Historical Events In 1968

Feb 29   In the year 1968 beatles' "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" wins Grammy   

Feb 29   Bryce Paup, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers, Buffalo Bills) on this day in history.   

Feb 29   Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell announces the discovery of the first pulsar (a star that emits regular radio waves) on this day in history.   

Feb 29   First pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge) on this day in history.   

Feb 29   In the year 1968 uS end regular flights with nuclear bombs   

Feb 29   In the year 1968 uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

Mar 01   In the year 1968 country music artists Johnny Cash and June Carter are married.   

Mar 01   G v d Vring, writer, dies in the year 1968.   

Mar 01   Hong Kong flu in Worldwide killing 1-4 million people on this day in history.   

Mar 01   NBC's unprecedented on-air announcement, Star Trek will return great news!! on this day in history.   

Mar 01   Pirate Radio Atlantis South (England) begins test transmitting on this day in history.   

Mar 01   Political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands on this day in history.   

Mar 01   In the year 1968 singers Johnny Cash (36) &June Carter (38) wed   

Mar 01   In the year 1968 vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect   

Mar 02   In the year 1968 uSAF displays Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, biggest plane in the world   

Mar 02   USSR launches space probe Zond 4; fails to leave Earth orbit on this day in history.   

Mar 02   World Ice Dance Championship in Geneva won by Diane Towler &Bernard Ford (Great Britain) in the year 1968.   

Mar 02   In the year 1968 world Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Lyudmila Belousova &Oleg Protopopov (USSR)   

Mar 02   World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Peggy Fleming (USA) on this day in history.   

Mar 02   In the year 1968 world Men's Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Emmerich Danzer (Austria)   

Mar 03   On this day in history greece, Portugal & Spain's embassies bombed in the Hague   

Mar 03   Jean Beliveau (Montréal) becomes 2nd NHLer to score 1,000 points on this day in history.   

Mar 04   On this day in history alexandre Cellier, composer, dies at 84   

Mar 04   On this day in history joe Frazier TKOs Buster Mathis in 11 for heavyweight boxing title   

Mar 04   Martin Luther King Jr announces plans for Poor People's Campaign on this day in history.   

Mar 04   Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched on this day in history.   

Mar 05   On this day in history uS launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the Sun   

Mar 06   Isa Krejci, composer, dies at 63 in the year 1968.   

Mar 07   In the year 1968 operation Coronado XII begins in Mekong Delta, Vietnam   

Mar 07   Yuri Aleksayevich Gagarin, USSR cosmonaut (Vostok I), dies at 31 on this day in history.   

Mar 08   On this day in history 6 year old Tommy Moore scores hole-in-one in golf (Hagerstown MD)   

Mar 08   On this day in history students demonstrate in Warsaw   

Mar 09   On this day in history 10th Grammy Awards Up Up & Away, Sergeant Pepper win   

Mar 09   On this day in history 10th Grammy Awards: Up Up & Away, Sergeant Pepper win   

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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 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 on this day in history.   

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

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   On this day in history sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies   

Jan 04   On this day in history joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83   

Jan 05   In the year 1968 jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79   

Jan 06   Kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81 on this day in history.   

Jan 07   Prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897) died in the year 1968.   

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