Page 3: 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 on this day in history.   

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

Feb 01   In the year 1968 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   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   Skater Kees Verkerk win Olympics gold in the 1500m in the year 1968.   

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

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 on this day in history.   

Feb 06   Former President Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole-in-one in the year 1968.   

Feb 07   Arthur Miller's "Price," premieres in New York NY on this day in history.   

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 in the year 1968.   

Feb 08   J Borremans, Belgian politician (Communist), dies at 56 on this day in history.   

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

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   On this day in history howard Lindsay, US playwright (State of the Union), dies at 78   

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

Feb 11   In the year 1968 jeffrey Kramer survives 76 meter jump, Washington Bridge, Hudson River NY   

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

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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   On this day in history birth of scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions)   

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

Jan 02   In the year 1968 birth of evan Parke, Jamaican actor   

Jan 03   Kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star was born in the year 1968.   

Jan 03   Kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah)   

Jan 03   Thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos) was born in the year 1968.   

Jan 02   Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies on this day in history.   

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

Jan 05   In the year 1968 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   In the year 1968 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   Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73 on this day in history.   

Jan 11   Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) died in the year 1968.