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August 13, 1969: Chicago ticker-tape parade for the crew of Apollo 11. The three Apollo 11 astronauts rode in ticker-tape parades in their honor in New York and Chicago, with an estimated six million attendees. On the same evening in Los Angeles there was an official state dinner to celebrate the flight, attended by members of Congress, 44 ...
August 17 – Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the Mississippi coast of the United States, killing 248 people and causing US$1.5 billion in damage (1969 USD). August 21 – Australian Denis Michael Rohan sets fire to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. August 29 – A Trans World Airlines flight from Rome to Tel Aviv is hijacked and diverted to ...
October 2 – A 1.2 megaton thermonuclear device is tested at Amchitka Island, Alaska. This test is code-named Project Milrow, the 11th test of the Operation Mandrel 1969–1970 underground nuclear test series. This test is known as a "calibration shot" to test if the island is fit for larger underground nuclear detonations.
Cory Booker (born 1969), United States Senator and former mayor of Newark [179] William J. Brennan Jr. (1906–1997), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States [180] Michael Donald Brown (born 1953), Shadow United States Senator representing the District of Columbia [181] Jacob Burnet (1770–1853), U.S. Senator [182]
Jack Thomas Smith (born 1969), horror filmmaker [20] Toukie Smith (born 1952), model and actress; Will Smith (born 1968), actor, hip-hop recording artist, half of the duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, record producer, four time Grammy-winner [21] David Smyrl (1935–2016), actor and television writer, Sesame Street [22]
Paul Lewthwaite (born 1969), sculptor, an elected Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors. Toni Onley (1928–2004), painter, born on the Isle of Man and moved to Canada in 1948. Chris Killip (1946–2020), photographer, known for works exhibited around the world, including In Flagrante, Killingworth, Seacoal, The Station & The Last Ships.
11 January – Richmal Crompton, fiction writer (born 1890) 2 February – Boris Karloff, English actor (born 1887) 14 February – Kenneth Horne, radio comedy performer (born 1907) 16 February – Kingsley Martin, political editor (born 1897) 11 March – John Wyndham, English science fiction writer (born 1903) [51]