Historical Events In 1968

Feb 15   Little Walter, rocker, dies at 37 in the year 1968.  

Feb 16   Beatles George Harrison & John Lennon & wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on this day in history.  

Feb 16   In the year 1968 country's first 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville AL  

Feb 16   In the year 1968 elvis Presley receives gold record for "How Great Thou Art"  

Feb 16   On this day in history healey Willan, composer, dies at 87  

Feb 17   Donald Wolfit, actor (Lawrence of Arabia), dies of heart ailment at 65 on this day in history.  

Feb 18   10,000 demonstrators against US in Vietnam War in West-Berlin in the year 1968.  

Feb 18   In the year 1968 10th Winter Olympics games close at Grenoble, France  

Feb 18   On this day in history david Gilmour joins rock group Pink Floyd  

Feb 18   Sigurd Erixon, etnologist (Atlas "ver Svensk Folkkultur), dies at 79 on this day in history.  

Feb 19   In the year 1968 ralph Dunn, actor (Mr Rudge-Norby), dies at 65  

Feb 20   On this day in history anthony Asquith, dies  

Feb 20   In the year 1968 john Cleese (Monty Python) marries Connie Booth  

Feb 20   In the year 1968 state troopers used tear gas to stop demonstration at Alcorn A &M  

Feb 21   In the year 1968 150,000 demonstrate against leftist students in West-Berlin  

Feb 21   Anthony Asquith, British director (Court Martial), dies at 65 in the year 1968.  

Feb 21   On this day in history baseball announces a minimum annual salary of $10,000  

Feb 22   In the year 1968 omer CFL Tulippe, Belgian geographer, dies at 71  

Feb 22   Rock group Genesis release their first record "The Silent Sun" in the year 1968.  

Feb 23   Fannie Hurst, US author (Anatomy of Me), dies at 78 on this day in history.  

Feb 23   Wilt Chamberlain becomes first NBAer to score 25,000 points in the year 1968.  

Feb 24   A pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge) on this day in history.  

Feb 24   In the year 1968 discovery of the first pulsar in space  

Feb 24   Gary Unger begins NHL consecutive game record of 914 games on this day in history.  

Feb 24   On this day in history uS troops reconquer Hue Vietnam  

Feb 25   430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea in the year 1968.  

Feb 25   Camille Huysmans, Belgian premier (1946-47), dies at 96 in the year 1968.  

Feb 25   Makarios re-elected President of Cyprus in the year 1968.  

Feb 26   Clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission in the year 1968.  

Feb 26   Eric Feldary, actor (16 Fathoms Deep), dies of burns at 55 in the year 1968.  

Feb 27   In the year 1968 johannes Tralow, writer, dies at 85  

Feb 28   On this day in history doretta Morrow, actress (Because You're Mine), dies at 41  

Feb 28   Pirate Radio Hauraki, off New Zealand, returns to the air on this day in history.  

Feb 29   1st pulsar announced (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge) in the year 1968.  

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Jan 02   In the year 1968 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   On this day in history 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   Kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa) was born in the year 1968.  

Jan 03   In the year 1968 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   On this day in history joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83  

Jan 05   In the year 1968 jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79  

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

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

Jan 09   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.