In 1974, Connors became the second male in the open era to win three or more Grand Slam singles titles in a calendar year ( Rod Laver being the first in 1969 and having been joined since by Mats Wilander, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, and Novak Djokovic ).

Others include: Rod Laver who won the Grand Slam in 1969 ; Mats Wilander won the Australian, French and US Open in 1988 ; Roger Federer won the Australian, Wimbledon and US Open in 2004, 2006 and 2007 ; Rafael Nadal won the French, Wimbledon, and US Open in 2010 ; and Novak Djokovic won the Australian, Wimbledon, and US Open in 2011.

Unlike his first Grand Slam year in 1962, Laver in 1969 played in events open to all the best professional and amateur players of the world.

Laver was ranked by the press as the World No. 1 player in 1961 and 1962 ( as an amateur ) and in 1968 and 1969 ( as a professional ).

While Laver was indisputably the best player from 1965 through 1969, the article asserts that Laver had a valid claim for the top spot also for 1964 and 1970.

After turning professional in 1963, Laver won the U. S. Pro Championships five times and the Wembley Pro Championship four times between 1964 and 1967 ( plus two more times in 1969 and 1970 when the event was known as the " British Covered Court Championships ").

* Laver, James: Costume and Fashion: a concise history, Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, 1969.

He also reached the final of the Australian Open in 1969, losing to Rod Laver in three sets.

As a result, he won the Atoms for Peace Award in 1969.

Ajax won the championship in 1966 and 1967, scoring a record breaking 122 goals including 33 from Johan Cruijff, and again in 1968, and reached the European Cup final of 1969 against AC Milan.

In 1969 – 70 Ajax won the Dutch league championship, winning 27 out of 34 games and scoring 100 goals.

This would only be a prelude to 1969, when the Orioles won 109 games and easily won the newly-created American League East division title.

In February 1969, Day filed suit against Rosenthal and won the then-largest civil judgment ( over $ 20 million ) in the state of California.

In 1969 while still in college, Rosa won an award as " best political cartoonist in the nation in a college paper ".

The film won the Golden Shell at the 1969 San Sebastian Film Festival.

Chassis # P-1075, which won in 1968 and 1969, is the first car in Le Mans history to win the race more than once with the same chassis, and one of three cars to have won with the same chassis.

In 1969, facing more experienced prototypes and the new yet still unreliable 4. 5 L flat-12 powered Porsche 917s, the winners Jacky Ickx / Jackie Oliver managed to beat the remaining 3. 0 litre Porsche 908 by just a few seconds with the already outdated GT40 ( in the very car that had won in 1968-the legendary GT40P / 1075 ).

It also won Best Play from the New York Drama Critics Circle in 1968, and Outstanding Production from the Outer Critics Circle in 1969.

Only two players have won both the Norris and Hart Memorial Trophy for the league Most Valuable Player in the same season: Bobby Orr, who won both trophies in the 1969 – 70, 1970 – 71 and 1971 – 72 seasons, and Chris Pronger, who won the Hart and Norris in the 1999 – 2000 NHL season.

During his career with the NBA ’ s Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers from 1969 to 1989, Abdul-Jabbar won six NBA championships and a record six regular season MVP Awards.

After graduating from high school in 1969, Ferrigno won his first major titles, IFBB Mr. America and IFBB Mr. Universe, four years later.

These 1969 Twins won the very first American League Western Division Championship, but they lost to the Baltimore Orioles in the first American League Championship Series.

The Vikings have won one NFL championship, in 1969, prior to the league's merger with the American Football League ( AFL ).

Using an updated ' C ' version on the M7, a further three podium finishes followed for Bruce in, but the team's fifth win had to wait until the last race of the 1969 championship when Hulme won the Mexican Grand Prix.

During their history, the Mets have won two World Series titles ( 1969 and 1986 ), four National League pennants ( 1969, 1973, 1986, 2000 ) and five National League East titles ( 1969, 1973, 1986, 1988, 2006 ).

In June 1969 he won the Labour Party nomination for the constituency of Bedwellty in Wales ( later Islwyn ) for the following general election.

During the period of two-division play ( 1969 to 1993 ), the two National League East division rivals won the two highest numbers of division championships, reigning exclusively as NL East champions in the 1970s and again in the early 1990s, the Pirates 9, the Phillies 6 ; together, the two teams ' 15 championships accounted for more than half of the 25 NL East championships during that span.

" ( 1969 ), that all authors are writers, but not all writers are authors.

Kennedy's goal was accomplished on the Apollo 11 mission when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Lunar Module ( LM ) on the Moon on July 20, 1969 and walked on its surface while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the command spacecraft, and all three landed safely on Earth on July 24.

Theodor Adorno claimed in 1969 “ It is self-evident that nothing concerning art is self-evident .” Artists, philosophers, anthropologists, psychologists and programmers all use the notion of art in their respective fields, and give it operational definitions that vary considerably.

Giacomo Losi set a Roma appearance record during 1969 with 450 appearances in all competitions, the record he set would last for 38 years.

According to the writer Timothy Dufort, by 1969, all Church of England bishops had acquired Old Catholic lines of apostolic succession recognised by the Holy See.

These programs continued until 1969, when by executive order President Richard Nixon shut down all programs related to American offensive use of biological weapons.

The censuses during independence 1969, 1980, 1991 were taken jointly for all races.

In 1969, Ormsby County was officially dissolved and Carson City took over all municipal services with an independent city status.

* 1969 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom: Home Secretary James Callaghan's motion to make permanent the Murder ( Abolition of Death Penalty ) Act 1965, which had temporarily suspended capital punishment in England, Wales and Scotland for murder ( but not for all crimes ) for a period of five years.

In the 1969 movie Goodbye, Columbus, Richard Benjamin finds out all the men at a party are from Dartmouth.

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.

The National Environmental Policy Act ( 1969 ), the Clean Air Act ( 1970 ), the Clean Water Act ( 1972 ), and the Endangered Species Act ( 1973 ) all were enacted with broad bipartisan support, and ultimately signed into law by Republican President Richard Nixon.

In 1954, the 23 man crew of the Japanese fishing vessel Lucky Dragon was exposed to radioactive fallout from a hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll, in 1969, an ecologically catastrophic oil spill from an offshore well in California's Santa Barbara Channel, Barry Commoner's protest against nuclear testing, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring, Paul R. Ehrlich's The Population Bomb all added anxiety about the environment.

* 1969 – Hawthorne Nevada Airlines Flight 708 crashes into Mount Whitney killing all on board.

Their 1969 album The Gilded Palace of Sin was a modernized version of the Bakersfield style of country music made popular by Buck Owens, and the band appeared on the album cover wearing Nudie suits emblazoned with all sorts of hippie accoutrements.

Previously it was on May 9, a date mistakenly given as that of his death It was ranked as a double in the Tridentine Calendar, becoming a third-class feast in 1960 and an obligatory memorial in 1969, all of them equivalent ranks.

As a result, the share of Malay equity in the economy rose from 1. 5 percent in 1969 to 20. 3 percent in 1990, and the percentage of businesses of all kinds owned by Malays rose from 39 percent to 68 percent.

Rather than a referendum of all residents of West Irian as had been agreed under Sukarno, an " Act of Free Choice " was conducted 1969 in which 1, 025 Papuan representatives of local councils were selected by the Indonesians.

* 1969 – United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay killing all 32 passengers and six crew members.

Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, de-recognized all the rulers by a presidential order in 1969.

On 28 June 1979, while the Calypso was on an expedition to Portugal, his second son, Philippe, his preferred and designated successor and with whom he had co-produced all his films since 1969, died in a PBY Catalina flying boat crash in the Tagus river near Lisbon.

However, Gaddafi retained virtually all power, continuing to operate and control vestiges of the military junta put in place in 1969.

Between 1955 and 1969 over 2, 000 books were published using lesbianism as a topic, and they were sold in corner drugstores, train stations, bus stops, and newsstands all over the U. S. and Canada.

* 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.