It was mostly the work of Ken Thompson, with contributions from Dennis Ritchie, and first appeared circa 1969.

Storylines throughout the decade included: a mystery poison-pen letter received by Elsie Tanner, the 1962 marriage of Ken Barlow and Valerie Tatlock, the death of Martha Longhurst in 1964, the birth of the Barlow twins in 1965, Elsie Tanner's wedding to Steve Tanner as well as a train crashing from the viaduct ( both in 1967 ), the murder of Steve Tanner in 1968, and a coach crash in 1969.

He is perhaps best known as the formal announcer on Beyond Our Ken ( 1958 – 1964 ), its more famous successor Round the Horne ( 1965 – 1968 ) and the short-lived Stop Messing About ( 1969 – 1970 ), where his ' BBC accent ' was used to comic effect.

George Kenneth " Ken " Griffey, Jr. ( born November 21, 1969 ), nicknamed " Junior " and " The Kid ", is an American former professional baseball outfielder who played 22 years in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) for three teams ( 1989 – 2010 ).

* Ken Thomson ( footballer ) ( 1930 – 1969 ), British footballer

In 1975, The Who released their all-music feature film Tommy, directed by Ken Russell, based upon their 1969 rock opera of the same name.

* Ken Kirkwood ( b. 1969 ), Canadian bioethicist

The Story of Tommy, a book written by Townshend and his art school friend Richard Barnes ( now the Who's official biographer ) about the writing of Townshend's 1969 rock opera and the making of the 1975 Ken Russell-directed film, was published by Eel Pie the same year.

In 1969, he starred in the Ken Russell film Women in Love with Oliver Reed and Glenda Jackson.

Fame came with Jackson's starring role in the controversial Women in Love ( 1969 ) for which she won her first Academy Award for Best Actress, and another controversial role as Tchaikovsky's nymphomaniac wife in Ken Russell's The Music Lovers added to her image of being prepared to do almost anything for her art.

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* Ken Doherty ( born 1969 ), Irish snooker player

The Broad Left went on to help elect Ray Buckton ( Aslef ) Ken Cameron ( FBU ) Alan Sapper ( ACTT ) and Jack Jones ( TGWU ) in 1969.

* Ken Griffey, Jr. ( born 1969 ), Major League Baseball player

ROLM Corporation, founded in 1969 by Gene Richeson, Ken Oshman, Walter Loewenstern and Robert Maxfield, was the first PBX manufacturer to offer integrated voice-mail with its PhoneMail system, its registered trademark.

In 1969 Ken Russell directed Women in Love starring Glenda Jackson, who won the Academy Award for best actress.

Part of the County Hall complex is seen in Women in Love, Ken Russell's Oscar winning 1969 film.

* Women in Love, Ken Russell's Oscar winning 1969 film, uses a house at the top of New Street ( No. 80 ) as the home of the Brangwen sisters, Gudrun and Ursula.

Kenneth Nichols " Ken " O ' Keefe ( born July 21, 1969 ) is an Irish-Palestinian citizen and activist and former United States Marine and Gulf War veteran who renounced his US citizenship on March 1, 2001. He led the human shield action to Iraq and was a passenger on the MV Mavi Marmara during the Gaza flotilla raid.

In early 1969 Leslie West, formerly of the Long Island R & B band The Vagrants, put together a band, Leslie West Mountain ( a reference to West's one-time physical bulk ), with Norman Landsberg ( keyboards, bass ) and Ken Janick ( drums ) and began playing concerts.

* Kes ( film ), 1969 film directed by Ken Loach

* 1969: Ken Morgan

In 1969, Save the Children UK commissioned film director Ken Loach and producer Tony Garnett to make The Save the Children Fund Film.

Ken Doherty ( born 17 September 1969 ) is an Irish professional snooker player.

* 1969 – Estella Marie Thompson, American prostitute

Township officials had fought, off and on, for the change since 1969, when then-U. S. Rep. Frank Thompson tried unsuccessfully to convince U. S. Postal Service authorities to grant a Lawrence name tag for the entire township, according to a letter on file at the Municipal Clerk ’ s Office.

* Clinton LeSueur ( born 1969 ), Republican politician who lost races in 2002 and 2004 for Mississippi's 2nd congressional district to incumbent Democrat Bennie Thompson

In 1969, Gray resigned from the company and Thompson replaced him as chairman ( by this time the chairman was called the CEO ) and I. J.

* John E. Thompson ( born 1969 ), cartoonist, graphic artist and printmaker

Mackenna's Gold is a 1969 western film directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Telly Savalas, Camilla Sparv, and Julie Newmar.

* Henry J. Thompson ( 1969 )

* Defensive Back Bill Thompson ( 1969 – 1981 ), 1987 Inductee

Meyer and Thompson ( 1969 ) give a version of Krohn – Rhodes decomposition for finite automata that is equivalent to the decomposition previously developed by Hartmanis and Stearns, but for useful decompositions, the notion of expanding the state-set of the original automaton is essential ( for the non-permutation automata case ).

* Hank Thompson ( baseball ) ( 1925 – 1969 )

* 1969 Mayo J. Thompson ’ 41

The record is approached, but not matched, by the nearly-15-year tenure of Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York ( January 1959-December 1973 ) as well as the 14-year tenures attained by Branstad's first gubernatorial predecessor, Robert D. Ray of Iowa ( 1969 – 83 ); Governor James R. Thompson of Illinois ( 1977 – 91 ); and Governor Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin ( 1987 – 2001 ).

Despite his relatively acrimonious criticism of United States policy in Vietnam, Thompson returned to a post assisting the American government in 1969 when he became a special advisor on " pacification " to President Nixon.

"" 1969 ," the directorial debut of Ernest Thompson, is an aimless drama, its purpose and promise lost in a thicket of false endings and a fog of nostalgia ," wrote Rita Kempley of The Washington Post.

In late 1969, Thompson was summoned to Washington DC and appeared before a special closed hearing of the House Armed Services Committee.

* C, an early systems programming language, was developed by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson at Bell Labs between 1969 and 1973.

The Supreme Court has repeatedly stated that voting is a " fundamental right " on the same plane as marriage ( Loving v. Virginia ), privacy ( Griswold v. Connecticut ( 1965 )), or interstate travel ( Shapiro v. Thompson ( 1969 )).

He was easily re-elected in the province's general election of 1969 ( held in June ), defeating Progressive Conservative Thomas Farrell by almost a thousand votes in Thompson.

The game was originally written in 1969 by Ken Thompson for a Multics system, then ported by him to Fortran on a GECOS system, and eventually ported by Thompson and Dennis Ritchie to a PDP-7.

During his early career in the USA he was married to Alaine Haubert and they had a son, Edward Thompson, in 1969.

Ronald Thompson ( born 1969 ) is an American former college basketball coach and current Emmy Award-winning broadcaster for Comcast SportsNet, based in Bethesda, Maryland.