Page 3: Historical Events In 1968

Jan 31   On this day in history uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

Jan 31   On this day in history viet Cong's Tet offensive begins   

Feb 01   Famous photo Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head on this day in history.   

Feb 01   Former Vice-President Richard Nixon announces candidacy for President in the year 1968.   

Feb 01   In the year 1968 lawson Little, amateur golfer (US/Brit Opens 1934,35), dies at 57   

Feb 01   The government halted further unification of the Canadian Armed Forces, many say it did not work on this day in history.   

Feb 01   Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of the Green Bay Packers on this day in history.   

Feb 01   On this day in history world trade conference Unctad 2 opens in New Delhi   

Feb 02   In the year 1968 springer Publishers in West Berlin, bombed   

Feb 04   Ed Baker, actor (Keystone Kops), dies of emphysema at 70 in the year 1968.   

Feb 05   On this day in history kDTV TV channel 39 in Dallas-Fort Worth TX (IND) begins broadcasting   

Feb 05   Luckey Roberts, composer, dies at 80 in the year 1968.   

Feb 05   In the year 1968 skater Kees Verkerk win Olympics gold in the 1500m   

Feb 06   In the year 1968 10th Winter Olympics games opens in Grenoble, France   

Feb 06   In the year 1968 c Montague Shaw, actor (Buck Rogers, Planet Outlaws), dies at 85   

Feb 06   On this day in history dutch 2nd Chamber condemns US bombing of North Vietnam   

Feb 06   In the year 1968 former President Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole-in-one   

Feb 07   Arthur Miller's "Price," premieres in New York NY in the year 1968.   

Feb 07   Belgium government of Vanden Boeynants falls on this day in history.   

Feb 07   On this day in history nick Adams, actor (Interns, Pillow Talk, FBI Story), ODs at 36   

Feb 08   In the year 1968 j Borremans, Belgian politician (Communist), dies at 56   

Feb 08   Three college students are killed in a clash with the South Carolina highway patrol, during a civil rights protest in Orangeburg on this day in history.   

Feb 09   In the year 1968 barbara Everest, actress (Inquest, Madeleine), dies at 77   

Feb 09   On this day in history rotterdam metro opened by princess Beatrix   

Feb 10   "Spooky" by Classics IV hits #3 in the year 1968.   

Feb 10   Peggy Fleming wins Olympics figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France on this day in history.   

Feb 10   On this day in history pitirim A Sorokin, Russian/US sociologist, dies at 79   

Feb 11   In the year 1968 howard Lindsay, US playwright (State of the Union), dies at 78   

Feb 11   In the year 1968 israeli-Jordan border fight   

Feb 11   Jeffrey Kramer survives 76 meter jump, Washington Bridge, Hudson River NY in the year 1968.   

Feb 11   On this day in history peggy Fleming wins Olympics figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France   

Feb 13   In the year 1968 ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer, dies at 87   

Feb 13   US sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam in the year 1968.   

Feb 14   On this day in history pennsylvania Railroad/NYC Central merge into Pennsylvania Central   

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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 on this day in history.   

Jan 02   Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion was born in the year 1968.   

Jan 02   Evan Parke, Jamaican actor was born in the year 1968.   

Jan 03   In the year 1968 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   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   On this day in history joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83   

Jan 05   Jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79 in the year 1968.   

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   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   In the year 1968 death of isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)