About the day » Wednesday December 24, 1969Calender converter

• Marco Antonio Sparenburg, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2000)
• Benoît DECKERS, Séoul (Corée du Sud),, France († 2023)
• Henricus Adrianus Petrus Brokx, Breda († 2008)
• Rene Karel Franciscus Leemreize, Hengelo († 2020)

• Adam Vrasdonk (89), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antoinetta van Gils (82), Made, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Taekje Jager (45), Woerden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alfridus, Emilius Coppens (88), Wilrijk
• Anna Tjaaktje Jager (45), Woerden, Utrecht, Netherlands
• * Aaltje Zijderveld (62), Schoonrewoerd
• Adriana van de Wiel (87), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Margaret Campbell (58), Kay County, Oklahoma, Verenigde Staten
• Anthonie Gerardus Lukkien (77), Haarlem
• Anna Paulina Lambert (82), Reet

• 1969 » Brad Anderson, American wrestler
• 1969 » Clinton McKinnon, American saxophonist and keyboard player
• 1969 » Ed Miliband, English academic and politician, Minister for the Cabinet Office
• 1969 » Leavander Johnson, American boxer († 2005)
• 1969 » Mark Millar, Scottish author
• 1969 » Milan Blagojevic, Australian footballer and manager
• 1969 » Nick Love, English director and screenwriter
• 1969 » Pernille Fischer Christensen, Danish director and screenwriter
• 1969 » Ryuji Kato, Japanese soccer player
• 1969 » Taro Goto, Japanese soccer player

• 1965 » John Black, English businessman (b. 1895)
• 1965 » William M. Branham, American minister and theologian (b. 1906)
• 1967 » Burt Baskin, American businessman, co-founded Baskin-Robbins (b. 1913)
• 1969 » Alfred B. Skar, Norwegian journalist and politician (b. 1896)
• 1969 » Cortelia Clark, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1907)
• 1969 » Olivia FitzRoy, English soldier and author (b. 1921)
• 1969 » Stanisław Błeszyński, Polish-German entomologist and lepidopterist (b. 1927)
• 1971 » Maria Koepcke, German-Peruvian ornithologist and zoologist (b. 1924)
• 1972 » Gisela Richter, English-American archaeologist and historian (b. 1882)
• 1973 » Fritz Gause, German historian and author (b. 1893)

• 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.
• March 13 » Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
• April 7 » The Internet's symbolic birth date: Publication of RFC 1.
• July 19 » Chappaquiddick incident: U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy crashes his car into a tidal pond at Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, killing his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne.
• September 9 » In Canada, the Official Languages Act comes into force, making French equal to English throughout the Federal government.
• September 14 » The US Selective Service selects September 14 as the First Draft Lottery date.
• December 1 » Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.

The temperature on December 24, 1969 was between 1.0 °C and 3.9 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.