Historical Events In 1968

Feb 29   In the year 1968 beatles' "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" wins Grammy  

Feb 29   In the year 1968 bryce Paup, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers, Buffalo Bills)  

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   In the year 1968 first pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge)  

Feb 29   In the year 1968 uS end regular flights with nuclear bombs  

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

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

Mar 01   On this day in history 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   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   In the year 1968 vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect  

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

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   On this day in history 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   On this day in history alexandre Cellier, composer, dies at 84  

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

Mar 04   Martin Luther King Jr announces plans for Poor People's Campaign on this day in history.  

Mar 04   Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched in the year 1968.  

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

Mar 06   Isa Krejci, composer, dies at 63 in the year 1968.  

Mar 07   Operation Coronado XII begins in Mekong Delta, Vietnam in the year 1968.  

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

Mar 08   6 year old Tommy Moore scores hole-in-one in golf (Hagerstown MD) on this day in history.  

Mar 08   In the year 1968 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 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 in the year 1968.  

Jan 02   Scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions) was born in the year 1968.  

Jan 02   Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion was born on this day in history.  

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of evan Parke, Jamaican actor  

Jan 03   In the year 1968 birth of kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star  

Jan 03   Kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa) was born in the year 1968.  

Jan 03   Shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah) was born on this day in history.  

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

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

Jan 04   In the year 1968 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   Kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81 in the year 1968.  

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   In the year 1968 basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73  

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