Page 4: Historical Events In 1968

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

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 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   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   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 on this day in history.   

Feb 20   Anthony Asquith, dies in the year 1968.   

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

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

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

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

Feb 21   On this day in history baseball announces a minimum annual salary of $10,000   

Feb 22   Omer CFL Tulippe, Belgian geographer, dies at 71 on this day in history.   

Feb 22   In the year 1968 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) on this day in history.   

Feb 24   Discovery of the first pulsar in space in the year 1968.   

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   430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea in the year 1968.   

Feb 25   On this day in history camille Huysmans, Belgian premier (1946-47), dies at 96   

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

Feb 28   In the year 1968 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   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   In the year 1968 birth of evan Parke, Jamaican actor   

Jan 03   Kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star was born in the year 1968.   

Jan 03   Kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa) was born in the year 1968.   

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

Jan 03   Thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 02   On this day in history 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   Jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79 in the year 1968.   

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 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.