In June 1969 he won the Labour Party nomination for the constituency of Bedwellty in Wales ( later Islwyn ) for the following general election.

After more speeches against the Bill during early 1969 and with left-wing Labour MPs against Lords reform as well ( they wanted its abolition ), Harold Wilson announced on 17 April that the Bill was being rescinded.

This restriction was slightly relaxed just before the July 1964 election, when authorities were allowed to provide places “ where this would enable married women to return to teaching .” In 1965, the Labour government provided a further relaxation which allowed authorities to expand “ so long as they provided some extra places for teachers to whom priority was to be given .” Nevertheless, the number of children under five in maintained nursery, primary, and special schools increased only slightly, from 222, 000 in 1965 to 239, 000 in 1969.

Public expenditure as a percentage of GDP rose significantly under the 1964 – 1970 Labour government, from 34 % in 1964 – 65 to nearly 38 % of GDP by 1969 – 70, whilst expenditure on social services rose from 16 % of national income in 1964 to 23 % by 1970.

By 1969, the Labour Party was suffering serious electoral reverses, and by the turn of 1970 had lost a total of 16 seats in by-elections since the previous general election.

In 1969, Callaghan, a strong supporter of the Labour / Trade Union link, led the successful opposition in a divided cabinet to Barbara Castle's White Paper " In Place of Strife " which sought to modify Trade Union law.

Douglas became a Labour member of parliament at the 1969 general election.

For a number of years ( two periods, 1945 – 1950 and 1963 – 1977 ) he was a member of the Dutch Senate for the Labour Party, and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee ( 1969 – 1977 ).

During this time he served as Minister for Education ( 1959 – 1965 ), Minister for Industry and Commerce ( 1965 – 1966 ), Minister for Labour ( 1966 – 1969 ) and Minister for Foreign Affairs ( 1969 – 1973 ).

Hillery retained his post as Minister for Labour following Lynch's reshuffle of the Cabinet, serving until 1969.

In 1969, Prokhorov became a Hero of Socialist Labour, the highest degree of distinction in the Soviet Union for achievements in national economy and culture.

* Hero of Socialist Labour, twice ( 1969, 1986 )

He was later part of the 1968 military coup that brought Marien Ngouabi to power and was a founding member of the Congolese Labour Party ( Parti Congolais du Travail, PCT ) in December 1969.

John Golding was elected as a Labour MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme at a by-election in 1969.

Militant's national secretary Peter Taaffe outlined how " the trade union and Labour Movement scored a tremendous victory in forcing the Labour government to climb down over its proposed anti-trade union legislation " in the first issue of the Militant International Review ( Autumn 1969 ), Militant's quarterly theoretical journal.

At that time the Liverpool District Labour Party and the Trades Council was a single body, the Liverpool Trades Council and Labour Party, until it was split, against the wishes of the left, in 1969.

At the 1969 general election he was elected Labour TD for Dún Laoghaire and Rathdown.

He was re-elected as a Labour Party TD at the 1969 general election.

* John Lewis ( UK politician ) ( 1912 – 1969 ), British Labour Party Member of Parliament, 1945 – 1951

He served as a Labour Member of Parliament from 1969 to 1990 and returned to Parliament as an ACT backbencher in 2008 before retiring in 2011.

After some experience in local body politics as a member of the Manukau City Council, Douglas began his career in national politics in 1969 when he won election to parliament as the Labour Member of Parliament for Manukau.

In United States vs. IBM, filed January 17, 1969, the government charged that bundled software was anticompetitive.

It has been in federal government longer than any other party, as the junior coalition partner to either the CDU / CSU ( 1949 – 56, 1961 – 66, 1982 – 98, and since 2009 ) or the Social Democratic Party ( 1969 – 82 ).

In February 1969, the Guinean government moved against the armed forces after alleging that a plot centred in Labé, the centre of the Fula (; ) homeland was planning to assassinate Toure and seize power, or, failing that, force the secession of Middle Guinea.

In June 1969 Tom Mboya, a Luo member of the government considered a potential successor to Kenyatta, was assassinated.

In the interim, while armed Lebanese forces under the Maronite-controlled government sparred with Palestinian fighters, Egyptian leader Gamal Abd al-Nasser helped to negotiate the 1969 " Cairo Agreement " between Arafat and the Lebanese government, which granted the PLO autonomy over Palestinian refugee camps and access routes to northern Israel in return for PLO recognition of Lebanese sovereignty.

Constitutionally guaranteed Christian control of the government had come under increasing fire from Muslims and leftists, leading them to join forces as the National Movement in 1969, which called for the taking of a new census and the subsequent drafting of a new governmental structure that would reflect the census results.

In 1969 the revolutionary government officially changed the regional designation of Tripolitania to Western Libya, of Cyrenaica to Eastern Libya, and of Fezzan to Southern Libya ; however, the old names were intimately associated with the history of the area, and during the 1970s they continued to be used frequently.

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.

A government was formed by Abdullahi Issa and other members of the trusteeship and protectorate governments, with Haji Bashir Ismail Yusuf as President of the Somali National Assembly, Aden Abdullah Osman Daar as President and Abdirashid Ali Shermarke as Prime Minister ( later to become President from 1967 – 1969 ).

* 1969 – In Canada, the Official Languages Act comes into force, making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government.

When Telnet was initially developed in 1969, most users of networked computers were in the computer departments of academic institutions, or at large private and government research facilities.

The two institutions were merged in 1969 by the government of Alex Campbell as part of a campaign to integrate the Island's Roman Catholic and Protestant communities, which had previously maintained the two separate institutions of higher learning.

* Schreuder, D. M. Gladstone and Kruger: Liberal government and colonial ‘ home rule ’, 1880 – 85 ( 1969 )

He was first appointed as Chief Martial Law Administrator in 1969 ( 20th March ), succeeding Field Marshal Ayub Khan as military dictator and president in 1969 ( 25th MARCH1969 ), declaring martial law and dissolving much of the civilian infrastructure, government ministries and appointments, replacing them with military infrastructure and personnel instead.

* On September 1, 1969, the Libyan monarchy was overthrown, and a radical, anti-Israel, anti-Western government headed by Col. Muammar al-Qadaffi took power.

** The Nigerian government forbids all political activity in the country until January 17, 1969.

It is the first government to be re-elected since 1969.

* World's longest serving current monarchy head of government: Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden from 1946 to 1969 ().

Per a 1969 treaty, the Hungarian government should have forced the East Germans back home.

In October 1969, he entered the government of Willy Brandt as defence minister.

When Massamba-Débat was overthrown in 1968 Lissouba remained in government under Marien Ngouabi and although he was suspended from political activity from 1969 to 1971 he was on the Central Committee of the Congolese Workers Party in 1973.

On 30 June 1969, the Nigerian government banned all Red Cross aid to Biafra ; two weeks later it allowed medical supplies through the front line, but restricted food supplies.

At the 1969 elections, again with Brandt as the leading candidate, the SPD became stronger, and after three weeks of negotiations, the SPD formed a coalition government with the smaller Free Democratic Party of Germany ( FDP ).