Page 5: Historical Events In 1968

Feb 29   On this day in history beatles' "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" wins Grammy   

Feb 29   Bryce Paup, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers, Buffalo Bills) in the year 1968.   

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

Feb 29   First pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge) on this day in history.   

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

Feb 29   In the year 1968 uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

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

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

Mar 01   Hong Kong flu in Worldwide killing 1-4 million people in the year 1968.   

Mar 01   NBC's unprecedented on-air announcement, Star Trek will return great news!! on this day in history.   

Mar 01   In the year 1968 pirate Radio Atlantis South (England) begins test transmitting   

Mar 01   Political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history uSAF displays Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, biggest plane in the world   

Mar 02   In the year 1968 uSSR launches space probe Zond 4; fails to leave Earth orbit   

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

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

Mar 02   On this day in history world Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Peggy Fleming (USA)   

Mar 02   In the year 1968 world Men's Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Emmerich Danzer (Austria)   

Mar 03   In the year 1968 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   In the year 1968 alexandre Cellier, composer, dies at 84   

Mar 04   Joe Frazier TKOs Buster Mathis in 11 for heavyweight boxing title on this day in history.   

Mar 04   In the year 1968 martin Luther King Jr announces plans for Poor People's Campaign   

Mar 04   On this day in history orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched   

Mar 05   US launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the Sun on this day in history.   

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

Mar 07   On this day in history 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   On this day in history 6 year old Tommy Moore scores hole-in-one in golf (Hagerstown MD)   

Mar 08   Students demonstrate in Warsaw on this day in history.   

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

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

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Jan 02   On this day in history birth of cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men)   

Jan 02   In the year 1968 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 in the year 1968.   

Jan 03   Kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa) was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 03   In the year 1968 birth of thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)   

Jan 02   Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies in the year 1968.   

Jan 04   Joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83 in the year 1968.   

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   Kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide died on this day in history.   

Jan 10   Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73 on this day in history.   

Jan 11   Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) died on this day in history.