Page 5: Historical Events In 1968

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 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.   

Mar 11   Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 12nd string quartet   

Mar 11   In this year, Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting.   

Mar 11   Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for "(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay".   

Mar 12   Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day).   

Mar 12   Mauritius, in the Indian ocean island, granted independence after 158 years of British rule   

Mar 13   Beatles release "Lady Madonna" in the UK   

Mar 14   CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA   

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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)