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   Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars in the year 1968.  

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   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 �50 bail  

Oct 25   On this day in history 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   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 in the year 1968.  

Oct 27   Lise Meitner, Austria/Swedish physics (protactinium), dies at 89 on this day in history.  

Oct 28   On this day in history henricus WJM Keuls, lawyer/poet, dies at 85  

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

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

Oct 31   In the year 1968 linda Eastman moves to UK permanently  

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 in the year 1968.  

Nov 01   In the year 1968 georgios Papandreou, Greek minister/premier, dies at 80  

Nov 02   Ernst Hess, composer, dies at 56 in the year 1968.  

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

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 on this day in history.  

Nov 07   Willem A Wagenaar, Dutch journalist/author (3,000 meter), dies in the year 1968.  

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

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   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   In the year 1968 birth of scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions)  

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

Jan 03   Kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa) was born in the year 1968.  

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah)  

Jan 03   In the year 1968 birth of thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)  

Jan 02   In the year 1968 sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies  

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

Jan 05   On this day in history 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   On this day in history death of prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)  

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

Jan 10   In the year 1968 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)