Page 18: Historical Events In 1968

Dec 10   Karl Barth, Swiss theologist/minister (Kirchliche Dogma), dies at 82 on this day in history.   

Dec 11   In the year 1968 nadine Riga, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 59   

Dec 11   The Labor Department announced that the nation's unemployment rate had dwindled to 3.3%, the lowest mark in 15 years in the year 1968.   

Dec 12   Rolling Stones film TV show "Rock 'n Roll Circus"-never aired on this day in history.   

Dec 12   Tallulah Bankhead, actress (All Star Revue), dies of pneumonia at 65 in the year 1968.   

Dec 13   Playland at Beach reopens on this day in history.   

Dec 13   On this day in history playland at the Beach reopens   

Dec 13   Siegfried Reda, composer, dies at 52 in the year 1968.   

Dec 15   On this day in history jess Willard, Heavyweight boxing champ (1915-19), dies at 86   

Dec 18   USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR in the year 1968.   

Dec 19   Norman Thomas, founder (ACLU)/Socialist Party (1926-55), dies at 84 on this day in history.   

Dec 19   WCWB (now WMGT) TV channel 41 in Macon, GA (NBC) begins broadcasting on this day in history.   

Dec 20   In the year 1968 bax Brod, composer, dies at 84   

Dec 21   On this day in history apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell & Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage   

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) on this day in history.   

Dec 22   On this day in history louise Granville, entertainer, dies of influenza at 73   

Dec 23   82 members of US intelligence ship `Pueblo' released by North Korea in the year 1968.   

Dec 23   On this day in history borman, Lovell and Anders become first men to orbit Moon   

Dec 23   On this day in history first US case of space motion sickness   

Dec 24   On this day in history apollo 8 astronauts read passages from Book of Genesis   

Dec 25   Frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting Moon on this day in history.   

Dec 27   Apollo 8 returns to Earth in the year 1968.   

Dec 28   100,000 attend Miami Pop Festival in the year 1968.   

Dec 28   Beatles' "Beatles-The White Album," goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks in the year 1968.   

Dec 29   On this day in history balt Colts beat Cleveland Browns 34-0 in NFL championship game   

Dec 30   In the year 1968 -48ø F (-44ø C), Mazama & Winthrop, Washington (state record)   

Dec 31   On this day in history carl Oscar Ahues, German International Chess Master (1950), dies at 85   

Dec 31   First supersonic airliner flown (Russian TU-144) in the year 1968.   

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Jan 02   On this day in history birth of cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men)   

Jan 02   Scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 02   Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion was born in the year 1968.   

Jan 02   Evan Parke, Jamaican actor was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 03   Thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 02   Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies on this day in history.   

Jan 04   Joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83 in the year 1968.   

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

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   In the year 1968 basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73   

Jan 11   Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) died on this day in history.