Historical Events In 1968

Dec 10   On this day in history karl Barth, Swiss theologist/minister (Kirchliche Dogma), dies at 82  

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

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.  

Dec 12   In the year 1968 rolling Stones film TV show "Rock 'n Roll Circus"-never aired  

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

Dec 13   Playland at Beach reopens in the year 1968.  

Dec 13   In the year 1968 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   Norman Thomas, founder (ACLU)/Socialist Party (1926-55), dies at 84 in the year 1968.  

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

Dec 20   On this day in history 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) in the year 1968.  

Dec 22   In the year 1968 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   Borman, Lovell and Anders become first men to orbit Moon on this day in history.  

Dec 23   First US case of space motion sickness on this day in history.  

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

Dec 25   On this day in history frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting Moon  

Dec 27   On this day in history apollo 8 returns to Earth  

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   Balt Colts beat Cleveland Browns 34-0 in NFL championship game on this day in history.  

Dec 30   -48ø F (-44ø C), Mazama & Winthrop, Washington (state record) on this day in history.  

Dec 31   Carl Oscar Ahues, German International Chess Master (1950), dies at 85 on this day in history.  

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

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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   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   In the year 1968 birth of evan Parke, Jamaican actor  

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star  

Jan 03   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.  

Jan 02   On this day in history sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies  

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

Jan 05   Jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79 in the year 1968.  

Jan 06   On this day in history kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81  

Jan 07   In the year 1968 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   On this day in history death of isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)