Historical Events In 1968

Dec 10   Karl Barth, Swiss theologist/minister (Kirchliche Dogma), dies at 82 in the year 1968.   

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   On this day in history rolling Stones film TV show "Rock 'n Roll Circus"-never aired   

Dec 12   In the year 1968 tallulah Bankhead, actress (All Star Revue), dies of pneumonia at 65   

Dec 13   In the year 1968 playland at Beach reopens   

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

Dec 13   Siegfried Reda, composer, dies at 52 on this day in history.   

Dec 15   Jess Willard, Heavyweight boxing champ (1915-19), dies at 86 in the year 1968.   

Dec 18   On this day in history uSSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR   

Dec 19   In the year 1968 norman Thomas, founder (ACLU)/Socialist Party (1926-55), dies at 84   

Dec 19   In the year 1968 wCWB (now WMGT) TV channel 41 in Macon, GA (NBC) begins broadcasting   

Dec 20   Bax Brod, composer, dies at 84 on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history 82 members of US intelligence ship `Pueblo' released by North Korea   

Dec 23   In the year 1968 borman, Lovell and Anders become first men to orbit Moon   

Dec 23   First US case of space motion sickness in the year 1968.   

Dec 24   Apollo 8 astronauts read passages from Book of Genesis in the year 1968.   

Dec 25   In the year 1968 frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting Moon   

Dec 27   Apollo 8 returns to Earth on this day in history.   

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

Dec 28   On this day in history beatles' "Beatles-The White Album," goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks   

Dec 29   In the year 1968 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   Carl Oscar Ahues, German International Chess Master (1950), dies at 85 in the year 1968.   

Dec 31   In the year 1968 first supersonic airliner flown (Russian TU-144)   

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

Jan 02   In the year 1968 birth of anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion   

Jan 02   In the year 1968 birth of evan Parke, Jamaican actor   

Jan 03   Kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa)   

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   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   Jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79 on this day in history.   

Jan 06   Kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81 in the year 1968.   

Jan 07   Prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897) died on this day in history.   

Jan 09   On this day in history 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.