Historical Events In 1968

Mar 24   On this day in history howard Petrie, actor (Border River, Bounty Hunter), dies at 61  

Mar 24   On this day in history mickey Wright wins Port Malabar Golf Invitational  

Mar 25   In the year 1968 douglas Evans, actor (South Pacific Trail), dies in Hollywood  

Mar 25   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site in the year 1968.  

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   Suharto succeeds Sukarno as President of Indonesia in the year 1968.  

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

Mar 28   Actress Lucy Lawless was born this day in the year 1968.  

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   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   Lev D Landau, Russian physicist (Nobel 1962), dies at 59 in the year 1968.  

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   In the year 1968 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   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   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   Martin Luther King Jr, assassinated at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis Tennessee at 39 in the year 1968.  

Apr 04   Rev Martin Luther King Jr assassinated in Memphis on this day in history.  

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

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

Apr 06   On this day in history 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   Jim Clark of Scotland, former world driving champ, dies in race car on this day in history.  

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   Cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 02   In the year 1968 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   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   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   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.  

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

Jan 06   In the year 1968 kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81  

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   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)