Rancocas Valley Regional Class of '69
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Top News Stories from 1969

 

World Events

 

World Statistics

 

Population: 4.378 billion

 

population by decade

 

Nobel Peace Prize: International Labour Organization

 

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  • Nixon begins "Vietnamization" in Southeast Asia. Background: Vietnam War
  • The United States, USSR, and about 100 other countries sign the nuclear nonproliferation treaty (NPT). Background: nuclear disarmament
  • Russian and Chinese troops clash along the Ussuri River.
  • 27-year-old Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi deposes King Idris of Libya and establishes a pro-Arabic, anti-Western, Islamic republic.

 

U.S. Events

 

U.S. Statistics

 

President: Richard M. Nixon

 

Vice President: Spiro T. Agnew

 

Population: 202,676,946

 

Life expectancy: 70.5 years

 

Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 36.8

 

Property Crime Rate (per 1,000) 33.5

 

Homicide Rate (per 100,000): 7.7

 

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Economics

 

US GDP (1998 dollars): $982.2 billion

 

Federal spending: $183.64 billion

 

Federal debt $365.8 billion

 

Median Household Income(current dollars): $8,389 billion

 

Consumer Price Index: $36.7

 

Unemployment: 3.6%

 

Cost of a first-class stamp 6 cents

 

Sports

 

Super Bowl

 

NY Jets d. Baltimore

 

World Series

 

NY Mets d. Baltimore (4-1)

 

NBA Championship

 

Boston d. LA Lakers

 

Stanley Cup

 

Montreal d. St. Louis

 

Wimbledon

 

Women:

 

Ann Jones d. B.J. King

 

(3-6 6-3 6-2)
Men: Rod Laver d. J. Newcombe (6-4 5-7 6-4 6-4)

 

Kentucky Derby Champion

 

Majestic Prince

 

NCAA Basketball Championship

 

UCLA d. Purdue

 

NCAA Football Champions

 

Texas (11-0-0)

 

Entertainment

 

Entertainment Awards

 

Pulitzer Prizes

 

Fiction: House Made of Dawn, N. Scott Momaday

 

Music: String Quartet No. 3, Karel Husa

 

Drama: The Great White Hope, Howard Sackler

 

Academy Award, Best Picture: Oliver!, John Woolf, producer (Columbia)

 

Nobel Prize for Literature: Samuel Beckett (Ireland)

 

Record of the Year: "Mrs. Robinson," Simon and Garfunkel

 

Album of the Year: By the Time I Get to Phoenix, Glen Campbell (Capitol)

 

Song of the Year: "Little Green Apples," Bobby Russell, songwriter

 

Miss America: Judith Anne Ford (IL)

 

Events

 

  • In August, more than half a million people gather in the small, upstate New York town of Bethel (near Woodstock, N.Y.) for four days of rain, sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. Performers include Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Joan Baez, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Jefferson Airplane and Sly and the Family Stone.
  • A Rolling Stones fan is killed at the group's Altamont, California, concert by members of Hell's Angels.
  • Children's Television Workshop introduces Sesame Street.
  • The FCC bans all cigarette advertising on television and radio.

 

Movies

 

  • Midnight Cowboy, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Wild Bunch, Easy Rider, Anne of the Thousand Days

 

Books

 

  • Robert Coover, Pricksongs and Descants
  • John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman
  • Mario Puzo, The Godfather
  • Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint
  • Jean Stafford, Collected Stories
  • Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

 

Science

 

Nobel Prizes in Science

 

Chemistry: Derek H. R. Barton (UK) and Odd Hassel (Norway), for study of organic molecules

 

Physics: Murray Gell-Mann (US), for study of subatomic particles

 

Physiology or Medicine: Max Delbruck, Alfred D. Hershey, and Salvador E. Luria (all US), for study of mechanism of virus infection in living ce

 

  • Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the moon. Background: US Staffed Space Flights
  • The first in vitro fertilization of a human egg is performed in Cambridge, England. Background: Birth & Contraception
  • ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) goes online in December, connecting four major US universities. Designed for research, education, and government organizations, it is the foundation upon which the Internet will eventually be built. Background: Computers and Internet
  • The scanning electron microscope is developed.
  • The use of DDT is banned in residential areas.

 

Death

 

 

 

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