1969

     

Year 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wenesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

Trivia about 1969

  • Buzz Aldrin walks on the moon
  • Definitely a "Giant Leap" taken this year when the photo seen here was shot (astronaut about to touch Moon's surface)
  • Over 400,000 attended Woodstock, Chicago 8 went on trial, Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon
  • Of 1769, 1869 or 1969, the year Princeton began to admit women as undergraduates
  • Jimi Hendrix performs at Woodstock
  • Ah, yes, I remember it well, this year of the original "Woodstock Music & Art Fair"
  • Richard Nixon moves into the White House
  • It's the year the small step seen here was taken
  • The New York Mets beat the Baltimore Orioles to take their first World Series in this year
  • The first human to walk on the moon did it on July 20 of this year
  • Joe Namath & the Jets Win the Super Bowl!
  • Eisenhower died in this year, the same year his vice president took up residence in the White House
  • (Kelly stands next to a big gray sphere.) This moon globe, a birthday gift to LBJ, was given to him in this year, a month after the first moon landing
  • It's the year of the quote "Not since Adam has any human known such solitude as Mike Collins"
  • The first astronauts walk on the moon

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