Page 6: Historical Events In 1968

Mar 10   On this day in history ferry boat sinks in harbor of Wellington New Zealand (200 killed)   

Mar 10   Helen Walker, actress (Brewster's Million), dies of cancer at 47 in the year 1968.   

Mar 11   Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting on this day in history.   

Mar 11   Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 12nd string quartet in the year 1968.   

Mar 11   In the year 1968 otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for "(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay"   

Mar 12   Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day) in the year 1968.   

Mar 12   Mauritius, in the Indian ocean island, granted independence after 158 years of British rule on this day in history.   

Mar 12   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site on this day in history.   

Mar 13   On this day in history beatles release "Lady Madonna" in the UK   

Mar 14   On this day in history cBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA   

Mar 14   Erwin Panofsky, German/US art historian/iconologist, dies on this day in history.   

Mar 15   On this day in history british minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns   

Mar 15   Diocese of Rome announces that it "deplored the concept", but wouldn't prohibit rock and roll masses at Church of San Lessio Falconieri in the year 1968.   

Mar 15   In Ottawa the government suspends gold trading by Canadian banks and dealers; to dampen speculation in the year 1968.   

Mar 15   In the year 1968 lIFE magazine calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world"   

Mar 15   In the year 1968 uprising in South Yemen   

Mar 15   On this day in history uS Mint stops buying and selling gold   

Mar 16   During the Vietnam War, a U.S. Army platoon from Charlie Company, 11th Brigade, Americal Division, massacres over four hundred unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in the village of My Lai in the district of Song My in the year 1968.   

Mar 16   On this day in history june Collyer, actress (June-Stu Erwin Show), dies at 60   

Mar 16   In the year 1968 my Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die   

Mar 16   On this day in history robert F Kennedy announces Presidential campaign   

Mar 17   In the year 1968 2-tiered gold price negotiated in Washington DC by US and 6 European nations   

Mar 18   Congress repeals requirement for a gold reserve in the year 1968.   

Mar 18   In the year 1968 manuel Gomez Carillo, composer, dies at 85   

Mar 19   Howard University students seize administration building in the year 1968.   

Mar 20   In the year 1968 carl T Dreyer, Danish director (Passion of Jeanne d'Arc), dies   

Mar 20   Military intervene in South-Yemen (leftist ministers resign) in the year 1968.   

Mar 20   President Lyndon Johnson signs a bill removing gold backing from US paper money in the year 1968.   

Mar 21   In the year 1968 israeli forces cross Jordan River to attack PLO bases   

Mar 21   Portuguese socialist Mario Soares banished to Sao Tomé in the year 1968.   

Mar 22   On this day in history jarmila Novotna resigns presidency of Czechoslovakia   

Mar 22   Lynda Johnson ordered off San Francisco cable car for eating an ice cream cone on this day in history.   

Mar 22   Student riot in Nanterre near Paris France on this day in history.   

Mar 23   On this day in history edwin O'Connor, US writer, dies at 49   

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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   In the year 1968 birth of evan Parke, Jamaican actor   

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 on this day in history.   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah)   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)   

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

Jan 04   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.   

Jan 07   Prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897) died in the year 1968.   

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

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

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