* 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 – Followers led by Charles Manson murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate ( wife of Roman Polanski ), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men's hairstylist Jay Sebring and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent.

* 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.

Mariner 6 was launched on February 24, 1969, followed by Mariner 7 on March 21, 1969.

As part of NASA's wider Mariner program, Mariner 6 and Mariner 7 ( Mariner Mars 69A and Mariner Mars 69B ) completed the first dual mission to Mars in 1969.

On July 29, 1969, less than a week before closest approach, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory lost contact with Mariner 7.

Closest approach for Mariner 6 occurred July 31, 1969, at 05: 19: 07 UT at a distance of above the martian surface.

Closest approach for Mariner 7 occurred August 5, 1969 at 05: 00: 49 UT at a distance of above the martian surface.

* Mariner Mars 1969 Launches-Press Kit

* Tracking and data system support for the Mariner Mars 1969 mission.

* Tracking and data system support for the Mariner Mars 1969 mission.

* Tracking and data system support for the Mariner Mars 1969 mission.

* Two over Mars-Mariner 6 and Mariner 7, February-August 1969

* Mariner 6 – 25 February 1969 – Mars flyby

* Mariner 7 – 27 March 1969 – Mars flyby

The selection of this crater as Mars ' prime meridian was made by Merton Davies in 1969 based on Mariner 6 and 7 photographs.

When the United States renounced its offensive biological warfare program in 1969 and 1970, the vast majority of its biological arsenal was composed of these plant diseases.

The term most commonly applies to a spacewalk made outside a craft orbiting Earth ( such as the International Space Station ), but also has applied to lunar surface exploration ( commonly known as moonwalks ) performed by six pairs of American astronauts in the Apollo program from 1969 to 1972.

* 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.

* 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first manned space mission to land on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

A cross-registration program between MIT and Wellesley College has also existed since 1969, and in 2002 the Cambridge – MIT Institute launched an undergraduate exchange program between MIT and the University of Cambridge.

* 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 is launched.

* 1969 – Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.

* 1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.

* 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.

* 1969 – Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet spaceprobe, lands on Venus.

* 1969 – Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to the Moon.

* 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum ( the " Ocean of Storms ") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.

* 1969 – National Educational Television ( the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service ) in the United States debuts the children's television program Sesame Street.

* 1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second crewed mission to the surface of the Moon.

Rift Valley fever was one of more than a dozen agents that the United States researched as potential biological weapons before the nation suspended its biological weapons program in 1969 due to possible bomb threats that might cause a panic in the United States.

As mentioned in the Historical Program of the FSLN of 1969, education was seen as a right and the pressure to stay committed to the promises made in the program was even stronger.

After the cancellation of the Blue Streak missile program and the cancellation of the American Skybolt and with the Blue Steel missile already in service, six squadrons of Vulcan B2s were re-assigned to the low-level ( 200 ft and lower ) penetration role and were re-equipped with the WE. 177B strategic laydown bomb from 1966 until being replaced in the strategic role in 1969 by the Polaris missile launched from nuclear submarines of the Royal Navy.

Jones duetting with Janis Joplin in the television program This is Tom Jones in 1969

Typhus was one of more than a dozen agents that the United States researched as potential biological weapons before President Richard Nixon suspended all non-defensive aspects of the U. S. biological weapons program in 1969.

The program premiered on public broadcasting television stations on November 10, 1969.

Several of the original Sesame Street writers and producers were hired from the Captain Kangaroo staff to help produce and direct the new program when it went on the air in 1969.

The show has a long history, existing in a similar form as far back as 1974, and borrowing the name from a radio program in existence in 1969.