Historical Events In 1968

Oct 18   Lee Tracy, actor (Doctor X, Bombshell, Best Man), dies of cancer at 70 on this day in history.  

Oct 19   Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars in the year 1968.  

Oct 20   Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, TV preacher, dies at 84 in the year 1968.  

Oct 20   Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis on this day in history.  

Oct 22   Apollo 7 returns to Earth in the year 1968.  

Oct 23   In the year 1968 kip Keino (Kenya) wins gold medal for 1,500m (3 min 34.9 sec)  

Oct 24   On this day in history mick Jagger and Marianne Faithful busted for pot, released on œ50 bail  

Oct 25   On this day in history chicago recognizes Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable as its 1st settler  

Oct 25   Jean Schlumberger, French writer (Passions), dies in the year 1968.  

Oct 25   Yoko Ono announces she is having John Lennon's baby on this day in history.  

Oct 26   Erich Von Stroheim, actor/director (Napoleon), dies of cancer at 52 on this day in history.  

Oct 26   In the year 1968 soyuz 3 launched  

Oct 26   The Flushing Meadow Park Zoo opens in New York City on this day in history.  

Oct 27   Lise Meitner, Austria/Swedish physics (protactinium), dies at 89 in the year 1968.  

Oct 28   In the year 1968 henricus WJM Keuls, lawyer/poet, dies at 85  

Oct 29   Marius Moaritz Ulfrstad, composer, dies at 78 on this day in history.  

Oct 30   Conrad Richter, US writer (Light in the Forest), dies at 78 on this day in history.  

Oct 31   Linda Eastman moves to UK permanently on this day in history.  

Oct 31   On this day in history president Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam  

Oct 31   Ramon Novarro, [Jose RG Samaniegos], actor (Ben Hur), dies at 69 on this day in history.  

Nov 01   Georgios Papandreou, Greek minister/premier, dies at 80 in the year 1968.  

Nov 02   Ernst Hess, composer, dies at 56 in the year 1968.  

Nov 04   On this day in history paul JM Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer/author, dies at 78  

Nov 05   In the year 1968 estelle Hemsley, actress (Leech Woman, Take aGiant Step), dies at 81  

Nov 05   Nixon (R) beats VP Humphrey (D) & George C Wallace for Presidency in the year 1968.  

Nov 06   Guillaume Landre, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.  

Nov 07   Willem A Wagenaar, Dutch journalist/author (3,000 meter), dies on this day in history.  

Nov 08   Cynthia Lennon is granted a divorce from John in the year 1968.  

Nov 08   Wendell Corey, actor (11th Hour, Peck's Bad Girl), dies at 54 on this day in history.  

Nov 09   Jan Johansson, composer, dies at 37 on this day in history.  

Nov 10   In the year 1968 gerald Mohr, actor (Christopher-Foreign Intrigue), dies at 54  

Nov 10   In the year 1968 launch of Zond 6, 2nd unmanned circumlunar & return flight  

Nov 11   On this day in history jeanne Demessieux, composer, dies at 47  

Nov 11   In the year 1968 john Lennon and Yoko Ono appear nude on cover of "2 Virgins" album  

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Jan 02   On this day in history birth of cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men)  

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   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 on this day in history.  

Jan 03   Shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah) was born in the year 1968.  

Jan 03   Thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos) was born in the year 1968.  

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   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 on this day in history.  

Jan 10   In the year 1968 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.