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   Ringo quits the Beatles over a disagreement, temporarily in the year 1968.  

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   France becomes a nuclear power, exploding a hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific in the year 1968.  

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

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

Aug 27   In the year 1968 marina, princess of Greece/Denmark/Dutchess of Kent, dies at 61  

Aug 28   In the year 1968 anti-war demonstrators clash with police in Chicago, where Hubert H. Humphrey receives the Democratic nomination for president.  

Aug 28   In the year 1968 john Gordon Mein, US ambassador in Guatemala, dies  

Aug 28   In the year 1968 police & anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Dem Natl Conven  

Aug 29   On this day in history victor Sutherland, dies at 79  

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 on this day in history.  

Aug 30   On this day in history john and Yoko Lennon's One on One concert at Madison Square Garden raises $250,000 to help mentally retarded children.  

Aug 30   The first record under Apple label (Beatle's Hey Jude) in the year 1968.  

Aug 30   In the year 1968 william Talman, actor (Hamilton-Perry Mason), dies at 53  

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

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 on this day in history.  

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

Sep 01   On this day in history pirate Radio Marina (Netherlandsd) begins transmitting  

Sep 02   Ernest Claes, Belgium, author (The White), dies at 82 on this day in history.  

Sep 05   21 killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi Pakistan on this day in history.  

Sep 05   On this day in history juan Jose Castro, composer, dies at 73  

Sep 06   Karl Ranki, composer, dies at 69 in the year 1968.  

Sep 06   In the year 1968 swaziland becomes an independent member of the British Commonwealth.  

Sep 06   Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day) in the year 1968.  

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

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

Sep 16   Richard Nixon appears on "Laugh-in&quot in the year 1968.  

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

Sep 18   In the year 1968 franchot Tone, actor (Advise & Consent, Dark Waters), dies at 63  

Sep 19   A baby was born on Golden Gate Bridge yes the event slowed traffic in the year 1968.  

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Jan 02   Cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men) was born on this day in history.  

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   On this day in history birth of evan Parke, Jamaican actor  

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   Shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah) was born in the year 1968.  

Jan 03   In the year 1968 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   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   In the year 1968 basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73  

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