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   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   Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis on this day in history.   

Oct 22   In the year 1968 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   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 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   In the year 1968 erich Von Stroheim, actor/director (Napoleon), dies of cancer at 52   

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   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 in the year 1968.   

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

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 on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history nixon (R) beats VP Humphrey (D) & George C Wallace for Presidency   

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 in the year 1968.   

Nov 09   Jan Johansson, composer, dies at 37 on this day in history.   

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

Nov 10   In the year 1968 launch of Zond 6, 2nd unmanned circumlunar & return flight   

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 in the year 1968.   

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

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   Kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star was born on this day in history.   

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 on this day in history.   

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

Jan 02   Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies in the year 1968.   

Jan 04   On this day in history 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   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 in the year 1968.   

Jan 09   In the year 1968 death of kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide   

Jan 10   Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73 on this day in history.   

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