Historical Events In 1968

Oct 18   Lee Tracy, actor (Doctor X, Bombshell, Best Man), dies of cancer at 70 in the year 1968.   

Oct 19   Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars on this day in history.   

Oct 20   In the year 1968 elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, TV preacher, dies at 84   

Oct 20   On this day in history jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis.   

Oct 22   Apollo 7 returns to Earth on this day in history.   

Oct 23   In the year 1968 kip Keino (Kenya) wins gold medal for 1,500m (3 min 34.9 sec)   

Oct 24   Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithful busted for pot, released on œ50 bail on this day in history.   

Oct 25   On this day in history chicago recognizes Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable as its 1st settler   

Oct 25   Jean Schlumberger, French writer (Passions), dies on this day in history.   

Oct 25   On this day in history yoko Ono announces she is having John Lennon's baby   

Oct 26   Erich Von Stroheim, actor/director (Napoleon), dies of cancer at 52 on this day in history.   

Oct 26   In the year 1968 soyuz 3 launched   

Oct 26   The Flushing Meadow Park Zoo opens in New York City in the year 1968.   

Oct 27   Lise Meitner, Austria/Swedish physics (protactinium), dies at 89 on this day in history.   

Oct 28   In the year 1968 henricus WJM Keuls, lawyer/poet, dies at 85   

Oct 29   On this day in history marius Moaritz Ulfrstad, composer, dies at 78   

Oct 30   On this day in history conrad Richter, US writer (Light in the Forest), dies at 78   

Oct 31   Linda Eastman moves to UK permanently on this day in history.   

Oct 31   In the year 1968 president Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam   

Oct 31   Ramon Novarro, [Jose RG Samaniegos], actor (Ben Hur), dies at 69 in the year 1968.   

Nov 01   In the year 1968 georgios Papandreou, Greek minister/premier, dies at 80   

Nov 02   Ernst Hess, composer, dies at 56 on this day in history.   

Nov 04   In the year 1968 paul JM Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer/author, dies at 78   

Nov 05   Estelle Hemsley, actress (Leech Woman, Take aGiant Step), dies at 81 on this day in history.   

Nov 05   Nixon (R) beats VP Humphrey (D) & George C Wallace for Presidency on this day in history.   

Nov 06   Guillaume Landre, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.   

Nov 07   Willem A Wagenaar, Dutch journalist/author (3,000 meter), dies on this day in history.   

Nov 08   In the year 1968 cynthia Lennon is granted a divorce from John   

Nov 08   Wendell Corey, actor (11th Hour, Peck's Bad Girl), dies at 54 in the year 1968.   

Nov 09   Jan Johansson, composer, dies at 37 on this day in history.   

Nov 10   Gerald Mohr, actor (Christopher-Foreign Intrigue), dies at 54 in the year 1968.   

Nov 10   In the year 1968 launch of Zond 6, 2nd unmanned circumlunar & return flight   

Nov 11   On this day in history jeanne Demessieux, composer, dies at 47   

Nov 11   John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear nude on cover of "2 Virgins" album in the year 1968.   

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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   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 in the year 1968.   

Jan 03   In the year 1968 birth of kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa)   

Jan 03   In the year 1968 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   In the year 1968 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   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   Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73 on this day in history.   

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