Page 4: Historical Events In 1968

Feb 15   Little Walter, rocker, dies at 37 in the year 1968.   

Feb 16   On this day in history beatles George Harrison & John Lennon & wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi   

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

Feb 16   On this day in history elvis Presley receives gold record for "How Great Thou Art"   

Feb 16   On this day in history healey Willan, composer, dies at 87   

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 in the year 1968.   

Feb 18   On this day in history david Gilmour joins rock group Pink Floyd   

Feb 18   Sigurd Erixon, etnologist (Atlas "ver Svensk Folkkultur), dies at 79 in the year 1968.   

Feb 19   Ralph Dunn, actor (Mr Rudge-Norby), dies at 65 on this day in history.   

Feb 20   In the year 1968 anthony Asquith, dies   

Feb 20   John Cleese (Monty Python) marries Connie Booth in the year 1968.   

Feb 20   State troopers used tear gas to stop demonstration at Alcorn A &M on this day in history.   

Feb 21   In the year 1968 150,000 demonstrate against leftist students in West-Berlin   

Feb 21   In the year 1968 anthony Asquith, British director (Court Martial), dies at 65   

Feb 21   Baseball announces a minimum annual salary of $10,000 on this day in history.   

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

Feb 22   On this day in history rock group Genesis release their first record "The Silent Sun"   

Feb 23   In the year 1968 fannie Hurst, US author (Anatomy of Me), dies at 78   

Feb 23   On this day in history wilt Chamberlain becomes first NBAer to score 25,000 points   

Feb 24   A pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge) in the year 1968.   

Feb 24   In the year 1968 discovery of the first pulsar in space   

Feb 24   In the year 1968 gary Unger begins NHL consecutive game record of 914 games   

Feb 24   In the year 1968 uS troops reconquer Hue Vietnam   

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   Makarios re-elected President of Cyprus in the year 1968.   

Feb 26   On this day in history clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission   

Feb 26   Eric Feldary, actor (16 Fathoms Deep), dies of burns at 55 on this day in history.   

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

Feb 28   Doretta Morrow, actress (Because You're Mine), dies at 41 in the year 1968.   

Feb 28   In the year 1968 pirate Radio Hauraki, off New Zealand, returns to the air   

Feb 29   1st pulsar announced (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge) 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   On this day in history birth of scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions)   

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   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   In the year 1968 sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies   

Jan 04   Joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83 in the year 1968.   

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

Jan 06   On this day in history kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81   

Jan 07   In the year 1968 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   On this day in history death of isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)