Page 16: Historical Events In 1968

Oct 18   Lee Tracy, actor (Doctor X, Bombshell, Best Man), dies of cancer at 70 on this day in history.   

Oct 19   Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars in the year 1968.   

Oct 20   In the year 1968 elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, TV preacher, dies at 84   

Oct 20   Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis in the year 1968.   

Oct 22   Apollo 7 returns to Earth in the year 1968.   

Oct 23   Kip Keino (Kenya) wins gold medal for 1,500m (3 min 34.9 sec) in the year 1968.   

Oct 24   Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithful busted for pot, released on œ50 bail in the year 1968.   

Oct 25   On this day in history chicago recognizes Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable as its 1st settler   

Oct 25   On this day in history jean Schlumberger, French writer (Passions), dies   

Oct 25   In the year 1968 yoko Ono announces she is having John Lennon's baby   

Oct 26   In the year 1968 erich Von Stroheim, actor/director (Napoleon), dies of cancer at 52   

Oct 26   In the year 1968 soyuz 3 launched   

Oct 26   On this day in history the Flushing Meadow Park Zoo opens in New York City.   

Oct 27   In the year 1968 lise Meitner, Austria/Swedish physics (protactinium), dies at 89   

Oct 28   On this day in history henricus WJM Keuls, lawyer/poet, dies at 85   

Oct 29   On this day in history marius Moaritz Ulfrstad, composer, dies at 78   

Oct 30   On this day in history conrad Richter, US writer (Light in the Forest), dies at 78   

Oct 31   In the year 1968 linda Eastman moves to UK permanently   

Oct 31   President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam on this day in history.   

Oct 31   In the year 1968 ramon Novarro, [Jose RG Samaniegos], actor (Ben Hur), dies at 69   

Nov 01   On this day in history georgios Papandreou, Greek minister/premier, dies at 80   

Nov 02   Ernst Hess, composer, dies at 56 in the year 1968.   

Nov 04   Paul JM Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer/author, dies at 78 in the year 1968.   

Nov 05   Estelle Hemsley, actress (Leech Woman, Take aGiant Step), dies at 81 in the year 1968.   

Nov 05   Nixon (R) beats VP Humphrey (D) & George C Wallace for Presidency in the year 1968.   

Nov 06   Guillaume Landre, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.   

Nov 07   Willem A Wagenaar, Dutch journalist/author (3,000 meter), dies on this day in history.   

Nov 08   On this day in history cynthia Lennon is granted a divorce from John   

Nov 08   On this day in history wendell Corey, actor (11th Hour, Peck's Bad Girl), dies at 54   

Nov 09   On this day in history jan Johansson, composer, dies at 37   

Nov 10   Gerald Mohr, actor (Christopher-Foreign Intrigue), dies at 54 in the year 1968.   

Nov 10   Launch of Zond 6, 2nd unmanned circumlunar & return flight on this day in history.   

Nov 11   In the year 1968 jeanne Demessieux, composer, dies at 47   

Nov 11   On this day in history john Lennon and Yoko Ono appear nude on cover of "2 Virgins" album   

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Jan 02   On this day in history birth of cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men)   

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

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

Jan 03   In the year 1968 birth of kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa)   

Jan 03   In the year 1968 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   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   On this day in history kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81   

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 on this day in history.   

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)