Historical Events In 1968

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

Mar 24   In the year 1968 mickey Wright wins Port Malabar Golf Invitational  

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 in the year 1968.  

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 in the year 1968.  

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   On this day in history 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   On this day in history students seize building at Bowie State College  

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

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

Apr 01   On this day in history lev D Landau, Russian physicist (Nobel 1962), dies at 59  

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 on this day in history.  

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   "Education of Hyman Kaplan" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 28 perfs in the year 1968.  

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

Apr 04   Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee in the year 1968.  

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

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

Apr 06   94.5% of East German voters approve new socialist constitution in the year 1968.  

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

Apr 06   Gunpowder stocks at a sporting-goods store explode, killing 43 (Va) on this day in history.  

Apr 06   On this day in history hemisFair 1968 opens in San Antonio, Texas  

Apr 06   USS New Jersey recommissioned for shore bombardment duty in Vietnam on this day in history.  

Apr 07   Jim Clark of Scotland, former world driving champ, dies in race car in the year 1968.  

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   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   Evan Parke, Jamaican actor was born in the year 1968.  

Jan 03   Kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star was born on this day in history.  

Jan 03   Kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa) was born in the year 1968.  

Jan 03   Shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah) was born in the year 1968.  

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

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   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 on this day in history.  

Jan 07   In the year 1968 death of prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)  

Jan 09   Kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide died on this day in history.  

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 in the year 1968.