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   On this day in history helen Walker, actress (Brewster's Million), dies of cancer at 47   

Mar 11   On this day in history anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting   

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" on this day in history.   

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 in the year 1968.   

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

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   In the year 1968 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   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   US Mint stops buying and selling gold on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history 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   Manuel Gomez Carillo, composer, dies at 85 in the year 1968.   

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

Mar 20   On this day in history 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   Israeli forces cross Jordan River to attack PLO bases on this day in history.   

Mar 21   Portuguese socialist Mario Soares banished to Sao Tomé in the year 1968.   

Mar 22   In the year 1968 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 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 in the year 1968.   

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

Jan 02   In the year 1968 birth of anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion   

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of evan Parke, Jamaican actor   

Jan 03   On this day in history 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   Shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   Thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 02   Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies on this day in history.   

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 on this day in history.   

Jan 07   Prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897) died in the year 1968.   

Jan 09   Kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide died on this day in history.   

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)