Page 7: Historical Events In 1968

Mar 25   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.   

Mar 26   Operation Bold Dragon III began in Mekong Delta   

Mar 27   Japanese Trade and Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated in San Francisco.   

Mar 27   Suharto succeeds Sukarno as President of Indonesia.   

Mar 27   Yuri Gagarin, 1st man to orbit Earth, and Seryogin, in plane crash at 34   

Mar 28   Actress Lucy Lawless was born this day   

Mar 29   In Ethiopia a 6.3 earthquake completely razed the town of Sardo, killing 24 persons and injuring 165.   

Mar 29   Students seize building at Bowie State College   

Mar 30   General Ludvik Svoboda elected President of Czechoslovakia   

Mar 31   President Lyndon B. Johnson announces that he will not seek reelection to the presidency.   

Apr 01   Lev D Landau, Russian physicist (Nobel 1962), dies at 59   

Apr 02   Beatles form Python Music Ltd   

Apr 02   Chad creates Union of Central African States   

Apr 03   N Vietnam agrees to meet US reps to set up preliminary peace talks   

Apr 03   North Vietnam agrees to meet US representatives to set up preliminary peace talks.   

Apr 04   "Education of Hyman Kaplan" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 28 performances   

Apr 04   "Education of Hyman Kaplan" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 28 perfs   

Apr 04   Apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V; unmanned   

Apr 04   Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.   

Apr 04   Martin Luther King Jr, assassinated at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis Tennessee at 39.   

Apr 04   Rev Martin Luther King Jr assassinated in Memphis   

Apr 05   Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego opens   

Apr 05   Lois Andrews, dies of lung cancer at 44.   

Apr 05   US marine base Khe San Vietnam, appalled.   

Apr 06   94.5% of East German voters approve new socialist constitution.   

Apr 06   Bobby Hutton, US Black Panther leader, shot to death   

Apr 06   Gunpowder stocks at a sporting-goods store explode, killing 43 (Va).   

Apr 06   HemisFair 1968 opens in San Antonio, Texas.   

Apr 06   USS New Jersey recommissioned for shore bombardment duty in Vietnam   

Apr 07   Jim Clark of Scotland, former world driving champ, dies in race car   

Apr 07   Jim Clark, of Scotland, world driving champ, dies at 32 in race car.   

Apr 07   Jim Clark, two-time F1 World Champion and winner of the Indianapolis 500, dies in a racing accident during a Formula 2 race at Hockenheim, Germany.   

Apr 08   40th Academy Awards postponed to Apr 10th due to death of M L King.   

Apr 08   The Beatles went gold again, receiving a gold record for the single, " Lady Madonna"   

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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)