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   Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting in the year 1968.  

Mar 11   On this day in history dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 12nd string quartet  

Mar 11   In the year 1968 otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for "(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay"  

Mar 12   Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day) in the year 1968.  

Mar 12   Mauritius, in the Indian ocean island, granted independence after 158 years of British rule on this day in history.  

Mar 12   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site on this day in history.  

Mar 13   In the year 1968 beatles release "Lady Madonna" in the UK  

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

Mar 14   Erwin Panofsky, German/US art historian/iconologist, dies on this day in history.  

Mar 15   On this day in history british minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns  

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

Mar 15   In Ottawa the government suspends gold trading by Canadian banks and dealers; to dampen speculation in the year 1968.  

Mar 15   LIFE magazine calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world" in the year 1968.  

Mar 15   On this day in history uprising in South Yemen  

Mar 15   US Mint stops buying and selling gold on this day in history.  

Mar 16   In the year 1968 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  

Mar 16   June Collyer, actress (June-Stu Erwin Show), dies at 60 in the year 1968.  

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

Mar 16   Robert F Kennedy announces Presidential campaign on this day in history.  

Mar 17   2-tiered gold price negotiated in Washington DC by US and 6 European nations in the year 1968.  

Mar 18   Congress repeals requirement for a gold reserve on this day in history.  

Mar 18   In the year 1968 manuel Gomez Carillo, composer, dies at 85  

Mar 19   Howard University students seize administration building on this day in history.  

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   On this day in history president Lyndon Johnson signs a bill removing gold backing from US paper money  

Mar 21   On this day in history israeli forces cross Jordan River to attack PLO bases  

Mar 21   On this day in history portuguese socialist Mario Soares banished to Sao Tomé  

Mar 22   Jarmila Novotna resigns presidency of Czechoslovakia in the year 1968.  

Mar 22   In the year 1968 lynda Johnson ordered off San Francisco cable car for eating an ice cream cone  

Mar 22   Student riot in Nanterre near Paris France on this day in history.  

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

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

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 on this day in history.  

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

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 in the year 1968.  

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

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