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   Bryce Paup, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers, Buffalo Bills) on this day in history.   

Feb 29   Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell announces the discovery of the first pulsar (a star that emits regular radio waves) in the year 1968.   

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   On this day in history uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

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

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   On this day in history pirate Radio Atlantis South (England) begins test transmitting   

Mar 01   Political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands in the year 1968.   

Mar 01   Singers Johnny Cash (36) &June Carter (38) wed on this day in history.   

Mar 01   Vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect in the year 1968.   

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

Mar 02   In the year 1968 uSSR launches space probe Zond 4; fails to leave Earth orbit   

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

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   On this day in history 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   Martin Luther King Jr announces plans for Poor People's Campaign in the year 1968.   

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

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

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   On this day in history students demonstrate in Warsaw   

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

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

Jan 02   In the year 1968 birth of evan Parke, Jamaican actor   

Jan 03   Kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star was born in the year 1968.   

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

Jan 03   Shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah) was born in the year 1968.   

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

Jan 02   In the year 1968 sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies   

Jan 04   Joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83 in the year 1968.   

Jan 05   On this day in history 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   On this day in history death of kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide   

Jan 10   Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73 in the year 1968.   

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