About the day » Friday January 24, 1969Calender converter

• Hanny de Graauw, Waspik († 1970)
• Sheila Kay Voetberg, Rock Valley, Sioux County, Iowa († 1969)
• Sandra Speerstra
• Leendert van Marion († 1999)
• Oliver Sascha Brozek, Munchen, Bayern, Bondsrepubliek Duitsland
• Jack de Ruiter, Den Helder († 1969)
• Antonie Steenbergen

• Aaltje de Jong (51)
• Ansel Voorheis Cox (67)
• Arie Cornelis Pronk (86), 's Gravenhage, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Mosmans (80)
• Anna Maria Goormans (67), Nijlen
• Bernard van der Hoven (74), Schagen
• Adrianus van Hal (94)
• Antonie Barend Hartman (97), Leerdam
• Bernardus Aerts (66), Roosendaal en Nispen
• Amilia Josephina Irma Schoofs (86), Brustem, België

• 1967 » Michael Kiske, German singer
• 1968 » Antony Garrett Lisi, American theoretical physicist
• 1968 » Fernando Escartín, Spanish cyclist
• 1968 » Mary Lou Retton, American gymnast
• 1968 » Tymerlan Huseynov, Ukrainian footballer
• 1969 » Carlos Rômulo Gonçalves e Silva, bishop of Montenegro
• 1969 » Yoo Ho-jeong, South Korean actress
• 1970 » Matthew Lillard, American actor
• 1970 » Neil Johnson, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1970 » Roberto Bonano, Argentine footballer

• 1961 » Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American pole vaulter and businessman, founded the A. C. Gilbert Company (b. 1884)
• 1962 » Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Turkish author, poet, and scholar (b. 1901)
• 1962 » André Lhote, French sculptor and painter (b. 1885)
• 1962 » Stanley Lord, English naval captain (b. 1877)
• 1965 » Winston Churchill, English colonel and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
• 1966 » Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist and academic (b. 1909)
• 1970 » Caresse Crosby, American fashion designer and publisher, co-founded the Black Sun Press (b. 1891)
• 1971 » Bill W., American activist, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1895)
• 1973 » J. Carrol Naish, American actor (b. 1896)
• 1975 » Larry Fine, American comedian (b. 1902)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Robert
4. Peter
5. Richard
6. Hendrik
7. Cornelis
8. Edwin
9. Mark
10. Michael
11. Marcel
12. David
13. Pieter
14. Willem
15. Patrick
16. Ronald

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Monique
4. Sandra
5. Elisabeth
6. Jolanda
7. Karin
8. Esther
9. Ingrid
10. Yvonne
11. Anna
12. Petra
13. Miranda
14. Cornelia
15. Anita
16. Catharina

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 12.8 million citizens.
• January 14 » USS Enterprise fire: An accidental explosion aboard the USSEnterprise near Hawaii kills 28 people.
• January 16 » Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in protest against the Soviets' crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.
• September 9 » In Canada, the Official Languages Act comes into force, making French equal to English throughout the Federal government.
• November 10 » National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts Sesame Street.
• November 13 » Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, D.C. stage a symbolic March Against Death.
• November 20 » Vietnam War: The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam.

The temperature on January 24, 1969 was between 3.1 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.