Page 4: Historical Events In 1968

Feb 15   Little Walter, rocker, dies at 37 in the year 1968.   

Feb 16   In the year 1968 beatles George Harrison & John Lennon & wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi   

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

Feb 16   In the year 1968 elvis Presley receives gold record for "How Great Thou Art"   

Feb 16   Healey Willan, composer, dies at 87 on this day in history.   

Feb 17   Donald Wolfit, actor (Lawrence of Arabia), dies of heart ailment at 65 on this day in history.   

Feb 18   10,000 demonstrators against US in Vietnam War in West-Berlin in the year 1968.   

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

Feb 18   David Gilmour joins rock group Pink Floyd in the year 1968.   

Feb 18   Sigurd Erixon, etnologist (Atlas "ver Svensk Folkkultur), dies at 79 in the year 1968.   

Feb 19   Ralph Dunn, actor (Mr Rudge-Norby), dies at 65 in the year 1968.   

Feb 20   On this day in history anthony Asquith, dies   

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

Feb 20   In the year 1968 state troopers used tear gas to stop demonstration at Alcorn A &M   

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

Feb 21   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.   

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

Feb 23   Fannie Hurst, US author (Anatomy of Me), dies at 78 in the year 1968.   

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

Feb 24   A pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge) on this day in history.   

Feb 24   On this day in history discovery of the first pulsar in space   

Feb 24   On this day in history gary Unger begins NHL consecutive game record of 914 games   

Feb 24   US troops reconquer Hue Vietnam on this day in history.   

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

Feb 25   In the year 1968 camille Huysmans, Belgian premier (1946-47), dies at 96   

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

Feb 26   On this day in history clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission   

Feb 26   Eric Feldary, actor (16 Fathoms Deep), dies of burns at 55 in the year 1968.   

Feb 27   On this day in history johannes Tralow, writer, dies at 85   

Feb 28   Doretta Morrow, actress (Because You're Mine), dies at 41 in the year 1968.   

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

Feb 29   1st pulsar announced (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge) in the year 1968.   

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

Jan 02   Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies on this day in history.   

Jan 04   Joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83 in the year 1968.   

Jan 05   Jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79 on this day in history.   

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 in the year 1968.   

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

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