-American actress and singer.

• Batista (wrestler)
• Naveen Andrews

  British actor.

• Roy Jones Jr
• Kyle Richards

  American actress.

• Difool
• Kathryn Morris

  American actress.

• Morris Chestnut

  Actor (Boyz N the Hood).

• Eliette Abécassis

  French professor of philosophy and writer.

• Olivia d'Abo

  English-American singer-songwriter and actress.

• Shawn Wayans
• Tiësto
• Stefania Belmondo

  Italian member of the Women's Team at the Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan, February 1998, winner of the team's award of a Bronze Medal.

• Daniela Escobar
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Famous Deaths

• Barton Maclane

  Actor (General Peterson-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 68.

• Georges Renevant

  Actor (Cornered), dies after long illness at 74.

• Montague Fawcett Phillips

  Composer, dies at 83.

• Franz T Csokor

  Austria Author (Gottes General), dies at 83.

• Tom Aherne

  actor (Hustler, April Fools), dies of influenza in New York.

• Ladislav Vycpalek

  Composer, dies at 86.

• Grazyna Bacewicz

  Composer, dies at 59.

• Pauline Hall

  Composer, dies at 78.

• Hanns Jelinek

  Composer, dies at 67.

• Alexander Mikhaylovich Dzegelyonok

  Composer, dies at 77.

• Wilton Graff

  Actor (Bloodlust, Just Before Dawn), dies at 65.

• Jaroslav Kricka

  Composer, dies at 86.

• Theodor Werner

  German painter, dies at age 82.

• Jan Palach

  protesting Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, self immolates at age 20.

• Tom Zachary

  baseball pitcher (Washington Senators), dies at age 72.

• Allan Welsh Dulles

  US diplomat/director (US Central Intelligence Agency 1953-61), dies at age 75.

• Dominique G Pire

  clergyman, (Europe village Nobel Prize 1958), dies at age 58.

• Bruno Soderstrom

  Swedish athlete (Born 1888).

• Jean Focas

  Greek-born astronomer (Born 1909).

• Daisy and Violet Hilton

  British conjoined twins (Born 1908).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
2. Tommy James and the Shondells - Crimson And Clover
3. Stevie Wonder - For Once In My Life
4. Diana Ross and the Supremes - I'm Gonna Make You Love Me
5. Sly & the Family Stone - Everyday People

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. The Scaffold - Lily The Pink
2. Rolf Harris - Two Little Boys
3. Marmalade - Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da
4. Archies - Sugar Sugar
5. The Foundations - Build Me Up Buttercup