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

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   Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of the Green Bay Packers on this day in history.  

Feb 01   World trade conference Unctad 2 opens in New Delhi on this day in history.  

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   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   10th Winter Olympics games opens in Grenoble, France on this day in history.  

Feb 06   In the year 1968 c Montague Shaw, actor (Buck Rogers, Planet Outlaws), dies at 85  

Feb 06   On this day in history dutch 2nd Chamber condemns US bombing of North Vietnam  

Feb 06   In the year 1968 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 on this day in history.  

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

Feb 08   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.  

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

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

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   In the year 1968 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 in the year 1968.  

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

Jan 02   Scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions) was born in the year 1968.  

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion  

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   On this day in history birth of kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa)  

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   Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies in the year 1968.  

Jan 04   Joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83 on this day in history.  

Jan 05   On this day in history 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   Prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897) died on this day in history.  

Jan 09   Kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide died on this day in history.  

Jan 10   Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73 in the year 1968.  

Jan 11   Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) died on this day in history.