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.

The last new Buddy Holly album was Giant ( featuring the single " Love Is Strange "), issued in 1969.

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.

In 1969, Sullivan presented the Jackson 5 with their first single " I Want You Back ", which ousted the B. J. Thomas song from the top spot of Billboard's pop charts.

Moon was credited as composer of " I Need You ", which he also sang, and the instrumental " Cobwebs and Strange " ( from the album A Quick One, 1966 ), the single B-sides " In The City " ( co-written by Moon and Entwistle ), " Dogs Part Two " ( 1969 ) ( sharing credits with Townshend's and Entwistle's dogs, Towser and Jason ), " Tommy's Holiday Camp " ( 1969 ), " Waspman " ( 1972 ), and " Girl's Eyes " ( from The Who Sell Out sessions ; featured on Thirty Years of Maximum R & B and a 1995 re-release of The Who Sell Out ).

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

* 1969 – " Horse " / " Back Door Man " ( 7 " single )

The European and Polynesian populations gradually increased in the years leading to the nickel boom of 1969 – 72, and the Melanesians became a minority, though they were still the largest single ethnic group.

* In 1969, progressive rock band Yes covered the song " Something's Coming " as the B-side to their first single " Sweetness ".

Another Bed-In in May 1969 at the Queen Elizabeth Fairmont in Montreal, Canada, resulted in the recording of their first single, " Give Peace A Chance ", a Top 20 hit for the newly christened Plastic Ono Band.

In 1969 the 73-note Mark I Stage Piano was introduced as a one-piece alternative to the Suitcase style, featuring four detachable legs ( used in Fender steel pedal guitars ), a sustain pedal with an adjustable pushrod ( the main component in a Rogers hi-hat ) and a single output ( mislabeled INPUT ) for use with an outboard guitar cabinet or other source of amplification.

The single pension was raised by 12s 6d in March 1965, b y10s in 1967 and by a further 10s in 1969.

In June 1969, he played Mellotron on David Bowie's single " Space Oddity " for a session fee of £ 9.

This duo auditioned for Dodd in 1969, and recorded the debut single " Door Peep ".

However, only once has a single party held the 61 seats needed for a majority government ( the Alignment from 1968 until the 1969 elections ).

The 1960s, however were dominated by Real Madrid and Atlético Bilbao only had a single Copa del Rey win in 1969.

" The album's singles — the Bruce Johnston-produced original " Bluebirds Over the Mountains " ( Billboard # 64 ) and the Carl Wilson-produced cover of The Ronettes ' " I Can Hear Music "— won lukewarm attention, with the latter reaching # 24 on the Billboard single chart in April 1969 ; the lead track, the Wilson / Love-authored " Do It Again ", an unabashed throwback to the band's earlier surf hits, had been an international hit in the summer of 1968, reaching # 20 in the US charts and # 1 the UK while also scoring well in other countries.

The history of HIV / AIDS in the United States began in about 1969, when HIV likely entered the United States through a single infected immigrant from Haiti.

"/" She Told Me " 1969 ( single ).

She had a related UK single release as " Jennifer " on London HLU 10278 in June 1969 with " Let The Sunshine In " c / w " Easy To Be Hard ", licensed from US Parrot label.

In 1969, Smothers played guitar on John Lennon's recording of his single " Give Peace a Chance ".

Other examples are the 1992 compilation Switched On, named after a 1969 Wendy Carlos album, and the 1992 single " John Cage Bubblegum ", named after experimental composer John Cage.

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.