* 1884 – Rómulo Gallegos, Venezuelan novelist and politician, 46th President of Venezuela ( d. 1969 )

* 1969 – Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.

* 1969 – René Barrientos, Bolivian politician, President of Bolivia ( b. 1919 )

The U. S. maintained a stated national policy of never using biological warfare under any circumstances since an Executive Decision in November 1969, by President Richard Nixon.

In a letter dated August 1, 1969, and addressed to the President of the Security Council, the Permanent Representative of Cambodia alleged to the United Nations Security Council that aircraft from the United States and South Vietnam scattered ‘ poisonous yellow powder ’ along its frontiers with South Vietnam in May and June.

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

US President Richard M. Nixon announced his new policy on biological warfare at a press conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on November 25, 1969.

Dwight David " Ike " Eisenhower ( pronounced, ; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969 ) was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961.

After Eisenhower's death in 1969 ( see below ), an autopsy unexpectedly revealed an adrenal pheochromocytoma, a benign adrenaline-secreting tumor that may have made the President more vulnerable to heart disease.

In 1969, after Campbell's fatal accident, his widow, Tonia Bern-Campbell negotiated a deal with Lynn Garrison, President of Craig Breedlove and Associates, that would see Craig Breedlove run Bluebird on Bonneville's Salt Flats.

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.

* 1885 – Aleksandras Stulginskis, President of Lithuania ( d. 1969 )

Gaddafi ( left ) with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1969

* 1969 – Vietnam War: U. S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense.

* 1969 – Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyen Van Thieu and U. S. military commanders.

Colonel Gaddafi ( left ) with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1969.

The MMM was founded in 1969 and had for President and secretary, Heeralall Bhugaloo and Paul Bérenger respectively.

* 1919 – René Barrientos, Bolivian politician, 55th President of Bolivia ( d. 1969 )

* 1969 – U. S. President Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato agree in Washington, D. C. on the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972.

* 1899 – Iskander Mirza, First President of Pakistan ( d. 1969 )

* 1969 – Vietnam War: U. S. President Richard M. Nixon addresses the nation on television and radio, asking the " silent majority " to join him in solidarity on the Vietnam War effort and to support his policies.

* 1890 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and 34th President of the United States ( d. 1969 )

* 1969 – The first Prime Minister of Tunisia in twelve years, Bahi Ladgham, is appointed by President Habib Bourguiba.

* 1969 – Richard Hallebeek, Dutch guitarist

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

* Richard Greene ( 50-51 ) in The Blood of Fu Manchu ( 1968 ) and The Castle of Fu Manchu ( 1969 )

From 1969 to 1976, Shearer was a member of The Credibility Gap, a radio comedy group that included David Lander, Richard Beebe and Michael McKean.

* Yorke, Richard ( 1969 ).

* 1969 – Richard Virenque, French cyclist

Richard Petty could not come to contractual terms with Dodge before the 1969 season, but when he saw the Daytona, he demanded that Plymouth make something similar, but they declined ( for the time being ).

Richard Nixon throwing Opening Day ceremonial first pitch at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium | RFK Stadium on April 7, 1969 with Ted Williams ( left ) and Bob Short ( right, partially obscured by Ralph Houk ).

In 1969, Vice President Hubert Humphrey would have announced the election of his opponent, Richard Nixon ; however, on the date of the Congressional joint session ( January 6 ), Humphrey was in Norway attending the funeral of Trygve Lie, the first elected Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Richard Nixon ( 36th ), Everett Dirksen, Spiro Agnew incoming Vice President ( 39th ), and the outgoing Vice President Hubert Humphrey ( 38th ), January 20, 1969

During the Nixon administration ( 1969 – 74 ), First Lady Pat Nixon refurbished the Green Room, Blue Room, and Red Room, working with Clement Conger, the curator appointed by President Richard Nixon.

* 1969 – U. S. President Richard Nixon was inaugurated in January 1969 ; promised " peace with honor " to end the Vietnam War.

Not until Richard Nixon took office in 1969 was there another opportunity.

Spiro Theodore Agnew (; November 9, 1918September 17, 1996 ) was the 39th Vice President of the United States ( 1969 – 1973 ), serving under President Richard Nixon, and the 55th Governor of Maryland ( 1967 – 1969 ).

Ellington receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Richard Nixon | President Nixon, 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.

Nixon's brother Donald Nixon | Donald is on his right and Howard Hughes business associate John H. Meier is on his left ( 1969 ).