Page 5: Historical Events In 1968

Feb 29   Beatles' "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" wins Grammy in the year 1968.   

Feb 29   Bryce Paup, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers, Buffalo Bills) in the year 1968.   

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

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

Mar 01   Pirate Radio Atlantis South (England) begins test transmitting on this day in history.   

Mar 01   In the year 1968 political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands   

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

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

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 in the year 1968.   

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) on this day in history.   

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

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

Mar 04   In the year 1968 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   On this day in history martin Luther King Jr announces plans for Poor People's Campaign   

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

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

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

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

Mar 07   In the year 1968 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) on this day in history.   

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

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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 on this day in history.   

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion   

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   In the year 1968 birth of kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa)   

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

Jan 03   Thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos) was born on this day in history.   

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   Jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79 in the year 1968.   

Jan 06   Kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81 on this day in history.   

Jan 07   On this day in history death of prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)   

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.