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The third Academy of Country & Western Music awards dinner was held on 4 March 1968 at the Century Plaza Hotel, hosted by Pat Buttram, where Glen Campbell took Top Male Vocalist plus Album and Single Record of the Year for "Gentle on My Mind".

The Thomas Crown Affair is a 1968 American heist film directed by Norman Jewison and written by Alan R. Trustman. Starring Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, and Jack Weston, the film follows Vicki Anderson (Dunaway), who is hired to investigate the culprits of a multi-million dollar bank heist orchestrated by Thomas Crown (McQueen).

Boeing rolled out the first 747 from its new Everett, Washington factory on 30 September 1968 before representatives of 26 airlines. The 231-foot jumbo jet was the first widebody and was christened by 26 flight attendants, one from each customer airline.

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The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 prototype CCCP-68001 flew for 37 minutes from Zhukovsky on 31 December 1968, two months before Concorde, to become the first supersonic airliner to fly.

Zenith announced the El Primero on 10 January 1969, a high-frequency 36,000 vph automatic chronograph movement that beat the Chrono-matic group by almost two months and later powered the Rolex Daytona.

The first Jumbo Jet flew from Paine Field with test pilots Jack Waddell and Brien Wygle at the controls. Despite a minor flap problem the flight confirmed the 747 handled well and was largely immune to the Dutch roll that had plagued early swept-wing jets.

The Anglo-French supersonic airliner, built by Sud Aviation and the British Aircraft Corporation under a 1962 treaty, flew for the first time from Toulouse. Four Rolls-Royce/Snecma Olympus 593 turbojets drove an ogival delta wing carrying 92 to 128 passengers.

On 3 March 1969 Heuer, Breitling, Hamilton-Buren and Dubois-Dépraz presented the Calibre 11 Chrono-matic, the first micro-rotor automatic chronograph, at simultaneous press conferences in Geneva and New York.

At the 11th Annual Grammy Awards on 12 March 1969, held as simultaneous dinners in four cities, Glen Campbell won Album of the Year and José Feliciano Best New Artist, while Record of the Year was withheld for an NBC special where Simon & Garfunkel's 'Mrs. Robinson' won.

Concorde 002, G-BSST, took off from Filton near Bristol on 9 April 1969 with Brian Trubshaw at the controls and landed at RAF Fairford, five weeks after French prototype 001 first flew.

Glen Campbell dominated the fourth Academy of Country & Western Music awards on 28 April 1969 at the Hollywood Palladium, winning Top Male Vocalist and Album of the Year with Bobbie Gentry, while "Wichita Lineman" took Song of the Year.

On 29 May 1969 French transport minister Jean Chamant and German economics minister Karl Schiller signed the agreement that launched the Airbus A300, the first twin-engine wide-body airliner, during the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget.

The Tu-144 prototype went supersonic for the first time on 5 June 1969, four months before Concorde, and reached Mach 2.02 on 26 May 1970.

When Apollo 11's Buzz Aldrin followed Neil Armstrong onto the lunar surface on 20-21 July 1969 he wore an Omega Speedmaster, the first wristwatch worn on the Moon, earning the model its Moonwatch nickname.

Concorde prototype 001, flown by chief test pilot Andre Turcat, passed Mach 1 on 1 October 1969, the western supersonic airliner programme's first flight beyond the speed of sound.

Seiko put the Quartz Astron on sale on 25 December 1969, the first quartz wristwatch, at 450,000 yen; it began the quartz revolution that upended Swiss watchmaking.

The FAA certificated the Boeing 747 on 30 December 1969 after about 10 months of flight testing, clearing the first widebody jetliner for airline service. Pan Am's first revenue flight followed on 22 January 1970.

Pan Am's first Boeing 747 passenger flight left New York for London at 1:52 a.m. EST on 22 January 1970, nearly seven hours late after an engine overheated on the original jet.

At the 12th Annual Grammy Awards on 11 March 1970, staged across five US cities for ABC, Blood, Sweat & Tears won Album of the Year, Crosby, Stills & Nash Best New Artist and Joe South Song of the Year, with the 5th Dimension's 'Aquarius' taking Record of the Year.

Joe, a teenage orphan in the slums of the Doya streets, meets Danpei, a homeless, alcoholic ex-boxing coach. Danpei, seeing Joe's boxing talent, decides to train him.

"Okie From Muskogee" won Song, Single Record and Album of the Year at the fifth Academy of Country & Western Music awards on 13 April 1970 at the Hollywood Palladium, where Merle Haggard was Top Male Vocalist and Tammy Wynette Top Female.

A magnitude 7.9 earthquake off the Peruvian coast shook loose part of Mount Huascaran, and the debris avalanche buried the town of Yungay. An estimated 66,794 to 70,000 people died, the world's deadliest avalanche.

Ted Codd's paper in Communications of the ACM proposes storing data as relations queried by predicate logic, independent of how it is laid out on disk. It is the founding document of the relational database and of SQL.

Egypt's Aswan High Dam, built with Soviet help across the Nile since 1960, was completed on 21 July 1970, creating Lake Nasser and ending the river's annual flood cycle.

The first DC-10-10, N10DC, flew from Long Beach to Edwards Air Force Base on 29 August 1970 in a 3 hour 36 minute flight, reaching 300 knots and 30,000 feet on the first widebody trijet's first outing.

The deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded drove a storm surge over the low-lying islands of the Ganges Delta. At least 300,000 died, and the Pakistani government's response helped set off the Bangladesh Liberation War.

On 18 December 1970 Airbus Industrie was created under French law as a Groupement d'Intérêt Économique, bringing the A300's industrial partners together as one managed programme.

The Aristocats is a 1970 American animated musical comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and distributed by Buena Vista Distribution. It reached US theaters on 24 December 1970.

Heinz Reitbauer’s contemporary Austrian cooking in a light-filled Stadtpark dining room.