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 on this day in history.  

Oct 20   In the year 1968 elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, TV preacher, dies at 84  

Oct 20   On this day in history jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis.  

Oct 22   In the year 1968 apollo 7 returns to Earth  

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

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

Oct 25   Chicago recognizes Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable as its 1st settler on this day in history.  

Oct 25   In the year 1968 jean Schlumberger, French writer (Passions), dies  

Oct 25   On this day in history yoko Ono announces she is having John Lennon's baby  

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   In the year 1968 the Flushing Meadow Park Zoo opens in New York City.  

Oct 27   On this day in history lise Meitner, Austria/Swedish physics (protactinium), dies at 89  

Oct 28   Henricus WJM Keuls, lawyer/poet, dies at 85 on this day in history.  

Oct 29   On this day in history marius Moaritz Ulfrstad, composer, dies at 78  

Oct 30   Conrad Richter, US writer (Light in the Forest), dies at 78 in the year 1968.  

Oct 31   In the year 1968 linda Eastman moves to UK permanently  

Oct 31   President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam on this day in history.  

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   In the year 1968 ernst Hess, composer, dies at 56  

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

Nov 05   Estelle Hemsley, actress (Leech Woman, Take aGiant Step), dies at 81 on this day in history.  

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

Nov 06   On this day in history guillaume Landre, composer, dies at 63  

Nov 07   Willem A Wagenaar, Dutch journalist/author (3,000 meter), dies in the year 1968.  

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 in the year 1968.  

Nov 09   On this day in history jan Johansson, composer, dies at 37  

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

Nov 10   On this day in history launch of Zond 6, 2nd unmanned circumlunar & return flight  

Nov 11   Jeanne Demessieux, composer, dies at 47 in the year 1968.  

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

Jan 02   In the year 1968 birth of scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions)  

Jan 02   Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion was born on this day in history.  

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 in the year 1968.  

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 in the year 1968.  

Jan 06   On this day in history kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81  

Jan 07   Prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897) died in the year 1968.  

Jan 09   In the year 1968 death of kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide  

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 in the year 1968.