Page 16: 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   On this day in history golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars   

Oct 20   Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, TV preacher, dies at 84 in the year 1968.   

Oct 20   Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis on this day in history.   

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

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

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

Oct 25   Chicago recognizes Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable as its 1st settler in the year 1968.   

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   In the year 1968 erich Von Stroheim, actor/director (Napoleon), dies of cancer at 52   

Oct 26   In the year 1968 soyuz 3 launched   

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   Henricus WJM Keuls, lawyer/poet, dies at 85 in the year 1968.   

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   In the year 1968 linda Eastman moves to UK permanently   

Oct 31   In the year 1968 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   Georgios Papandreou, Greek minister/premier, dies at 80 in the year 1968.   

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 in the year 1968.   

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

Nov 06   On this day in history guillaume Landre, composer, dies at 63   

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

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   Jan Johansson, composer, dies at 37 on this day in history.   

Nov 10   Gerald Mohr, actor (Christopher-Foreign Intrigue), dies at 54 in the year 1968.   

Nov 10   Launch of Zond 6, 2nd unmanned circumlunar & return flight on this day in history.   

Nov 11   In the year 1968 jeanne Demessieux, composer, dies at 47   

Nov 11   John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear nude on cover of "2 Virgins" album on this day in history.   

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Jan 02   On this day in history birth of cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men)   

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 in the year 1968.   

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 on this day in history.   

Jan 04   On this day in history 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   On this day in history kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81   

Jan 07   On this day in history death of prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)   

Jan 09   On this day in history death of kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide   

Jan 10   On this day in history basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73   

Jan 11   In the year 1968 death of isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)