Page 18: Historical Events In 1968

Dec 13   Playland at the Beach reopens   

Dec 13   Siegfried Reda, composer, dies at 52.   

Dec 15   Jess Willard, Heavyweight boxing champ (1915-19), dies at 86   

Dec 18   USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR   

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

Dec 19   WCWB (now WMGT) TV channel 41 in Macon, GA (NBC) begins broadcasting   

Dec 20   Bax Brod, composer, dies at 84.   

Dec 21   Apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell and 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 inaugural 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   Louise Granville, entertainer, dies of influenza at 73   

Dec 23   82 members of US intelligence ship `Pueblo' released by North Korea   

Dec 23   Borman, Lovell and Anders become inaugural men to orbit Moon.   

Dec 23   inaugural US case of space motion sickness.   

Dec 24   Apollo 8 astronauts read passages from Book of Genesis.   

Dec 25   Frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting Moon.   

Dec 27   Apollo 8 returns to Earth.   

Dec 28   100000 attend Miami Pop Festival   

Dec 28   Beatles' "Beatles-The White Album," goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks.   

Dec 29   Balt Colts beat Cleveland Browns 34-0 in NFL championship game   

Dec 31   Carl Oscar Ahues, German International Chess Master (1950), dies at 85.   

Dec 31   inaugural 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 in the year 1968.   

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

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   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   Joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83 on this day in history.   

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   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 on this day in history.