In 1969 it was also released in the US, under the pseudonym " Shannon ", where it was also a minor hit.

US President Richard M. Nixon announced his new policy on biological warfare at a press conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on November 25, 1969.

A Chagossians | Chagossian, known as " Samson ", photographed by a US National Geodetic Survey team in 1969.

DG released the Nova in 1969 at a base price of US $ 3, 995, advertising it as " the best small computer in the world.

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.

The Wheelus Air Base agreement had just two more years to run, and in December 1969, the US agreed to vacate the facility by June 1970.

* 1969 – Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyen Van Thieu and U. S. military commanders.

The eponymous debut, Led Zeppelin, was released in the US during the tour on 12 January 1969.

In 1969 an edited version of " Whole Lotta Love " from their second album was released as a single in the US.

* 1969 – Vietnam War ; The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam is held in Washington DC and across the US.

From 1969 to 1992, the US Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) received 157 reports of health problems related to quinine use, including 23 which had resulted in death.

* 1969 – The US Selective Service selects September 14 as the First Draft Lottery Date.

Created in 1969 to supplement a shortfall of preferred foreign exchange reserve assets, namely gold and the US dollar, the value of a SDR is defined by a weighted currency basket of four major currencies: the US dollar, the euro, the British pound, and the Japanese yen.

In May 2006, Petersen's $ 160 million epic film Poseidon, a re-telling of the 1969 Paul Gallico novel ( and popular 1972 disaster film ) The Poseidon Adventure, was released by Warner Bros., but performed poorly in the US, barely cracking $ 60 million in box office receipts by early August, although international profits surpassed $ 121 million.

* August 17 – Category 5 Hurricane Camille, the most powerful tropical cyclonic system at landfall in history, hits the Mississippi coast, killing 248 people and causing US $ 1. 5 billion in damage ( 1969 dollars ).

In 1969, in the UK, in the course of being interviewed by a Nova magazine reporter, artist Yoko Ono said, "... woman is the nigger of the world "; three years later, her husband, John Lennon, published the song " Woman is the Nigger of the World " ( 1972 )— about the virtually universal exploitation of woman – which was socially and politically controversial to US sensibilities.

In the Australian movie The Dish, the theme was mistaken for the national anthem of the US by a local band upon the visit of the US Ambassador to Parkes, NSW, to commemorate the 1969 moon landing.

* The Dudley Moore Trio ( Decca Records ( LK UK ) / London Records ( US ) PS558 ) 1969

Ceaușescu negotiated in international affairs, such as the opening of US relations with China in 1969 and the visit of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat to Israel in 1977.

Haley actually recorded this song on five occasions ( a Spanish language version for Orfeón of Mexico City and an English version for the US label Newtown Records ( both in 1964 ), two live versions for Buddah Records recorded in New York in 1969 ( neither of which were released for 25 years ), and once more in Nashville, Tennessee for the Swedish Sonet Records label in 1970 ).

" On July 16, 1969, Johnson attended the Apollo 11 launch — the first former or incumbent US president to witness a rocket launch.

The company was known as Cadbury Schweppes plc from 1969 – 2008 until its demerger, in which its global confectionery business was separated from its US beverage unit ( now called " Dr Pepper Snapple Group ").

* 1969 – Israeli commando force penetrates deep into Egyptian territory to stage a mortar attack on regional Egyptian Army headquarters in the Nile Valley of Upper Egypt.

** U. S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases ( USAMRIID ; 1969 – present )

In the three decades following 1969, the Army was heavily deployed in Northern Ireland, to support the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( later the Police Service of Northern Ireland ) in their conflict with republican paramilitary groups, called Operation Banner.

Thus, similar to the claim put forward by the Provisional IRA after its split from the Official IRA in 1969, the Continuity IRA claims to be the legitimate continuation of the ' Irish Republican Army ' or Óglaigh na hÉireann.

) 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.

On March 28, 1969, Eisenhower died of congestive heart failure at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D. C ..

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.

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 IRA of the Civil War and subsequent organisations that have used the name claim lineage from that group, which is covered in full at Irish Republican Army ( 1922 – 1969 ).

* 1969 – Brazilian Army captain Carlos Lamarca deserts in order to fight against the military dictatorship, taking with him 10 machine guns and 63 rifles.

The rifle entered United States Army service and was deployed for jungle warfare operations in South Vietnam in 1963, becoming the U. S. military's standard service rifle of the Vietnam War by 1969, replacing the M14 rifle in that role.

It emerged out of the December 1969 split of the Irish Republican Army over differences of ideology and how to respond to violence against the nationalist community.

His assassination was quickly followed by a military coup d ' état on October 21, 1969 ( the day after his funeral ), in which the Somali Army seized power without encountering armed opposition — essentially a bloodless takeover.

During 1969 the Sudanese Army consisted of about 26, 500 men, four infantry brigades of four battalions each, three independent infantry battalions, one armoured regiment, a parachute regiment, an armoured regiment and three artillery regiments.

* 1969 – My Lai Massacre: U. S. Army Lt. William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.

Milligan was born in Ahmednagar, India, on 16 April 1918, the son of an Irish father, Captain Leo Alphonso Milligan, MSM, RA ( 1890 – 1969 ), who was serving in the British Indian Army.

In 1969, Khan handed over the powers to Army Chief of Staff General Yahya Khan who promised to hold elections within two years.

General Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan Qizilbash, ( Urdu: آغا محمد یحیی خان قزلباش ; February 4, 1917 – August 10, 1980 ), was the senior Army Commander who was the third President of Pakistan, and the military dictator from 1969 until the dissolution of East-Pakistan, in December 16, 1971.

A team from the U. S. Army Corp of Engineers dammed the falls in June 1969 in order to clear rock from the base of the falls.

* U. S. Army Corps of Engineers The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers completely blocked the flow of water over the American Falls in 1969.

In response to a request from the Stormont government, the government agreed to deploy the British Army in August 1969 in an effort to maintain the peace.

* General Vito Miceli, chief of the SIOS ( Servizio Informazioni ), Italian Army Intelligence's Service from 1969 and SID's head from October 18, 1970 to 1974.