Page 5: Historical Events In 1968

Feb 29   Beatles' "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" wins Grammy in the year 1968.   

Feb 29   In the year 1968 bryce Paup, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers, Buffalo Bills)   

Feb 29   On this day in history 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) in the year 1968.   

Feb 29   On this day in history uS end regular flights with nuclear bombs   

Feb 29   In the year 1968 uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

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

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

Mar 01   On this day in history hong Kong flu in Worldwide killing 1-4 million people   

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

Mar 01   Pirate Radio Atlantis South (England) begins test transmitting on this day in history.   

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

Mar 01   On this day in history singers Johnny Cash (36) &June Carter (38) wed   

Mar 01   On this day in history vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect   

Mar 02   USAF displays Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, biggest plane in the world on this day in history.   

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   World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Lyudmila Belousova &Oleg Protopopov (USSR) in the year 1968.   

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   Jean Beliveau (Montréal) becomes 2nd NHLer to score 1,000 points on this day in history.   

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

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   Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched on this day in history.   

Mar 05   In the year 1968 uS launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the Sun   

Mar 06   On this day in history isa Krejci, composer, dies at 63   

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

Mar 08   In the year 1968 students demonstrate in Warsaw   

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

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 on this day in history.   

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 on this day in history.   

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

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

Jan 03   In the year 1968 birth of kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa)   

Jan 03   Shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)   

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   In the year 1968 jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79   

Jan 06   In the year 1968 kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81   

Jan 07   Prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897) died on this day in history.   

Jan 09   On this day in history death of kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide   

Jan 10   On this day in history basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73   

Jan 11   In the year 1968 death of isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)