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   On this day in history douglas Evans, actor (South Pacific Trail), dies in Hollywood  

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   In the year 1968 japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated in San Francisco  

Mar 27   On this day in history suharto succeeds Sukarno as President of Indonesia  

Mar 27   In the year 1968 yuri Gagarin, 1st man to orbit Earth, & Seryogin, in plane crash at 34  

Mar 28   On this day in history actress Lucy Lawless was born this day.  

Mar 29   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.  

Mar 30   In the year 1968 general Ludvik Svoboda elected President of Czechoslovakia  

Mar 31   In the year 1968 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 in the year 1968.  

Apr 02   Beatles form Python Music Ltd in the year 1968.  

Apr 02   On this day in history chad creates Union of Central African States  

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

Apr 03   In the year 1968 north Vietnam agrees to meet US representatives to set up preliminary peace talks  

Apr 04   In the year 1968 "Education of Hyman Kaplan" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 28 performances  

Apr 04   In the year 1968 "Education of Hyman Kaplan" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 28 perfs  

Apr 04   Apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V; unmanned in the year 1968.  

Apr 04   Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee on this day in history.  

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   On this day in history jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego opens  

Apr 05   On this day in history lois Andrews, dies of lung cancer at 44  

Apr 05   US marine base Khe San Vietnam, appalled in the year 1968.  

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 on this day in history.  

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 in the year 1968.  

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

Apr 07   In the year 1968 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   On this day in history 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   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   In the year 1968 birth of kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa)  

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah)  

Jan 03   Thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 02   Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies on this day in history.  

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

Jan 05   Jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79 in the year 1968.  

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   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)