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   On this day in history douglas Evans, actor (South Pacific Trail), dies in Hollywood  

Mar 25   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site on this day in history.  

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   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   On this day in history actress Lucy Lawless was born this day.  

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   In the year 1968 students seize building at Bowie State College  

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 in the year 1968.  

Apr 02   In the year 1968 beatles form Python Music Ltd  

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   In the year 1968 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   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 on this day in history.  

Apr 04   In the year 1968 rev Martin Luther King Jr assassinated in Memphis  

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

Apr 05   In the year 1968 lois Andrews, dies of lung cancer at 44  

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 in the year 1968.  

Apr 06   Bobby Hutton, US Black Panther leader, shot to death on this day in history.  

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   On this day in history uSS New Jersey recommissioned for shore bombardment duty in Vietnam  

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

Apr 07   In the year 1968 jim Clark, of Scotland, world driving champ, dies at 32 in race car  

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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 on this day in history.  

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

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   Thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos) was born in the year 1968.  

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   Jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79 in the year 1968.  

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   In the year 1968 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   On this day in history death of isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)