Historical Events in December 1969

August 29, 2024

December1969 Calendar

Buck White

Dec 2 Oscar Brown, Jr's musical "Buck White", starring Muhammad Ali, opens at George Abbott Theatre, NYC, runs for 7 performances

Dec 2 Two years after doubling its size from six to 12, the NHL announces 2 new teams would be joining the League the following year; Buffalo Sabres and Vancouver Canucks

Come and Get It

Dec 5 Apple Records releases the single "Come and Get It" by the band Badfinger; track was written and produced by Paul McCartney for the dark comedy film "The Magic Christian" starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr

Dec 5 Four-node ARPANET network is established between the University of California, Los Angeles, Stanford Research Institute, U.C. Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah
Dec 5 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Rolling Stones at Altamont

Dec 6 300,000 attend free concert featuring The Rolling Stones in Altamont, California; the event is marred by violence and four deaths

Dec 6 Oscar Brown, Jr's musical "Buck White", starring Muhammad Ali, closes at George Abbott Theatre, NYC, after 7 performances
Dec 6 USSR performs nuclear test
Dec 8 Greek DC-6B crashes in storm at Athens, 93 killed
Dec 8 Police surprise attack on Black-Panthers in LA
Dec 11 Libya adopts constitution

Dec 12 Decathlon Bill Toomey achieves world record-score of 8417 points
Dec 12 Offices of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in Piazza Fontana, Milan, are bombed, killing 14

Dec 14 Bishen Bedi takes 7-98 (career-best) v Australia at Calcutta

Jackson Five on Ed Sullivan

Dec 14 Jackson Five make their 1st appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show"

Dec 14 One of the most catastrophic flops in the history of showbusiness - the musical "La Strada" opens and closes at Lunt Fontanne NYC after 1 performance

Dec 15 San Francisco Fire Department replaces leather helmets with plastic ones

War is Over! If You Want It

Dec 16 "War is Over! If You Want It, Happy Christmas from John & Yoko" posters begin appearing

Dec 16 British House of Commons votes 343-185 to abolish the death penalty

Hello Dolly

Dec 16 Film adaptation of "Hello Dolly" starring Barbra Streisand premieres; wins 3 Academy Awards

Dec 17 USAF closes Project Blue Book, concluding no evidence of extraterrestrial spaceships behind thousands of UFO sightings
Dec 18 "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", 6th James Bond Film starring George Lazenby and Diana Rigg, premieres in London

Dec 18 House of Lords votes to abolish the death penalty in England, Wales and Scotland (Northern Ireland 25 July 1973)
Dec 18 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Dec 19 Beatle's 7th Christmas fan-club single is released

"Leaving On A Jet Plane"

Dec 20 Peter, Paul & Mary's cover of John Denver's song "Leaving On A Jet Plane" reaches #1

Ross's Final Supreme Appearance

Dec 21 Diana Ross' final TV appearance as a Supreme on "The Ed Sullivan Show", performing “Someday We’ll Be Together", after which Sullivan announced her upcoming departure from the group

Dec 21 Vince Lombardi (Washington Redskins) coaches his last football game, a 20-10 loss to the Cowboys in Dallas, for a 7-5-2 season and 105-35-6 career
Dec 22 Pete Marovich sets NCAA record of hitting 30 of 31 foul shots

Dec 23 Ballon d'Or: Milan midfielder Gianni Rivera wins award for best European football player ahead of Cagliari forward Luigi Riva and Bayern Munich striker Gerd Müller

Flood Urges Free Agency

Dec 24 Curt Flood writes to baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn refusing to accept the Cardinals’ right to deal him and in favor of free agency [1]

Dec 25 5 Israeli gunboats escape from Cherbourg harbor
Dec 25 India all out for 163 at Madras v Aust, Ashley Mallett 5-91
Dec 28 Dallas Cowboy kicker Mike Clark, attempting an on-side kick against Cleveland, missed the ball

"Last of the Red Hot Lovers"

Dec 28 Neil Simon's play "Last of the Red Hot Lovers" premieres in NYC

Dec 28 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
Dec 30 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
Dec 31 Congo-Brazzaville becomes People's republic, under major Ngouabi

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