Page 18: 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   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   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 on this day in history.   

Dec 18   In the year 1968 uSSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR   

Dec 19   On this day in history 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   In the year 1968 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   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   On this day in history first US case of space motion sickness   

Dec 24   Apollo 8 astronauts read passages from Book of Genesis on this day in history.   

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   In the year 1968 100,000 attend Miami Pop Festival   

Dec 28   In the year 1968 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 in the year 1968.   

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   On this day in history 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   Evan Parke, Jamaican actor was born in the year 1968.   

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   In the year 1968 birth of shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah)   

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

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

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

Jan 05   In the year 1968 jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79   

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   Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73 in the year 1968.   

Jan 11   Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) died in the year 1968.