These protests expanded into massive riots, which eventually forced Satō to close the prestigious University of Tokyo for a year in 1969.

In 1969, Satō insisted that the defense of Taiwan was necessary for the safety of Japan.

The spacecraft struck the lunar surface on July 21, 1969.

In 2003, a group of Arias supporters presented an unconstitutionality challenge against the 1969 constitutional amendment forbidding re-election, and this time the ruling in April 2003 struck down the prohibition against non-consecutive re-election This decision was denuncied as a " state blow " or " coup d ' état " by ex-president Luis Alberto Monge.

Between 1951 and 1969, he lived in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, where he struck up a friendship with Herbert Hoover, who also lived there.

In November 1968 Caray was nearly killed after being struck by an automobile while crossing a street in St. Louis ; he suffered two broken legs in the accident, but recuperated in time to return to the broadcast booth for the start of the 1969 season.

In June 1969, a family that included a five year-old girl named Jo sought shelter in a storm cellar as a powerful F5 tornado struck.

In 1988, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in R. v. Morgentaler that the existing laws were unconstitutional and struck down the 1969 law.

In Williams v. Rhodes ( 1969 ) the court struck down Ohio's ballot access laws on First and Fourteenth Amendment grounds, but during the 1970s tended to uphold strict ballot access law, with the newly declared ' compelling State interest ' being the, " preservation of the integrity of the electoral process and regulating the number of candidates on the ballot to avoid voter confusion.

On May 12, 1969, Gibson struck out three batters on nine pitches in the seventh inning of a 6 – 2 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Tragedy struck one evening in 1969.

In February 1969, Murphy was struck and killed by an unidentified car in an apparent hit-and-run while crossing a road.

A tragedy struck the club on 20 January 1969 when players Roy Evans and Brian Purcell were killed in a car crash on the way to a game.

* USS Oak Hill ( LSD-7 ), an Ashland-class dock landing ship launched in 1943 and struck in 1969

Hathcock was awarded a Silver Star in 1996 not for his sniping, but for his act in 1969 of saving the lives of seven fellow Marines after the amphibious tractor ( AMTRAC ) on which they were riding struck a landmine.

Coins have also been struck for several Asian and South Pacific nations, including New Zealand ( in 1969 ), Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Western Samoa, the Cook Islands, Fiji, Malaysia, Thailand, Nepal, Bangladesh, Israel, Philippines

* a Baltimore-class heavy cruiser commissioned in 1945 and struck in 1969

During the baseball season of 1969, Cuellar achieved a win-loss record of 23 – 11, struck out 182 batters, and recorded an excellent 2. 38 earned run average.

The bridge had a close call with disaster when on July 9, 1969, the oil tanker Regent Liverpool struck the fender system protecting the tower piers.

Eisenhower dollars were struck to commemorate Dwight D. Eisenhower, who died in 1969, and the Apollo 11 moon landing of the same year.

* 8 April 1969: D1908 was badly damaged when, while hauling a freight train at Monmore Green, it was struck head-on by a passenger train that had passed a signal at danger.

* The second,, was an Anchorage-class dock landing ship, launched in 1969 and struck in 2004.

* The second, Sunfish ( SSN-649 ), was a Sturgeon-class submarine, commissioned in 1969 and struck in 1997.

* was an Ashland-class dock landing ship, launched in 1943 and struck in 1969

* USS Puffer ( SSN-652 ), was a Sturgeon-class submarine, commissioned in 1969 and struck in 1996.

* The second Rathburne, ( DE-1057 ), was a Knox-class frigate, launched in 1969, struck in 1995 and sunk by BAP Montero's guns in a SINKEX event during RIMPAC 2002.

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.

Despite a great deal of local opposition the town lost its rail service in 1969, when as part of the controversial Beeching Axe the ' Waverley Line ' from Carlisle to Edinburgh via Hawick was closed.

Marvin actually accepted the role but pulled out after he was offered a larger pay deal to star in Paint Your Wagon ( 1969 ).

Before Deutsche Grammophon founded its own American branch in 1969, it had a distribution deal with American Decca until 1962 when distribution switched to MGM Records.

During the summer of 1968, Ferrari worked out a deal to sell his road car business to Fiat for $ 11 million ; the transaction took place in early 1969, leaving 50 % of the business still under the control of Ferrari himself.

In 1974 and following a reverse takeover Yorkshire Television was effectively merged with its neighbour Tyne Tees Television, when the two were brought under the control of Trident Television Limited, a company formed in 1969 to deal with the problem of effective ownership of the Bilsdale transmitter and the allocation of airtime.

Another episode from 1969 was found, which features a gaffe that Hall himself rated as his most embarrassing moment on Let's Make a Deal – at the end of the show, he attempted to make a deal with a woman carrying a baby's bottle.

After years of hard bargaining, the parties reached a deal on May 12, 1969 to finance the construction of the power plant.

In November 1969, Britain withdrew from its Chieftain deal with Israel.

It has been argued that their failure to deal with the 1969 disturbances were due to a failure on behalf of the Northern Ireland government to modernise their equipment, weaponry, training and approach to the job.

His films from the later half of the decade, such as Persona ( 1966 ), Shame ( 1968 ), and A Passion ( 1969 ), deal with the idea of film as an artifice.

After writing songs for many years, Carnes signed her first publishing deal in 1969 with famed producer Jimmy Bowen.

In 1969, Marinho terminated the deal with Time-Life by agreeing to pay back the 6 million dollars invested.

After five straight singles co-written and sung by Joey Levine ( four of which made the US and Canadian Top 40 ), Levine grew dissatisfied with the amount of money he was receiving from his production deal, and left Super K Productions in early 1969.

The board held its first meeting in May 1969 under the chairmanship of Lord Ritchie-Calder when eight committees were set up to deal with the most important sectors of British Industry :,

After spending almost the entire 1968 – 69 season in the American Hockey League with the Cleveland Barons, Monahan was traded to the Detroit Red Wings in June 1969 in the deal where the Canadiens acquired Pete Mahovlich.

during 1969, setting up a short-lived deal to provide independently-produced recordings, before leaving the label entirely to establish his own imprint, Flying Dutchman.

In the summer of 1969 Atlantic Records agreed to assist Warner Bros. Records in establishing overseas divisions but when Warner executive Phil Rose arrived in Australia to begin setting up an Australian subsidiary, he discovered that just one week earlier Atlantic had signed a new four-year production and distribution deal with local label Festival Records, without informing WBR.

A distribution deal with MGM Records was later signed, which lasted from 1965 until 1969.

* the wholly owned subsidiary Kama Sutra Records, from 1969 ( when Kama Sutra's distribution deal with MGM Records expired ) to 1976.

* Turnbull's claim that Ik raided cattle and frequently did " a double deal " by selling information concerning the raid to the victims is not corroborated by the Dodoth County Chief's monthly reports, as well as records of the Administrator in Moroto between 1963 and 1969.

In November 1969, Hanjin made its entry into the containerized shipping business signing a deal with Sea-Land Service, Inc.

In 1969, Chrysler Europe closed a deal with French engineering group Matra Automobiles to jointly develop the Matra sports cars and subsequently sell them through the Simca dealer network ( as Matra-Simca ).