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 on this day in history.   

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

Mar 25   In the year 1968 uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

Mar 26   In the year 1968 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   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 on this day in history.   

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

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

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

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

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

Apr 04   On this day in history martin Luther King Jr, assassinated at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis Tennessee at 39   

Apr 04   Rev Martin Luther King Jr assassinated in Memphis in the year 1968.   

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

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

Apr 05   On this day in history 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   On this day in history bobby Hutton, US Black Panther leader, shot to death   

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

Apr 06   In the year 1968 hemisFair 1968 opens in San Antonio, Texas   

Apr 06   In the year 1968 uSS New Jersey recommissioned for shore bombardment duty in Vietnam   

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 on this day in history.   

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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   Evan Parke, Jamaican actor was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star   

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 in the year 1968.   

Jan 04   In the year 1968 joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83   

Jan 05   Jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79 on this day in history.   

Jan 06   Kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81 on this day in history.   

Jan 07   On this day in history death of prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)   

Jan 09   Kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide died in the year 1968.   

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

Jan 11   In the year 1968 death of isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)