Historical Events In 1968

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

Dec 11   Nadine Riga, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 59 in the year 1968.  

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

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

Dec 13   Playland at Beach reopens in the year 1968.  

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

Dec 13   In the year 1968 siegfried Reda, composer, dies at 52  

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

Dec 18   USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR on this day in history.  

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

Dec 19   On this day in history wCWB (now WMGT) TV channel 41 in Macon, GA (NBC) begins broadcasting  

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

Dec 21   Apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell & Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage on this day in history.  

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   Louise Granville, entertainer, dies of influenza at 73 on this day in history.  

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

Dec 23   Borman, Lovell and Anders become first men to orbit Moon in the year 1968.  

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   In the year 1968 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   On this day in history -48ø F (-44ø C), Mazama & Winthrop, Washington (state record)  

Dec 31   In the year 1968 carl Oscar Ahues, German International Chess Master (1950), dies at 85  

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

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

Jan 02   Evan Parke, Jamaican actor was born in the year 1968.  

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   Shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah) was born in the year 1968.  

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)  

Jan 02   Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies in the year 1968.  

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   Kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81 on this day in history.  

Jan 07   On this day in history death of prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)  

Jan 09   Kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide died in the year 1968.  

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 in the year 1968.