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President: Richard M Nixon, Vice
President: Spiro T Agnew |
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The population of the United States
is 201,385,000 |
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National Debt is 365.8 Billion
(-2.9 billion) |
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Unemployment is 3.6% (down just a
pinch) |
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Life Expectancy: 70.5 years |
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Family median income = $8,389. (up
$646. from 1968) |
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Inflation rate = 6.2% |
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Academy Award : Oliver! (click to buy)
 (Best
Picture) |
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Grammy Award : Mrs. Robinson (click to buy)
 (Best Song);
By the Time I Get to Phoenix
(click to buy)  (Best
Album) |
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Best Selling Books : The Godfather (click to buy)
 ; Slaughterhouse-Five (click to
buy)  ; Portnoy's Complaint (click to
buy)  |
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Man walks on the moon!! Affirming
the late President Kennedy's promise, Neil Armstrong is the
first person to ever step onto the lunar surface exclaiming
"That's one small step for man; one giant leap for
mankind" |
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Yasser Arafat is elected Palestine
Liberation Organization leader a post he will hold until his
death in 2004 |
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Golda Meir becomes the first female
prime minister of Israel |
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An explosion and oil spill off the
coast of Santa Barbara, spills 100 - 300,000 barrels of oil |
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An American teenager known as
Robert R. becomes patient #1 in the U.S. HIV/AIDS epidemic |
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John Lennon records "Give
Peace a Chance" for his bed-in for peace demonstration |
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Edward M. Kennedy drives off a
bridge on his way home from a party on Chappaquiddick Island
killing his companion Mary Jo Kopechne |
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The movie Midnight Cowboy (click to buy)
 is the first
ever X Rated film to win an Oscar |
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The Woodstock Festival is held in
upstate New York, it is a mecca for 500,000 anti-war activist and
hippies (see Famous People -
Entertainers) |
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Hurricane Camille, a Category 5
hurricane, hits the Mississippi coast, killing 248 people and
causing $1.5 billion in damage |
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Wendy's founder Dave Thomas
opens the first restaurant in Columbus, Ohio it is named after
his daughter's nick-name |
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The first ARPANET link is
established laying the foundation for the internet |
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Long John Silver's restaurant
chain opens its first store in Lexington, KY |
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The GAP opens its first store in
San Francisco named for the "generation gap" they sold
records and blue jeans |
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The Unix computer operating system
is introduced by Bell Laboratories for use with larger computer
systems |
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Frosted Mini-Wheats, Kaboom
breakfast food and Pringles potato chips all find their way onto
American tables |
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The U.S. military goes to a lottery
type draft to select inductees, it proves to be flawed however
and the math behind it is changed the next year |
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The Cuyahago River in Cleveland, Ohio
literally caught on fire because of massive pollutants and is
credited as the start of the environmental movement |
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The book On "Death and
Dying" is written by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, it defines
the 5 stages of death and is the foundation in the near future
for hospices |
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Dow Jones Industrial Average rises
above 1,000 for the first time in history |
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The following TV shows debuted: The
Liver Birds, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, The Bill Cosby
Show, The Flip Wilson Show, Hee Haw, Marcus Welby M.D., The Brady
Bunch, Monty Python's Flying Circus and Sesame Street |
Pop History
/ 1969
