Page 5: Historical Events In 1968

Feb 29   Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell announces the discovery of the inaugural pulsar (a star that emits regular radio waves).   

Feb 29   In this year, Beatles' "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" claims Grammy   

Feb 29   inaugural pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge).   

Feb 29   US end regular flights with nuclear bombs   

Feb 29   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.   

Mar 01   Country music artists Johnny Cash and June Carter are married   

Mar 01   G v d Vring, writer, dies.   

Mar 01   Hong Kong flu in Worldwide killing 1-4 million people   

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

Mar 01   Pirate Radio Atlantis South (England) begins test transmitting.   

Mar 01   Political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands.   

Mar 01   Singers Johnny Cash (36) and June Carter (38) wed.   

Mar 01   Vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 comes into force.   

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

Mar 02   USSR launches space probe Zond 4; fails to leave Earth orbit.   

Mar 02   World Ice Dance Championship in Geneva won by Diane Towler and Bernard Ford (Great Britain).   

Mar 02   World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov (USSR).   

Mar 02   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).   

Mar 03   Greece, Portugal and Spain's embassies bombed in the Hague.   

Mar 04   Alexandre Cellier, composer, dies at 84   

Mar 04   Joe Frazier TKOs Buster Mathis in 11 for heavyweight boxing title   

Mar 04   Martin Luther King Jr announces plans for Poor People's Campaign.   

Mar 04   Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched.   

Mar 05   US launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the Sun   

Mar 06   Isa Krejci, composer, dies at 63.   

Mar 07   Operation Coronado XII begins in Mekong Delta, Vietnam   

Mar 07   Yuri Aleksayevich Gagarin, USSR cosmonaut (Vostok I), dies at 31   

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

Mar 08   Students demonstrate in Warsaw.   

Mar 09   10th Grammy Awards Up Up and Away, Sergeant Pepper win   

Mar 09   10th Grammy Awards: Up Up and Away, Sergeant Pepper win   

Mar 10   Ferry boat sinks in harbor of Wellington New Zealand (200 killed)   

Mar 10   Helen Walker, actress (Brewster's Million), dies of cancer at 47   

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Jan 02   Cuba gooding jr: Actor (boyz n the hood, glaadiator, few good men)   

Jan 02   Scott mitchell: Nfl quarterback (detroit lions)   

Jan 02   Anky van grunsven: Dutch dressage champion   

Jan 02   Evan parke: Jamaican actor   

Jan 03   Kent carlsson: Sweden, tennis star   

Jan 03   Kerry huffman: Peterborough, nhl defenseman (phila flyers, ottawa)   

Jan 03   Shannon sturges: Actress (savannah)   

Jan 03   Thomas rayam: Cfl offensive linebacker (edmonton eskimos)   

Jan 02   Sanoesi pane: Indonesian writer,    

Jan 04   Joseph pholien: Belgian pm (1950-52) communist fighter,   

Jan 05   Jean murat: Actor (on the riviera),    

Jan 06   Kurt baschwitz: Germ/dutch sociologist/journalist (heksen),    

Jan 07   Prof james smith: South african ichthyologist (b. 1897)   

Jan 09   Kokichi tsuburaya: Japanese marathoner (oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide   

Jan 10   Basil sydney: Actor (hamlet, simba),    

Jan 11   Isidor isaac rabi: American physicist, nobel prize laureate (b. 1898)