Historical Events In 1968

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

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   In the year 1968 jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis.  

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

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

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

Oct 25   In the year 1968 chicago recognizes Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable as its 1st settler  

Oct 25   Jean Schlumberger, French writer (Passions), dies on this day in history.  

Oct 25   On this day in history yoko Ono announces she is having John Lennon's baby  

Oct 26   Erich Von Stroheim, actor/director (Napoleon), dies of cancer at 52 in the year 1968.  

Oct 26   On this day in history soyuz 3 launched  

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

Oct 27   In the year 1968 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   Marius Moaritz Ulfrstad, composer, dies at 78 in the year 1968.  

Oct 30   On this day in history 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   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   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   Paul JM Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer/author, dies at 78 on this day in history.  

Nov 05   On this day in history estelle Hemsley, actress (Leech Woman, Take aGiant Step), dies at 81  

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 in the year 1968.  

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

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

Nov 09   In the year 1968 jan Johansson, composer, dies at 37  

Nov 10   On this day in history 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   Jeanne Demessieux, composer, dies at 47 in the year 1968.  

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 on this day in history.  

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   In the year 1968 birth of kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star  

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 in the year 1968.  

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