Page 7: Historical Events In 1968

Mar 24   Howard Petrie, actor (Border River, Bounty Hunter), dies at 61 in the year 1968.   

Mar 24   Mickey Wright wins Port Malabar Golf Invitational in the year 1968.   

Mar 25   On this day in history douglas Evans, actor (South Pacific Trail), dies in Hollywood   

Mar 25   In the year 1968 uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

Mar 26   In the year 1968 operation Bold Dragon III began in Mekong Delta   

Mar 27   Japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated in San Francisco in the year 1968.   

Mar 27   Suharto succeeds Sukarno as President of Indonesia on this day in history.   

Mar 27   Yuri Gagarin, 1st man to orbit Earth, & Seryogin, in plane crash at 34 in the year 1968.   

Mar 28   Actress Lucy Lawless was born this day on this day in history.   

Mar 29   In Ethiopia a 6.3 earthquake completely razed the town of Sardo, killing 24 persons and injuring 165 on this day in history.   

Mar 29   In the year 1968 students seize building at Bowie State College   

Mar 30   In the year 1968 general Ludvik Svoboda elected President of Czechoslovakia   

Mar 31   In the year 1968 president Lyndon B. Johnson announces that he will not seek reelection to the presidency   

Apr 01   In the year 1968 lev D Landau, Russian physicist (Nobel 1962), dies at 59   

Apr 02   On this day in history beatles form Python Music Ltd   

Apr 02   On this day in history chad creates Union of Central African States   

Apr 03   N Vietnam agrees to meet US reps to set up preliminary peace talks in the year 1968.   

Apr 03   In the year 1968 north Vietnam agrees to meet US representatives to set up preliminary peace talks   

Apr 04   In the year 1968 "Education of Hyman Kaplan" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 28 performances   

Apr 04   In the year 1968 "Education of Hyman Kaplan" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 28 perfs   

Apr 04   Apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V; unmanned in the year 1968.   

Apr 04   Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee on this day in history.   

Apr 04   Martin Luther King Jr, assassinated at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis Tennessee at 39 in the year 1968.   

Apr 04   On this day in history rev Martin Luther King Jr assassinated in Memphis   

Apr 05   On this day in history jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego opens   

Apr 05   In the year 1968 lois Andrews, dies of lung cancer at 44   

Apr 05   On this day in history uS marine base Khe San Vietnam, appalled   

Apr 06   94.5% of East German voters approve new socialist constitution in the year 1968.   

Apr 06   On this day in history bobby Hutton, US Black Panther leader, shot to death   

Apr 06   On this day in history gunpowder stocks at a sporting-goods store explode, killing 43 (Va)   

Apr 06   In the year 1968 hemisFair 1968 opens in San Antonio, Texas   

Apr 06   USS New Jersey recommissioned for shore bombardment duty in Vietnam on this day in history.   

Apr 07   Jim Clark of Scotland, former world driving champ, dies in race car in the year 1968.   

Apr 07   In the year 1968 jim Clark, of Scotland, world driving champ, dies at 32 in race car   

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Jan 02   In the year 1968 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   In the year 1968 birth of anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion   

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

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

Jan 02   In the year 1968 sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies   

Jan 04   In the year 1968 joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83   

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

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 on this day in history.   

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   Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) died in the year 1968.