Historical Events In 1968

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

Sep 20   Frank Pelleg, composer, dies at 57 in the year 1968.   

Sep 20   Mickey Mantle hits final career homer # 536 on this day in history.   

Sep 24   "60 Minutes" premiers on this day in history.   

Sep 24   Harry Robert Wilson, composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.   

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

Sep 26   In the year 1968 hawaii Five-O debuts as an hourly program on CBS   

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

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 on this day in history.   

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   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 in the year 1968.   

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

Oct 10   On this day in history wilhelmina J "Willy" Haak, Dutch actress (Abandoned Child), dies at 71   

Oct 11   In the year 1968 apollo 7 (Schirra, Eisele & Cunningham) made 163 orbits in 260 hours   

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   On this day in history 19th modern Olympic games opens in Mexico City   

Oct 12   On this day in history norma Enriqueta Basilio Satelo is First woman to light Olympic flame   

Oct 13   In the year 1968 bea Benaderet, actress (Petticoat Junction), dies of lung cancer at 62   

Oct 13   In the year 1968 tinker Creek Gorge of Cleveland Metroparks is dedicated   

Oct 14   First live telecast from a manned US spacecraft (Apollo 7) on this day in history.   

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

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

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 on this day in history.   

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

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

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

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star   

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   Thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos) was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 06   On this day in history kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81   

Jan 07   Prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897) died on this day in history.   

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 in the year 1968.   

Jan 11   Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) died on this day in history.