Page 3: Historical Events In 1968

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

Jan 31   On this day in history 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   In the year 1968 former Vice-President Richard Nixon announces candidacy for President   

Feb 01   Lawson Little, amateur golfer (US/Brit Opens 1934,35), dies at 57 on this day in history.   

Feb 01   In the year 1968 the government halted further unification of the Canadian Armed Forces, many say it did not work   

Feb 01   In the year 1968 vince Lombardi resigns as coach of the Green Bay Packers   

Feb 01   World trade conference Unctad 2 opens in New Delhi in the year 1968.   

Feb 02   Springer Publishers in West Berlin, bombed in the year 1968.   

Feb 04   In the year 1968 ed Baker, actor (Keystone Kops), dies of emphysema at 70   

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   On this day in history skater Kees Verkerk win Olympics gold in the 1500m   

Feb 06   10th Winter Olympics games opens in Grenoble, France on this day in history.   

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 in the year 1968.   

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

Feb 07   On this day in history arthur Miller's "Price," premieres in New York NY   

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 in the year 1968.   

Feb 09   Barbara Everest, actress (Inquest, Madeleine), dies at 77 on this day in history.   

Feb 09   Rotterdam metro opened by princess Beatrix on this day in history.   

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

Feb 10   Peggy Fleming wins Olympics figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France on this day in history.   

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   Israeli-Jordan border fight in the year 1968.   

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   On this day in history ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer, dies at 87   

Feb 13   US sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam on this day in history.   

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   Scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions) was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 02   Evan Parke, Jamaican actor was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 03   In the year 1968 birth of kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa)   

Jan 03   In the year 1968 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   Joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83 in the year 1968.   

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 in the year 1968.   

Jan 09   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.