Timeline May 1969

Events in May 1969 7

• 1969 AMD founded — one year after Intel Advanced Micro Devices is founded on 1 May 1969 in Sunnyvale, California by Jerry Sanders and seven colleagues — most of them former Fairchild Semiconductor engineers, the same pool from which Intel's founders came. Sanders, a flamboyant salesman in sharp contrast to Intel's engineer-led culture, raises $1.5 million in startup funding. AMD's initial business is manufacturing AMD-branded versions of chips designed by other companies — a second-source strategy that keeps AMD alive for its first decade.
• 1969 Sly and the Family Stone release Stand! I Want to Take You Higher Their best-selling album.
• 1969 Neil Young releases Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere First album with Crazy Horse With Cinnamon Girl, Down by the River and Cowgirl in the Sand.
• 1969 Apollo 10 Dress rehearsal for Moon landing Apollo 10 flew to the Moon and descended to within 15km of the lunar surface — a full dress rehearsal for the Apollo 11 landing.
• 1969 The Who release Tommy The first rock opera A double album about a deaf, dumb and blind pinball champion.
• 1969 – 2016 Rob Ford (1969-2016) Died 22 March 2016, aged 46 Ford served as Mayor of Toronto from 2010 to 2014, drawing international attention after admitting to smoking crack cocaine while in office. Despite the scandal he retained a loyal base of supporters known as "Ford Nation." He died of a rare form of cancer shortly after leaving office as a city councillor.
• 1969 Crosby, Stills & Nash release their debut album Suite: Judy Blue Eyes With Suite: Judy Blue Eyes and Marrakesh Express.