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Historical Events In 1968

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Dec 10   On this day in history karl Barth, Swiss theologist/minister (Kirchliche Dogma), dies at 82  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Dec 11   Nadine Riga, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 59 in the year 1968.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Dec 11   On this day in history the Labor Department announced that the nation's unemployment rate had dwindled to 3.3%, the lowest mark in 15 years.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Dec 12   Rolling Stones film TV show "Rock 'n Roll Circus"-never aired in the year 1968.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Dec 12   In the year 1968 tallulah Bankhead, actress (All Star Revue), dies of pneumonia at 65  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Dec 13   Playland at Beach reopens in the year 1968.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Dec 13   Playland at the Beach reopens on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Dec 13   In the year 1968 siegfried Reda, composer, dies at 52  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Dec 15   Jess Willard, Heavyweight boxing champ (1915-19), dies at 86 in the year 1968.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Dec 18   USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Dec 19   Norman Thomas, founder (ACLU)/Socialist Party (1926-55), dies at 84 in the year 1968.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Dec 19   On this day in history wCWB (now WMGT) TV channel 41 in Macon, GA (NBC) begins broadcasting  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Dec 20   In the year 1968 bax Brod, composer, dies at 84  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Dec 21   Apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell & Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Dec 21   Launch of Apollo 8 with Captain James A. Lovell, Jr. as Command Module Pilot. During the mission Lovell was one of the first two people to see the far side of the moon. The mission lasted 6 days and 3 hours, and included 10 moon orbits. Recovery was by HS-4 helicopters from USS Yorktown (CVS-10) in the year 1968.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Dec 22   Louise Granville, entertainer, dies of influenza at 73 on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Dec 23   82 members of US intelligence ship `Pueblo' released by North Korea in the year 1968.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Dec 23   Borman, Lovell and Anders become first men to orbit Moon in the year 1968.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Dec 23   In the year 1968 first US case of space motion sickness  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Dec 24   In the year 1968 apollo 8 astronauts read passages from Book of Genesis  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Dec 25   In the year 1968 frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting Moon  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Dec 27   Apollo 8 returns to Earth in the year 1968.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Dec 28   In the year 1968 100,000 attend Miami Pop Festival  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Dec 28   Beatles' "Beatles-The White Album," goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Dec 29   On this day in history balt Colts beat Cleveland Browns 34-0 in NFL championship game  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Dec 30   On this day in history -48ø F (-44ø C), Mazama & Winthrop, Washington (state record)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Dec 31   In the year 1968 carl Oscar Ahues, German International Chess Master (1950), dies at 85  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Dec 31   In the year 1968 first supersonic airliner flown (Russian TU-144)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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Famous Birthdays In 1968

Famous People Born In This Year In History

Jan 02   In the year 1968 birth of cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 02   Scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions) was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 02   In the year 1968 birth of anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 02   Evan Parke, Jamaican actor was born in the year 1968.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 03   Shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah) was born in the year 1968.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Famous Deaths In 1968

Famous People Died In This Year In History

Jan 02   Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies in the year 1968.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 04   On this day in history joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 05   Jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79 in the year 1968.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 06   Kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81 on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 07   On this day in history death of prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 09   Kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide died in the year 1968.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 10   In the year 1968 basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 11   Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) died in the year 1968.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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