Historical Events In 1968

Jan 31   In the year 1968 uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site  

Jan 31   In the year 1968 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 in the year 1968.  

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

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

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   In the year 1968 vince Lombardi resigns as coach of the Green Bay Packers  

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

Feb 02   On this day in history springer Publishers in West Berlin, bombed  

Feb 04   Ed Baker, actor (Keystone Kops), dies of emphysema at 70 on this day in history.  

Feb 05   KDTV TV channel 39 in Dallas-Fort Worth TX (IND) begins broadcasting in the year 1968.  

Feb 05   Luckey Roberts, composer, dies at 80 on this day in history.  

Feb 05   On this day in history skater Kees Verkerk win Olympics gold in the 1500m  

Feb 06   On this day in history 10th Winter Olympics games opens in Grenoble, France  

Feb 06   On this day in history c Montague Shaw, actor (Buck Rogers, Planet Outlaws), dies at 85  

Feb 06   Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns US bombing of North Vietnam in the year 1968.  

Feb 06   On this day in history former President Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole-in-one  

Feb 07   On this day in history arthur Miller's "Price," premieres in New York NY  

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

Feb 07   Nick Adams, actor (Interns, Pillow Talk, FBI Story), ODs at 36 in the year 1968.  

Feb 08   On this day in history j Borremans, Belgian politician (Communist), dies at 56  

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

Feb 09   Barbara Everest, actress (Inquest, Madeleine), dies at 77 in the year 1968.  

Feb 09   Rotterdam metro opened by princess Beatrix in the year 1968.  

Feb 10   On this day in history "Spooky" by Classics IV hits #3  

Feb 10   In the year 1968 peggy Fleming wins Olympics figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France  

Feb 10   In the year 1968 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   Israeli-Jordan border fight in the year 1968.  

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

Feb 11   Peggy Fleming wins Olympics figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France in the year 1968.  

Feb 13   On this day in history ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer, dies at 87  

Feb 13   US sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam on this day in history.  

Feb 14   Pennsylvania Railroad/NYC Central merge into Pennsylvania Central in the year 1968.  

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Jan 02   On this day in history birth of cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men)  

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

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 on this day in history.  

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   In the year 1968 birth of thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)  

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

Jan 04   In the year 1968 joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83  

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   On this day in history death of prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)  

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   On this day in history death of isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)