Page 15: Historical Events In 1968

Sep 19   Chester F Carlson, inventor (photocopying), dies at 62 in the year 1968.   

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

Sep 20   On this day in history mickey Mantle hits final career homer # 536   

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

Sep 24   In the year 1968 harry Robert Wilson, composer, dies at 67   

Sep 24   In the year 1968 swaziland joins the United Nations.   

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

Sep 28   Alberto Giolani of Italy roller skates record 23.133 miles in 1 hr on this day in history.   

Sep 28   In the year 1968 beatles' "Hey Jude," single goes #1 &stays #1 for 9 weeks   

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

Sep 30   In the year 1968 first Boeing 747 rolls out   

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

Oct 01   "Night of the Living Dead" premieres in Pittsburgh in the year 1968.   

Oct 01   Marcel Duchamp, French painter (Descending an Escalator), dies in the year 1968.   

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

Oct 09   Government seizes oil fields in Peru in the year 1968.   

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

Oct 10   George Harrison forms Singsong Ltd on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history apollo 7 (Schirra, Eisele & Cunningham) made 163 orbits in 260 hours   

Oct 11   In the year 1968 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).   

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   On this day in history norma Enriqueta Basilio Satelo is First woman to light Olympic flame   

Oct 13   Bea Benaderet, actress (Petticoat Junction), dies of lung cancer at 62 on this day in history.   

Oct 13   Tinker Creek Gorge of Cleveland Metroparks is dedicated on this day in history.   

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 the year 1968 in Western Australia a 6.8 earthquake earthquake wrecked the town of Meckering and ruptured all major roads and railways nearby   

Oct 14   J.R. Hines of US runs 100 m in world record 9.95 sec in the year 1968.   

Oct 15   On this day in history bea Benaderet, NYC, actress (Kate-Petticoat Junction), dies at 62   

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

Oct 18   John Lennon & Yoko Ono fined for marijuana possession 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 on this day in history.   

Jan 02   In the year 1968 birth of scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions)   

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

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   Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies in the year 1968.   

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

Jan 09   In the year 1968 death of kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide   

Jan 10   Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73 in the year 1968.   

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