Historical Events In 1968

Feb 29   Beatles' "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" wins Grammy on this day in history.  

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   On this day in history 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 in the year 1968.  

Mar 01   G v d Vring, writer, dies in the year 1968.  

Mar 01   In the year 1968 hong Kong flu in Worldwide killing 1-4 million people  

Mar 01   On this day in history nBC's unprecedented on-air announcement, Star Trek will return great news!!  

Mar 01   In the year 1968 pirate Radio Atlantis South (England) begins test transmitting  

Mar 01   On this day in history political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands  

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

Mar 01   In the year 1968 vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect  

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

Mar 02   On this day in history uSSR launches space probe Zond 4; fails to leave Earth orbit  

Mar 02   World Ice Dance Championship in Geneva won by Diane Towler &Bernard Ford (Great Britain) on this day in history.  

Mar 02   World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Lyudmila Belousova &Oleg Protopopov (USSR) on this day in history.  

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

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

Mar 03   On this day in history greece, Portugal & Spain's embassies bombed in the Hague  

Mar 03   Jean Beliveau (Montréal) becomes 2nd NHLer to score 1,000 points in the year 1968.  

Mar 04   Alexandre Cellier, composer, dies at 84 on this day in history.  

Mar 04   On this day in history joe Frazier TKOs Buster Mathis in 11 for heavyweight boxing title  

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

Mar 04   In the year 1968 orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched  

Mar 05   US launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the Sun in the year 1968.  

Mar 06   Isa Krejci, composer, dies at 63 in the year 1968.  

Mar 07   On this day in history operation Coronado XII begins in Mekong Delta, Vietnam  

Mar 07   Yuri Aleksayevich Gagarin, USSR cosmonaut (Vostok I), dies at 31 in the year 1968.  

Mar 08   In the year 1968 6 year old Tommy Moore scores hole-in-one in golf (Hagerstown MD)  

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

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

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

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Jan 02   In the year 1968 birth of cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men)  

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions)  

Jan 02   Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion was born in the year 1968.  

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of evan Parke, Jamaican actor  

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

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

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

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   In the year 1968 joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83  

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 on this day in history.  

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 on this day in history.  

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)