Page 7: 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 in the year 1968.   

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

Mar 25   On this day in history uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

Mar 26   On this day in history operation Bold Dragon III began in Mekong Delta   

Mar 27   In the year 1968 japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated in San Francisco   

Mar 27   In the year 1968 suharto succeeds Sukarno as President of Indonesia   

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

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 in the year 1968.   

Mar 29   Students seize building at Bowie State College on this day in history.   

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

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

Apr 01   In the year 1968 lev D Landau, Russian physicist (Nobel 1962), dies at 59   

Apr 02   In the year 1968 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   North Vietnam agrees to meet US representatives to set up preliminary peace talks in the year 1968.   

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

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

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

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

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

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 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   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   In the year 1968 birth of anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion   

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

Jan 02   On this day in history sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies   

Jan 04   In the year 1968 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   On this day in history death of kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide   

Jan 10   On this day in history basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73   

Jan 11   Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) died in the year 1968.