Historical Events In 1968

Oct 18   Lee Tracy, actor (Doctor X, Bombshell, Best Man), dies of cancer at 70 in the year 1968.  

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 in the year 1968.  

Oct 22   On this day in history apollo 7 returns to Earth  

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

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 on this day in history.  

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

Oct 26   In the year 1968 erich Von Stroheim, actor/director (Napoleon), dies of cancer at 52  

Oct 26   In the year 1968 soyuz 3 launched  

Oct 26   On this day in history the Flushing Meadow Park Zoo opens in New York City.  

Oct 27   Lise Meitner, Austria/Swedish physics (protactinium), dies at 89 on this day in history.  

Oct 28   On this day in history henricus WJM Keuls, lawyer/poet, dies at 85  

Oct 29   In the year 1968 marius Moaritz Ulfrstad, composer, dies at 78  

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   President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam in the year 1968.  

Oct 31   In the year 1968 ramon Novarro, [Jose RG Samaniegos], actor (Ben Hur), dies at 69  

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

Nov 02   On this day in history ernst Hess, composer, dies at 56  

Nov 04   Paul JM Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer/author, dies at 78 on this day in history.  

Nov 05   Estelle Hemsley, actress (Leech Woman, Take aGiant Step), dies at 81 in the year 1968.  

Nov 05   In the year 1968 nixon (R) beats VP Humphrey (D) & George C Wallace for Presidency  

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

Nov 07   On this day in history willem A Wagenaar, Dutch journalist/author (3,000 meter), dies  

Nov 08   In the year 1968 cynthia Lennon is granted a divorce from John  

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

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

Nov 10   Gerald Mohr, actor (Christopher-Foreign Intrigue), dies at 54 in the year 1968.  

Nov 10   Launch of Zond 6, 2nd unmanned circumlunar & return flight on this day in history.  

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

Nov 11   John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear nude on cover of "2 Virgins" album on this day in history.  

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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   In the year 1968 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   In the year 1968 birth of kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa)  

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   In the year 1968 sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies  

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

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 in the year 1968.  

Jan 07   In the year 1968 death of prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)  

Jan 09   Kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide died on this day in history.  

Jan 10   Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73 on this day in history.  

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