Historical Events In 1968

Mar 24   Howard Petrie, actor (Border River, Bounty Hunter), dies at 61 in the year 1968.  

Mar 24   Mickey Wright wins Port Malabar Golf Invitational on this day in history.  

Mar 25   Douglas Evans, actor (South Pacific Trail), dies in Hollywood on this day in history.  

Mar 25   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site on this day in history.  

Mar 26   Operation Bold Dragon III began in Mekong Delta in the year 1968.  

Mar 27   Japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated in San Francisco on this day in history.  

Mar 27   Suharto succeeds Sukarno as President of Indonesia in the year 1968.  

Mar 27   On this day in history yuri Gagarin, 1st man to orbit Earth, & Seryogin, in plane crash at 34  

Mar 28   Actress Lucy Lawless was born this day in the year 1968.  

Mar 29   In the year 1968 in Ethiopia a 6.3 earthquake completely razed the town of Sardo, killing 24 persons and injuring 165  

Mar 29   In the year 1968 students seize building at Bowie State College  

Mar 30   General Ludvik Svoboda elected President of Czechoslovakia in the year 1968.  

Mar 31   President Lyndon B. Johnson announces that he will not seek reelection to the presidency on this day in history.  

Apr 01   Lev D Landau, Russian physicist (Nobel 1962), dies at 59 on this day in history.  

Apr 02   Beatles form Python Music Ltd on this day in history.  

Apr 02   Chad creates Union of Central African States in the year 1968.  

Apr 03   N Vietnam agrees to meet US reps to set up preliminary peace talks in the year 1968.  

Apr 03   On this day in history north Vietnam agrees to meet US representatives to set up preliminary peace talks  

Apr 04   On this day in history "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 on this day in history.  

Apr 04   On this day in history apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V; unmanned  

Apr 04   In the year 1968 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 on this day in history.  

Apr 04   In the year 1968 rev Martin Luther King Jr assassinated in Memphis  

Apr 05   In the year 1968 jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego opens  

Apr 05   Lois Andrews, dies of lung cancer at 44 on this day in history.  

Apr 05   In the year 1968 uS marine base Khe San Vietnam, appalled  

Apr 06   On this day in history 94.5% of East German voters approve new socialist constitution  

Apr 06   Bobby Hutton, US Black Panther leader, shot to death in the year 1968.  

Apr 06   In the year 1968 gunpowder stocks at a sporting-goods store explode, killing 43 (Va)  

Apr 06   HemisFair 1968 opens in San Antonio, Texas on this day in history.  

Apr 06   USS New Jersey recommissioned for shore bombardment duty in Vietnam in the year 1968.  

Apr 07   On this day in history 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 in the year 1968.  

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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 in the year 1968.  

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 on this day in history.  

Jan 03   In the year 1968 birth of shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah)  

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)  

Jan 02   In the year 1968 sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies  

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   In the year 1968 death of kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide  

Jan 10   In the year 1968 basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73  

Jan 11   On this day in history death of isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)