Historical Events In 1968

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

Dec 11   In the year 1968 nadine Riga, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 59   

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 in the year 1968.   

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

Dec 13   On this day in history playland at Beach reopens   

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

Dec 19   In the year 1968 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 in the year 1968.   

Dec 20   Bax Brod, composer, dies at 84 on this day in history.   

Dec 21   On this day in history 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   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   On this day in history borman, Lovell and Anders become first men to orbit Moon   

Dec 23   First US case of space motion sickness on this day in history.   

Dec 24   In the year 1968 apollo 8 astronauts read passages from Book of Genesis   

Dec 25   Frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting Moon in the year 1968.   

Dec 27   In the year 1968 apollo 8 returns to Earth   

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   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   Carl Oscar Ahues, German International Chess Master (1950), dies at 85 on this day in history.   

Dec 31   In the year 1968 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   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   Kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star was born in the year 1968.   

Jan 03   Kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   In the year 1968 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   Jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79 on this day in history.   

Jan 06   On this day in history kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81   

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 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.