About the day » Thursday May 22, 1969Calender converter

• Maartje Pieternella vroegop, Alkmaar
• Walter Ivo (Walther) Smits, Den Helder, Nederland († 1987)
• Jan Stevens, Odoorn, Drenthe, The Netherlands († 1991)
• Eric Petrus Wilhelmus Curfs, Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland

• Anna Elisabeth Croese (52), Blaricum, Provincie Noord-Holland
• Anna Maria Langenhuijsen (73), Nijmegen,GD, Nederland
• Age Wietzes Kuperus (75), Surhuisterveen, Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Aart van Haaften (91)
• Alke Holtjer (81)
• Atalie Berthe Caroline Laseur (73), Soest, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aleida Elisabeth Maria Leus (73), Almelo
• Adriaan Schuurbiers (62), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Maria Gruter (69), Amsterdam
• Age Wietzes Kuperus (75), ,,,, Groningen, Nederland

• 1965 » Jay Carney, American journalist, 29th White House Press Secretary
• 1966 » Johnny Gill, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1966 » Wang Xiaoshuai, Chinese director and screenwriter
• 1968 » Graham Linehan, Irish comedian, actor, and author
• 1969 » Cathy McMorris Rodgers, American lawyer and politician
• 1970 » Brody Stevens, American comedian and actor († 2019)
• 1970 » Naomi Campbell, English model
• 1972 » Max Brooks, American author and screenwriter
• 1973 » Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Danish actor
• 1974 » Garba Lawal, Nigerian footballer

• 1965 » Christopher Stone, English radio host (b. 1882)
• 1966 » Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900)
• 1967 » Charlotte Serber, American Librarian of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos site (b. 1911)
• 1967 » Langston Hughes, American poet, social activist, novelist, and playwright (b. 1902)
• 1972 » Cecil Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish poet and author (b. 1904)
• 1972 » Margaret Rutherford, English actress (b. 1892)
• 1974 » Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, German-American mathematician and aerospace engineer (b. 1903)
• 1975 » Lefty Grove, American baseball player (b. 1900)
• 1982 » Cevdet Sunay, Turkish general and politician, 5th President of Turkey (b. 1899)
• 1983 » Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)

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. Esther
8. Karin
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 18 » United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay killing all 32 passengers and six crew members.
• March 13 » Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
• May 15 » People's Park: California Governor Ronald Reagan has an impromptu student park owned by the University of California at Berkeley fenced off from student anti-war protestors, sparking a riot.
• August 13 » The Apollo 11 astronauts enjoy a ticker tape parade in New York City. That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Richard Nixon.
• October 1 » Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
• December 4 » Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot and killed during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers.

The temperature on May 22, 1969 was between 5.8 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 12.1 hours of sunshine (76%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.