Historical Events In 1968

Feb 29   In the year 1968 beatles' "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" wins Grammy   

Feb 29   In the year 1968 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   First pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge) in the year 1968.   

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

Mar 01   Hong Kong flu in Worldwide killing 1-4 million people on this day in history.   

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   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   On this day in history 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   On this day in history world Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Lyudmila Belousova &Oleg Protopopov (USSR)   

Mar 02   On this day in history world Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Peggy Fleming (USA)   

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

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

Mar 03   On this day in history jean Beliveau (Montréal) becomes 2nd NHLer to score 1,000 points   

Mar 04   In the year 1968 alexandre Cellier, composer, dies at 84   

Mar 04   In the year 1968 joe Frazier TKOs Buster Mathis in 11 for heavyweight boxing title   

Mar 04   Martin Luther King Jr announces plans for Poor People's Campaign on this day in history.   

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

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   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   Cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 02   Scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 02   In the year 1968 birth of anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion   

Jan 02   Evan Parke, Jamaican actor was born in the year 1968.   

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

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

Jan 03   In the year 1968 birth of shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah)   

Jan 03   In the year 1968 birth of thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)   

Jan 02   Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies on this day in history.   

Jan 04   In the year 1968 joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83   

Jan 05   Jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79 in the year 1968.   

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 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   Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) died on this day in history.