Page 6: 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   Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 12nd string quartet on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history 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   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 on this day in history.   

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 on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history in Ottawa the government suspends gold trading by Canadian banks and dealers; to dampen speculation   

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

Mar 15   In the year 1968 uprising in South Yemen   

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

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 on this day in history.   

Mar 16   My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die in the year 1968.   

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

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

Mar 18   In the year 1968 congress repeals requirement for a gold reserve   

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

Mar 19   Howard University students seize administration building in the year 1968.   

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

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

Mar 20   President Lyndon Johnson signs a bill removing gold backing from US paper money on this day in history.   

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 in the year 1968.   

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

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 on this day in history.   

Mar 23   Edwin O'Connor, US writer, dies at 49 in the year 1968.   

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Jan 02   Cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 02   Scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions) was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 02   Evan Parke, Jamaican actor was born in the year 1968.   

Jan 03   Kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 04   In the year 1968 joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83   

Jan 05   Jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79 in the year 1968.   

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   Kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide died on this day in history.   

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

Jan 11   On this day in history death of isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)