Page 5: Historical Events In 1968

Feb 29   On this day in history beatles' "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" wins Grammy   

Feb 29   On this day in history 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   First pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge) on this day in history.   

Feb 29   US end regular flights with nuclear bombs in the year 1968.   

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

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

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

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

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 on this day in history.   

Mar 02   World Ice Dance Championship in Geneva won by Diane Towler &Bernard Ford (Great Britain) in the year 1968.   

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

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   In the year 1968 alexandre Cellier, composer, dies at 84   

Mar 04   On this day in history 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   Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched in the year 1968.   

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   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 on this day in history.   

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

Mar 08   On this day in history students demonstrate in Warsaw   

Mar 09   10th Grammy Awards Up Up & Away, Sergeant Pepper win on this day in history.   

Mar 09   10th Grammy Awards: Up Up & Away, Sergeant Pepper win in the year 1968.   

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Jan 02   Cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men) was born on this day in history.   

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 in the year 1968.   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa)   

Jan 03   In the year 1968 birth of shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah)   

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

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 on this day in history.   

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 in the year 1968.   

Jan 07   Prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897) died in the year 1968.   

Jan 09   Kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide died in the year 1968.   

Jan 10   Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73 on this day in history.   

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