Historical Events In 1968

Mar 10   Ferry boat sinks in harbor of Wellington New Zealand (200 killed) in the year 1968.  

Mar 10   Helen Walker, actress (Brewster's Million), dies of cancer at 47 in the year 1968.  

Mar 11   In the year 1968 anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting  

Mar 11   Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 12nd string quartet in the year 1968.  

Mar 11   Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for "(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay" in the year 1968.  

Mar 12   In the year 1968 mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day)  

Mar 12   On this day in history mauritius, in the Indian ocean island, granted independence after 158 years of British rule  

Mar 12   In the year 1968 uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site  

Mar 13   On this day in history beatles release "Lady Madonna" in the UK  

Mar 14   In the year 1968 cBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA  

Mar 14   Erwin Panofsky, German/US art historian/iconologist, dies in the year 1968.  

Mar 15   In the year 1968 british minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns  

Mar 15   Diocese of Rome announces that it "deplored the concept", but wouldn't prohibit rock and roll masses at Church of San Lessio Falconieri in the year 1968.  

Mar 15   In Ottawa the government suspends gold trading by Canadian banks and dealers; to dampen speculation on this day in history.  

Mar 15   On this day in history lIFE magazine calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world"  

Mar 15   In the year 1968 uprising in South Yemen  

Mar 15   In the year 1968 uS Mint stops buying and selling gold  

Mar 16   During the Vietnam War, a U.S. Army platoon from Charlie Company, 11th Brigade, Americal Division, massacres over four hundred unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in the village of My Lai in the district of Song My in the year 1968.  

Mar 16   June Collyer, actress (June-Stu Erwin Show), dies at 60 in the year 1968.  

Mar 16   My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die on this day in history.  

Mar 16   Robert F Kennedy announces Presidential campaign on this day in history.  

Mar 17   2-tiered gold price negotiated in Washington DC by US and 6 European nations in the year 1968.  

Mar 18   Congress repeals requirement for a gold reserve on this day in history.  

Mar 18   On this day in history manuel Gomez Carillo, composer, dies at 85  

Mar 19   On this day in history howard University students seize administration building  

Mar 20   On this day in history carl T Dreyer, Danish director (Passion of Jeanne d'Arc), dies  

Mar 20   Military intervene in South-Yemen (leftist ministers resign) in the year 1968.  

Mar 20   On this day in history president Lyndon Johnson signs a bill removing gold backing from US paper money  

Mar 21   Israeli forces cross Jordan River to attack PLO bases on this day in history.  

Mar 21   Portuguese socialist Mario Soares banished to Sao Tomé on this day in history.  

Mar 22   Jarmila Novotna resigns presidency of Czechoslovakia in the year 1968.  

Mar 22   Lynda Johnson ordered off San Francisco cable car for eating an ice cream cone on this day in history.  

Mar 22   On this day in history student riot in Nanterre near Paris France  

Mar 23   Edwin O'Connor, US writer, dies at 49 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   On this day in history birth of evan Parke, Jamaican actor  

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

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa)  

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

Jan 03   In the year 1968 birth of thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)  

Jan 02   Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies in the year 1968.  

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   In the year 1968 kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81  

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 on this day in history.  

Jan 11   Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) died in the year 1968.