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 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   On this day in history rolling Stones film TV show "Rock 'n Roll Circus"-never aired  

Dec 12   Tallulah Bankhead, actress (All Star Revue), dies of pneumonia at 65 in the year 1968.  

Dec 13   Playland at Beach reopens in the year 1968.  

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

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   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   WCWB (now WMGT) TV channel 41 in Macon, GA (NBC) begins broadcasting in the year 1968.  

Dec 20   On this day in history bax Brod, composer, dies at 84  

Dec 21   Apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell & Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage in the year 1968.  

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) on this day in history.  

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

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

Dec 27   Apollo 8 returns to Earth on this day in history.  

Dec 28   On this day in history 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   In the year 1968 balt Colts beat Cleveland Browns 34-0 in NFL championship game  

Dec 30   -48ø F (-44ø C), Mazama & Winthrop, Washington (state record) in the year 1968.  

Dec 31   On this day in history carl Oscar Ahues, German International Chess Master (1950), dies at 85  

Dec 31   First supersonic airliner flown (Russian TU-144) on this day in history.  

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Jan 02   Cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men) was born in the year 1968.  

Jan 02   In the year 1968 birth of scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions)  

Jan 02   Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion was born on this day in history.  

Jan 02   In the year 1968 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   Shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah) was born in the year 1968.  

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 on this day in history.  

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

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.