November 1969 calendar

Events

• 02 Nov 1969 NFL record of 12 passing touchdowns, New Orleans Saints' Billy Kramer and Saint Louis Rams' Charlie Johnson pass for six touchdowns each.
• 03 Nov 1969 Congo President Mobutu visits Belgium
• 06 Nov 1969 1st Cy Young Award tie (Mike Cuellar, Baltimore & Denny McLain, Det)
• 07 Nov 1969 John andYoko release their 2nd album Wedding Album in the UK
• 09 Nov 1969 A group of Amerindians, led by Richard Oakes, seizes Alcatraz Island for 19 months, inspiring a wave of renewed Indian pride and government reform.
• 10 Nov 1969 Sesame Street premieres on PBS TV
• 11 Nov 1969 Beatles with Billy Preston release Get Back in the UK
• 12 Nov 1969 Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union
• 13 Nov 1969 US Vice President Spiro T Agnew accuses network TV news depths of bias and distortion.
• 14 Nov 1969 2nd Vietnam Moratorium Day in US
• 15 Nov 1969 1st commercial ad on English TV: Birds-Eye Peas on ATV (Midland)
• 16 Nov 1969 1968 massacre of civilians at Mylai South Vietnam, by US is 1st reported
• 17 Nov 1969 SALT-discussions open in Helsinki Finland
• 19 Nov 1969 WENY TV channel 36 in Elmira, New York (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 20 Nov 1969 Alcatraz Island off SF, is seized by militant Native Americans
• 21 Nov 1969 KXIX (now KVCT) TV channel 19 in Victoria, TX (ABC) 1st broadcast
• 22 Nov 1969 Isolation of single gene announced by scientists at Harvard University
• 24 Nov 1969 Lt William L Calley, charged with massacre of over 100 civilians in My Lai Vietnam in March 1968, ordered to stand trial by court martial
• 25 Nov 1969 Kansas City outfielder Lou Piniella is voted AL Rookie of Year
• 26 Nov 1969 35th Heisman Trophy Award: Steve Owens, Oklahoma (RB)
• 28 Nov 1969 Ted Sizemore becomes 7th Dodger to win NL Rookie of Year
• 30 Nov 1969 57th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Saskatchewan, 29-11

Famous Birthday

• Gerard Butler

  Scottish actor, he spent some of his early years in Canada.

• Matthew McConaughey

  American actor who made his motion picture debut in the comedy classic "Dazed and Confused," 1993.

• Sean Combs

  Rapper.

• Hélène Grimaud

  French pianist who as a teenager took first prize iin piano at the Paris Conservatory (1985).

• Ellen Pompeo

  American actress, she got her acting start in a few episodes of the popular TV series "Law and Order.

• Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Dutch author.

• Boris Terral
• Nicoletta Mantovani

  Italian newsfigure with her romance with tenor Luciano Pavarotti.

• Richard Virenque

  Moroccan-French cyclist and sportscaster.

• Cheryl Bachman

  Jacksonville, Florida -- Playmate (October, 1991).

• Erika Alexander

  American actress.

• Marjane Satrapi

  Iranian author and illustrator.

• Shawn Kemp

  NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers, Seattle Supersonics).

• José Antonio Pinotti
• Myles Kennedy

  American musician.

• Jean-Michel Saive

  Belgian table-tennis champion, placed 5th to 8th in men's singles at the Atlantic Olympics, 1996, 3rd in the world.

• Benoist Apparu
• Nandita Das
• Natalia Millan
• Jens Lehmann

  German footballer and actor.

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Famous Deaths

• Lloyd Corrigan

  Actor (Prof McKillup-Hank), dies at 69.

• Carlos Marighela

  Brazilian guerilla, dies in battle.

• Ferenc Szabo

  Composer, dies at 66.

• Itih Walracen

  Sudanese widow of Author William Walraven.

• Augustin Lara

  Composer, dies at 69.

• Kam Tong

  Actor (Have Gun Will Travel, Mr Garlund), dies at 62.

• Louis van Tulder

  Tenor (Kantoorkruk to high C), dies at 77.

• Joseph P Kennedy

  JFK / RFK / TMK father, dies at 81 in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.

• Marion Lloyd Vince

  Fencer (National champ 1928, 31), dies at 63.

• Acario Cotapos

  Composer, dies at 80.

• Frank Newburg

  Actor (Homemaker), dies at 83.

• Roy Barcroft

  Actor (Eyes of Texas, Son of Zorro), dies at 67.

• Liu Shaoqi

  Chinese revolutionary, and statesman (Born 1898).

• Mutesa II of Buganda

  President of Uganda (Born 1924).

• Ted Heath

  British trombonist, and bandleader (Born 1902).

• Leon Jongen

  Composer, dies at 85.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds
2. The 5th Dimension - Wedding Bell Blues
3. The Beatles - Come Together
4. R.B. Greaves - Take A Letter Maria
5. Blood, Sweat and Tears - And When I Die

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Bobbie Gentry - I'll Never Fall In Love Again
2. Archies - Sugar Sugar
3. Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg - Je T'Aime... Moi Non Plus
4. Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well
5. Lou Christie - I'm Gonna Make You Mine