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   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 in the year 1968.   

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   Siegfried Reda, composer, dies at 52 on this day in history.   

Dec 15   On this day in history jess Willard, Heavyweight boxing champ (1915-19), dies at 86   

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

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 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 on this day in history.   

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   In the year 1968 louise Granville, entertainer, dies of influenza at 73   

Dec 23   82 members of US intelligence ship `Pueblo' released by North Korea in the year 1968.   

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

Dec 23   In the year 1968 first US case of space motion sickness   

Dec 24   Apollo 8 astronauts read passages from Book of Genesis in the year 1968.   

Dec 25   In the year 1968 frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting Moon   

Dec 27   On this day in history apollo 8 returns to Earth   

Dec 28   On this day in history 100,000 attend Miami Pop Festival   

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

Dec 29   Balt Colts beat Cleveland Browns 34-0 in NFL championship game on this day in history.   

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 in the year 1968.   

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   In the year 1968 birth of evan Parke, Jamaican actor   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star   

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   On this day in history birth of thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)   

Jan 02   In the year 1968 sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies   

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   Kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81 on this day in history.   

Jan 07   Prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897) died in the year 1968.   

Jan 09   In the year 1968 death of kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide   

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.