Historical Events In 1968

Mar 10   On this day in history ferry boat sinks in harbor of Wellington New Zealand (200 killed)  

Mar 10   In the year 1968 helen Walker, actress (Brewster's Million), dies of cancer at 47  

Mar 11   Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting in the year 1968.  

Mar 11   In the year 1968 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   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 in the year 1968.  

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

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 on this day in history.  

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

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

Mar 15   On this day in history uprising in South Yemen  

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

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 on this day in history.  

Mar 16   On this day in history my Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die  

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

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

Mar 18   On this day in history congress repeals requirement for a gold reserve  

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

Mar 19   In the year 1968 howard University students seize administration building  

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

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

Mar 22   On this day in history 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   On this day in history student riot in Nanterre near Paris France  

Mar 23   On this day in history 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   Scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions) was born in the year 1968.  

Jan 02   Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion was born on this day in history.  

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

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

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 on this day in history.  

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   On this day in history 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   Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73 on this day in history.  

Jan 11   Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) died in the year 1968.