Historical Events In 1968
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
Mar 15 US Mint stops buying and selling gold
Mar 30 General Ludvik Svoboda elected President of Czechoslovakia
Mar 21 Portuguese socialist Mario Soares banished to Sao Tomé
Mar 15 Uprising in South Yemen
Mar 02 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Lyudmila Belousova &Oleg Protopopov (USSR)
Mar 04 Joe Frazier TKOs Buster Mathis in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
Mar 02 USSR launches space probe Zond 4; fails to leave Earth orbit
Mar 17 2-tiered gold price negotiated in Washington DC by US and 6 European nations
Mar 21 Israeli forces cross Jordan River to attack PLO bases
Mar 02 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Peggy Fleming (USA)
Mar 16 My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die
Mar 09 10th Grammy Awards Up Up & Away, Sergeant Pepper win
Mar 12 Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day)
Mar 08 Students demonstrate in Warsaw
Mar 09 10th Grammy Awards: Up Up & Away, Sergeant Pepper win
Mar 15 LIFE magazine calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world"
Mar 05 US launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the Sun
Mar 02 USAF displays Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, biggest plane in the world
Mar 08 6 year old Tommy Moore scores hole-in-one in golf (Hagerstown MD)
Mar 02 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Emmerich Danzer (Austria)
Mar 31 President Lyndon B. Johnson announces that he will not seek reelection to the presidency
Mar 12 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Mar 29 In Ethiopia a 6.3 earthquake completely razed the town of Sardo, killing 24 persons and injuring 165
Mar 01 NBC's unprecedented on-air announcement, Star Trek will return great news!!
Mar 20 Military intervene in South-Yemen (leftist ministers resign)
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