Historical Events In 1968

Feb 29   Beatles' "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" wins Grammy on this day in history.  

Feb 29   On this day in history bryce Paup, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers, Buffalo Bills)  

Feb 29   Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell announces the discovery of the first pulsar (a star that emits regular radio waves) in the year 1968.  

Feb 29   First pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge) in the year 1968.  

Feb 29   On this day in history uS end regular flights with nuclear bombs  

Feb 29   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site in the year 1968.  

Mar 01   On this day in history country music artists Johnny Cash and June Carter are married.  

Mar 01   G v d Vring, writer, dies on this day in history.  

Mar 01   In the year 1968 hong Kong flu in Worldwide killing 1-4 million people  

Mar 01   NBC's unprecedented on-air announcement, Star Trek will return great news!! in the year 1968.  

Mar 01   Pirate Radio Atlantis South (England) begins test transmitting on this day in history.  

Mar 01   Political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands in the year 1968.  

Mar 01   On this day in history singers Johnny Cash (36) &June Carter (38) wed  

Mar 01   On this day in history vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect  

Mar 02   USAF displays Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, biggest plane in the world on this day in history.  

Mar 02   USSR launches space probe Zond 4; fails to leave Earth orbit on this day in history.  

Mar 02   On this day in history world Ice Dance Championship in Geneva won by Diane Towler &Bernard Ford (Great Britain)  

Mar 02   On this day in history world Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Lyudmila Belousova &Oleg Protopopov (USSR)  

Mar 02   World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Peggy Fleming (USA) on this day in history.  

Mar 02   On this day in history world Men's Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Emmerich Danzer (Austria)  

Mar 03   On this day in history greece, Portugal & Spain's embassies bombed in the Hague  

Mar 03   In the year 1968 jean Beliveau (Montréal) becomes 2nd NHLer to score 1,000 points  

Mar 04   Alexandre Cellier, composer, dies at 84 on this day in history.  

Mar 04   On this day in history joe Frazier TKOs Buster Mathis in 11 for heavyweight boxing title  

Mar 04   On this day in history martin Luther King Jr announces plans for Poor People's Campaign  

Mar 04   In the year 1968 orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched  

Mar 05   US launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the Sun in the year 1968.  

Mar 06   On this day in history isa Krejci, composer, dies at 63  

Mar 07   In the year 1968 operation Coronado XII begins in Mekong Delta, Vietnam  

Mar 07   On this day in history yuri Aleksayevich Gagarin, USSR cosmonaut (Vostok I), dies at 31  

Mar 08   6 year old Tommy Moore scores hole-in-one in golf (Hagerstown MD) in the year 1968.  

Mar 08   On this day in history students demonstrate in Warsaw  

Mar 09   On this day in history 10th Grammy Awards Up Up & Away, Sergeant Pepper win  

Mar 09   In the year 1968 10th Grammy Awards: Up Up & Away, Sergeant Pepper win  

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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   On this day in history birth of anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion  

Jan 02   In the year 1968 birth of evan Parke, Jamaican actor  

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

Jan 03   In the year 1968 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   In the year 1968 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   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 on this day in history.  

Jan 07   Prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897) died on this day in history.  

Jan 09   On this day in history death of kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide  

Jan 10   Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73 in the year 1968.  

Jan 11   Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) died in the year 1968.