Page 3: Historical Events In 1968

Jan 31   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.   

Feb 01   Former Vice-President Richard Nixon announces candidacy for President   

Feb 01   Lawson Little, amateur golfer (US/Brit Opens 193435), dies at 57   

Feb 01   The government halted further unification of the Canadian Armed Forces, many say it did not work   

Feb 01   Vince Lombardi steps down as coach of the Green Bay Packers   

Feb 01   World trade conference Unctad 2 opens in New Delhi.   

Feb 02   Springer Publishers in West Berlin, bombed   

Feb 04   Ed Baker, actor (Keystone Kops), dies of emphysema at 70   

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

Feb 05   Luckey Roberts, composer, dies at 80.   

Feb 05   Skater Kees Verkerk win Olympics gold in the 1500m   

Feb 06   10th Winter Olympics games opens in Grenoble, France   

Feb 06   C Montague Shaw, actor (Buck Rogers, Planet Outlaws), dies at 85   

Feb 06   Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns US bombing of North Vietnam.   

Feb 06   Former President Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole-in-one.   

Feb 07   Arthur Miller's "Price," premieres in New York NY   

Feb 07   Belgium government of Vanden Boeynants falls   

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

Feb 08   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   

Feb 09   Barbara Everest, actress (Inquest, Madeleine), dies at 77.   

Feb 09   Rotterdam metro opened by princess Beatrix.   

Feb 10   "Spooky" by Classics IV hits #3   

Feb 10   In this year, Peggy Fleming claims Olympics figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France   

Feb 10   Pitirim A Sorokin, Russian/US sociologist, dies at 79   

Feb 11   Howard Lindsay, US playwright (State of the Union), dies at 78.   

Feb 11   In this year, Peggy Fleming claims Olympics figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France   

Feb 11   Israeli-Jordan border fight   

Feb 11   Jeffrey Kramer survives 76 meter jump, Washington Bridge, Hudson River NY   

Feb 13   Ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer, dies at 87   

Feb 13   US sends 10500 additional soldiers to Vietnam.   

Feb 14   Pennsylvania Railroad/NYC Central merge into Pennsylvania Central.   

Feb 15   Little Walter, rocker, dies at 37.   

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Jan 02   Cuba gooding jr: Actor (boyz n the hood, glaadiator, few good men)   

Jan 02   Scott mitchell: Nfl quarterback (detroit lions)   

Jan 02   Anky van grunsven: Dutch dressage champion   

Jan 02   Evan parke: Jamaican actor   

Jan 03   Kent carlsson: Sweden, tennis star   

Jan 03   Kerry huffman: Peterborough, nhl defenseman (phila flyers, ottawa)   

Jan 03   Shannon sturges: Actress (savannah)   

Jan 03   Thomas rayam: Cfl offensive linebacker (edmonton eskimos)   

Jan 02   Sanoesi pane: Indonesian writer,    

Jan 04   Joseph pholien: Belgian pm (1950-52) communist fighter,   

Jan 05   Jean murat: Actor (on the riviera),   

Jan 06   Kurt baschwitz: Germ/dutch sociologist/journalist (heksen),   

Jan 07   Prof james smith: South african ichthyologist (b. 1897)   

Jan 09   Kokichi tsuburaya: Japanese marathoner (oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide   

Jan 10   Basil sydney: Actor (hamlet, simba),    

Jan 11   Isidor isaac rabi: American physicist, nobel prize laureate (b. 1898)