Historical Events In 1968

Aug 22   In the year 1968 the first papal visit to Latin America (Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota)   

Aug 23   Ringo quits the Beatles over a disagreement, temporarily in the year 1968.   

Aug 24   On this day in history cyril Vincent, cricketer (84 wkts slow lefty for S Af 1927-35), dies   

Aug 24   In the year 1968 france became world's 5th thermonuclear power   

Aug 24   In the year 1968 france becomes a nuclear power, exploding a hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific.   

Aug 25   On this day in history john George, actor (Kolb-Adventures of Fu Manchu), dies at 70   

Aug 26   In the year 1968 kay Francis, actress (Charley's Aunt, Play Girl), dies of cancer at 65   

Aug 27   On this day in history marina, princess of Greece/Denmark/Dutchess of Kent, dies at 61   

Aug 28   On this day in history anti-war demonstrators clash with police in Chicago, where Hubert H. Humphrey receives the Democratic nomination for president.   

Aug 28   On this day in history john Gordon Mein, US ambassador in Guatemala, dies   

Aug 28   Police & anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Dem Natl Conven on this day in history.   

Aug 29   Victor Sutherland, dies at 79 in the year 1968.   

Aug 30   In the year 1968 death of CEW Bean, founder of the Australian War Memorial and editor of the Official history of Australia in the war of 1914-18   

Aug 30   John and Yoko Lennon's One on One concert at Madison Square Garden raises $250,000 to help mentally retarded children on this day in history.   

Aug 30   The first record under Apple label (Beatle's Hey Jude) in the year 1968.   

Aug 30   William Talman, actor (Hamilton-Perry Mason), dies at 53 on this day in history.   

Aug 31   6,000 die in 7.8 quake destroys 60,000 buildings in NE Iran in the year 1968.   

Aug 31   Dennis O'Keefe, actor (Suspicion), dies of lung cancer at 60 in the year 1968.   

Aug 31   In Iran a 7.3 earthquake was centered about 250 kilometers south of Mashhad. There were 12,000 to 20,000 deaths, many injuries, and over 60,000 homeless on this day in history.   

Aug 31   On this day in history private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon & Yoko Ono album will have a picture of them nude on the cover   

Sep 01   On this day in history granville English, composer, dies at 69   

Sep 01   On this day in history pirate Radio Marina (Netherlandsd) begins transmitting   

Sep 02   In the year 1968 ernest Claes, Belgium, author (The White), dies at 82   

Sep 05   21 killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi Pakistan in the year 1968.   

Sep 05   Juan Jose Castro, composer, dies at 73 in the year 1968.   

Sep 06   Karl Ranki, composer, dies at 69 in the year 1968.   

Sep 06   Swaziland becomes an independent member of the British Commonwealth on this day in history.   

Sep 06   Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day) on this day in history.   

Sep 09   On this day in history the fir1st US Open, Arthur Ashe wins   

Sep 15   On this day in history launch of Zond 5, the first lunar fly around with Earth reentry.   

Sep 16   In the year 1968 richard Nixon appears on "Laugh-in&quot   

Sep 17   In the year 1968 zond 5 completes circumnavigation of the Moon   

Sep 18   On this day in history franchot Tone, actor (Advise & Consent, Dark Waters), dies at 63   

Sep 19   On this day in history a baby was born on Golden Gate Bridge yes the event slowed traffic   

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

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of evan Parke, Jamaican actor   

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

Jan 03   Kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa) was born in the year 1968.   

Jan 03   Shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah) was born in the year 1968.   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)   

Jan 02   On this day in history sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies   

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

Jan 05   Jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79 in the year 1968.   

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   Kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide died in the year 1968.   

Jan 10   In the year 1968 basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73   

Jan 11   Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) died in the year 1968.