* 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.

In the three decades following 1969, the Army was heavily deployed in Northern Ireland, to support the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( later the Police Service of Northern Ireland ) in their conflict with republican paramilitary groups, called Operation Banner.

This test is code-named Project Milrow, the 11th test of the Operation Mandrel 1969 – 1970 underground nuclear test series.

The severe pressure on the RUC and B-Specials led, during the Northern Ireland riots of August 1969, to the British Army being called in to support the civil administration under Operation Banner.

* Operation Bowline — 1968 – 1969

* Operation Mandrel — 1969 – 1970

aka Operation Heartbeat ( 1969 TV movie ; pilot for Medical Center )

July 19 – 20, 1969: Operation Bulmus 6 – Israeli Shayetet 13 and Sayeret Matkal commandos raid Green Island, resulting in the total destruction of the Egyptian facility.

July 20 – 28, 1969: Operation Boxer – Nearly the entire Israeli Air Force attacks the northern sector of the Canal, destroying anti-aircraft positions, tanks and artillery, and shooting down eight Egyptian aircraft.

September 9, 1969: Operation Raviv – Israeli forces raid Egypt's Red Sea coast.

December 26 – 27, 1969: Israel launches Operation Rooster 53, carried out by paratroopers transported by Sikorsky CH-53E and Super Frelon helicopters.

* Operation High Time ( 1969 )-( Sime ~ Gen Universe )-Worlds of If Magazine, January

As a result of this failed test, it was decided that the land was unfit for multimegaton nuclear tests, so a calibration test was conducted at Amchitka Island, Alaska, in the fall of 1969 during Operation Mandrel.

Operation Bowline was a series of 48 nuclear test explosions conducted by the United States in 1968 and 1969 at the Nevada Test Site.

Operation Mandrel was a series of 53 nuclear test explosions conducted in 1969 and 1970.

The film Submarine X-1, made in 1969, loosely based on the real Operation Source, gets British wartime frogman's equipment very wrong and anachronistic.

* 1969 – Operation Bulmus 6 – assault on fortified Green Island, Egypt ( jointly with Shayetet 13 ).

* 1969 – Operation Rooster 53 – seizing an entire Egyptian radar installation ( jointly with Israeli Air Force ).

Since the inception of Operation Menu in 1969, the U. S. Air Force had dropped 539, 129 tons of ordnance on Cambodia / Khmer Republic.

On December 23, 1969, as part of the ' Operación Navidad ' ( Christmas Operation ), Argentina launched Juan ( a cai monkey, native to Argentina's Misiones Province ) using a two-stage Rigel 04 rocket.

* 1969 Operation Sippacik

* In Poul Anderson's 1969 fantasy novella " Operation Changeling " – which was later expanded into the fix-up novel Operation Chaos ( 1971 ) – a group of sorcerers navigate a non-Euclidean universe with the assistance of the ghosts of Lobachevsky and Bolyai.

Another historian wrote: " Nixon never had a plan to end the war, but he did have a general strategy -- to increase pressure on the communists issue them a November 1, 1969 deadline to be conciliatory or else ... The North Vietnamese did not respond to Nixon's ultimatum ... and his aides began planning Operation Duck Hook.

* Operation Heartbeat ( 1969 )