Historical Events In 1968

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

Dec 11   On this day in history 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   Rolling Stones film TV show "Rock 'n Roll Circus"-never aired on this day in history.  

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

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

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   USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR in the year 1968.  

Dec 19   Norman Thomas, founder (ACLU)/Socialist Party (1926-55), dies at 84 on this day in history.  

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   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 on this day in history.  

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

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

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   In the year 1968 apollo 8 returns to Earth  

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

Dec 28   In the year 1968 beatles' "Beatles-The White Album," goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks  

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

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

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   In the year 1968 birth of thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)  

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

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

Jan 05   On this day in history jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79  

Jan 06   In the year 1968 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   On this day in history death of kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide  

Jan 10   On this day in history 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.