Historical Events In 1968

Jan 31   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site on this day in history.  

Jan 31   Viet Cong's Tet offensive begins in the year 1968.  

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

Feb 01   In the year 1968 former Vice-President Richard Nixon announces candidacy for President  

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 in the year 1968.  

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   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   In the year 1968 kDTV TV channel 39 in Dallas-Fort Worth TX (IND) begins broadcasting  

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

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   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 in the year 1968.  

Feb 06   On this day in history 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 in the year 1968.  

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

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 on this day in history.  

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

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

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 in the year 1968.  

Feb 11   On this day in history 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   Ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer, dies at 87 on this day in history.  

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

Feb 14   Pennsylvania Railroad/NYC Central merge into Pennsylvania Central on this day in history.  

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Jan 02   Cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men) was born in the year 1968.  

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   On this day in history 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   On this day in history birth of thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)  

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

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   In the year 1968 kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81  

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 in the year 1968.  

Jan 11   On this day in history death of isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)