February 1969 in History

Events in History

Feb 3 Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill announces the dissolution of the Stormont parliament and the holding of new elections

Feb 4 The Palestine National Congress appoints Yasser Arafat chairman of the PLO

Feb 5 United States population reaches 200 million
Feb 6 The New Ulster Movement forms, promoting moderate and non-sectarian policies and to assist those candidates who support Northern Ireland Prime MinisterTerence O'Neill
Feb 7 Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat becomes president of PLO
Feb 7 The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is removed from service
Feb 8 Last edition of Saturday Evening Post
Feb 8 Meteorite weighing over 1 ton falls in Chihuahua, Mexico
Feb 9 1st flight of the Boeing 747 jumbo jet
Feb 11 Dorey Funk Jr beats Gene Kiniski in Tampa, to become NWA champ
Feb 13 Mary Hopkin's Postcard album on Apple is released
Feb 13 Suriname government of Pengel resigns
Feb 18 PLO-attack El-Al plane in Zurich Switzerland
Feb 21 1st launching of heavy N-1 rocket at Baikonur Kazakhstan (explodes)
Feb 23 Nayif Hawatimah forms Dem People's Front for Liberation of Palestine
Feb 24 Mariner 6 launched for Mars flyby to study planet's atmosphere
Feb 24 Northern Ireland Stormont parliament elections are held; the Unionist party fragments into 'Official Unionist' and 'Unofficial Unionist'
Feb 25 Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars
Feb 25 West Germany gives $5 million to an Arab terrorist as ransom for the passengers and crew of a hijacked jumbo jet

Feb 27 General Hafez al-Assad becomes head of Syria via military coup

Feb 27 President Nixon visits West Berlin
Feb 28 Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Rodnina & Ulanov of the Soviet Union
Feb 28 Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Colorado Springs won by Gabriele Seyfert of Great Britain
Feb 28 Terence O'Neill re-elected as leader of the Unionist Parliamentary Party and thus confirmed as Northern Ireland Prime Minister

Feb 1 Andrew Breitbart, American conservative blogger & publisher, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2012)
Feb 3 (Joseph) "Beau" Biden III, American attorney (US Army JAG Major, 2002-15; Delaware Attorney General, 2007-15), and eldest son of US President Joe Biden, born in Wilmington, Delaware (d. 2015)
Feb 10 Joe Mangrum, American artist, born in Florissant, Missouri
Feb 12 Darren Aronofsky, American director and writer, born in Brooklyn, New York
Feb 15 Josh Marshall, American journalist and blogger (Talking Points Memo), born in St. Louis, Missouri
Feb 20 Jason Blum, American producer, founder and CEO of Blumhouse Productions (Whiplash, The Reader, Split), born in Los Angeles, California
Feb 20 Vaginal Davis, American drag queen, author and performance artist, born in Los Angeles, California
Feb 21 Tony Meola, American footballer, born in Belleville, New Jersey
Feb 22 Hans Klok, Dutch illusionist, born in Purmerend, Netherlands

Feb 26 Chinese dissident and one of the student leaders of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, born in Beijing, China

Feb 3 C. N. Annadurai, Indian politician and 1st Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, dies of cancer at 59
Feb 3 Eduardo C Mondlane, Tsonga anthropologist and President of Mozambique, assassinated by a bomb at 48
Feb 14 Vito Genovese, Italian-American crime syndicate boss, dies at 71
Feb 18 Dragisa Cvetkovic, Serbian politician (Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia 1939-41), dies at 76
Feb 25 Jan Zajic, Czech student, who died setting himself alight to protest the Communist takeover at 18
Feb 26 Karl Jaspers, German psychiatrist and philosopher, dies at 86
Feb 26 Levi Eshkol [Sjkolnik], Israeli Prime Minister (1963-69), dies in office of a heart attack at 73
Feb 27 Marius Barbeau, French Canadian folklorist (b. 1883)