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 in the year 1968.  

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

Feb 16   On this day in history elvis Presley receives gold record for "How Great Thou Art"  

Feb 16   Healey Willan, composer, dies at 87 in the year 1968.  

Feb 17   In the year 1968 donald Wolfit, actor (Lawrence of Arabia), dies of heart ailment at 65  

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

Feb 18   10th Winter Olympics games close at Grenoble, France on this day in history.  

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

Feb 18   On this day in history sigurd Erixon, etnologist (Atlas "ver Svensk Folkkultur), dies at 79  

Feb 19   Ralph Dunn, actor (Mr Rudge-Norby), dies at 65 on this day in history.  

Feb 20   Anthony Asquith, dies in the year 1968.  

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

Feb 20   State troopers used tear gas to stop demonstration at Alcorn A &M in the year 1968.  

Feb 21   150,000 demonstrate against leftist students in West-Berlin on this day in history.  

Feb 21   In the year 1968 anthony Asquith, British director (Court Martial), dies at 65  

Feb 21   In the year 1968 baseball announces a minimum annual salary of $10,000  

Feb 22   Omer CFL Tulippe, Belgian geographer, dies at 71 in the year 1968.  

Feb 22   Rock group Genesis release their first record "The Silent Sun" on this day in history.  

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 on this day in history.  

Feb 24   In the year 1968 a pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge)  

Feb 24   Discovery of the first pulsar in space in the year 1968.  

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

Feb 24   In the year 1968 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 on this day in history.  

Feb 26   On this day in history clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission  

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

Feb 27   Johannes Tralow, writer, dies at 85 in the year 1968.  

Feb 28   In the year 1968 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   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   Evan Parke, Jamaican actor was born in the year 1968.  

Jan 03   On this day in history 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   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   In the year 1968 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 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 on this day in history.  

Jan 09   On this day in history death of kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide  

Jan 10   Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73 in the year 1968.  

Jan 11   In the year 1968 death of isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)