Historical Events In 1968

Mar 24   Howard Petrie, actor (Border River, Bounty Hunter), dies at 61 on this day in history.  

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 on this day in history.  

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

Mar 28   In the year 1968 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 on this day in history.  

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

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

Mar 31   President Lyndon B. Johnson announces that he will not seek reelection to the presidency in the year 1968.  

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

Apr 02   On this day in history beatles form Python Music Ltd  

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

Apr 04   On this day in history "Education of Hyman Kaplan" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 28 perfs  

Apr 04   In the year 1968 apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V; unmanned  

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

Apr 04   In the year 1968 martin Luther King Jr, assassinated at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis Tennessee at 39  

Apr 04   On this day in history rev Martin Luther King Jr assassinated in Memphis  

Apr 05   Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego opens in the year 1968.  

Apr 05   Lois Andrews, dies of lung cancer at 44 in the year 1968.  

Apr 05   US marine base Khe San Vietnam, appalled on this day in history.  

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

Apr 06   On this day in history bobby Hutton, US Black Panther leader, shot to death  

Apr 06   Gunpowder stocks at a sporting-goods store explode, killing 43 (Va) in the year 1968.  

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 on this day in history.  

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   In the year 1968 birth of cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men)  

Jan 02   Scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions) was born on this day in history.  

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

Jan 03   In the year 1968 birth of thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)  

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 in the year 1968.  

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   Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73 in the year 1968.  

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