Historical Events In 1968

Mar 10   Ferry boat sinks in harbor of Wellington New Zealand (200 killed) on this day in history.  

Mar 10   Helen Walker, actress (Brewster's Million), dies of cancer at 47 on this day in history.  

Mar 11   In the year 1968 anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting  

Mar 11   Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 12nd string quartet in the year 1968.  

Mar 11   On this day in history otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for "(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay"  

Mar 12   On this day in history mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day)  

Mar 12   Mauritius, in the Indian ocean island, granted independence after 158 years of British rule in the year 1968.  

Mar 12   On this day in history uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site  

Mar 13   Beatles release "Lady Madonna" in the UK in the year 1968.  

Mar 14   CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA in the year 1968.  

Mar 14   In the year 1968 erwin Panofsky, German/US art historian/iconologist, dies  

Mar 15   British minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns in the year 1968.  

Mar 15   Diocese of Rome announces that it "deplored the concept", but wouldn't prohibit rock and roll masses at Church of San Lessio Falconieri on this day in history.  

Mar 15   In Ottawa the government suspends gold trading by Canadian banks and dealers; to dampen speculation on this day in history.  

Mar 15   On this day in history lIFE magazine calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world"  

Mar 15   Uprising in South Yemen in the year 1968.  

Mar 15   On this day in history uS Mint stops buying and selling gold  

Mar 16   During the Vietnam War, a U.S. Army platoon from Charlie Company, 11th Brigade, Americal Division, massacres over four hundred unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in the village of My Lai in the district of Song My in the year 1968.  

Mar 16   On this day in history june Collyer, actress (June-Stu Erwin Show), dies at 60  

Mar 16   In the year 1968 my Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die  

Mar 16   On this day in history robert F Kennedy announces Presidential campaign  

Mar 17   2-tiered gold price negotiated in Washington DC by US and 6 European nations on this day in history.  

Mar 18   Congress repeals requirement for a gold reserve in the year 1968.  

Mar 18   On this day in history manuel Gomez Carillo, composer, dies at 85  

Mar 19   On this day in history howard University students seize administration building  

Mar 20   In the year 1968 carl T Dreyer, Danish director (Passion of Jeanne d'Arc), dies  

Mar 20   Military intervene in South-Yemen (leftist ministers resign) in the year 1968.  

Mar 20   In the year 1968 president Lyndon Johnson signs a bill removing gold backing from US paper money  

Mar 21   In the year 1968 israeli forces cross Jordan River to attack PLO bases  

Mar 21   Portuguese socialist Mario Soares banished to Sao Tomé on this day in history.  

Mar 22   On this day in history jarmila Novotna resigns presidency of Czechoslovakia  

Mar 22   On this day in history lynda Johnson ordered off San Francisco cable car for eating an ice cream cone  

Mar 22   Student riot in Nanterre near Paris France in the year 1968.  

Mar 23   Edwin O'Connor, US writer, dies at 49 on this day in history.  

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Jan 02   On this day in history birth of cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men)  

Jan 02   Scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions) was born in the year 1968.  

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion  

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

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   On this day in history birth of shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah)  

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   Joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83 on this day in history.  

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

Jan 06   Kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81 in the year 1968.  

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

Jan 09   In the year 1968 death of kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide  

Jan 10   Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73 in the year 1968.  

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