Historical Events In 1968

Jan 31   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site on this day in history.  

Jan 31   On this day in history viet Cong's Tet offensive begins  

Feb 01   In the year 1968 famous photo Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head  

Feb 01   Former Vice-President Richard Nixon announces candidacy for President on this day in history.  

Feb 01   On this day in history lawson Little, amateur golfer (US/Brit Opens 1934,35), dies at 57  

Feb 01   The government halted further unification of the Canadian Armed Forces, many say it did not work in the year 1968.  

Feb 01   In the year 1968 vince Lombardi resigns as coach of the Green Bay Packers  

Feb 01   On this day in history world trade conference Unctad 2 opens in New Delhi  

Feb 02   Springer Publishers in West Berlin, bombed in the year 1968.  

Feb 04   In the year 1968 ed Baker, actor (Keystone Kops), dies of emphysema at 70  

Feb 05   KDTV TV channel 39 in Dallas-Fort Worth TX (IND) begins broadcasting on this day in history.  

Feb 05   In the year 1968 luckey Roberts, composer, dies at 80  

Feb 05   In the year 1968 skater Kees Verkerk win Olympics gold in the 1500m  

Feb 06   10th Winter Olympics games opens in Grenoble, France on this day in history.  

Feb 06   C Montague Shaw, actor (Buck Rogers, Planet Outlaws), dies at 85 in the year 1968.  

Feb 06   On this day in history dutch 2nd Chamber condemns US bombing of North Vietnam  

Feb 06   Former President Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole-in-one on this day in history.  

Feb 07   Arthur Miller's "Price," premieres in New York NY in the year 1968.  

Feb 07   Belgium government of Vanden Boeynants falls on this day in history.  

Feb 07   In the year 1968 nick Adams, actor (Interns, Pillow Talk, FBI Story), ODs at 36  

Feb 08   J Borremans, Belgian politician (Communist), dies at 56 in the year 1968.  

Feb 08   Three college students are killed in a clash with the South Carolina highway patrol, during a civil rights protest in Orangeburg on this day in history.  

Feb 09   On this day in history barbara Everest, actress (Inquest, Madeleine), dies at 77  

Feb 09   In the year 1968 rotterdam metro opened by princess Beatrix  

Feb 10   "Spooky" by Classics IV hits #3 in the year 1968.  

Feb 10   Peggy Fleming wins Olympics figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France in the year 1968.  

Feb 10   In the year 1968 pitirim A Sorokin, Russian/US sociologist, dies at 79  

Feb 11   On this day in history howard Lindsay, US playwright (State of the Union), dies at 78  

Feb 11   Israeli-Jordan border fight on this day in history.  

Feb 11   On this day in history jeffrey Kramer survives 76 meter jump, Washington Bridge, Hudson River NY  

Feb 11   Peggy Fleming wins Olympics figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France on this day in history.  

Feb 13   Ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer, dies at 87 on this day in history.  

Feb 13   In the year 1968 uS sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam  

Feb 14   Pennsylvania Railroad/NYC Central merge into Pennsylvania Central in the year 1968.  

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Jan 02   Cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men) was born in the year 1968.  

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions)  

Jan 02   In the year 1968 birth of anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion  

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

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 on this day in history.  

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah)  

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)  

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 in the year 1968.  

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   On this day in history death of prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)  

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)