Page 3: Historical Events In 1968

Jan 31   In the year 1968 uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

Jan 31   Viet Cong's Tet offensive begins on this day in history.   

Feb 01   In the year 1968 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   Lawson Little, amateur golfer (US/Brit Opens 1934,35), dies at 57 in the year 1968.   

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   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 on this day in history.   

Feb 05   In the year 1968 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 in the year 1968.   

Feb 06   C Montague Shaw, actor (Buck Rogers, Planet Outlaws), dies at 85 on this day in history.   

Feb 06   Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns US bombing of North Vietnam on this day in history.   

Feb 06   On this day in history former President Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole-in-one   

Feb 07   In the year 1968 arthur Miller's "Price," premieres in New York NY   

Feb 07   Belgium government of Vanden Boeynants falls on this day in history.   

Feb 07   In the year 1968 nick Adams, actor (Interns, Pillow Talk, FBI Story), ODs at 36   

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   On this day in history barbara Everest, actress (Inquest, Madeleine), dies at 77   

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

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

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

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   In the year 1968 israeli-Jordan border fight   

Feb 11   On this day in history 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   Pennsylvania Railroad/NYC Central merge into Pennsylvania Central on this day in history.   

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

Jan 02   Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 05   Jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79 on this day in history.   

Jan 06   Kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81 in the year 1968.   

Jan 07   Prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897) died in the year 1968.   

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 on this day in history.   

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