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What's Happenin'?
Besides US, what else was going on in 1969?
Follow these links to bring back some memories.
• TV was full of new shows.
• News was being made all over the world.
• Beatles were fab.
• Tom Jones, Paul Anka and Jack E. Leonard were playing Vegas.
• David Bowie sang on TV for the first time.
• The Draft Lottery made your birthday a very big deal.
• Girls went gaga for the Monkees.
• TV Commercials tried to sell you many things in '69 — even cigarettes.
• And Alka Seltzer was good for what ailed you.
• At the movies, "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" filled the screen.
• The Boeing 747 began to fill the skies.
• What did we feed our Viet Nam war soldiers? You may not want to know.
• A TV show started in England in 1969 that would change comedy forever.
• Broadway was covered in "Hair."
• What was the first message ever sent over the Internet? You'll never guess, but it happend in '69.
• 1969 brought the first moon landing. And scientists, like Carl Sagen were already thinking about our place in the universe.
• Who was born in 1969?
•Beside most of us, who else was born in 1951?
• Of course we had video games in 1969 — sort of...
• Broadway Joe took it to Baltimore in Super Bowl III
• Shopping for clothes in '69?
• The country was gripped by gruesome murders in California.
• 1969 is an important year to computers. See why.
• The 1969 Seattle Pop Festival featured The Doors, Chuck Berry, The Byrds, Bo Diddley, Guess Who, It's A Beautiful Day, Led Zeppelin, Tina Turner and more. Tickets for the event cost $6 for a day or $15 for all three of the days.
• Major League baseball came to Seattle — but not for long. Cheer on the Pilots on one of their good days.
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