Category: 1969 in the United States

* 1969 – Violence erupts after the Apprentice Boys of Derry march in Derry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom resulting in a three-day communal riot known as the Battle of the Bogside.

1929 portrait of King Alfonso XIIIOn 31 May 1906, at the Royal Monastery of San Geronimo in Madrid, Alfonso married Scottish-born Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg ( 1887 – 1969 ), a niece of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

* 1969 – Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to " Vietnamize " the war effort.

Under Clinton, the United States had a projected federal budget surplus for the first time since 1969.

In a letter dated August 1, 1969, and addressed to the President of the Security Council, the Permanent Representative of Cambodia alleged to the United Nations Security Council that aircraft from the United States and South Vietnam scattered ‘ poisonous yellow powder ’ along its frontiers with South Vietnam in May and June.

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.

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.

Dwight David " Ike " Eisenhower ( pronounced, ; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969 ) was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961.

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.

* 1969 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom: Home Secretary James Callaghan's motion to make permanent the Murder ( Abolition of Death Penalty ) Act 1965, which had temporarily suspended capital punishment in England, Wales and Scotland for murder ( but not for all crimes ) for a period of five years.

* 1969 – Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.

* 1969 – United States Secretary of State William P. Rogers proposes his plan for a ceasefire in the War of Attrition ; Egypt and Jordan accept it over the objections of the PLO, which leads to civil war in Jordan in September 1970.

The Open University of the United Kingdom ( UKOU ), established in 1969 as the first educational institution in the world wholly dedicated to open and distance learning, still relies heavily on print-based materials supplemented by radio, television and, in recent years, online programming.

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

The film was released straight to television in the United States in 1969 by the Walter Reade organization.

The film was released theatrically in the United States in the Spring of 1969 by American International Pictures.

A proponent of Realpolitik, Kissinger played a dominant role in United States foreign policy between 1969 and 1977.

Schmitt is also the only geologist as well as the only person to have walked on the Moon who was never a member of the United States Armed Forces, although he is not the first civilian, since Neil Armstrong left military service prior to his landing in 1969.

* 1969 – Vietnam War: U. S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense.

* 1969 – Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren.

* 1969 – The United States $ 500, $ 1, 000, $ 5, 000 and $ 10, 000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation.

* John Mason Brown ( 1900 – 1969 ), United States literary critic

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.

* 1969 – The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.

It was created 10 years after the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 in the United States.

* 1969 – National Educational Television ( the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service ) in the United States debuts the children's television program Sesame Street.

Bhutan joined the Colombo Plan in 1962, International Postal Union in 1969 and became a member of the United Nations in 1971.

Township officials had fought, off and on, for the change since 1969, when then-U. S. Rep. Frank Thompson tried unsuccessfully to convince U. S. Postal Service authorities to grant a Lawrence name tag for the entire township, according to a letter on file at the Municipal Clerk ’ s Office.

The term appears in a Russell Baker humor column about the slow speed of the U. S. Postal Service in 1969.

Barney ( 1922 – 1969 ) was employed by the U. S. Postal Service, while Betty ( 1919 – 2004 ) was a social worker.

* 1969 16th Universal Postal Union Congress

Jersey Post was established ( as the Committee for Postal Administration ) by the Post Office ( Jersey ) Law 1969, in 1969 as a result of an Order in Council which enabled the Crown dependencies to establish independent postal services.

It covers the period of Bukowski's life from about 1952 to his resignation from the United States Postal Service three years later, to his return in 1958 and then to his final resignation in 1969.

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.

( A separate Meritorius Service Medal was established in 1969.

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

** On Her Majesty ’ s Secret Service ( 1969 )

* James Bond film series, from You Only Live Twice ( 1967 ) to Die Another Day ( 2002 ), with the exception of On Her Majesty's Secret Service ( 1969 ) and For Your Eyes Only ( 1981 ).

In 1969, the CPB talked to private groups to start the Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS ).

A Congressional Research Service ( CRS ) Issue Brief quotes policy statements made by President Johnson in a speech delivered on September 10, 1968 and by Secretary of State Rogers in a speech delivered on December 9, 1969 " The United States has stated that boundaries should be negotiated and mutually recognized, “ should not reflect the weight of conquest ,” and that adjustments in the pre-1967 boundaries should be “ insubstantial .”

The Park Service stopped this practice in 1969 as part of their long process of de-emphasizing artificial park attractions.

* 1969 He appeared in Gerry Anderson's puppet series The Secret Service, a mixture of live and puppet action in which he and his puppet double played Father Unwin.

The CPB initially collaborated with the pre-existing National Educational Television system, but in 1969 decided to start the Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS ).

* 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.

* On Her Majesty's Secret Service ( 1969 )

There continued to be an appeal for Australian actors in Hollywood as " action-men ", with the casting of Australian George Lazenby to replace Sean Connery portraying the superspy James Bond in the 1969 film On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

* On Her Majesty's Secret Service ( 1969 )

But the LM was not ready for its first flight, leading NASA management to decide to replace Borman's mission with a lunar orbit flight using just the Command / Service Module as Apollo 8 in December, making McDivitt's flight Apollo 9 in March 1969.

Her acting career began in 1969 with a small role in the film Some Girls Do and as a Bond girl in On Her Majesty's Secret Service ; she played the English girl among Blofeld's ' Angels of Death ' and had two lines.

The Marshals Service itself, as a federal agency, was not created until 1969.

Blofeld appears or is heard in three novels: Thunderball, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and You Only Live Twice ; and six James Bond films from Eon Productions: From Russia with Love ( 1963 ), Thunderball ( 1965 ), You Only Live Twice ( 1967 ), On Her Majesty's Secret Service ( 1969 ), Diamonds Are Forever ( 1971 ) and For Your Eyes Only ( 1981 ) ( the pre-title sequence of which marks his final appearance and apparent death ).

R. J. Reynolds Tobacco diversified into other areas, buying Pacific Hawaiian Products, the makers of Hawaiian Punch, in 1962, Sea-Land Service in 1969, and Del Monte Foods in 1979.

* On Her Majesty's Secret Service ( 1969 ): the look and behaviour of Austin Powers modelled on Lazenby's Bond ; Frau Fabissima modelled on Irma Bunt ; Dr.

* The Secret Service ( 1969 )

The first movie to use music made with a ( Moog ) synthesizer was the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1969.