Page 5: Historical Events In 1968

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

Feb 29   In the year 1968 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) on this day in history.   

Feb 29   US end regular flights with nuclear bombs on this day in history.   

Feb 29   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site on this day in history.   

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

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   In the year 1968 nBC's unprecedented on-air announcement, Star Trek will return great news!!   

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

Mar 01   On this day in history political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands   

Mar 01   Singers Johnny Cash (36) &June Carter (38) wed in the year 1968.   

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

Mar 02   In the year 1968 uSAF displays Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, biggest plane in the world   

Mar 02   On this day in history uSSR launches space probe Zond 4; fails to leave Earth orbit   

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

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

Mar 03   Greece, Portugal & Spain's embassies bombed in the Hague in the year 1968.   

Mar 03   Jean Beliveau (Montréal) becomes 2nd NHLer to score 1,000 points in the year 1968.   

Mar 04   Alexandre Cellier, composer, dies at 84 in the year 1968.   

Mar 04   In the year 1968 joe Frazier TKOs Buster Mathis in 11 for heavyweight boxing title   

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   In the year 1968 uS launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the Sun   

Mar 06   In the year 1968 isa Krejci, composer, dies at 63   

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

Mar 07   In the year 1968 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   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   10th Grammy Awards: Up Up & Away, Sergeant Pepper win in the year 1968.   

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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   Scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 02   Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion was born in the year 1968.   

Jan 02   Evan Parke, Jamaican actor was born on this day in history.   

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   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   In the year 1968 sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies   

Jan 04   On this day in history joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83   

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

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 on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history death of isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)