Page 6: Historical Events In 1968

Mar 10   In the year 1968 ferry boat sinks in harbor of Wellington New Zealand (200 killed)   

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 on this day in history.   

Mar 11   In the year 1968 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   In the year 1968 mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day)   

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

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   On this day in history cBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA   

Mar 14   On this day in history erwin Panofsky, German/US art historian/iconologist, dies   

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

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   LIFE magazine calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world" on this day in history.   

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 on this day in history.   

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   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   In the year 1968 congress repeals requirement for a gold reserve   

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

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

Mar 20   On this day in history carl T Dreyer, Danish director (Passion of Jeanne d'Arc), dies   

Mar 20   In the year 1968 military intervene in South-Yemen (leftist ministers resign)   

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

Mar 22   In the year 1968 student riot in Nanterre near Paris France   

Mar 23   In the year 1968 edwin O'Connor, US writer, dies at 49   

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Jan 02   Cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men) was born in the year 1968.   

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 in the year 1968.   

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

Jan 03   In the year 1968 birth of kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star   

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   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 in the year 1968.   

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

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

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

Jan 10   In the year 1968 basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73   

Jan 11   Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) died on this day in history.