* 1969 – Bret Boone, American baseball player

* 1969 – Jack Canfora, American playwright

* 1969 – Bison Dele, American basketball player ( d. 2002 )

* 1969 – Ari Meyers, Puerto Rican actress

* 1969 – Philipp Peter, Austrian race car driver

* 1969 – Paul Rudd, American actor

* 1969 – Louie Spence, English dancer and choreographer

* 1969 – Spencer Wells, American geneticist and anthropologist

* 1969 – Jörn Lenz, German footballer

* 1969 – Lucas Radebe, South African footballer

* 1969 – Paulo Jr., Brazilian musician ( Sepultura )

* 1969 – Warren Defever, American musician and composer ( His Name Is Alive )

* 1969 – Israeli commando force penetrates deep into Egyptian territory to stage a mortar attack on regional Egyptian Army headquarters in the Nile Valley of Upper Egypt.

* 1969 – Mark Ealham, English cricketer

* 1969 – Cesar Millan, Mexican-American dog trainer

* 1969 – Reece Shearsmith, English actor, writer, and producer

* 1969 – Chandra Wilson, American actress

* 1925 – Barbara Bates, American actress ( d. 1969 )

* 1969 – Simon Doull, New Zealand cricketer

* 1969 – Elliott Smith, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Heatmiser ( d. 2003 )

* 1969 – Smaragda Karydi, Greek actress

* 1969 – Troy Percival, American baseball player

* 1969 – Estella Marie Thompson, American prostitute

* 1969 – The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine to enjoy a ticker tape parade in New York, New York.

Although not released until 1984, the filming sessions in January 1969 led to unexpected success when Bowie told the producers, " That film of yours — I've got a new song for it.

The indigenous population has established itself as a significant force in Ecuadorian politics, as shown by the selection of indigenous representative Nina Pacari, who led the indigenous political party, Pachakutik, as second vice president of the 1969 Congress.

A dispute with President Macias in 1969 led to a request that all Spanish troops immediately depart, and a large number of civilians left at the same time.

In September 1969, Rodwell and local lesbian allies led by Ellen Broidy, attended an Eastern Regional Conference of Homophile Organizations ( ERCHO ) meeting in Philadelphia and got it to vote to replace the Fourth of July Annual Reminder at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, which ERCHO had been sponsoring since 1965, with a first commemoration of the Stonewall Riots.

Race riots in 1969 led to the imposition of emergency rule, and a curtailment of political life and civil liberties which has never been fully reversed.

The monarchy came to an end on 1 September 1969 when a group of military officers led by Muammar Gaddafi staged a coup d ’ état against King Idris while he was in Turkey for medical treatment.

On 1 September 1969 a small group of military officers led by then 27-year-old army officer Muammar Gaddafi staged a coup d ' état against King Idris, who was exiled to Egypt.

These measures did not prevent, however, a group of army officers led by then Captain Muammar Gaddafi ( a signals officer ) seizing power on 1 September 1969.

Mies's grandson Dirk Lohan and two partners led the firm after he died in 1969.

1969 saw the emergence of the Mouvement Militant Mauricien led by Paul Bérenger.

Portuguese colonialism collapsed in 1974 after a decade of armed struggle, initially led by American-educated Eduardo Mondlane, who was assassinated in 1969.

Ewbank and quarterback Joe Namath led the Jets to prominence in 1969 when New York defeated the heavily-favored Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III and solidified the AFL's position in the world of professional football.

It has been proposed that the broad spectrum revolution of Kent Flannery ( 1969 ), associated with microliths, the use of the bow and arrow, and the domestication of the dog, all of which are associated with these cultures, may have been the cultural " motor " that led to their expansion.

It reached a peak in between 1967 and 1969 with the Summer of Love and Woodstock Rock Festival, becoming an international musical movement and associated with a widespread counter-culture, before beginning a decline as changing attitudes, the loss of some key individuals and a back-to-basics movement, led surviving performers to move into new musical areas.

In 1969, researchers at the University of California led by Albert Ghiorso, tried to confirm the original results reported at Dubna.

On May 25, 1969, several young officers, led by Colonel Jaafar an Nimeiri, seized power, thus bringing the army into political control for the second time.

Unitas had regained his starting spot on the team in 1969 upon recovering from an injury that led him to miss the majority of the 1968 season.

Williams ' best season as a manager was 1969 when he led the expansion Senators to an 86 – 76 record in the team's only winning season in Washington.

By 1969, the debate over virtual memory for commercial computers was over ; an IBM research team led by David Sayre showed that their virtual memory overlay system consistently worked better than the best manually controlled systems.

* On September 1, 1969, a small group of military officers led by the army officer Muammar al-Gaddafi overthrows monarchy in Libya.

The non-profit Manzanar Committee, formerly led by Sue Kunitomi Embrey, has sponsored the Pilgrimage since 1969.

This led to armed conflict in 1969, called the Sino-Soviet border conflict.

A major confrontation ensued on May 15, 1969, when Governor Ronald Reagan ordered the park destroyed, which led to a two-week occupation of the city of Berkeley by the California National Guard.

Her membership in the Communist Party led to Ronald Reagan's request in 1969 to have her barred from teaching at any university in the State of California.