Page 5: Historical Events In 1968

Feb 29   On this day in history beatles' "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" wins Grammy   

Feb 29   In the year 1968 bryce Paup, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers, Buffalo Bills)   

Feb 29   Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell announces the discovery of the first pulsar (a star that emits regular radio waves) on this day in history.   

Feb 29   On this day in history first pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge)   

Feb 29   US end regular flights with nuclear bombs in the year 1968.   

Feb 29   In the year 1968 uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

Mar 01   Country music artists Johnny Cash and June Carter are married in the year 1968.   

Mar 01   G v d Vring, writer, dies in the year 1968.   

Mar 01   Hong Kong flu in Worldwide killing 1-4 million people on this day in history.   

Mar 01   NBC's unprecedented on-air announcement, Star Trek will return great news!! in the year 1968.   

Mar 01   Pirate Radio Atlantis South (England) begins test transmitting in the year 1968.   

Mar 01   Political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands on this day in history.   

Mar 01   In the year 1968 singers Johnny Cash (36) &June Carter (38) wed   

Mar 01   Vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect on this day in history.   

Mar 02   On this day in history uSAF displays Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, biggest plane in the world   

Mar 02   USSR launches space probe Zond 4; fails to leave Earth orbit on this day in history.   

Mar 02   In the year 1968 world Ice Dance Championship in Geneva won by Diane Towler &Bernard Ford (Great Britain)   

Mar 02   World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Lyudmila Belousova &Oleg Protopopov (USSR) in the year 1968.   

Mar 02   World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Peggy Fleming (USA) in the year 1968.   

Mar 02   World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Emmerich Danzer (Austria) on this day in history.   

Mar 03   In the year 1968 greece, Portugal & Spain's embassies bombed in the Hague   

Mar 03   Jean Beliveau (Montréal) becomes 2nd NHLer to score 1,000 points on this day in history.   

Mar 04   On this day in history alexandre Cellier, composer, dies at 84   

Mar 04   Joe Frazier TKOs Buster Mathis in 11 for heavyweight boxing title in the year 1968.   

Mar 04   In the year 1968 martin Luther King Jr announces plans for Poor People's Campaign   

Mar 04   On this day in history orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched   

Mar 05   In the year 1968 uS launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the Sun   

Mar 06   Isa Krejci, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.   

Mar 07   Operation Coronado XII begins in Mekong Delta, Vietnam in the year 1968.   

Mar 07   On this day in history yuri Aleksayevich Gagarin, USSR cosmonaut (Vostok I), dies at 31   

Mar 08   6 year old Tommy Moore scores hole-in-one in golf (Hagerstown MD) in the year 1968.   

Mar 08   In the year 1968 students demonstrate in Warsaw   

Mar 09   10th Grammy Awards Up Up & Away, Sergeant Pepper win on this day in history.   

Mar 09   On this day in history 10th Grammy Awards: Up Up & Away, Sergeant Pepper win   

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Jan 02   Cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men) was born on this day in history.   

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   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 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 on this day in history.   

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   Kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide died in the year 1968.   

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 in the year 1968.