Historical Events In 1968

Oct 18   Lee Tracy, actor (Doctor X, Bombshell, Best Man), dies of cancer at 70 on this day in history.  

Oct 19   Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars on this day in history.  

Oct 20   On this day in history elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, TV preacher, dies at 84  

Oct 20   Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis in the year 1968.  

Oct 22   Apollo 7 returns to Earth in the year 1968.  

Oct 23   Kip Keino (Kenya) wins gold medal for 1,500m (3 min 34.9 sec) on this day in history.  

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   Jean Schlumberger, French writer (Passions), dies in the year 1968.  

Oct 25   Yoko Ono announces she is having John Lennon's baby in the year 1968.  

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

Oct 26   In the year 1968 soyuz 3 launched  

Oct 26   The Flushing Meadow Park Zoo opens in New York City on this day in history.  

Oct 27   Lise Meitner, Austria/Swedish physics (protactinium), dies at 89 in the year 1968.  

Oct 28   Henricus WJM Keuls, lawyer/poet, dies at 85 on this day in history.  

Oct 29   In the year 1968 marius Moaritz Ulfrstad, composer, dies at 78  

Oct 30   Conrad Richter, US writer (Light in the Forest), dies at 78 on this day in history.  

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

Oct 31   In the year 1968 president Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam  

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

Nov 01   In the year 1968 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 in the year 1968.  

Nov 07   Willem A Wagenaar, Dutch journalist/author (3,000 meter), dies on this day in history.  

Nov 08   Cynthia Lennon is granted a divorce from John on this day in history.  

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   Scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions) was born in the year 1968.  

Jan 02   Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion was born on this day in history.  

Jan 02   Evan Parke, Jamaican actor was born on this day in history.  

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   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   In the year 1968 joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83  

Jan 05   In the year 1968 jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79  

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

Jan 07   Prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897) died in the year 1968.  

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 in the year 1968.