The Dukes of Hazzard follows the adventures of " The Duke Boys ", cousins Bo and Luke Duke, who live in a rural part of the fictional Hazzard County, Georgia with their attractive cousin Daisy and their wise old Uncle Jesse, as they race around in their customized 1969 Dodge Charger stock car, christened ( The ) General Lee, evading crooked county commissioner Boss Hogg and his inept county sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane, and always managing to get caught in the middle of the various escapades and incidents that often occur in the area.

Among his output was the modern novelisation of the Irwin Allen production of Jules Verne's Five Weeks in a Balloon, two books in the " Llarn " series ; five books about the barbarian swordsman Kothar ( starting in 1969 with the anthology Kothar — Barbarian Swordsman ) and four books about the adventures of " Kyrik ," starting with Warlock Warrior ( 1975 ).

* The Adventures of Superboy ( 1966 – 1969 ): series of 34 six-minute Superboy adventures ( his first animated appearances ) that appeared as part of three different programs during that time, packaged with similar shorts featuring other DC Comics superheroes.

Baker remained as editor until 1963 ( his last story being " The Last Tiger ") before becoming Blake's licensor / publisher and continuing to oversee Blake's print adventures until 1969.

* Hubert Cole wrote a series of three novels featuring the adventures of John Hawkwood: Hawkwood ( 1967 ), Hawkwood In Paris ( 1969 ) and Hawkwood And The Towers Of Pisa ( 1973 )

The series featured the further adventures of the title character who had first appeared in Department S ( 1969 ).

In 1969, Karpov became the first Soviet player since Spassky ( 1955 ) to win the World Junior Chess Championship, scoring an undefeated 10 / 11 in the finals at Stockholm.

Starting in 1969, Bardot's features became the official face of Marianne ( who had previously been anonymous ) to represent the liberty of France.

As NVA / VC activity grew, the United States and South Vietnam became concerned, and in 1969, the United States began a 14 month long series of bombing raids targeted at NVA / VC elements, contributing to destabilization.

In 1969, he became the first African American since the Reconstruction era to have been elected as mayor in a Mississippi city, Fayette in Jefferson County.

Sports dramas became inspiration such as The Hustler ( 1961 ) and Downhill Racer ( 1969 ).

Their second son, John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower, was born on August 3, 1922, while they were in Panama ; John served in the United States Army, retired as a brigadier general, became an author and served as U. S. Ambassador to Belgium from 1969 to 1971.

Young Americans was a commercial success in both the US and the UK, and a re-issue of the 1969 single " Space Oddity " became Bowie's first number one hit in the UK a few months after " Fame " achieved the same in the US.

With Ayub Khan ousted from office in 1969, Commander of the Pakistani Army, General Yahya Khan became the country's second ruling Chief Martial Law Administrator.

The film introduced George Lucas to him, who became his lifelong friend as well as production assistant in his next film The Rain People in 1969.

However, with equipment flowing in and no mansion found yet, the first home for Zoetrope Studio became a warehouse in San Francisco on Folsom Street in 1969.

", as he became popularly known, was first elected to the House of Assembly in 1969 as the member for Vereeniging, and entered the cabinet in 1978. de Klerk had been offered a professorship of administrative law at Potchefstroom in 1972 but he declined the post because he was serving in Parliament.

He became professor at the University of Salzburg from 1969 to 1977 ; he then returned to Freiburg, where he spent the rest of his days.

After serving in several party offices, he was appointed Minister of the Interior by Chancellor Willy Brandt, whose Social Democratic Party was in coalition with the FDP, in 1969 ; in 1974, he became foreign minister and Vice Chancellor.

Paul Mellon, a primary benefactor of the gallery and a member of its building committee, set to work with his assistant J. Carter Brown ( who became gallery director in 1969 ) to find an architect.

Meanwhile, the drum break from the second version of the original 1969 hit " Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose " ( the recording included on the compilation album In the Jungle Groove ) became so popular at hip hop dance parties ( especially for breakdance ) during the late 1970s and early 1980s that hip hop founding father Kurtis Blow called the song " the national anthem of hip hop ".

The phrase " Dear Boy " had became a catchphrase of Moon's when he started affecting a pompous English accent around 1969, particularly when ordering drinks.

Later he became the star of the highly popular Tora-san series of films, from the original Otoko wa tsurai yo in 1969 to the 48th film released in 1995, the year before his death.

In 1969, he became the first recipient of the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca.

Husák was rehabilitated in 1960s and became the leader of Czechoslovakia in 1969.

Major League Baseball returned to the city in 1969 with the Royals, who have proven stable and became the first American League expansion team to reach the playoffs, in 1976, the World Series, in 1980 and to win the World Series, in 1985 against the state-rival St. Louis Cardinals in the " Show-Me Series.

After originally rising to power through a military coup d ' etat in 1969, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's governance of Libya became increasingly centric on the teachings of his Green Book, which he published in the mid-1970s chapter by chapter as a foundation for a new form of government.

After the 1969 coup, U. S .- Libyan relations became increasingly strained because of Libya's foreign policies supporting international terrorism and subversion against moderate Arab and African governments.

The ( green painted ) country buses and Green Line Coaches had been passed in 1969 to a new company, London Country Bus Services, which in 1970 became part of the National Bus Company.

Later, post-Marxist and anarchist tendencies became significant after influence from the Situationists, the failure of Italian far-left movements in the 1970s, and the emergence of a number of important theorists including Antonio Negri, who had contributed to the 1969 founding of Potere Operaio, Mario Tronti, Paolo Virno, etc.

The Spanish enclave of Ifni in the south became part of the new Morocco in 1969, but other Spanish possessions in the north ( Ceuta, Melilla and some small islands ) remain under Madrid's control, with Morocco viewing them as occupied territory.

He went on to join an experimental troupe, with which he remained for five years before Paul Verhoeven cast him in the lead role of the very successful 1969 television series Floris, a Dutch Ivanhoe-like medieval action drama.

:" Prior to ... 1969, only one Supreme Court case, three court of appeals ' decisions, and one district court decision in the previous quarter-century featured an anonymous individual as the sole or lead plaintiff.

After Caray was fired by the Cardinals following the 1969 season, Buck ascended to the team's lead play-by-play role.

After working on The Italian Job with Noël Coward, and a solid role as RAF fighter pilot Squadron Leader Canfield in the all-star cast of Battle of Britain ( both 1969 ), Caine played the lead in Get Carter ( 1971 ), a British gangster film.

In 1969, she had the lead role in another long-running popular production of Mame, from the book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in the West End of London, arriving for the role on the Liner QE2 from New York.

" The album's singles — the Bruce Johnston-produced original " Bluebirds Over the Mountains " ( Billboard # 64 ) and the Carl Wilson-produced cover of The Ronettes ' " I Can Hear Music "— won lukewarm attention, with the latter reaching # 24 on the Billboard single chart in April 1969 ; the lead track, the Wilson / Love-authored " Do It Again ", an unabashed throwback to the band's earlier surf hits, had been an international hit in the summer of 1968, reaching # 20 in the US charts and # 1 the UK while also scoring well in other countries.

In 1969, while taking the lead role in the T. V film Baal under the direction of Volker Schlöndorff, Fassbinder met Günther Kaufmann, a black Bavarian who had a minor role in that film.

The band was founded in 1969 by Randy Owen ( lead vocals, Rhythm Guitar ) and his cousin Teddy Gentry ( bass guitar, background vocals ), soon joined by Jeff Cook ( Lead Guitar, fiddle, keyboards ).

was released in 1969 starring Barbra Streisand in the lead role.

Each year on Patriots ' Day ( traditionally April 19 ; since 1969, observed on the 3rd Monday in April as part of a 3-day Patriots ' Day weekend ), the Acton Minutemen lead a march from Acton Center to the Old North Bridge in Concord.

The band was formed in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1969 by brothers Duane Allman ( slide guitar and lead guitar ) and Gregg Allman ( vocals, organ, songwriting ), plus Dickey Betts ( lead guitar, vocals, songwriting ), Berry Oakley ( bass guitar ), Butch Trucks ( drums ), and Jai Johanny " Jaimoe " Johanson ( drums ).

* Don Brewer – drums, lead vocals ( 1969 – 1976, 1981 – 1983, 1996 – present )

* Mark Farner – guitars, lead vocals, keyboard ( 1969 – 1976, 1981 – 1983, 1996 – 1998 )

In 1969, the Who ’ s first major rock opera Tommy was released, and Daltrey found a voice for the lead character that carried the Who to world stardom at such music venues as Woodstock and the Isle of Wight Festival, and in opera houses around the world during the next two years.

With Corbitt's departure from the band ( for a solo career ) in 1969, before the band recorded the Elephant Mountain album, Levinger assumed lead guitar duties and played extensively on Wurlitzer electric piano.

The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union would ultimately lead to the landing of men on the moon in 1969.

His first major role was in the 1969 Los Angeles stage production of Fortune and Men's Eyes, in which he played Smitty, the lead role.

The 1969 " Act of Free Choice " was open to 1022 " chiefs " and the unanimous decision for integration with Indonesia lead to doubts of its validity.

After the departure of lead singer / guitarist Steve Marriott in 1969, the group recruited singer Rod Stewart and guitarist Ronnie Wood to replace Marriott.

When in 1969 his predecessor as Prime Minister of Jamaica, Michael Manley, launched his campaign for the Presidency of the PNP, he turned to P. J. Patterson, youngest of the highest-ranking segment of the party executive, to lead his campaign.

By 1969, nearly all cartoon shows produced — both for the Saturday morning fare as well as prime time — followed Filmation's lead and included Douglass ’ s laugh track, including The Pink Panther Show, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You ?, Harlem Globetrotters and Josie and the Pussycats.

* Graham Coxon ( 1969 – ) – musician and Blur lead guitarist

After the 1969 season, Caray was unexpectedly fired as the Cardinals ' lead broadcaster ( his broadcast partner Jack Buck replaced him ).