January 1 Jack Kent Cooke, owner of NHL's LA Kings, fines each player $100 for "NOT" arguing with the referee
January 2 Australian Rupert Murdoch gains control of the 'News of the World'
January 3 John Lennon's "2 Virgins" album declared pornographic in NJ
January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ifni
January 7 US Congress doubles president salary
January 10 Sweden is the 1st Western country to recognize North Vietnam
January 12 Led Zeppelin, the first Led Zeppelin album, is released in the United States.
- Martial law is declared in Madrid, as the University is closed and over 300 students are arrested.
January 14 The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 4.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_4
Jan 15 Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
January 16 Two cosmonauts transfer from Soyuz 5 to Soyuz 4 via a spacewalk while the two craft are docked together, the first time such a transfer takes place. The two spacecraft undock and return to Earth two days later.[1]
- Student Jan Palach sets himself on fire in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia; 3 days later he dies.
There seems to be a movie about him from last year
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8443592/reference
January 20 – Richard Nixon is sworn in as the 37th President of the United States.
January 22 – An assassination attempt is carried out on Leonid Brezhnev by deserter Viktor Ilyin. One person is killed, several are injured. Brezhnev escaped unharmed.
January 24 Spanish dictator General Franco announces state of emergency
January 25 US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris
January 26 – Elvis Presley steps into American Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, recording "Long Black Limousine", thus beginning the recording of what becomes his landmark comeback sessions for the albums From Elvis in Memphis and Back in Memphis. The sessions yield the popular and critically acclaimed singles "Suspicious Minds", "In the Ghetto", and "Kentucky Rain".
January 27 14 spies hanged in Baghdad
January 28 – 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill: A blowout on Union Oil's Platform A spills 80,000 to 100,000 barrels of crude oil into a channel and onto the beaches of Santa Barbara County in Southern California; on February 5 the oil spill closes Santa Barbara's harbor. The incident inspires Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson to organize the first Earth Day in 1970.
Jan 28 1969 NFL Draft: O.J. Simpson from USC first pick by Buffalo Bills
January 30 – The Beatles give their last public performance, of several tracks on the roof of Apple Records, London (featured in Let It Be (1970 film)).