July 1969 calendar

Events

• 01 Jul 1969 John andYoko are hospitalized after a car crash
• 02 Jul 1969 Ireland bowl out WI for 25 at Londonderry, win by 9 wkts
• 03 Jul 1969 78,000 attend Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island.
• 04 Jul 1969 Give Peace a Chance by Plastic Ono Band is released in the UK
• 05 Jul 1969 83rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats J Newcombe (64 57 64 64)
• 06 Jul 1969 Filming begins on Ned Kelly starring Mick Jagger
• 07 Jul 1969 In Canada, the Official Languages Act is adopted making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government.
• 08 Jul 1969 Thor Heyerdahl and reed raft Ra II land in Barbados 57 days from Morocco
• 09 Jul 1969 The United States Postal Service announces a stamp to commemorate the first landing on the Moon. A record 8,743,070 requests are received for first day covers.
• 10 Jul 1969 Chilean Association of Librarians created
• 11 Jul 1969 Rolling Stones release Honky Tonk Woman
• 12 Jul 1969 98th British Golf Open: Tony Jacklin shoots a 280 at Royal Lytham
• 13 Jul 1969 Russia launches unmanned Luna 15 to Moon
• 14 Jul 1969 Soccer war - Salvador-Honduras (1000 dead)
• 15 Jul 1969 Cincinnati Reds' Lee May hits four home runs in a doubleheader.
• 16 Jul 1969 Apollo 11, carrying 1st men to land on Moon, launched
• 17 Jul 1969 The New York Times publicly takes back the ridicule of the rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard published in 13 Jan 1920 that spaceflight is impossible.ref name=quotastronauticsnow_com-indexquotRobert H. Goddard. ''The New York Times''. astronauticsnow.com/history/goddard/index.html 090118 astronauticsnow.com
• 18 Jul 1969 Joe Namath agrees to sell interest in Bachelors 3, to stay in NFL
• 19 Jul 1969 Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit
• 20 Jul 1969 1st men on Moon, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11
• 21 Jul 1969 Neil Armstrong and Edwin ''Buzz'' Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon, during the Apollo 11 mission.
• 22 Jul 1969 Aretha Franklin arrested for disturbing peace in Detroit
• 23 Jul 1969 40th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 9-3 at RFK Memorial, Washington DC
• 24 Jul 1969 Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in US Army on appeal
• 25 Jul 1969 1st performance of Crosby, Stills, Nash andYoung (Fillmore East, NY)
• 26 Jul 1969 Sharon Sites Adams, 39, becomes 1st lady to solo sail the Pacific
• 27 Jul 1969 15th LPGA Championship won by Betsy Rawls
• 29 Jul 1969 Mariner 6 begins transmitting far-encounter photos of Mars.
• 30 Jul 1969 Astros Denis Menke and Jim Wynn hit grandslams in 9th inn vs. Mets
• 31 Jul 1969 KWIH TV channel 44 in Winona, MN (IND) begins broadcasting

Famous Birthday

• Jennifer Lopez

  American actress, singer and businesswoman.

• Simon Baker

  Australian actor.

• Marc-Olivier Fogiel

  French television and radio host, producer of television and radio programs, and journalist, known as Marc-O.

• Josh Holloway

  American actor.

• Triple H

  American professional wrestler.

• Gale Harold

  American actor.

• Gedeon Burkhard
• Jonas Kaufmann

  German operatic tenor.

• Despina Vandi

  Greek singer.

• Elizabeth Gilbert

  American author.

• Armelle (comedian)
• Angela Melini

  Saigon, Vietnam -- Playmate (June, 1992).

• Shawnee Smith
• Rick Fox

  Canadian basketball player: guard/forward, Lakers.

• Stéphane Diagana

  French athlete he won the world champion in 1997 and the European Championship for the 400m hurdle in 2002.

• Lana Cox
• Jenni Rivera

  Pop Singer.

• Alain Penaud

  French rugby player, a fly half (half back), newly selected by Bernard Laporte for France’s team.

• La Grande Sophie
• Chantal Jouanno

  French politician, who was Minister of Sports in the third government of François Fillon from 14 November 2010 to 26 September 2011, before...

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Famous Deaths

• Pierre Capdevielle

  Composer, dies at 63.

• Frank Loesser

  American composer and conductor (d. 1969).

• Rob de Vries

  Actor / director (Ciske de Rat, Silent Raid), dies at 51.

• Barbara Pepper

  Actress (Doris Ziffel-Green Acres), dies at 57.

• Gladys Swarthout

  Opera singer / actress (Ambush), dies at 64.

• Douglas Stuart Moore

  Composer, dies at 75.

• Ernst Tittel

  Composer, dies at 59.

• Frank H Loesser

  US songwriter / Composer (Guys & Dolls), dies at 59.

• Gabriel von Wayditch

  Composer, dies at 80.

• Deli Floyd

  Writer.

• Raymond Walburn

  Actor (Spoilers, Dixie), dies after illness at 81.

• Pavel I Apostolov

  Russian military bandmaster.

• Tom Mboya

  Kenyian economics minister, assassinated in Narobi at 65.

• Ramon Grau

  Cuban politician (Born 1882).

• Wilhelm Backhaus

  German concert pianist in the classical tradition.

• Hermann Grabner

  Austrian composer and music teacher.

• Walter Gropius

  German-American architect, father of the Bauhaus movement.

• Peter Van Eyck

  Steinwehr, Germany -- Actor (Brain, Wages of Fear).

• Roy Hamilton

  American singer (Born 1929).

• Witold Gombrowicz

  Polish Author (Ferdydurke, Dziennik), dies at 64.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Henry Mancini, His Orchestra And Chorus - Love Theme From Romeo & Juliet
2. Zager & Evans - In The Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)
3. Blood, Sweat & Tears - Spinning Wheel
4. Tommy James and the Shondells - Crystal Blue Persuasion
5. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. The Beatles - The Ballad Of John And Yoko
2. Thunderclap Newman - Something In The Air
3. Tommy Roe - Dizzy
4. Elvis Presley - In The Ghetto
5. The Edwin Hawkins Singers - Oh Happy Day