Historical Events In 1968

Mar 16 Robert F Kennedy announces Presidential campaign

Mar 03 Jean Beliveau (Montréal) becomes 2nd NHLer to score 1,000 points

Mar 11 Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for "(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay"

Mar 11 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 12nd string quartet

Mar 15 In Ottawa the government suspends gold trading by Canadian banks and dealers; to dampen speculation

Mar 16 During the Vietnam War, a U.S. Army platoon from Charlie Company, 11th Brigade, Americal Division, massacres over four hundred unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in the village of My Lai in the district of Song My

Mar 01 Singers Johnny Cash (36) &June Carter (38) wed

Mar 28 Actress Lucy Lawless was born this day.

Mar 13 Beatles release "Lady Madonna" in the UK

Mar 01 Vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect

Mar 10 Ferry boat sinks in harbor of Wellington New Zealand (200 killed)

Mar 07 Operation Coronado XII begins in Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Mar 01 Country music artists Johnny Cash and June Carter are married.

Mar 03 Greece, Portugal & Spain's embassies bombed in the Hague

Mar 12 Mauritius, in the Indian ocean island, granted independence after 158 years of British rule

Mar 22 Lynda Johnson ordered off San Francisco cable car for eating an ice cream cone

Mar 22 Student riot in Nanterre near Paris France

Mar 27 Japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated in San Francisco

Mar 04 Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched

Mar 29 Students seize building at Bowie State College

Mar 01 Pirate Radio Atlantis South (England) begins test transmitting

Mar 15 British minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns

Mar 25 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Mar 27 Suharto succeeds Sukarno as President of Indonesia

Mar 04 Martin Luther King Jr announces plans for Poor People's Campaign

Mar 14 CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA

Mar 15 Diocese of Rome announces that it "deplored the concept", but wouldn't prohibit rock and roll masses at Church of San Lessio Falconieri

Mar 01 Political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands

Mar 02 World Ice Dance Championship in Geneva won by Diane Towler &Bernard Ford (Great Britain)

Mar 20 President Lyndon Johnson signs a bill removing gold backing from US paper money

Mar 22 Jarmila Novotna resigns presidency of Czechoslovakia

Mar 26 Operation Bold Dragon III began in Mekong Delta

Mar 11 Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting

Mar 19 Howard University students seize administration building

Mar 18 Congress repeals requirement for a gold reserve

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