Historical Events In 1968

Jan 31   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site in the year 1968.  

Jan 31   Viet Cong's Tet offensive begins on this day in history.  

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   In the year 1968 former Vice-President Richard Nixon announces candidacy for President  

Feb 01   On this day in history 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 in the year 1968.  

Feb 01   Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of the Green Bay Packers in the year 1968.  

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

Feb 02   Springer Publishers in West Berlin, bombed on this day in history.  

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   On this day in history luckey Roberts, composer, dies at 80  

Feb 05   Skater Kees Verkerk win Olympics gold in the 1500m on this day in history.  

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

Feb 06   C Montague Shaw, actor (Buck Rogers, Planet Outlaws), dies at 85 in the year 1968.  

Feb 06   Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns US bombing of North Vietnam on this day in history.  

Feb 06   Former President Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole-in-one on this day in history.  

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

Feb 07   Belgium government of Vanden Boeynants falls in the year 1968.  

Feb 07   Nick Adams, actor (Interns, Pillow Talk, FBI Story), ODs at 36 on this day in history.  

Feb 08   J Borremans, Belgian politician (Communist), dies at 56 in the year 1968.  

Feb 08   In the year 1968 three college students are killed in a clash with the South Carolina highway patrol, during a civil rights protest in Orangeburg.  

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

Feb 09   In the year 1968 rotterdam metro opened by princess Beatrix  

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

Feb 10   On this day in history peggy Fleming wins Olympics figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France  

Feb 10   Pitirim A Sorokin, Russian/US sociologist, dies at 79 on this day in history.  

Feb 11   Howard Lindsay, US playwright (State of the Union), dies at 78 on this day in history.  

Feb 11   On this day in history israeli-Jordan border fight  

Feb 11   Jeffrey Kramer survives 76 meter jump, Washington Bridge, Hudson River NY on this day in history.  

Feb 11   Peggy Fleming wins Olympics figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France on this day in history.  

Feb 13   Ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer, dies at 87 in the year 1968.  

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

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

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

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   In the year 1968 birth of kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star  

Jan 03   Kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa) was born in the year 1968.  

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 in the year 1968.  

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 in the year 1968.  

Jan 09   Kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide died in the year 1968.  

Jan 10   On this day in history 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)