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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