Historical Events In 1968

Dec 10   Karl Barth, Swiss theologist/minister (Kirchliche Dogma), dies at 82 in the year 1968.   

Dec 11   Nadine Riga, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 59 in the year 1968.   

Dec 11   The Labor Department announced that the nation's unemployment rate had dwindled to 3.3%, the lowest mark in 15 years on this day in history.   

Dec 12   In the year 1968 rolling Stones film TV show "Rock 'n Roll Circus"-never aired   

Dec 12   Tallulah Bankhead, actress (All Star Revue), dies of pneumonia at 65 on this day in history.   

Dec 13   In the year 1968 playland at Beach reopens   

Dec 13   In the year 1968 playland at the Beach reopens   

Dec 13   Siegfried Reda, composer, dies at 52 in the year 1968.   

Dec 15   On this day in history jess Willard, Heavyweight boxing champ (1915-19), dies at 86   

Dec 18   On this day in history uSSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR   

Dec 19   On this day in history norman Thomas, founder (ACLU)/Socialist Party (1926-55), dies at 84   

Dec 19   In the year 1968 wCWB (now WMGT) TV channel 41 in Macon, GA (NBC) begins broadcasting   

Dec 20   Bax Brod, composer, dies at 84 on this day in history.   

Dec 21   In the year 1968 apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell & Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage   

Dec 21   In the year 1968 launch of Apollo 8 with Captain James A. Lovell, Jr. as Command Module Pilot. During the mission Lovell was one of the first two people to see the far side of the moon. The mission lasted 6 days and 3 hours, and included 10 moon orbits. Recovery was by HS-4 helicopters from USS Yorktown (CVS-10).   

Dec 22   Louise Granville, entertainer, dies of influenza at 73 in the year 1968.   

Dec 23   82 members of US intelligence ship `Pueblo' released by North Korea on this day in history.   

Dec 23   In the year 1968 borman, Lovell and Anders become first men to orbit Moon   

Dec 23   On this day in history first US case of space motion sickness   

Dec 24   On this day in history apollo 8 astronauts read passages from Book of Genesis   

Dec 25   Frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting Moon on this day in history.   

Dec 27   Apollo 8 returns to Earth in the year 1968.   

Dec 28   100,000 attend Miami Pop Festival in the year 1968.   

Dec 28   In the year 1968 beatles' "Beatles-The White Album," goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks   

Dec 29   On this day in history balt Colts beat Cleveland Browns 34-0 in NFL championship game   

Dec 30   On this day in history -48ø F (-44ø C), Mazama & Winthrop, Washington (state record)   

Dec 31   Carl Oscar Ahues, German International Chess Master (1950), dies at 85 on this day in history.   

Dec 31   On this day in history first supersonic airliner flown (Russian TU-144)   

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Jan 02   Cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 02   Scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 02   Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion was born in the year 1968.   

Jan 02   Evan Parke, Jamaican actor was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   In the year 1968 birth of kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star   

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

Jan 03   Shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah) was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 02   Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies on this day in history.   

Jan 04   Joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83 in the year 1968.   

Jan 05   Jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79 on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73   

Jan 11   Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) died on this day in history.