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) on this day in history.   

Feb 29   On this day in history dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell announces the discovery of the first pulsar (a star that emits regular radio waves).   

Feb 29   On this day in history first pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge)   

Feb 29   US end regular flights with nuclear bombs in the year 1968.   

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

Mar 01   Country music artists Johnny Cash and June Carter are married in the year 1968.   

Mar 01   G v d Vring, writer, dies in the year 1968.   

Mar 01   On this day in history hong Kong flu in Worldwide killing 1-4 million people   

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

Mar 01   Pirate Radio Atlantis South (England) begins test transmitting in the year 1968.   

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

Mar 01   In the year 1968 singers Johnny Cash (36) &June Carter (38) wed   

Mar 01   Vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect on this day in history.   

Mar 02   On this day in history uSAF displays Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, biggest plane in the world   

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

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   World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Peggy Fleming (USA) in the year 1968.   

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

Mar 03   Greece, Portugal & Spain's embassies bombed in the Hague on this day in history.   

Mar 03   On this day in history jean Beliveau (Montréal) becomes 2nd NHLer to score 1,000 points   

Mar 04   On this day in history 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   On this day in history 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   Isa Krejci, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.   

Mar 07   On this day in history operation Coronado XII begins in Mekong Delta, Vietnam   

Mar 07   Yuri Aleksayevich Gagarin, USSR cosmonaut (Vostok I), dies at 31 in the year 1968.   

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 in the year 1968.   

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

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

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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   In the year 1968 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 in the year 1968.   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star   

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 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 in the year 1968.   

Jan 05   In the year 1968 jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79   

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   In the year 1968 death of kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide   

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.