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   Cyril Vincent, cricketer (84 wkts slow lefty for S Af 1927-35), dies on this day in history.   

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

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 on this day in history.   

Aug 27   Marina, princess of Greece/Denmark/Dutchess of Kent, dies at 61 in the year 1968.   

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

Aug 28   Police & anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Dem Natl Conven on this day in history.   

Aug 29   Victor Sutherland, dies at 79 on this day in history.   

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

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

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 on this day in history.   

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   In the year 1968 private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon & Yoko Ono album will have a picture of them nude on the cover   

Sep 01   On this day in history granville English, composer, dies at 69   

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

Sep 05   In the year 1968 juan Jose Castro, composer, dies at 73   

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

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

Sep 06   In the year 1968 swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day)   

Sep 09   On this day in history the fir1st US Open, Arthur Ashe wins   

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

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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   Scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions) was born in the year 1968.   

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

Jan 02   Evan Parke, Jamaican actor was born in the year 1968.   

Jan 03   Kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   Kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   In the year 1968 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 on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81   

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   In the year 1968 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.