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| 1969 |
| | | Australian tennis player Rod Laver is the first to win the Grand Slam a second time | |
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| 1969 |
| | | Idris I, king of Libya, is deposed in a bloodless coup led by Muammar al-Gaddafi | |
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| 1969 |
| | | An engineer in the newly formed Intel Corporation designs the first programmable microchip | |
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| 1969 |
| | | Italian composer Luciano Berio completes his Sinfonia for eight voices and orchestra | |
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| 1969 |
| | | Willy Brandt, leader of the SPD (Social Democratic Party), becomes chancellor of Germany | |
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| 1969 |
| | | Scottish Grand Prix racing driver Jackie Stewart wins the first of his three world championship titles | |
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| 1969 |
| | | The Northern Irish player George Best is voted European Footballer of the Year | |
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| 1969 |
| | | The ARPANET, linking computers in four US cities, is the first step towards the internet | |
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| c. 1969 |
| | | Paintings discovered on stone slabs in a cave in Namibia are dated to about 28,000 years ago | |
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| 1969 |
| | | British scientists Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards fertilize in a test-tube eggs removed from human ovaries | |
|  | Human sperm fertilising an egg
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