Timeline Wednesday 1 January 1969

Events on Wednesday 1 January 1969 13

• 1969 1969: Jackie Stewart Matra Scottish driver Stewart won the first of his three titles with the French Matra team, beginning his campaign for improved safety standards in the sport.
• 1969 – 1970 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Won two Academy Awards for the score of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and the song Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head.
• 1969 Glyndebourne Debut Made her debut at the Glyndebourne Festival in England, beginning a long association with British opera audiences.
• 1969 Grand Ole Opry Member Inducted as a member of the Grand Ole Opry, a decade after her debut there as a 13-year-old girl.
• 1969 – 1970 In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew Played a key role on Miles Davis's epoch-making albums In a Silent Way (1969) and Bitches Brew (1970), which launched the jazz fusion movement.
• 1969 – 1970 Life Is Elsewhere Wrote Life Is Elsewhere, a novel satirising revolutionary romanticism. It won the Prix Médicis étranger in France in 1973.
• 1969 – 1975 National Security Advisor Served as National Security Advisor under President Richard Nixon and then Gerald Ford, overseeing the opening to China in 1972 and the policy of détente with the Soviet Union.
• 1969 – 1970 Postdoc at the Salk Institute Worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Salk Institute under Renato Dulbecco, who would later win the Nobel Prize. When his American visa expired, Dulbecco recommended him to the newly established Basel Institute for Immunology in Switzerland.
• 1969 – 1971 Postdoctoral Research at Caltech Completed postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology, transitioning from physical chemistry toward experimental molecular biology.
• 1969 – 1971 The Barry McKenzie Comic Strip Created the Private Eye comic strip The Wonderful World of Barry McKenzie with Nicholas Garland, establishing an irreverent Australian voice in British satirical publishing.
• 1969 – 1971 USO Tours with Bob Hope Toured with Bob Hope entertaining US troops in Vietnam, missing Christmas at home for three years. Her son Damon later said this was the achievement she was most proud of.
• 1969 – 2018 Verne Troyer (1969-2018) Died 21 April 2018, aged 49 American actor best known for playing Mini-Me in the Austin Powers film series. He appeared in numerous films and television shows over a career spanning three decades. His death followed complications from alcohol use.
• 1969 ZZ Top Formed Joined guitarist Billy Gibbons in Houston to form ZZ Top in 1969, with Dusty Hill completing the trio. The first time he and Gibbons played together, Beard recalled: 'I was jacked up on speed, so I made him jam for about eight hours.' Gibbons said he knew within 30 seconds that Beard was the drummer he needed.