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HomePage 8: Historical Events In 1968
Tuesday, 07 July 2026
Apr 17 P Wild discovers asteroids #1773 Rumpelstilz, #1830 Pogson, 
Apr 18 SF's Old Hall of Justice demolished
Apr 19 Dedication of the Desert Mounted Corps Memorial on Anzac Parade, Canberra, by Prime Minister John Gorton The memorial is a copy of the original unveiled at Port Said, Egypt, by former Prime Minister William Morris Hughes in 1932.
Apr 19 In this year, The inaugural American since 1957 claims the 72nd Boston Marathon.
Apr 19 Tommy Bridges, US baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers), dies at 61
Apr 20 Marion Weeks, singer/actress, dies of stroke at 81
Apr 20 Pierre Elliott Trudeau sworn-in as Canada's PM.
Apr 21 Norman Demuth, composer, dies at 69
Apr 21 Toby Halicki car-crash film producer 48, killed shooting stunt.
Apr 23 United Methodist Church forms.
Apr 24 Leftist students take over Columbia University, NYC
Apr 24 Norman McKaye, actor (Untamed Fury, Frogman), dies at 62.
Apr 26 Students seize administration building at Ohio State
Apr 26 US underground nuclear test, "Boxcar", 1 megaton device
Apr 27 Jimmy Ellis beats Jerry Quarry for heavyweight boxing title
Apr 28 11 year-old Mary Bell strangles 4 year-old
Apr 28 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2422 Perovskaya
Apr 29 "Hair" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 1750 performances.
May 01 Harold G Nicolson, English author (English sense of humor), dies at 71
May 01 Legoland, in Denmark, opens.
May 02 Donald L Hall, airplane designer (Spirit of St Louis), dies at 69.
May 02 Gold reaches then record high ($39.35 per ounce) in London
May 02 Israeli television begins transmitting
May 03 Holland Pirate Radio Station VRON is recorded as becoming Radio Veronica International
May 03 Leonid Leonidovich Sabaneyev, composer, dies at 86.
May 04 Dancer's Image disqualified due to drugs after winning 94th Kentucky Derby.
May 05 Albert Dekker, dies of accidental suffocation at 62.
May 06 Battle between students and troops in Paris France, 1000 injured
May 06 Spain closes border to Gibraltar except to Spaniards.
May 07 Lurleen Burns, wife of George Wallace/gov of Alabama, dies at 41
May 08 Pulitzer prize awarded to William Styron (Confessions of Nat Turner).
May 09 Finlay Currie, dies at 90
May 10 Maurie Sievers, cricket medium-pacer (Austral v England 1936-37), dies
May 10 Viet Nam peace talks begin in Paris, albeit on a preliminary level
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