Historical Events In 1968

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

Dec 11   Nadine Riga, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 59 on this day in history.  

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

Dec 12   Rolling Stones film TV show "Rock 'n Roll Circus"-never aired in the year 1968.  

Dec 12   Tallulah Bankhead, actress (All Star Revue), dies of pneumonia at 65 on this day in history.  

Dec 13   On this day in history playland at Beach reopens  

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

Dec 18   In the year 1968 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 in the year 1968.  

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

Dec 21   On this day in history 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).  

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

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

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

Dec 23   In the year 1968 first US case of space motion sickness  

Dec 24   In the year 1968 apollo 8 astronauts read passages from Book of Genesis  

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

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

Dec 28   On this day in history 100,000 attend Miami Pop Festival  

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

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   Carl Oscar Ahues, German International Chess Master (1950), dies at 85 on this day in history.  

Dec 31   On this day in history first supersonic airliner flown (Russian TU-144)  

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

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

Jan 03   Thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos) was born in the year 1968.  

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

Jan 04   Joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83 on this day in history.  

Jan 05   In the year 1968 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   Kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide died on this day in history.  

Jan 10   Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73 on this day in history.  

Jan 11   In the year 1968 death of isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)