Page 14: Historical Events In 1968

Aug 22   The first papal visit to Latin America (Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota) on this day in history.   

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   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 on this day in history.   

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

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 in the year 1968.   

Aug 28   On this day in history john Gordon Mein, US ambassador in Guatemala, dies   

Aug 28   On this day in history police & anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Dem Natl Conven   

Aug 29   In the year 1968 victor Sutherland, dies at 79   

Aug 30   In the year 1968 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   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   On this day in history the first record under Apple label (Beatle's Hey Jude)   

Aug 30   On this day in history william Talman, actor (Hamilton-Perry Mason), dies at 53   

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 in the year 1968.   

Aug 31   In the year 1968 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   

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 in the year 1968.   

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

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 on this day in history.   

Sep 05   Juan Jose Castro, composer, dies at 73 in the year 1968.   

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

Sep 06   Swaziland becomes an independent member of the British Commonwealth on this day in history.   

Sep 06   Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day) on this day in history.   

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 on this day in history.   

Sep 16   In the year 1968 richard Nixon appears on "Laugh-in&quot   

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 in the year 1968.   

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

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 in the year 1968.