Page 15: Historical Events In 1968

Sep 19   Chester F Carlson, inventor (photocopying), dies at 62 on this day in history.   

Sep 20   On this day in history frank Pelleg, composer, dies at 57   

Sep 20   Mickey Mantle hits final career homer # 536 in the year 1968.   

Sep 24   In the year 1968 "60 Minutes" premiers   

Sep 24   In the year 1968 harry Robert Wilson, composer, dies at 67   

Sep 24   Swaziland joins the United Nations on this day in history.   

Sep 26   Hawaii Five-O debuts as an hourly program on CBS in the year 1968.   

Sep 28   Alberto Giolani of Italy roller skates record 23.133 miles in 1 hr on this day in history.   

Sep 28   In the year 1968 beatles' "Hey Jude," single goes #1 &stays #1 for 9 weeks   

Sep 28   In the year 1968 corry Lievens, Flemish actress/playwright/dir (Blue Bird), dies at 64   

Sep 30   In the year 1968 first Boeing 747 rolls out   

Sep 30   In the year 1968 supremes release "Love Child"   

Oct 01   "Night of the Living Dead" premieres in Pittsburgh on this day in history.   

Oct 01   Marcel Duchamp, French painter (Descending an Escalator), dies in the year 1968.   

Oct 03   Military coup overthrows Pres Fernando Bela£nde Terry in Peru on this day in history.   

Oct 09   Government seizes oil fields in Peru in the year 1968.   

Oct 09   Pierre Mulele, Congolese rebel leader, executed on this day in history.   

Oct 10   George Harrison forms Singsong Ltd on this day in history.   

Oct 10   Lee Evans of the US sets 400 meter record at 43.86 on this day in history.   

Oct 10   In the year 1968 wilhelmina J "Willy" Haak, Dutch actress (Abandoned Child), dies at 71   

Oct 11   Apollo 7 (Schirra, Eisele & Cunningham) made 163 orbits in 260 hours in the year 1968.   

Oct 11   Launch of Apollo 7, the first U.S. 3-man space mission, commanded by CDR Walter Schirra, JR. USN. MAJ Ronnie Cunningham, USMCR served as Lunar Module pilot. The mission lasted 10 days and 20 hours. Recovery was by HS-5 helicopters from USS Essex (CVS-9) in the year 1968.   

Oct 11   Panama revolts in the year 1968.   

Oct 12   19th modern Olympic games opens in Mexico City in the year 1968.   

Oct 12   On this day in history norma Enriqueta Basilio Satelo is First woman to light Olympic flame   

Oct 13   Bea Benaderet, actress (Petticoat Junction), dies of lung cancer at 62 in the year 1968.   

Oct 13   On this day in history tinker Creek Gorge of Cleveland Metroparks is dedicated   

Oct 14   On this day in history first live telecast from a manned US spacecraft (Apollo 7)   

Oct 14   In the year 1968 gruener and Watson (US) set scuba depth record (133 m) in Bahamas   

Oct 14   On this day in history in Western Australia a 6.8 earthquake earthquake wrecked the town of Meckering and ruptured all major roads and railways nearby   

Oct 14   In the year 1968 j.R. Hines of US runs 100 m in world record 9.95 sec   

Oct 15   On this day in history bea Benaderet, NYC, actress (Kate-Petticoat Junction), dies at 62   

Oct 18   In the year 1968 circus Circus opens in Las Vegas   

Oct 18   On this day in history john Lennon & Yoko Ono fined for marijuana possession   

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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   In the year 1968 birth of scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions)   

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

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

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   In the year 1968 birth of thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)   

Jan 02   In the year 1968 sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies   

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   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   Kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide died on this day in history.   

Jan 10   Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73 in the year 1968.   

Jan 11   On this day in history death of isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)