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   In the year 1968 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   

Jun 05   Sirhan Sirhan shoots Bobby Kennedy, who dies the next day on this day in history.   

Jun 05   US Senator Robert Kennedy shot and killed in Los Angeles in the year 1968.   

Jun 06   In the year 1968 franklin C Fry, US minister (World Rad of Church), dies   

Jun 06   Senator Robert F. Kennedy succumbs to being shot by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan the day before in Los Angeles on this day in history.   

Jun 07   Dan Duryea, actor (Pride of the Yankees), dies of cancer at at 60 in the year 1968.   

Jun 07   On this day in history sirhan Sirhan indicted for Bobby Kennedy assassination   

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

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

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

Jun 08   In the year 1968 rolling Stones release "Jumpin' Jack Flash"   

Jun 10   In the year 1968 yury Sergeyevich Milyutin, composer, dies at 65   

Jun 12   Fidelio Friedrich Finke, composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.   

Jun 14   On this day in history karl-Birger Blomdahl, Swedish opera composer (Aniara), dies at 51   

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

Jun 15   In the year 1968 samuel Earl "Wahoo Sam" Crawford, baseball pitcher, dies at 88   

Jun 18   In the year 1968 supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale &rental of housing   

Jun 19   On this day in history 50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign   

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

Jun 21   In the year 1968 ruth St Denis, ballerina (Dances of the 5 Senses), dies at 91   

Jun 21   On this day in history supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns   

Jun 24   Canadian Sandra Post becomes first non-US &1st rookie LPGA winner in the year 1968.   

Jun 24   On this day in history 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   Resurrection City closed on this day in history.   

Jun 25   Tony Hancock, actor/writer (Call Me Genius, Rebel), dies at 43 on this day in history.   

Jun 26   In the year 1968 iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US   

Jun 27   Ludvik Vaculik publishes "Manifest of 2000 words" in Prague in the year 1968.   

Jun 27   Norman Norton, cricketer (dismissed Hobbs in only Test for S Af), dies on this day in history.   

Jun 28   Daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking Pentagon Papers in the year 1968.   

Jun 29   On this day in history kitty Kelly, actress (Ladies of Jury, Behind Office Doors), dies at 66   

Jun 30   In the year 1968 gaullists win victory in the French National Assembly elections   

Jun 30   John Gough, actor (Circus Kid, 2 for Tonight), dies at 73 on this day in history.   

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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 on this day in history.   

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

Jan 03   In the year 1968 birth of kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star   

Jan 03   Kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa) was born in the year 1968.   

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

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   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   In the year 1968 death of prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)   

Jan 09   On this day in history death of kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide   

Jan 10   Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73 on this day in history.   

Jan 11   In the year 1968 death of isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)