Historical Events In 1968

Dec 10   Karl Barth, Swiss theologist/minister (Kirchliche Dogma), dies at 82 in the year 1968.   

Dec 11   Nadine Riga, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 59 in the year 1968.   

Dec 11   The Labor Department announced that the nation's unemployment rate had dwindled to 3.3%, the lowest mark in 15 years in the year 1968.   

Dec 12   Rolling Stones film TV show "Rock 'n Roll Circus"-never aired in the year 1968.   

Dec 12   In the year 1968 tallulah Bankhead, actress (All Star Revue), dies of pneumonia at 65   

Dec 13   Playland at Beach reopens on this day in history.   

Dec 13   On this day in history playland at the Beach reopens   

Dec 13   Siegfried Reda, composer, dies at 52 on this day in history.   

Dec 15   On this day in history jess Willard, Heavyweight boxing champ (1915-19), dies at 86   

Dec 18   USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR on this day in history.   

Dec 19   Norman Thomas, founder (ACLU)/Socialist Party (1926-55), dies at 84 in the year 1968.   

Dec 19   On this day in history wCWB (now WMGT) TV channel 41 in Macon, GA (NBC) begins broadcasting   

Dec 20   Bax Brod, composer, dies at 84 on this day in history.   

Dec 21   In the year 1968 apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell & Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage   

Dec 21   On this day in history launch of Apollo 8 with Captain James A. Lovell, Jr. as Command Module Pilot. During the mission Lovell was one of the first two people to see the far side of the moon. The mission lasted 6 days and 3 hours, and included 10 moon orbits. Recovery was by HS-4 helicopters from USS Yorktown (CVS-10).   

Dec 22   On this day in history louise Granville, entertainer, dies of influenza at 73   

Dec 23   On this day in history 82 members of US intelligence ship `Pueblo' released by North Korea   

Dec 23   Borman, Lovell and Anders become first men to orbit Moon in the year 1968.   

Dec 23   In the year 1968 first US case of space motion sickness   

Dec 24   On this day in history apollo 8 astronauts read passages from Book of Genesis   

Dec 25   Frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting Moon on this day in history.   

Dec 27   On this day in history apollo 8 returns to Earth   

Dec 28   100,000 attend Miami Pop Festival in the year 1968.   

Dec 28   On this day in history beatles' "Beatles-The White Album," goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks   

Dec 29   Balt Colts beat Cleveland Browns 34-0 in NFL championship game on this day in history.   

Dec 30   -48ø F (-44ø C), Mazama & Winthrop, Washington (state record) on this day in history.   

Dec 31   Carl Oscar Ahues, German International Chess Master (1950), dies at 85 in the year 1968.   

Dec 31   On this day in history first supersonic airliner flown (Russian TU-144)   

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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 in the year 1968.   

Jan 02   Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion was born on this day in history.   

Jan 02   Evan Parke, Jamaican actor was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   In the year 1968 birth of kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star   

Jan 03   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.   

Jan 02   Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies on this day in history.   

Jan 04   In the year 1968 joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83   

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   Prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897) died in the year 1968.   

Jan 09   On this day in history death of kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide   

Jan 10   Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73 on this day in history.   

Jan 11   Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) died on this day in history.