Page 11: Historical Events In 1968

Jun 04   Dorothy Gish, [de Guiche], actress (Home Sweet Home), dies at 70 on this day in history.   

Jun 05   Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, who was immediately arrested. Kennedy had just claimed victory in California's Democratic presidential primary. 68 on this day in history.   

Jun 05   On this day in history sirhan Sirhan shoots Bobby Kennedy, who dies the next day   

Jun 05   US Senator Robert Kennedy shot and killed in Los Angeles on this day in history.   

Jun 06   Franklin C Fry, US minister (World Rad of Church), dies in the year 1968.   

Jun 06   In the year 1968 senator Robert F. Kennedy succumbs to being shot by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan the day before in Los Angeles.   

Jun 07   Dan Duryea, actor (Pride of the Yankees), dies of cancer at at 60 on this day in history.   

Jun 07   Sirhan Sirhan indicted for Bobby Kennedy assassination on this day in history.   

Jun 08   Gary Puckett &The Union Gap release "Lady Will Power" in the year 1968.   

Jun 08   James Earl Ray, suspected of assassinating Martin Luther King Jr., is captured at the London Airport on this day in history.   

Jun 08   New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted on this day in history.   

Jun 08   Rolling Stones release "Jumpin' Jack Flash" on this day in history.   

Jun 10   Yury Sergeyevich Milyutin, composer, dies at 65 in the year 1968.   

Jun 12   Fidelio Friedrich Finke, composer, dies at 76 in the year 1968.   

Jun 14   Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Swedish opera composer (Aniara), dies at 51 on this day in history.   

Jun 15   John Lennon & Yoko Ono plant an acorn at Conventry Cathedral in the year 1968.   

Jun 15   Samuel Earl "Wahoo Sam" Crawford, baseball pitcher, dies at 88 in the year 1968.   

Jun 18   Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale &rental of housing in the year 1968.   

Jun 19   In the year 1968 50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign   

Jun 20   Jim Hines becomes first person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds in the year 1968.   

Jun 21   On this day in history ruth St Denis, ballerina (Dances of the 5 Senses), dies at 91   

Jun 21   In the year 1968 supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns   

Jun 24   In the year 1968 canadian Sandra Post becomes first non-US &1st rookie LPGA winner   

Jun 24   In the year 1968 deadline for redeeming silver certificate dollars for silver bullion   

Jun 24   In the year 1968 joe Frazier TKOs Manda Ramos for world heavyweight boxing title   

Jun 24   On this day in history resurrection City closed   

Jun 25   Tony Hancock, actor/writer (Call Me Genius, Rebel), dies at 43 in the year 1968.   

Jun 26   Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US on this day in history.   

Jun 27   Ludvik Vaculik publishes "Manifest of 2000 words" in Prague on this day in history.   

Jun 27   In the year 1968 norman Norton, cricketer (dismissed Hobbs in only Test for S Af), dies   

Jun 28   Daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking Pentagon Papers on this day in history.   

Jun 29   In the year 1968 kitty Kelly, actress (Ladies of Jury, Behind Office Doors), dies at 66   

Jun 30   Gaullists win victory in the French National Assembly elections in the year 1968.   

Jun 30   On this day in history john Gough, actor (Circus Kid, 2 for Tonight), dies at 73   

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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 in the year 1968.   

Jan 02   Evan Parke, Jamaican actor was born in the year 1968.   

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   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 in the year 1968.   

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

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

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 in the year 1968.   

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.