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

Mar 11   In the year 1968 anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting   

Mar 11   Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 12nd string quartet in the year 1968.   

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   In the year 1968 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   In the year 1968 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 in the year 1968.   

Mar 14   Erwin Panofsky, German/US art historian/iconologist, dies in the year 1968.   

Mar 15   British minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns in the year 1968.   

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

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

Mar 15   On this day in history uprising in South Yemen   

Mar 15   On this day in history uS Mint stops buying and selling gold   

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   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 on this day in history.   

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

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 on this day in history.   

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   Military intervene in South-Yemen (leftist ministers resign) in the year 1968.   

Mar 20   In the year 1968 president Lyndon Johnson signs a bill removing gold backing from US paper money   

Mar 21   In the year 1968 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   In the year 1968 student riot in Nanterre near Paris France   

Mar 23   Edwin O'Connor, US writer, dies at 49 on this day in history.   

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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   In the year 1968 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   In the year 1968 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   On this day in history sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies   

Jan 04   Joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83 in the year 1968.   

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

Jan 06   In the year 1968 kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81   

Jan 07   On this day in history death of prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)   

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