Page 6: Historical Events In 1968

Mar 11   Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 12nd string quartet   

Mar 11   In this year, Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting   

Mar 11   Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for "(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay".   

Mar 12   Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day)   

Mar 12   Mauritius, in the Indian ocean island, granted independence after 158 years of British rule.   

Mar 12   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

Mar 13   Beatles release "Lady Madonna" in the UK   

Mar 14   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.   

Mar 15   British minister of Foreign affairs George Brown steps down   

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.   

Mar 15   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".   

Mar 15   Uprising in South Yemen.   

Mar 15   US Mint formally ends 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   

Mar 16   June Collyer, actress (June-Stu Erwin Show), dies at 60   

Mar 16   My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die.   

Mar 16   Robert F Kennedy announces Presidential campaign.   

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

Mar 18   Congress repeals requirement for a gold reserve.   

Mar 18   Manuel Gomez Carillo, composer, dies at 85   

Mar 19   Howard University students seize administration building.   

Mar 20   Carl T Dreyer, Danish director (Passion of Jeanne d'Arc), dies   

Mar 20   Military intervene in South-Yemen (leftist ministers resign)   

Mar 20   President Lyndon Johnson signs a bill removing gold backing from US paper money   

Mar 21   Israeli forces cross Jordan River to attack PLO bases.   

Mar 22   Jarmila Novotna steps down presidency of Czechoslovakia.   

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

Mar 22   Student riot in Nanterre near Paris France.   

Mar 23   Edwin O'Connor, US writer, dies at 49   

Mar 24   Howard Petrie, actor (Border River, Bounty Hunter), dies at 61.   

Mar 24   In this year, Mickey Wright claims Port Malabar Golf Invitational.   

Mar 25   Douglas Evans, actor (South Pacific Trail), dies in Hollywood   

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Jan 02   Cuba gooding jr: Actor (boyz n the hood, glaadiator, few good men)   

Jan 02   Scott mitchell: Nfl quarterback (detroit lions)   

Jan 02   Anky van grunsven: Dutch dressage champion   

Jan 02   Evan parke: Jamaican actor   

Jan 03   Kent carlsson: Sweden, tennis star   

Jan 03   Kerry huffman: Peterborough, nhl defenseman (phila flyers, ottawa)   

Jan 03   Shannon sturges: Actress (savannah)   

Jan 03   Thomas rayam: Cfl offensive linebacker (edmonton eskimos)   

Jan 02   Sanoesi pane: Indonesian writer,    

Jan 04   Joseph pholien: Belgian pm (1950-52) communist fighter,    

Jan 05   Jean murat: Actor (on the riviera),    

Jan 06   Kurt baschwitz: Germ/dutch sociologist/journalist (heksen),   

Jan 07   Prof james smith: South african ichthyologist (b. 1897)   

Jan 09   Kokichi tsuburaya: Japanese marathoner (oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide   

Jan 10   Basil sydney: Actor (hamlet, simba),    

Jan 11   Isidor isaac rabi: American physicist, nobel prize laureate (b. 1898)