March 1969 calendar

Events

• 01 Mar 1969 Red, White, and Maddox closes at Cort Theater NYC after 41 performances
• 02 Mar 1969 Chinese-Russian borders fight (approximately 70 die).
• 03 Mar 1969 Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
• 05 Mar 1969 Gustav Heinemann elected President of West Germany.
• 08 Mar 1969 Marriage of 12 year old Marcella Rosciglione in Palermo
• 10 Mar 1969 James Earl Ray pleads guilty in murder of Martin Luther King Jr.
• 12 Mar 1969 11th Grammy Awards: "Mrs Robinson", "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" win.
• 13 Mar 1969 Apollo 9 returns to Earth.
• 14 Mar 1969 Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win at Aqueduct
• 15 Mar 1969 US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns.
• 16 Mar 1969 1776 opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 1217 performances
• 17 Mar 1969 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Open.
• 18 Mar 1969 Come Summer opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 7 performances
• 19 Mar 1969 Chicago 8 indicted in aftermath of Chicago Democratic convention.
• 20 Mar 1969 US President Richard Nixon proclaims he will end Vietnam war in 1970.
• 21 Mar 1969 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
• 22 Mar 1969 Billy opens and closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 1 performance
• 23 Mar 1969 Rally for Decency held in Miami, Florida.
• 25 Mar 1969 Andes Pact signed in Peru.
• 26 Mar 1969 Marcus Welby MD, a TV movie is shown on ABC-TV
• 27 Mar 1969 Launch of Mariner 7, flies 2,190-mi above southern Mars
• 28 Mar 1969 Pope Paul VI names JGM Willebrands Cardinal
• 29 Mar 1969 The Eurovision Song Contest 1969 is held in Madrid, and results in four co-winners, with 18 votes each, from Spain, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and France.
• 30 Mar 1969 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Port Malabar Golf Invitational.

Famous Birthday

• Javier Bardem

  Spanish actor.

• Alexander McQueen

  British fashion designer, a sensation in Paris in the '90s.

• Terrence Howard

  American actor.

• Pauley Perrette

  American actress, photographer, poet, writer.

• Chaz Bono

  American noted family, the daughter of Cher and Sonny Bono.

• Mc Solaar
• Fabien Galthié

  French rugby player, a member of the French rugby team 1999, playing as scrum half (half back).

• Keith Flint

  English singer-songwriter dancer and guitarist (The Prodigy and Flint).

• Kim Raver

  American actress.

• Patricia Ford

  American model and actress.

• Paget Brewster

  American actress.

• Cécile Brossard

  French mistress who shot dead her billionaire lover, Édouard Stern, during a bondage session in Switzerland on 28 February 2005.

• Vassily Ivanchuk

  Ukrainian chess player.

• Edgar Grospiron

  French pro skier, winner of a Gold Medal for artistic skiing in the Albertville Olympics in 1992.

• Houston (pornographic actress)
• Paul Blackthorne

  British actor.

• Nicholas Rogers
• Kimberly Guilfoyle

  American attorney and media person, former wife of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom.

• Brett Ratner

  American director and producer.

• Christophe Juillet
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Famous Deaths

• Riad

  Chief of Staff (Egyptian army).

• John Wyndham [Parkes Lucas B Harris]

  Author (Chrysalids), dies at 65.

• Gerhart Fritsch

  Writer, dies at 44.

• Ernst Deutsch [Dorian]

  Czech actor (3rd Man, Golem), dies at 78.

• Max F Eastman

  US critic/essayist (Love and Revolution), dies at age 86.

• B[runo] Traven

  Writer (Sierra Madre), dies at 87.

• Dwight D Eisenhower

  34th President / General (WWII), dies at 78 in Washington.

• Alan Mowbray

  Actor (Dante, Colonel Flack), dies at 72.

• Richard Crane

  Actor (Surfside 6), dies at 50.

• Theodor Schaefer

  Composer, dies at 65.

• Nicholas Schenck

  Russian-born film empresario (Born 1881).

• John Kennedy Toole

  American author (Born 1937).

• Billy Cotton

  British bandleader & entertainer (Born 1889).

• Rudolf Pannwitz

  German author/philosopher (Urblik), dies at age 87.

• Joseph Kasavubu

  President of Congo (1960-65), dies at about age 55.

• Lucien Bianchi Belgian auto racer

  dies at age 34.

• Abdul Munim

  Riad general and chief of staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces (Born 1919).

• Aryeh Levin

  Rabbi Aryeh Levin,known as Reb Aryeh, was an Orthodox rabbi dubbed the "Father of Prisoners" for his visits to members of the Jewish...

• Max Eastman

  American author and poet (d. 1969).

• Nadya Rusheva

  Russian painter (Born 1952).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Sly & the Family Stone - Everyday People
2. Tommy Roe - Dizzy
3. Tommy James and the Shondells - Crimson And Clover
4. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Proud Mary
5. Classics IV - Traces

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Amen Corner - (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice
2. Peter Sarstedt - Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)
3. Fleetwood Mac - Albatross
4. Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
5. The Move - Blackberry Way