Page 14: Historical Events In 1968

Aug 25   John George, actor (Kolb-Adventures of Fu Manchu), dies at 70   

Aug 26   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.   

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

Aug 28   John Gordon Mein, US ambassador in Guatemala, dies   

Aug 28   Police and anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Dem Natl Conven.   

Aug 29   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   

Aug 30   John and Yoko Lennon's One on One concert at Madison Square Garden raises $250000 to help mentally retarded children.   

Aug 30   The inaugural record under Apple label (Beatle's Hey Jude).   

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

Aug 31   6000 die in 7.8 quake destroys 60000 buildings in NE Iran   

Aug 31   Dennis O'Keefe, actor (Suspicion), dies of lung cancer at 60   

Aug 31   In Iran a 7.3 earthquake was centered about 250 kilometers south of Mashhad. There were 12000 to 20000 deaths, many injuries, and over 60000 homeless   

Aug 31   Private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon and Yoko Ono album will have a picture of them nude on the cover   

Sep 01   Granville English, composer, dies at 69   

Sep 01   Pirate Radio Marina (Netherlandsd) begins transmitting.   

Sep 02   Ernest Claes, Belgium, author (The White), dies at 82   

Sep 05   21 killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi Pakistan.   

Sep 05   Juan Jose Castro, composer, dies at 73   

Sep 06   Karl Ranki, composer, dies at 69.   

Sep 06   Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day).   

Sep 06   Swaziland is recorded as becoming an independent member of the British Commonwealth.   

Sep 09   The fir1st US Open, Arthur Ashe claims   

Sep 15   Launch of Zond 5, the inaugural lunar fly around with Earth reentry   

Sep 16   Richard Nixon appears on "Laugh-in"   

Sep 17   Zond 5 completes circumnavigation of the Moon.   

Sep 18   Franchot Tone, actor (Advise and Consent, Dark Waters), dies at 63   

Sep 19   A baby was born on Golden Gate Bridge yes the event slowed traffic   

Sep 19   Chester F Carlson, inventor (photocopying), dies at 62   

Sep 20   Frank Pelleg, composer, dies at 57   

Sep 20   Mickey Mantle hits final career homer # 536   

Sep 24   "60 Minutes" premiers.   

Sep 24   Harry Robert Wilson, composer, dies at 67   

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Jan 02   In the year 1968 birth of cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men)   

Jan 02   Scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 02   In the year 1968 birth of anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion   

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

Jan 03   Kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star was born in the year 1968.   

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

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah)   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)   

Jan 02   On this day in history sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies   

Jan 04   In the year 1968 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 on this day in history.   

Jan 07   Prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897) died in the year 1968.   

Jan 09   On this day in history death of kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide   

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.