Page 4: Historical Events In 1968

Feb 15   Little Walter, rocker, dies at 37 on this day in history.   

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

Feb 16   Country's first 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville AL on this day in history.   

Feb 16   Elvis Presley receives gold record for "How Great Thou Art" in the year 1968.   

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

Feb 17   Donald Wolfit, actor (Lawrence of Arabia), dies of heart ailment at 65 on this day in history.   

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

Feb 18   10th Winter Olympics games close at Grenoble, France in the year 1968.   

Feb 18   David Gilmour joins rock group Pink Floyd on this day in history.   

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 on this day in history.   

Feb 20   John Cleese (Monty Python) marries Connie Booth on this day in history.   

Feb 20   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.   

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

Feb 22   In the year 1968 omer CFL Tulippe, Belgian geographer, dies at 71   

Feb 22   Rock group Genesis release their first record "The Silent Sun" on this day in history.   

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

Feb 23   Wilt Chamberlain becomes first NBAer to score 25,000 points on this day in history.   

Feb 24   In the year 1968 a pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge)   

Feb 24   On this day in history discovery of the first pulsar in space   

Feb 24   On this day in history gary Unger begins NHL consecutive game record of 914 games   

Feb 24   In the year 1968 uS troops reconquer Hue Vietnam   

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

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

Feb 25   Makarios re-elected President of Cyprus on this day in history.   

Feb 26   In the year 1968 clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission   

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 on this day in history.   

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

Feb 28   On this day in history pirate Radio Hauraki, off New Zealand, returns to the air   

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   On this day in history birth of scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions)   

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

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 on this day in history.   

Jan 03   Shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah) was born in the year 1968.   

Jan 03   Thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos) was born in the year 1968.   

Jan 02   On this day in history sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies   

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 in the year 1968.   

Jan 06   Kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81 on this day in history.   

Jan 07   On this day in history death of prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)   

Jan 09   On this day in history death of kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide   

Jan 10   In the year 1968 basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73   

Jan 11   Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) died in the year 1968.