Page 16: Historical Events In 1968

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

Oct 19   On this day in history golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars   

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

Oct 20   On this day in history 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) on this day in history.   

Oct 24   In the year 1968 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 in the year 1968.   

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

Oct 25   Yoko Ono announces she is having John Lennon's baby on this day in history.   

Oct 26   In the year 1968 erich Von Stroheim, actor/director (Napoleon), dies of cancer at 52   

Oct 26   Soyuz 3 launched in the year 1968.   

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

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

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

Oct 31   Linda Eastman moves to UK permanently in the year 1968.   

Oct 31   President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam in the year 1968.   

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

Nov 01   Georgios Papandreou, Greek minister/premier, dies at 80 on this day in history.   

Nov 02   In the year 1968 ernst Hess, composer, dies at 56   

Nov 04   In the year 1968 paul JM Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer/author, dies at 78   

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

Nov 07   In the year 1968 willem A Wagenaar, Dutch journalist/author (3,000 meter), dies   

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 in the year 1968.   

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

Nov 10   In the year 1968 gerald Mohr, actor (Christopher-Foreign Intrigue), dies at 54   

Nov 10   On this day in history launch of Zond 6, 2nd unmanned circumlunar & return flight   

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

Nov 11   On this day in history 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   Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion was born in the year 1968.   

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

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

Jan 03   Thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos) was born in the year 1968.   

Jan 02   On this day in history sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies   

Jan 04   In the year 1968 joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83   

Jan 05   Jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79 on this day in history.   

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

Jan 07   On this day in history 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   In the year 1968 basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73   

Jan 11   On this day in history death of isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)