* 1969 – At a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan takes the photo that becomes the cover of the Beatles album Abbey Road, one of the most famous album covers in recording history.

During the January 1969 sessions for the Let It Be album, the Beatles played a slow impromptu version of " Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues " — although not written by Holly, it was popularized by him — with Lennon mimicking Holly's vocal style ; the recording was eventually released in the mid-1990s on Anthology 3.

* 1969 – The Beatles ' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London.

After the death of Brian Epstein and the unpopular surreal television film, Magical Mystery Tour, the Beatles returned to a more raw style with The Beatles ( 1968 ), Abbey Road ( 1969 ) and Let It Be ( 1970 ), before their eventual break up.

It was re-titled as The Best of the Seekers in the UK and spent one week at No. 1 in February 1969, managing to knock the Beatles ' ( White Album ) off the top of the charts and preventing the Rolling Stones ' Beggars Banquet from reaching the top spot.

Preston had been introduced to The Beatles during the early 1960s, but did not work with them until 1969, when Harrison invited him to join them for recording sessions in order to defuse tensions in the band.

No singles were taken from The Beatles in either Britain or America, but " Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da " backed with " While My Guitar Gently Weeps ", both from the album, became a double-sided smash in Australia, spending five weeks at Number One in the beginning of 1969.

In October 1969, a Detroit radio programme began to promote theories based on clues supposedly left on The Beatles and other Beatles albums that Paul McCartney had died and been replaced by a lookalike.

The White Album was notable for blocking The Beatles ' follow-up album, Yellow Submarine, which debuted ( and peaked at ) number 3 on 8 February 1969, the same week The White Album was dominating the second position on the charts.

The group performed and sang a medley consisting of " What the World Needs Now Is Love " and The Beatles ' " All You Need Is Love " on 23 February 1969 and performed and sang " Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In " on 18 May 1969, the day after the medley fell from the Hot 100 summit.

On 21 October 1969, The Beatles ' press office issued statements denying the rumour, deeming it " a load of old rubbish " and saying that " the story has been circulating for about two years — we get letters from all sorts of nuts but Paul is still very much with us.

Terry Knight, a singer on Capitol Records, had witnessed the Beatles ' White Album session during which drummer Ringo Starr had walked out and, in May 1969, released a song called " Saint Paul " about the impending break-up of The Beatles.

Despite his departure from the " White Album " sessions, Emerick remained on good terms with the Beatles, particularly Paul McCartney, who invited Emerick to quit EMI and come work for their company, Apple Corps Ltd., in 1969.

" Get Back " is a song by The Beatles, originally released as a single on 11 April 1969 and credited to " The Beatles with Billy Preston.

The Beatles performed " Get Back " ( along with other songs from the album ) as part of the " The Beatles Rooftop Performance " which took place on the roof of Apple Studios in Savile Row, London on 30 January 1969.

It was the Beatles ' first single to be released in true stereo instead of mono as part of the " stereo only " movement gaining force in 1969.

In 1969, The Beatles used the studios while rehearsing music for their album Let It Be.

The album features a cover version of the Beatles ' " It's All Too Much " from the 1968 Yellow Submarine movie and 1969 soundtrack.

For their 1969 album Shady Grove, Duncan did not participate, replaced by renowned English session keyboardist Nicky Hopkins, who had played on scores of hit albums and singles by acts like The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Who and Steve Miller, among many others.

The number dropped to 38 in 1968, but grew to 82 in 1969, the largest number in a single year in the history of civil aviation ; in January 1969 alone, eight airliners were hijacked to Cuba.

While touring Scandinavia he first joined forces with guitarist and singer Peter Thorup, together forming the band New Church, who were one of the support bands at the Rolling Stones Free Concert in Hyde Park, London, on 5 July 1969.

But in 1969, it was revealed to the public that the 2, 4, 5-T was contaminated with a dioxin, 2, 3, 7, 8-tetrachlorodibenzodioxin ( TCDD ), and that the TCDD was causing many of the previously unexplained adverse health effects which were correlated with Agent Orange exposure.

In 1969, the independent towns of Bad Godesberg and Beuel as well as several villages were incorporated into Bonn, resulting in a city more than twice as large as before.

Bardot's other husbands were German millionaire playboy Gunter Sachs ( 14 July 1966 – 1 October 1969 ) and Bernard d ' Ormale ( 16 August 1992 – present ).

A structured postseason series began in 1969, when both the National and American Leagues were reorganized into two divisions each, East and West.

In the 1960s V-8 engines began to appear and during the 1969 / 1970 production years, the standard round " porthole "- style windows were replaced with larger rectangular windows which allowed more interior light and made them feel less claustrophobic.

This process was helped by the discovery of pulsars in 1967, which, by 1969, were shown to be rapidly rotating neutron stars.

Many hippies were apolitical drop-outs, rather than students, but in the heady atmosphere of Berkeley in 1967 – 1969 there was considerable overlap of the hippie movement and the radical left.

As of 2008, 1891 patents were granted to Caltech researchers since 1969.

However, when Fulham were relegated in 1969, Trinder decided not to change the flags as " Fulham won't be in this division next season ".

Preparations were made to film episode 923, to be transmitted Wednesday 29 October 1969, in colour.

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

From the ashes of the Second World War, seventeen Commonwealth Prime Ministers ' Conferences were held between 1944 and 1969.

In 1969, the county was abolished and Carson City and a few small surrounding settlements within the former county were merged into a newly formed independent city called Carson City Consolidated Municipality.

X-ray bright points were first detected in April, 8 1969 during a rocket flight.

) In 1969, the Army began transitioning ( servicemen were issued both a SSN and SN ) to the Social Security number for personnel identification.

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.

DKW vehicles were also made in Argentina from 1960 through 1969 by IASF S. A. ( Industria Automotriz Santa Fe Sociedad Anónima ) in the city of Sauce Viejo, Santa Fe.

Wagoner and Parton were both frustrated by her lack of solo success, because he had a significant financial stake in her future: as of 1969, he was her co-producer and owned nearly half of Owepar, the publishing company Parton had founded with Bill Owens.

From July 1, 1941 to June 6, 1969, when the Army stopped publishing awards of the DSM in Department of the Army General Orders, over 2, 800 further awards were made.

Among his predecessors as editors-in-chief were Hugh Chisholm ( 1902 – 1924 ), James Louis Garvin ( 1926 – 1932 ), Franklin Henry Hooper ( 1932 – 1938 ), Walter Yust ( 1938 – 1960 ), Harry Ashmore ( 1960 – 1963 ), Warren E. Preece ( 1964 – 1968, 1969 – 1975 ), Sir William Haley ( 1968 – 1969 ), Philip W. Goetz ( 1979 – 1991 ), and Robert McHenry ( 1992 – 1997 ).

On January 16, 1969, the Soviet Union achieved the first EVA crew transfer from one spacecraft to another when Aleksei Yeliseyev and Yevgeny Khrunov transferred from Soyuz 5 to Soyuz 4, which were docked together.