Historical Events In 1968

Aug 22   The first papal visit to Latin America (Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota) in the year 1968.   

Aug 23   On this day in history ringo quits the Beatles over a disagreement, temporarily   

Aug 24   Cyril Vincent, cricketer (84 wkts slow lefty for S Af 1927-35), dies in the year 1968.   

Aug 24   France became world's 5th thermonuclear power on this day in history.   

Aug 24   In the year 1968 france becomes a nuclear power, exploding a hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific.   

Aug 25   John George, actor (Kolb-Adventures of Fu Manchu), dies at 70 in the year 1968.   

Aug 26   Kay Francis, actress (Charley's Aunt, Play Girl), dies of cancer at 65 in the year 1968.   

Aug 27   Marina, princess of Greece/Denmark/Dutchess of Kent, dies at 61 on this day in history.   

Aug 28   On this day in history anti-war demonstrators clash with police in Chicago, where Hubert H. Humphrey receives the Democratic nomination for president.   

Aug 28   John Gordon Mein, US ambassador in Guatemala, dies on this day in history.   

Aug 28   Police & anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Dem Natl Conven in the year 1968.   

Aug 29   Victor Sutherland, dies at 79 in the year 1968.   

Aug 30   Death of CEW Bean, founder of the Australian War Memorial and editor of the Official history of Australia in the war of 1914-18 in the year 1968.   

Aug 30   John and Yoko Lennon's One on One concert at Madison Square Garden raises $250,000 to help mentally retarded children in the year 1968.   

Aug 30   The first record under Apple label (Beatle's Hey Jude) on this day in history.   

Aug 30   William Talman, actor (Hamilton-Perry Mason), dies at 53 in the year 1968.   

Aug 31   6,000 die in 7.8 quake destroys 60,000 buildings in NE Iran in the year 1968.   

Aug 31   Dennis O'Keefe, actor (Suspicion), dies of lung cancer at 60 on this day in history.   

Aug 31   In Iran a 7.3 earthquake was centered about 250 kilometers south of Mashhad. There were 12,000 to 20,000 deaths, many injuries, and over 60,000 homeless on this day in history.   

Aug 31   Private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon & Yoko Ono album will have a picture of them nude on the cover in the year 1968.   

Sep 01   Granville English, composer, dies at 69 on this day in history.   

Sep 01   Pirate Radio Marina (Netherlandsd) begins transmitting on this day in history.   

Sep 02   In the year 1968 ernest Claes, Belgium, author (The White), dies at 82   

Sep 05   21 killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi Pakistan in the year 1968.   

Sep 05   Juan Jose Castro, composer, dies at 73 on this day in history.   

Sep 06   In the year 1968 karl Ranki, composer, dies at 69   

Sep 06   On this day in history swaziland becomes an independent member of the British Commonwealth.   

Sep 06   On this day in history swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day)   

Sep 09   The fir1st US Open, Arthur Ashe wins on this day in history.   

Sep 15   Launch of Zond 5, the first lunar fly around with Earth reentry in the year 1968.   

Sep 16   Richard Nixon appears on "Laugh-in&quot on this day in history.   

Sep 17   Zond 5 completes circumnavigation of the Moon in the year 1968.   

Sep 18   Franchot Tone, actor (Advise & Consent, Dark Waters), dies at 63 on this day in history.   

Sep 19   A baby was born on Golden Gate Bridge yes the event slowed traffic 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   On this day in history birth of anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion   

Jan 02   Evan Parke, Jamaican actor was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   Kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star was born in the year 1968.   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa)   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah)   

Jan 03   In the year 1968 birth of thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)   

Jan 02   Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies in the year 1968.   

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 in the year 1968.   

Jan 06   Kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81 in the year 1968.   

Jan 07   On this day in history death of prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)   

Jan 09   Kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide died in the year 1968.   

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

Jan 11   Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) died in the year 1968.