Voight came to prominence in the late 1960s with his performance as a would-be gigolo in Midnight Cowboy ( 1969 ).

Big Spring was also featured in the 1969 film Midnight Cowboy, which starred Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight and received the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1969.

That same year, he was offered the chance to star in Midnight Cowboy ( 1969 ), but The Big Valley was renewed for another season and he was forced to decline the role ( which later went to Jon Voight ).

" She later co-starred with Jon Voight in the 1969 film Out of It and in Act of Vengeance released in 1974.

Sarrazin was originally cast to play Joe Buck in the drama film Midnight Cowboy ( 1969 ); however, he was unable to gain release from a prior contract and the part went to Jon Voight.

In 1969 it was declared a historical artistic monument of national interest.

The first manned flight of Apollo was in 1968 and it succeeded in landing the first humans on Earth's Moon in 1969 through 1972.

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.

The Miesian formal language of geometric grids employed in the buildings was also used by Aalto for other sites in Helsinki, including the Enso-Gutzeit building ( 1962 ), the Academic Bookstore ( 1962 ) and the SYP Bank building ( 1969 ).

In March 1969, during a Congress of International Federation of Airline Pilots ’ Associations in Amsterdam with the presence of representatives of civil pilots from 41 countries, a resolution was unanimously passed, which guaranteed the pilots the right to 12 or 24-hours

The American Football League ( AFL ) was a major American Professional Football league that operated from 1960 until 1969, when the established National Football League ( NFL ) merged with it.

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 it was also released in the US, under the pseudonym " Shannon ", where it was also a minor hit.

Jensen's most controversial work, published in February 1969 in the Harvard Educational Review, was titled " How Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic Achievement?

( Howerd went on to star in Up Pompeii !, a 1969 British television comedy series set in ancient Pompeii, as the slave Lurcio, whose character was based on Pseudolus.

In 1969 an improved version, the E-2, was introduced with clipped wings and various changes to the fuzing.

Avibrás Aerospace Industry ( Avibrás Indústria Aeroespacial S. A .- Avibrás ) was established in 1961 ; Engesa, in 1963 ; and Embraer, in 1969.

Prior to 1969, the National League champion ( the " pennant winner ") was determined by the best win-loss record at the end of the regular season.

From 1969 to 1993, home field advantage was alternated between divisions each year regardless of regular season record and from 1995 to 1997 home field advantage was predetermined before the season.

It started in 1969, when the American League was reorganized into two divisions, East and West.

) The FCC ordered comparative hearings, and in 1969 a competing applicant, Boston Broadcasters, Inc. was granted a construction permit to replace WHDH-TV on channel 5.

The film, which was co-directed with Leach and producer Cynthia Munroe, had been shot in 1963 but remained unreleased until 1969, when De Palma's star had risen sufficiently within the Greenwich Village filmmaking scene.

Dionysus in 69 ( 1969 ) was De Palma's other major documentary from this period.

In 1969, Charlton was awarded the OBE for services to football.

The pitching staff was phenomenal, with four pitchers winning six Cy Young Awards ( Mike Cuellar in 1969 ; Jim Palmer in 1973, 1975, and 1976 ; Mike Flanagan in 1979 ; and Steve Stone in 1980 ).

When the United States renounced its offensive biological warfare program in 1969 and 1970, the vast majority of its biological arsenal was composed of these plant diseases.

Marvin was originally cast as Pike Bishop ( later played by William Holden ) in The Wild Bunch ( 1969 ), but fell out with director Sam Peckinpah and pulled out in order to star in the Western musical Paint Your Wagon ( 1969 ), in which he was top-billed over a singing Clint Eastwood.

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.

Following Star Trek in 1969, Nimoy immediately joined the cast of the spy series Mission: Impossible, which was seeking a replacement for Martin Landau.

In 1969, he was cast as Jonathan Brewster, a Frankenstein monster-like character, in a television production of Arsenic and Old Lace.

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.

Fantasy writer Larry Niven in his 1969 short story Not Long Before the End described mana as a natural resource which is used or channeled by wizards to cast magic spells.

** Directors ' Fortnight-From 1969, it cast its lot with the avant-garde, even as it created a breeding ground where the Cannes Festival would regularly find its prestigious auteurs.

In the 1969 / 1970 season, the chore was handled briefly by new cast members Teresa Graves and Pamela Rodgers, before the go-go dancing became the domain of uncredited extras.

This cast doubts on Lynch and his ability to win a general election, however, he proved his critics wrong in the 1969 general election when Fianna Fáil won its first overall majority since Éamon de Valera in 1957, and Lynch proved himself to be a huge electoral asset for the party.

What a Lovely War ( 1969 ), co-starring Sir John Gielgud and Sir Laurence Olivier and directed by Richard Attenborough ; Justine ( 1969 ), directed by George Cukor ; Le Serpent ( 1973 ), co-starring Henry Fonda and Yul Brynner ; A Bridge Too Far ( 1977 ), in a controversial performance as Lieutenant General Frederick " Boy " Browning, also starring Sean Connery and an all-star cast and again directed by Richard Attenborough.

After acting in a variety of plays from 1966 to 1969, Miles was cast as Rosy in the title role of David Lean's 1970 film, Ryan's Daughter.

* Leo Gorcey ( 1917 – 1969 ), member of the original cast of " Dead End ", and memorably outspoken member of the Dead End Kids / East Side Kids / The Bowery Boys.

The following year she was cast with Peter O ' Toole in Goodbye, Mr. Chips ( 1969 ), a musical adaptation of the classic James Hilton novella.

Delgado was frequently cast as a villain, appearing in many noted British action-adventure TV series by ITC, including The Champions ( 1969 ), Danger Man ( 1961 ), The Saint ( 1962, 1966 ), and Randall and Hopkirk ( Deceased ) ( 1969 ).

After Fiddler, she joined the original cast of Salvation in 1969.

Lean then saw Christopher Jones in The Looking Glass War ( 1969 ) and decided he had to have Jones for the part, and so cast him without ever meeting him.

He did, however, collect 3010 votes cast by the BBWAA during his initial eligibility period from 1969 to 1983 – a record for an unselected player.

When the historic split in the Congress took place in 1969, he cast his lot with Indira Gandhi and became the interim president of the faction she headed.

" in 1969, and for the cast album of Smokey Joe's Cafe, a 1995 Broadway musical revue based on their work.

The 1969 " M " Code Edelbrock aluminum intake was replaced by a factory-produced cast iron piece ; however, due to a porous casting, there was a recall early in the iron intake-equipped 440 + 6 run, and these were supposed to be replaced with the more-desirable Edelbrock intake from the year prior.

An early collaboration with Roger Nichols, " Someday Man ," was covered by The Monkees ( a group for which he auditioned but was not cast ) on a 1969 single, and was the first Monkees ' release not published by Screen Gems.