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June 23, 1969

On June 23, 1969, warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren. The year's #1 song was "Sugar, Sugar" by The Archies. Keith DeCandido, Felix Baumgartner, Will Hodgman would arrive in the same year.

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1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1969th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 969th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1960s decade.

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On June 23, 1969

  1. 1969 Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren.

    Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986

    Warren Earl Burger was an American attorney who served as the 15th chief justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986.

  2. 1969 IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry.

    Class of businesses specializing in software

    The software industry includes businesses for development, maintenance and publication of software that are using different business models, mainly either "license/maintenance based" (on-premises) or "Cloud based". The industry also includes software services, such as training, documentation, consulting and data recovery. The software and computer services industry spends more than 11% of its net sales for Research & Development which is in comparison with other industries the second highest share after pharmaceuticals & biotechnology.

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Keith DeCandido 1969– American author
Felix Baumgartner 1969– Austrian daredevil (died 2025)
Will Hodgman 1969– Australian politician, 45th Premier of Tasmania
Toby Stephens 1969– English actor
Joe Buck 1969– American sportscaster
Martin Koolhoven 1969– Dutch director and screenwriter

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