Historical Events In 1968

Oct 18   In the year 1968 lee Tracy, actor (Doctor X, Bombshell, Best Man), dies of cancer at 70   

Oct 19   In the year 1968 golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars   

Oct 20   Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, TV preacher, dies at 84 on this day in history.   

Oct 20   In the year 1968 jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis.   

Oct 22   On this day in history apollo 7 returns to Earth   

Oct 23   Kip Keino (Kenya) wins gold medal for 1,500m (3 min 34.9 sec) in the year 1968.   

Oct 24   On this day in history mick Jagger and Marianne Faithful busted for pot, released on œ50 bail   

Oct 25   Chicago recognizes Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable as its 1st settler on this day in history.   

Oct 25   In the year 1968 jean Schlumberger, French writer (Passions), dies   

Oct 25   In the year 1968 yoko Ono announces she is having John Lennon's baby   

Oct 26   Erich Von Stroheim, actor/director (Napoleon), dies of cancer at 52 on this day in history.   

Oct 26   Soyuz 3 launched on this day in history.   

Oct 26   In the year 1968 the Flushing Meadow Park Zoo opens in New York City.   

Oct 27   On this day in history lise Meitner, Austria/Swedish physics (protactinium), dies at 89   

Oct 28   On this day in history henricus WJM Keuls, lawyer/poet, dies at 85   

Oct 29   Marius Moaritz Ulfrstad, composer, dies at 78 on this day in history.   

Oct 30   In the year 1968 conrad Richter, US writer (Light in the Forest), dies at 78   

Oct 31   Linda Eastman moves to UK permanently on this day in history.   

Oct 31   On this day in history president Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam   

Oct 31   Ramon Novarro, [Jose RG Samaniegos], actor (Ben Hur), dies at 69 on this day in history.   

Nov 01   On this day in history georgios Papandreou, Greek minister/premier, dies at 80   

Nov 02   Ernst Hess, composer, dies at 56 on this day in history.   

Nov 04   Paul JM Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer/author, dies at 78 in the year 1968.   

Nov 05   Estelle Hemsley, actress (Leech Woman, Take aGiant Step), dies at 81 on this day in history.   

Nov 05   Nixon (R) beats VP Humphrey (D) & George C Wallace for Presidency in the year 1968.   

Nov 06   Guillaume Landre, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.   

Nov 07   On this day in history willem A Wagenaar, Dutch journalist/author (3,000 meter), dies   

Nov 08   In the year 1968 cynthia Lennon is granted a divorce from John   

Nov 08   Wendell Corey, actor (11th Hour, Peck's Bad Girl), dies at 54 on this day in history.   

Nov 09   On this day in history jan Johansson, composer, dies at 37   

Nov 10   Gerald Mohr, actor (Christopher-Foreign Intrigue), dies at 54 on this day in history.   

Nov 10   Launch of Zond 6, 2nd unmanned circumlunar & return flight in the year 1968.   

Nov 11   Jeanne Demessieux, composer, dies at 47 on this day in history.   

Nov 11   In the year 1968 john Lennon and Yoko Ono appear nude on cover of "2 Virgins" album   

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Jan 02   Cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men) was born in the year 1968.   

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions)   

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   In the year 1968 birth of kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa)   

Jan 03   Shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah) was born in the year 1968.   

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

Jan 02   Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies on this day in history.   

Jan 04   Joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83 on this day in history.   

Jan 05   Jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79 in the year 1968.   

Jan 06   Kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81 in the year 1968.   

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   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)