Historical Events In 1968

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

Feb 29   Bryce Paup, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers, Buffalo Bills) on this day in history.  

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   In the year 1968 first pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge)  

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

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

Mar 01   In the year 1968 singers Johnny Cash (36) &June Carter (38) wed  

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

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

Mar 02   In the year 1968 uSSR launches space probe Zond 4; fails to leave Earth orbit  

Mar 02   On this day in history 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   In the year 1968 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   On this day in history alexandre Cellier, composer, dies at 84  

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   US launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the Sun on this day in history.  

Mar 06   In the year 1968 isa Krejci, composer, dies at 63  

Mar 07   Operation Coronado XII begins in Mekong Delta, Vietnam in the year 1968.  

Mar 07   Yuri Aleksayevich Gagarin, USSR cosmonaut (Vostok I), dies at 31 on this day in history.  

Mar 08   On this day in history 6 year old Tommy Moore scores hole-in-one in golf (Hagerstown MD)  

Mar 08   Students demonstrate in Warsaw in the year 1968.  

Mar 09   On this day in history 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   In the year 1968 birth of cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men)  

Jan 02   In the year 1968 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   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   On this day in history birth of kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa)  

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

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

Jan 02   Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies in the year 1968.  

Jan 04   Joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83 in the year 1968.  

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

Jan 06   Kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81 on this day in history.  

Jan 07   On this day in history death of prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)  

Jan 09   Kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide died in the year 1968.  

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

Jan 11   Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) died in the year 1968.