Page 15: Historical Events In 1968

Sep 24   Swaziland joins the United Nations   

Sep 26   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   

Sep 28   Beatles' "Hey Jude," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks.   

Sep 28   Corry Lievens, Flemish actress/playwright/dir (Blue Bird), dies at 64.   

Sep 30   inaugural Boeing 747 rolls out.   

Sep 30   Supremes release "Love Child".   

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

Oct 01   Marcel Duchamp, French painter (Descending an Escalator), dies   

Oct 09   Government seizes oil fields in Peru   

Oct 09   Pierre Mulele, Congolese rebel leader, executed   

Oct 10   George Harrison forms Singsong Ltd   

Oct 10   Lee Evans of the US sets 400 meter record at 43.86   

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

Oct 11   Apollo 7 (Schirra, Eisele and Cunningham) made 163 orbits in 260 hours.   

Oct 11   Launch of Apollo 7, the inaugural 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   Panama revolts   

Oct 12   19th modern Olympic games opens in Mexico City   

Oct 12   Norma Enriqueta Basilio Satelo is inaugural woman to light Olympic flame   

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

Oct 13   Tinker Creek Gorge of Cleveland Metroparks is dedicated   

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

Oct 14   In Western Australia a 6.8 earthquake earthquake wrecked the town of Meckering and ruptured all major roads and railways nearby   

Oct 14   inaugural live telecast from a manned US spacecraft (Apollo 7).   

Oct 14   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   

Oct 18   Circus Circus opens in Las Vegas.   

Oct 18   John Lennon and Yoko Ono fined for marijuana possession.   

Oct 18   Lee Tracy, actor (Doctor X, Bombshell, Best Man), dies of cancer at 70   

Oct 19   Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars.   

Oct 20   Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, TV preacher, dies at 84.   

Oct 20   Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis   

Oct 22   Apollo 7 returns to Earth   

Oct 23   In this year, Kip Keino (Kenya) claims gold medal for 1500m (3 min 34.9 sec).   

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Jan 02   Cuba gooding jr: Actor (boyz n the hood, glaadiator, few good men)   

Jan 02   Scott mitchell: Nfl quarterback (detroit lions)   

Jan 02   Anky van grunsven: Dutch dressage champion   

Jan 02   Evan parke: Jamaican actor   

Jan 03   Kent carlsson: Sweden, tennis star   

Jan 03   Kerry huffman: Peterborough, nhl defenseman (phila flyers, ottawa)   

Jan 03   Shannon sturges: Actress (savannah)   

Jan 03   Thomas rayam: Cfl offensive linebacker (edmonton eskimos)   

Jan 02   Sanoesi pane: Indonesian writer,    

Jan 04   Joseph pholien: Belgian pm (1950-52) communist fighter,    

Jan 05   Jean murat: Actor (on the riviera),   

Jan 06   Kurt baschwitz: Germ/dutch sociologist/journalist (heksen),    

Jan 07   Prof james smith: South african ichthyologist (b. 1897)   

Jan 09   Kokichi tsuburaya: Japanese marathoner (oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide   

Jan 10   Basil sydney: Actor (hamlet, simba),    

Jan 11   Isidor isaac rabi: American physicist, nobel prize laureate (b. 1898)