Historical Events In 1968

Mar 10   In the year 1968 ferry boat sinks in harbor of Wellington New Zealand (200 killed)  

Mar 10   On this day in history 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   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" 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   In the year 1968 uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site  

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 in the year 1968.  

Mar 14   On this day in history erwin Panofsky, German/US art historian/iconologist, dies  

Mar 15   In the year 1968 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   In the year 1968 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   In the year 1968 uS Mint stops 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 on this day in history.  

Mar 16   On this day in history june Collyer, actress (June-Stu Erwin Show), dies at 60  

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

Mar 16   Robert F Kennedy announces Presidential campaign in the year 1968.  

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

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   On this day in history howard University students seize administration building  

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 in the year 1968.  

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   On this day in history jarmila Novotna resigns presidency of Czechoslovakia  

Mar 22   Lynda Johnson ordered off San Francisco cable car for eating an ice cream cone on this day in history.  

Mar 22   Student riot in Nanterre near Paris France in the year 1968.  

Mar 23   On this day in history edwin O'Connor, US writer, dies at 49  

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Jan 02   On this day in history 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   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   Kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star was born in the year 1968.  

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa)  

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 in the year 1968.  

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

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 in the year 1968.  

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.