Historical Events In 1968

Feb 15   In the year 1968 little Walter, rocker, dies at 37  

Feb 16   Beatles George Harrison & John Lennon & wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in the year 1968.  

Feb 16   Country's first 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville AL in the year 1968.  

Feb 16   In the year 1968 elvis Presley receives gold record for "How Great Thou Art"  

Feb 16   Healey Willan, composer, dies at 87 on this day in history.  

Feb 17   On this day in history donald Wolfit, actor (Lawrence of Arabia), dies of heart ailment at 65  

Feb 18   In the year 1968 10,000 demonstrators against US in Vietnam War in West-Berlin  

Feb 18   10th Winter Olympics games close at Grenoble, France on this day in history.  

Feb 18   David Gilmour joins rock group Pink Floyd in the year 1968.  

Feb 18   In the year 1968 sigurd Erixon, etnologist (Atlas "ver Svensk Folkkultur), dies at 79  

Feb 19   In the year 1968 ralph Dunn, actor (Mr Rudge-Norby), dies at 65  

Feb 20   Anthony Asquith, dies in the year 1968.  

Feb 20   In the year 1968 john Cleese (Monty Python) marries Connie Booth  

Feb 20   In the year 1968 state troopers used tear gas to stop demonstration at Alcorn A &M  

Feb 21   150,000 demonstrate against leftist students in West-Berlin on this day in history.  

Feb 21   Anthony Asquith, British director (Court Martial), dies at 65 in the year 1968.  

Feb 21   In the year 1968 baseball announces a minimum annual salary of $10,000  

Feb 22   Omer CFL Tulippe, Belgian geographer, dies at 71 in the year 1968.  

Feb 22   In the year 1968 rock group Genesis release their first record "The Silent Sun"  

Feb 23   Fannie Hurst, US author (Anatomy of Me), dies at 78 on this day in history.  

Feb 23   In the year 1968 wilt Chamberlain becomes first NBAer to score 25,000 points  

Feb 24   A pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge) on this day in history.  

Feb 24   Discovery of the first pulsar in space on this day in history.  

Feb 24   Gary Unger begins NHL consecutive game record of 914 games in the year 1968.  

Feb 24   US troops reconquer Hue Vietnam in the year 1968.  

Feb 25   On this day in history 430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea  

Feb 25   Camille Huysmans, Belgian premier (1946-47), dies at 96 in the year 1968.  

Feb 25   In the year 1968 makarios re-elected President of Cyprus  

Feb 26   Clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission on this day in history.  

Feb 26   Eric Feldary, actor (16 Fathoms Deep), dies of burns at 55 in the year 1968.  

Feb 27   Johannes Tralow, writer, dies at 85 in the year 1968.  

Feb 28   In the year 1968 doretta Morrow, actress (Because You're Mine), dies at 41  

Feb 28   Pirate Radio Hauraki, off New Zealand, returns to the air on this day in history.  

Feb 29   In the year 1968 1st pulsar announced (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge)  

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Jan 02   Cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 02   Scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 02   In the year 1968 birth of anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion  

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

Jan 03   On this day in history 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   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   On this day in history kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81  

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   On this day in history basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73  

Jan 11   In the year 1968 death of isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)