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1969 Technology & Gadgets

After 22 successful heart transplants, when a donor heart was not available Dr Denton Cooley implanted the Liotta-Cooley artificial heart.

Platform shoes in fashion

Concorde jetliner's 1st test flight from Bristol England

November 15 Wendy's Hamburgers opens

U.S.S.R. Venera 5 launched for 1st successful planet landing (Venus)

University of Arizona reports 1st optical id of pulsar in Crab Nebula

Walt Disney World construction begins

1969 Toys & Gadgets

Parker Brothers markets the first Nerf ball, a polyurethane foam ball that is safe for indoor play. By year's end, more than four million Nerf balls are sold.

Weebles first came into play branded by Romper Room and sold to Hasbro in 1969 where they came to represent all sorts of brands from Sesame Street to Disney and so on...

Nintendo's first game department was established named simply "Games" in Uji City, Japan.