Historical Events In 1968

Aug 22   On this day in history the first papal visit to Latin America (Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota)  

Aug 23   Ringo quits the Beatles over a disagreement, temporarily on this day in history.  

Aug 24   On this day in history cyril Vincent, cricketer (84 wkts slow lefty for S Af 1927-35), dies  

Aug 24   On this day in history france became world's 5th thermonuclear power  

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 on this day in history.  

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   Anti-war demonstrators clash with police in Chicago, where Hubert H. Humphrey receives the Democratic nomination for president on this day in history.  

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

Aug 28   On this day in history 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   On this day in history death of CEW Bean, founder of the Australian War Memorial and editor of the Official history of Australia in the war of 1914-18  

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) on this day in history.  

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

Aug 31   On this day in history 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   On this day in history private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon & Yoko Ono album will have a picture of them nude on the cover  

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

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

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

Sep 06   Karl Ranki, composer, dies at 69 on this day in history.  

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 in the year 1968.  

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 in the year 1968.  

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   On this day in history a baby was born on Golden Gate Bridge yes the event slowed traffic  

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Jan 02   On this day in history 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   Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion was born in the year 1968.  

Jan 02   In the year 1968 birth of evan Parke, Jamaican actor  

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

Jan 03   Thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos) was born in the year 1968.  

Jan 02   In the year 1968 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   Kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81 in the year 1968.  

Jan 07   Prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897) died on this day in history.  

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

Jan 10   On this day in history 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.