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   On this day in history country's first 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville AL   

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

Feb 18   10,000 demonstrators against US in Vietnam War in West-Berlin on this day in history.   

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

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

Feb 18   Sigurd Erixon, etnologist (Atlas "ver Svensk Folkkultur), dies at 79 on this day in history.   

Feb 19   Ralph Dunn, actor (Mr Rudge-Norby), dies at 65 in the year 1968.   

Feb 20   On this day in history anthony Asquith, dies   

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

Feb 20   On this day in history state troopers used tear gas to stop demonstration at Alcorn A &M   

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

Feb 21   On this day in history anthony Asquith, British director (Court Martial), dies at 65   

Feb 21   Baseball announces a minimum annual salary of $10,000 in the year 1968.   

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

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 in the year 1968.   

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 on this day in history.   

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 on this day in history.   

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

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   On this day in history johannes Tralow, writer, dies at 85   

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

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

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   In the year 1968 birth of scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions)   

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

Jan 02   Evan Parke, Jamaican actor was born in the year 1968.   

Jan 03   Kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa)   

Jan 03   Shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah) was born on this day in history.   

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 on this day in history.   

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

Jan 06   In the year 1968 kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81   

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

Jan 09   In the year 1968 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.