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   Bryce Paup, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers, Buffalo Bills) on this day in history.   

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

Feb 29   First pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge) in the year 1968.   

Feb 29   On this day in history uS end regular flights with nuclear bombs   

Feb 29   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site on this day in history.   

Mar 01   Country music artists Johnny Cash and June Carter are married on this day in history.   

Mar 01   In the year 1968 g v d Vring, writer, dies   

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

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

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

Mar 01   In the year 1968 political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands   

Mar 01   On this day in history singers Johnny Cash (36) &June Carter (38) wed   

Mar 01   In the year 1968 vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect   

Mar 02   USAF displays Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, biggest plane in the world in the year 1968.   

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   In the year 1968 world Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Lyudmila Belousova &Oleg Protopopov (USSR)   

Mar 02   World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Peggy Fleming (USA) on this day in history.   

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

Mar 03   Greece, Portugal & Spain's embassies bombed in the Hague in the year 1968.   

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

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 on this day in history.   

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

Mar 04   In the year 1968 orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched   

Mar 05   US launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the Sun on this day in history.   

Mar 06   Isa Krejci, composer, dies at 63 in the year 1968.   

Mar 07   On this day in history operation Coronado XII begins in Mekong Delta, Vietnam   

Mar 07   Yuri Aleksayevich Gagarin, USSR cosmonaut (Vostok I), dies at 31 on this day in history.   

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 in the year 1968.   

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

« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | Next Page »

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

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions)   

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion   

Jan 02   In the year 1968 birth of evan Parke, Jamaican actor   

Jan 03   Kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star was born in the year 1968.   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa)   

Jan 03   Shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   In the year 1968 birth of thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)   

Jan 02   On this day in history sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies   

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

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   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   In the year 1968 basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73   

Jan 11   On this day in history death of isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)