Historical Events In 1968

Aug 22   The first papal visit to Latin America (Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota) in the year 1968.  

Aug 23   Ringo quits the Beatles over a disagreement, temporarily on this day in history.  

Aug 24   Cyril Vincent, cricketer (84 wkts slow lefty for S Af 1927-35), dies on this day in history.  

Aug 24   In the year 1968 france became world's 5th thermonuclear power  

Aug 24   In the year 1968 france becomes a nuclear power, exploding a hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific.  

Aug 25   John George, actor (Kolb-Adventures of Fu Manchu), dies at 70 in the year 1968.  

Aug 26   Kay Francis, actress (Charley's Aunt, Play Girl), dies of cancer at 65 on this day in history.  

Aug 27   Marina, princess of Greece/Denmark/Dutchess of Kent, dies at 61 in the year 1968.  

Aug 28   In the year 1968 anti-war demonstrators clash with police in Chicago, where Hubert H. Humphrey receives the Democratic nomination for president.  

Aug 28   On this day in history john Gordon Mein, US ambassador in Guatemala, dies  

Aug 28   Police & anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Dem Natl Conven on this day in history.  

Aug 29   Victor Sutherland, dies at 79 on this day in history.  

Aug 30   On this day in history death of CEW Bean, founder of the Australian War Memorial and editor of the Official history of Australia in the war of 1914-18  

Aug 30   John and Yoko Lennon's One on One concert at Madison Square Garden raises $250,000 to help mentally retarded children in the year 1968.  

Aug 30   The first record under Apple label (Beatle's Hey Jude) in the year 1968.  

Aug 30   William Talman, actor (Hamilton-Perry Mason), dies at 53 in the year 1968.  

Aug 31   In the year 1968 6,000 die in 7.8 quake destroys 60,000 buildings in NE Iran  

Aug 31   On this day in history dennis O'Keefe, actor (Suspicion), dies of lung cancer at 60  

Aug 31   On this day in history in Iran a 7.3 earthquake was centered about 250 kilometers south of Mashhad. There were 12,000 to 20,000 deaths, many injuries, and over 60,000 homeless  

Aug 31   In the year 1968 private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon & Yoko Ono album will have a picture of them nude on the cover  

Sep 01   On this day in history granville English, composer, dies at 69  

Sep 01   On this day in history pirate Radio Marina (Netherlandsd) begins transmitting  

Sep 02   Ernest Claes, Belgium, author (The White), dies at 82 on this day in history.  

Sep 05   In the year 1968 21 killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi Pakistan  

Sep 05   Juan Jose Castro, composer, dies at 73 on this day in history.  

Sep 06   Karl Ranki, composer, dies at 69 on this day in history.  

Sep 06   Swaziland becomes an independent member of the British Commonwealth in the year 1968.  

Sep 06   In the year 1968 swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day)  

Sep 09   On this day in history the fir1st US Open, Arthur Ashe wins  

Sep 15   Launch of Zond 5, the first lunar fly around with Earth reentry in the year 1968.  

Sep 16   On this day in history richard Nixon appears on "Laugh-in&quot  

Sep 17   Zond 5 completes circumnavigation of the Moon in the year 1968.  

Sep 18   In the year 1968 franchot Tone, actor (Advise & Consent, Dark Waters), dies at 63  

Sep 19   In the year 1968 a baby was born on Golden Gate Bridge yes the event slowed traffic  

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Jan 02   In the year 1968 birth of cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men)  

Jan 02   In the year 1968 birth of scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions)  

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion  

Jan 02   In the year 1968 birth of evan Parke, Jamaican actor  

Jan 03   Kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star was born on this day in history.  

Jan 03   Kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa) was born in the year 1968.  

Jan 03   In the year 1968 birth of shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah)  

Jan 03   Thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 02   On this day in history sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies  

Jan 04   Joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83 on this day in history.  

Jan 05   In the year 1968 jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79  

Jan 06   Kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81 on this day in history.  

Jan 07   Prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897) died on this day in history.  

Jan 09   Kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide died in the year 1968.  

Jan 10   Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73 in the year 1968.  

Jan 11   On this day in history death of isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)