Wang Chen-chih (Sadaharu Oh), Chinese baseball star in Japan, returns from Tokyo for a 10-day visit.
17. Economic Minister Sun Yun-suan returns from Bangkok after attending the second Sino-Thai Economic Cooperation Conference.
The Chinese National Committee of the International Press Institute is inaugurated in Taipei.
18. Mai Tho Trugen, Vietnamese minister of cultural affairs, leaves after an eight-day visit.
19. Mrs. Anna Chennault, vice president of the Flying Tigers Line, arrives from Seoul for a three-day visit.
20. Taiwan elects 15 members of the National Assembly and 11 members of the Legislative Yuan.
21. Professor Wu Chen-tsai, director of the Institute of International Relations, returns from the United States after a two-month study tour.
25. The nation observes Constitution Day.
T. S. Lin, speaker of the Taipei City Council, and 47 other members are sworn in at the inauguration of the council.
Lo Chia-luen, former president of the Academia Historica, dies in Taipei.
26. Thirty-three college students from the Philippines arrive for a 15-day goodwill visit.
27. An eight-member mission of the Sino-Philippine Cultural and Economic Association leaves for Manila to attend the inauguration of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos.
28. China opens its Yangmingshan satellite earth station for telecommunication service.
Dr. Sun Fo, president of the Examination Yuan, leaves for Manila as President Chiang Kai-shek's special envoy to the inauguration of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos.
U.S. Astronaut Neil Armstrong and Hollywood comedian Bob Hope arrive to perform in a Christmas show for U.S. servicemen in Taiwan.
29. Paul Wang, director of the Cultural Bureau of the Ministry of Education, returns after a month's tour of Europe.
30. U.S. Senator Hugh Scott arrives for a four-day visit.
The Taiwan Provincial Department of Health announces Taiwan's birth rate in 1969 was 2.875 per cent, a decline of 0.6 per cent over the previous year.
31. Vice Economic Minister Chang Yen-tien returns after attending a two month agricultural seminar in Honolulu.
January 1, 1970. The nation marks the 59th year of the establishment of the Republic.
2. U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew arrives for a two-day visit.
3. Miss Gladys Aylward, naturalized British-Chinese and known as the "small woman", dies in Taipei.
4. Anthony Royle, Conservative Party member of the British House of Commons, arrives for a 10-day visit.
Mayor Frank F. Fasi of Honolulu arrives for a four-day visit.
5. Vice Foreign Minister H. K. Yang leaves for Africa to attend the 10th Independence Day celebrations of Cameroun.
Fourteen members of the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan arrive for a 10-day visit.
6. An 11-member Chinese delegation to the Sino-Vietnamese Economic Cooperation Conference leaves for Saigon.
7. Air Chief Marshal Dawee Chullasapya, commander-in-chief of the Royal Air Force of Thailand, and Vice Air Marshal Kriangsakdi Chamananda, deputy chief of staff of the Royal Thai Supreme Command, arrive for a three-day visit.
Hisaji Kuwabara, a Japanese expert on Chinese Communist affairs, arrives for a 10-day study tour.
9. Economic Minister Sun Yun-suan leaves for Saigon to attend the Sino-Vietnamese Economic Cooperation Conference.
11. Vincantius Muljadi, Indonesian minister of industry and mining, leaves after a 10-day visit.
12. Sirra Atalay, deputy speaker of the Turkish Senate, and Nurettin Ok, deputy speaker of the National Assembly, arrive for a week's visit.
Lt. Gen. Francis C. Gideon, outgoing commander of the U.S. 13th Air Force, arrives for a two-day farewell visit.
Seventy-two good men and women are honored in Taipei for their good deeds.
13. Dr. Robert C. Seamans Jr., secretary of the U.S. Air Force, arrives with a party of nine for a two-day visit.
A. H. Osman, minister of works of Mauritius, and K. Jagatsingh, minister of public of health, arrive for a week's visit.
Vice Communications Minister Wang Chang-ching leaves for Hongkong to attend a meeting of the East Asia Tourism Association.
14. The Tourism Council of the Communications Ministry announces 371,473 tourists visited Taiwan in 1969, an increase of 23.1 per cent.
15. Ma Hung-kwei, former governor of Ninghsia and Kansu, dies in Los Angeles.
Symphony Conductor Helen Quach returns from Manila to prepare for establishment of a conservatory.
Vice Minister of Economic Affairs Wong Yi-ting leads a five-member mission to the United States for a textiles meeting.