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   In the year 1968 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   On this day in history uS end regular flights with nuclear bombs   

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

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

Mar 01   In the year 1968 g v d Vring, writer, dies   

Mar 01   Hong Kong flu in Worldwide killing 1-4 million people on this day in history.   

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

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

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

Mar 02   In the year 1968 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   World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Lyudmila Belousova &Oleg Protopopov (USSR) in the year 1968.   

Mar 02   In the year 1968 world Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Peggy Fleming (USA)   

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

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

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   Joe Frazier TKOs Buster Mathis in 11 for heavyweight boxing title in the year 1968.   

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 on this day in history.   

Mar 05   On this day in history uS launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the Sun   

Mar 06   Isa Krejci, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.   

Mar 07   Operation Coronado XII begins in Mekong Delta, Vietnam on this day in history.   

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) in the year 1968.   

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

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 in the year 1968.   

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

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

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

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   On this day in history birth of thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)   

Jan 02   On this day in history sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies   

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   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   In the year 1968 death of isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)