Historical Events In 1968

Feb 15   On this day in history little Walter, rocker, dies at 37  

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   In the year 1968 elvis Presley receives gold record for "How Great Thou Art"  

Feb 16   In the year 1968 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   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 in the year 1968.  

Feb 18   David Gilmour joins rock group Pink Floyd in the year 1968.  

Feb 18   On this day in history sigurd Erixon, etnologist (Atlas "ver Svensk Folkkultur), dies at 79  

Feb 19   On this day in history ralph Dunn, actor (Mr Rudge-Norby), dies at 65  

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   In the year 1968 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   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   Rock group Genesis release their first record "The Silent Sun" in the year 1968.  

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

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   Discovery of the first pulsar in space on this day in history.  

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   On this day in history makarios re-elected President of Cyprus  

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

Feb 26   In the year 1968 eric Feldary, actor (16 Fathoms Deep), dies of burns at 55  

Feb 27   Johannes Tralow, writer, dies at 85 on this day in history.  

Feb 28   Doretta Morrow, actress (Because You're Mine), dies at 41 on this day in history.  

Feb 28   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.  

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions)  

Jan 02   In the year 1968 birth of anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion  

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   In the year 1968 birth of shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah)  

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

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   Jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79 in the year 1968.  

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

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 on this day in history.