What Interesting/Important Happened in 1969?
Are you searching for some interesting facts about the year of your birth?
If you said ’yes’ to our question, we assure you you’re in the right place at the right time.
Here in this article, we bring you the biggest highlights of 1969 including a bunch of stuff you will definitely be glad to know. So, just keep reading!
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Michael Schumacher Was Born
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If you enjoy watching Formula 1 and you don’t miss a single race, you’ve had the opportunity to see Schumacher standing on the podium so many times. Actually, he’s been there more often than any other Formula 1 driver up to the day of his retirement in 2012 (with 91 wins, 68 pole positions, and 155 podium finishes, to be precise).
Well, Red Baron was born in 1969, so if you were born back then as well, he’s your age-mate.
And it seems that he was simply meant to be Formula 1 superstar since the day of his birth. Believe it or not, he was only 6 when he became the champion for the first time. It’s just he wasn’t driving Formula, don’t worry. He was the youngest champion of – Karting!
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Led Zeppelin Released Debut Album
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Is Stairway to Heaven your favorite song ever, and is Led Zeppelin your favorite group ever? In that case, you will surely be glad to know that 1969, the year of your birth, was the year when this world-famous English band released its first album.
It was simply called – Led Zeppelin. However, if you’re a real fan, you may know about these facts already. But reminding ourselves of some good times can’t hurt.
So, if you would like to enjoy the late 1960s spirit a bit more, here it is – a video of Led Zeppelin playing live one of their first songs from their first album back in 1969.
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Jennifer Aniston and Jennifer Lopez Were Born
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When we mention Jennifer Aniston, do you first think of Friends? Well, it’s no wonder if you do because Rachel is officially one of the greatest characters in the history of television. But did you know that Rachel was supposed to be played by Monica, and Monica was supposed to be played by Rachel?
Anyhow, this super-talented woman that looks so stunning even in her sixth decade of life was born in 1969, just like you!
Friends brought her a Golden Globe, but did you know that she almost missed the opportunity to become one of the highest-grossing actresses on the planet?
Her parents, also actors – John Aniston and Nancy Dow, didn’t want her to follow in their footsteps. However, Aniston just kept on pursuing her dreams, and there she is now at the top of the world. In honor of that, check out what did she look like during one of her first roles in the 1993 horror-comedy Leprechaun.
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Not only one Jennifer was born in 1969, but two! Believe it or not, JLo is also your age-mate, although she looks like she is a teenage girl.
We all know how she slays now in both the music and movie industry, but let’s remind ourselves of the first time we got to know her, shall we? Do you remember when in 1991 JLo first appeared on In Living Color show as a Fly Girl dancer? If not, here’s you’re chance to take yourself back in time for a few minutes!
As soon as she filmed the first movie where she was playing the leading role, Selena, in 1997, Lopez became the first Latin actress ever who have earned more than $1 million for a single movie.
And now that you’ve learned all of this stuff, go to your playlist and enjoy her first single ever, If You Had My Love!
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Man Walked on the Moon Surface
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„That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind“ was the sentence that millions of people all around the globe heard on 20 of July in 1969. One man said it while walking on the Moon surface, no less!
This is one of the biggest events that occurred not only in this year but in the whole century as well. The everlasting dream of humankind to go all the way to the dark side of the Moon and safely come back to Earth finally came true when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin put their feet on the solid ground of our planet again after a long-lasting trip in space.
Armstrong, the commander of the Apollo 11 mission stepped first on the Moon’s surface at 20:17 UTC, and pilot Aldrin followed. Altogether, they spent more than 21 hours there, which is almost a whole day!
Before flying back to Earth, they collected more than 20 kilos of the lunar material to bring to their birth planet for scientists to examine it. If you would like to see it, they are placed at Nasa Johnson Space Center.
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John Lennon Married Yoko Ono
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One more interesting thing happened back in 1969 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono leveled up their relationship by getting married. The couple met in 1966 already, but Lennon was married to his first wife at the time.
However, that marriage was pretty much about to be over at that moment, and just a couple of years later, Lennon and his wife Cynthia divorced.
Well, the end always means a new beginning, so Lennon and Yoko Ono didn’t waste any time waiting to get together forever. On March 20 in 1969 they officially became husband and wife.
The ceremony was not spectacular at all – just a 10 minutes protocol. But, one thing is interesting – they got married in Gibraltar, far away from the UK, and yet so close, as it was a British colony back in time.
In case you want to learn more about John Lenon and Yoko Ono’s love story by yourself, we’ve got a shortcut for you all the way to a special song about the couple written by Lennon himself – The Ballad of John and Yoko.
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Summary
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You can’t deny that a lot of interesting things happened back in 1969, the year of your birth, now you’ve read our article.
But are you willing to find out what are the biggest events of the following 1970? If so, just switch to our next article!
