Historical Events In 1968

Sep 19   Chester F Carlson, inventor (photocopying), dies at 62 on this day in history.   

Sep 20   In the year 1968 frank Pelleg, composer, dies at 57   

Sep 20   Mickey Mantle hits final career homer # 536 in the year 1968.   

Sep 24   "60 Minutes" premiers in the year 1968.   

Sep 24   On this day in history harry Robert Wilson, composer, dies at 67   

Sep 24   On this day in history swaziland joins the United Nations.   

Sep 26   On this day in history hawaii Five-O debuts as an hourly program on CBS   

Sep 28   Alberto Giolani of Italy roller skates record 23.133 miles in 1 hr in the year 1968.   

Sep 28   Beatles' "Hey Jude," single goes #1 &stays #1 for 9 weeks in the year 1968.   

Sep 28   Corry Lievens, Flemish actress/playwright/dir (Blue Bird), dies at 64 on this day in history.   

Sep 30   First Boeing 747 rolls out in the year 1968.   

Sep 30   In the year 1968 supremes release "Love Child"   

Oct 01   "Night of the Living Dead" premieres in Pittsburgh on this day in history.   

Oct 01   On this day in history marcel Duchamp, French painter (Descending an Escalator), dies   

Oct 03   Military coup overthrows Pres Fernando Bela£nde Terry in Peru in the year 1968.   

Oct 09   In the year 1968 government seizes oil fields in Peru   

Oct 09   In the year 1968 pierre Mulele, Congolese rebel leader, executed   

Oct 10   George Harrison forms Singsong Ltd in the year 1968.   

Oct 10   Lee Evans of the US sets 400 meter record at 43.86 in the year 1968.   

Oct 10   Wilhelmina J "Willy" Haak, Dutch actress (Abandoned Child), dies at 71 in the year 1968.   

Oct 11   Apollo 7 (Schirra, Eisele & Cunningham) made 163 orbits in 260 hours on this day in history.   

Oct 11   Launch of Apollo 7, the first U.S. 3-man space mission, commanded by CDR Walter Schirra, JR. USN. MAJ Ronnie Cunningham, USMCR served as Lunar Module pilot. The mission lasted 10 days and 20 hours. Recovery was by HS-5 helicopters from USS Essex (CVS-9) on this day in history.   

Oct 11   On this day in history panama revolts   

Oct 12   19th modern Olympic games opens in Mexico City in the year 1968.   

Oct 12   Norma Enriqueta Basilio Satelo is First woman to light Olympic flame on this day in history.   

Oct 13   Bea Benaderet, actress (Petticoat Junction), dies of lung cancer at 62 in the year 1968.   

Oct 13   On this day in history tinker Creek Gorge of Cleveland Metroparks is dedicated   

Oct 14   On this day in history first live telecast from a manned US spacecraft (Apollo 7)   

Oct 14   Gruener and Watson (US) set scuba depth record (133 m) in Bahamas on this day in history.   

Oct 14   In Western Australia a 6.8 earthquake earthquake wrecked the town of Meckering and ruptured all major roads and railways nearby on this day in history.   

Oct 14   On this day in history j.R. Hines of US runs 100 m in world record 9.95 sec   

Oct 15   Bea Benaderet, NYC, actress (Kate-Petticoat Junction), dies at 62 on this day in history.   

Oct 18   Circus Circus opens in Las Vegas in the year 1968.   

Oct 18   In the year 1968 john Lennon & Yoko Ono fined for marijuana possession   

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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   On this day in history birth of anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion   

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of evan Parke, Jamaican actor   

Jan 03   In the year 1968 birth of kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa)   

Jan 03   In the year 1968 birth of shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah)   

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   Joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83 in the year 1968.   

Jan 05   Jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79 on this day in history.   

Jan 06   In the year 1968 kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81   

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 on this day in history.   

Jan 10   On this day in history basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73   

Jan 11   On this day in history death of isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)