Page 18: Historical Events In 1968

Dec 10   On this day in history karl Barth, Swiss theologist/minister (Kirchliche Dogma), dies at 82   

Dec 11   On this day in history nadine Riga, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 59   

Dec 11   The Labor Department announced that the nation's unemployment rate had dwindled to 3.3%, the lowest mark in 15 years on this day in history.   

Dec 12   On this day in history rolling Stones film TV show "Rock 'n Roll Circus"-never aired   

Dec 12   In the year 1968 tallulah Bankhead, actress (All Star Revue), dies of pneumonia at 65   

Dec 13   In the year 1968 playland at Beach reopens   

Dec 13   On this day in history playland at the Beach reopens   

Dec 13   On this day in history siegfried Reda, composer, dies at 52   

Dec 15   In the year 1968 jess Willard, Heavyweight boxing champ (1915-19), dies at 86   

Dec 18   USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR on this day in history.   

Dec 19   Norman Thomas, founder (ACLU)/Socialist Party (1926-55), dies at 84 in the year 1968.   

Dec 19   WCWB (now WMGT) TV channel 41 in Macon, GA (NBC) begins broadcasting in the year 1968.   

Dec 20   Bax Brod, composer, dies at 84 on this day in history.   

Dec 21   On this day in history apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell & Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage   

Dec 21   In the year 1968 launch of Apollo 8 with Captain James A. Lovell, Jr. as Command Module Pilot. During the mission Lovell was one of the first two people to see the far side of the moon. The mission lasted 6 days and 3 hours, and included 10 moon orbits. Recovery was by HS-4 helicopters from USS Yorktown (CVS-10).   

Dec 22   Louise Granville, entertainer, dies of influenza at 73 on this day in history.   

Dec 23   82 members of US intelligence ship `Pueblo' released by North Korea on this day in history.   

Dec 23   On this day in history borman, Lovell and Anders become first men to orbit Moon   

Dec 23   First US case of space motion sickness in the year 1968.   

Dec 24   Apollo 8 astronauts read passages from Book of Genesis in the year 1968.   

Dec 25   In the year 1968 frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting Moon   

Dec 27   On this day in history apollo 8 returns to Earth   

Dec 28   In the year 1968 100,000 attend Miami Pop Festival   

Dec 28   Beatles' "Beatles-The White Album," goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks on this day in history.   

Dec 29   On this day in history balt Colts beat Cleveland Browns 34-0 in NFL championship game   

Dec 30   -48ø F (-44ø C), Mazama & Winthrop, Washington (state record) on this day in history.   

Dec 31   Carl Oscar Ahues, German International Chess Master (1950), dies at 85 in the year 1968.   

Dec 31   First supersonic airliner flown (Russian TU-144) on this day in history.   

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Jan 02   In the year 1968 birth of cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men)   

Jan 02   In the year 1968 birth of scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions)   

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

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   Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies in the year 1968.   

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   On this day in history kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81   

Jan 07   On this day in history death of prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)   

Jan 09   In the year 1968 death of kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide   

Jan 10   On this day in history basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73   

Jan 11   Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) died on this day in history.