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   Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell announces the discovery of the first pulsar (a star that emits regular radio waves) on this day in history.  

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   In the year 1968 country music artists Johnny Cash and June Carter are married.  

Mar 01   On this day in history g v d Vring, writer, dies  

Mar 01   Hong Kong flu in Worldwide killing 1-4 million people in the year 1968.  

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

Mar 01   Pirate Radio Atlantis South (England) begins test transmitting in the year 1968.  

Mar 01   Political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands on this day in history.  

Mar 01   On this day in history 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 in the year 1968.  

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) on this day in history.  

Mar 02   World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Peggy Fleming (USA) on this day in history.  

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   On this day in history jean Beliveau (Montréal) becomes 2nd NHLer to score 1,000 points  

Mar 04   Alexandre Cellier, composer, dies at 84 in the year 1968.  

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   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   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 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   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   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 in the year 1968.  

Jan 03   Kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa) was born on this day in history.  

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

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

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

Jan 04   On this day in history joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83  

Jan 05   Jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79 on this day in history.  

Jan 06   On this day in history kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81  

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   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 on this day in history.