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

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 on this day in history.  

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

Feb 18   In the year 1968 david Gilmour joins rock group Pink Floyd  

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

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

Feb 20   Anthony Asquith, dies in the year 1968.  

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

Feb 20   State troopers used tear gas to stop demonstration at Alcorn A &M in the year 1968.  

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

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

Feb 21   On this day in history 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   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   Wilt Chamberlain becomes first NBAer to score 25,000 points in the year 1968.  

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

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

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

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   On this day in history camille Huysmans, Belgian premier (1946-47), dies at 96  

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

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 on this day in history.  

Feb 27   On this day in history johannes Tralow, writer, dies at 85  

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   On this day in history 1st pulsar announced (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge)  

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Jan 02   In the year 1968 birth of cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men)  

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 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 on this day in history.  

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

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

Jan 09   Kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide died in the year 1968.  

Jan 10   On this day in history 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.