Historical Events In 1968

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

Mar 10   Helen Walker, actress (Brewster's Million), dies of cancer at 47 in the year 1968.  

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   On this day in history mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day)  

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 on this day in history.  

Mar 13   Beatles release "Lady Madonna" in the UK on this day in history.  

Mar 14   CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA on this day in history.  

Mar 14   In the year 1968 erwin Panofsky, German/US art historian/iconologist, dies  

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 in the year 1968.  

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

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

Mar 15   Uprising in South Yemen on this day in history.  

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

Mar 16   In the year 1968 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   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 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   Howard University students seize administration building on this day in history.  

Mar 20   In the year 1968 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   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 on this day in history.  

Mar 22   Jarmila Novotna resigns presidency of Czechoslovakia on this day in history.  

Mar 22   In the year 1968 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   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   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   On this day in history 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 in the year 1968.  

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   On this day in history joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83  

Jan 05   In the year 1968 jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79  

Jan 06   Kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81 in the year 1968.  

Jan 07   In the year 1968 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   In the year 1968 basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73  

Jan 11   Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) died on this day in history.