Page 7: Historical Events In 1968

Mar 25   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

Mar 26   Operation Bold Dragon III began in Mekong Delta.   

Mar 27   Japanese Trade and Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated in San Francisco   

Mar 27   Suharto succeeds Sukarno as President of Indonesia.   

Mar 27   Yuri Gagarin, 1st man to orbit Earth, and Seryogin, in plane crash at 34.   

Mar 28   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.   

Mar 29   Students seize building at Bowie State College   

Mar 30   General Ludvik Svoboda elected President of Czechoslovakia   

Mar 31   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.   

Apr 02   Beatles form Python Music Ltd.   

Apr 02   Chad creates Union of Central African States.   

Apr 03   N Vietnam agrees to meet US reps to set up preliminary peace talks   

Apr 03   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   

Apr 04   "Education of Hyman Kaplan" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 28 perfs.   

Apr 04   Apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V; unmanned   

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

Apr 04   Martin Luther King Jr, assassinated at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis Tennessee at 39.   

Apr 04   Rev Martin Luther King Jr assassinated in Memphis.   

Apr 05   Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego opens.   

Apr 05   Lois Andrews, dies of lung cancer at 44   

Apr 05   US marine base Khe San Vietnam, appalled   

Apr 06   94.5% of East German voters approve new socialist constitution.   

Apr 06   Bobby Hutton, US Black Panther leader, shot to death   

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

Apr 06   HemisFair 1968 opens in San Antonio, Texas.   

Apr 06   USS New Jersey recommissioned for shore bombardment duty in Vietnam   

Apr 07   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   

Apr 07   Jim Clark, two-time F1 World Champion and winner of the Indianapolis 500, dies in a racing accident during a Formula 2 race at Hockenheim, Germany   

Apr 08   40th Academy Awards postponed to Apr 10th due to death of M L King.   

Apr 08   The Beatles went gold again, receiving a gold record for the single, " Lady Madonna"   

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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 in the year 1968.   

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

Jan 03   Kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa) was born on this day in history.   

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 in the year 1968.   

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   Kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81 in the year 1968.   

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 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)