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   In the year 1968 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 in the year 1968.  

Aug 24   France becomes a nuclear power, exploding a hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific on this day in history.  

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 on this day in history.  

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

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   John Gordon Mein, US ambassador in Guatemala, dies in the year 1968.  

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

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

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   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   In the year 1968 dennis O'Keefe, actor (Suspicion), dies of lung cancer at 60  

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   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 in the year 1968.  

Sep 01   In the year 1968 pirate Radio Marina (Netherlandsd) begins transmitting  

Sep 02   On this day in history 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 in the year 1968.  

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   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 in the year 1968.  

Sep 16   On this day in history richard Nixon appears on "Laugh-in&quot  

Sep 17   In the year 1968 zond 5 completes circumnavigation of the Moon  

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   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   In the year 1968 birth of kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa)  

Jan 03   Shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah) was born on this day in history.  

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

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 in the year 1968.  

Jan 05   On this day in history 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   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 in the year 1968.  

Jan 10   Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73 on this day in history.  

Jan 11   Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) died on this day in history.