Historical Events In 1968

Mar 10   In the year 1968 ferry boat sinks in harbor of Wellington New Zealand (200 killed)   

Mar 10   Helen Walker, actress (Brewster's Million), dies of cancer at 47 in the year 1968.   

Mar 11   In the year 1968 anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting   

Mar 11   Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 12nd string quartet on this day in history.   

Mar 11   Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for "(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay" in the year 1968.   

Mar 12   Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day) in the year 1968.   

Mar 12   On this day in history mauritius, in the Indian ocean island, granted independence after 158 years of British rule   

Mar 12   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site in the year 1968.   

Mar 13   Beatles release "Lady Madonna" in the UK on this day in history.   

Mar 14   CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA in the year 1968.   

Mar 14   Erwin Panofsky, German/US art historian/iconologist, dies in the year 1968.   

Mar 15   British minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns on this day in history.   

Mar 15   On this day in history diocese of Rome announces that it "deplored the concept", but wouldn't prohibit rock and roll masses at Church of San Lessio Falconieri   

Mar 15   In Ottawa the government suspends gold trading by Canadian banks and dealers; to dampen speculation on this day in history.   

Mar 15   In the year 1968 lIFE magazine calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world"   

Mar 15   Uprising in South Yemen on this day in history.   

Mar 15   US Mint stops buying and selling gold on this day in history.   

Mar 16   During the Vietnam War, a U.S. Army platoon from Charlie Company, 11th Brigade, Americal Division, massacres over four hundred unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in the village of My Lai in the district of Song My on this day in history.   

Mar 16   June Collyer, actress (June-Stu Erwin Show), dies at 60 on this day in history.   

Mar 16   My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die in the year 1968.   

Mar 16   Robert F Kennedy announces Presidential campaign in the year 1968.   

Mar 17   2-tiered gold price negotiated in Washington DC by US and 6 European nations on this day in history.   

Mar 18   Congress repeals requirement for a gold reserve on this day in history.   

Mar 18   On this day in history manuel Gomez Carillo, composer, dies at 85   

Mar 19   Howard University students seize administration building in the year 1968.   

Mar 20   Carl T Dreyer, Danish director (Passion of Jeanne d'Arc), dies in the year 1968.   

Mar 20   Military intervene in South-Yemen (leftist ministers resign) in the year 1968.   

Mar 20   President Lyndon Johnson signs a bill removing gold backing from US paper money in the year 1968.   

Mar 21   In the year 1968 israeli forces cross Jordan River to attack PLO bases   

Mar 21   Portuguese socialist Mario Soares banished to Sao Tomé on this day in history.   

Mar 22   Jarmila Novotna resigns presidency of Czechoslovakia in the year 1968.   

Mar 22   In the year 1968 lynda Johnson ordered off San Francisco cable car for eating an ice cream cone   

Mar 22   Student riot in Nanterre near Paris France on this day in history.   

Mar 23   Edwin O'Connor, US writer, dies at 49 on this day in history.   

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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 in the year 1968.   

Jan 02   Evan Parke, Jamaican actor was born in the year 1968.   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star   

Jan 03   Kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   Shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah) was born on this day in history.   

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   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   Prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897) died on this day in history.   

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.