Page 4: Historical Events In 1968

Feb 15   Little Walter, rocker, dies at 37 on this day in history.   

Feb 16   Beatles George Harrison & John Lennon & wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on this day in history.   

Feb 16   In the year 1968 country's first 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville AL   

Feb 16   Elvis Presley receives gold record for "How Great Thou Art" in the year 1968.   

Feb 16   Healey Willan, composer, dies at 87 in the year 1968.   

Feb 17   In the year 1968 donald Wolfit, actor (Lawrence of Arabia), dies of heart ailment at 65   

Feb 18   On this day in history 10,000 demonstrators against US in Vietnam War in West-Berlin   

Feb 18   In the year 1968 10th Winter Olympics games close at Grenoble, France   

Feb 18   In the year 1968 david Gilmour joins rock group Pink Floyd   

Feb 18   In the year 1968 sigurd Erixon, etnologist (Atlas "ver Svensk Folkkultur), dies at 79   

Feb 19   In the year 1968 ralph Dunn, actor (Mr Rudge-Norby), dies at 65   

Feb 20   Anthony Asquith, dies on this day in history.   

Feb 20   John Cleese (Monty Python) marries Connie Booth on this day in history.   

Feb 20   State troopers used tear gas to stop demonstration at Alcorn A &M on this day in history.   

Feb 21   150,000 demonstrate against leftist students in West-Berlin in the year 1968.   

Feb 21   In the year 1968 anthony Asquith, British director (Court Martial), dies at 65   

Feb 21   Baseball announces a minimum annual salary of $10,000 on this day in history.   

Feb 22   Omer CFL Tulippe, Belgian geographer, dies at 71 in the year 1968.   

Feb 22   In the year 1968 rock group Genesis release their first record "The Silent Sun"   

Feb 23   In the year 1968 fannie Hurst, US author (Anatomy of Me), dies at 78   

Feb 23   Wilt Chamberlain becomes first NBAer to score 25,000 points on this day in history.   

Feb 24   On this day in history a pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge)   

Feb 24   Discovery of the first pulsar in space in the year 1968.   

Feb 24   Gary Unger begins NHL consecutive game record of 914 games on this day in history.   

Feb 24   In the year 1968 uS troops reconquer Hue Vietnam   

Feb 25   On this day in history 430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea   

Feb 25   Camille Huysmans, Belgian premier (1946-47), dies at 96 in the year 1968.   

Feb 25   On this day in history makarios re-elected President of Cyprus   

Feb 26   Clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission on this day in history.   

Feb 26   In the year 1968 eric Feldary, actor (16 Fathoms Deep), dies of burns at 55   

Feb 27   Johannes Tralow, writer, dies at 85 on this day in history.   

Feb 28   On this day in history doretta Morrow, actress (Because You're Mine), dies at 41   

Feb 28   On this day in history pirate Radio Hauraki, off New Zealand, returns to the air   

Feb 29   On this day in history 1st pulsar announced (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge)   

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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 in the year 1968.   

Jan 02   Evan Parke, Jamaican actor was born on this day in history.   

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 in the year 1968.   

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

Jan 03   Thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos) was born in the year 1968.   

Jan 02   Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies in the year 1968.   

Jan 04   Joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83 on this day in history.   

Jan 05   In the year 1968 jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79   

Jan 06   Kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81 in the year 1968.   

Jan 07   In the year 1968 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.