Page 6: Historical Events In 1968

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

Mar 10   Helen Walker, actress (Brewster's Million), dies of cancer at 47 in the year 1968.   

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   Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for "(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay" in the year 1968.   

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 on this day in history.   

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

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   On this day in history 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 in the year 1968.   

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

Mar 15   In the year 1968 lIFE magazine calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world"   

Mar 15   Uprising in South Yemen in the year 1968.   

Mar 15   US Mint stops buying and selling gold in the year 1968.   

Mar 16   On this day in history 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   In the year 1968 june Collyer, actress (June-Stu Erwin Show), dies at 60   

Mar 16   My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die on this day in history.   

Mar 16   Robert F Kennedy announces Presidential campaign in the year 1968.   

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

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

Mar 18   Manuel Gomez Carillo, composer, dies at 85 on this day in history.   

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

Mar 20   Carl T Dreyer, Danish director (Passion of Jeanne d'Arc), dies in the year 1968.   

Mar 20   On this day in history 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   In the year 1968 portuguese socialist Mario Soares banished to Sao Tomé   

Mar 22   Jarmila Novotna resigns presidency of Czechoslovakia on this day in history.   

Mar 22   Lynda Johnson ordered off San Francisco cable car for eating an ice cream cone in the year 1968.   

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

Mar 23   On this day in history edwin O'Connor, US writer, dies at 49   

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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   On this day in history birth of scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions)   

Jan 02   In the year 1968 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   Shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   Thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos) was born in the year 1968.   

Jan 02   On this day in history sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies   

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

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

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 on this day in history.   

Jan 09   On this day in history 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.