Thursday, April 17, 1969

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The Headlines

POPE TO ADDRESS I.L.O. IN GENEVA; To Attend 50th Anniversary Early in June and Visit World Church Council

#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In

The 5th Dimension

#1 at the box office

$572,100

The must-have

Nerf Ball

On This Day

• Communist Party of Czechoslovakia chairman Alexander Dubček is deposed.

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• Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916)
• J. P. Morgan (1837)
• William Holden (1918)
• Sean Bean (1959)
• Thornton Wilder (1897)

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Tech Check

ARPANET (Internet Precursor), Moon Lander & UNIX.

Cost of Living (1960)