Historical Events In 1968

Aug 22   On this day in history the first papal visit to Latin America (Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota)   

Aug 23   Ringo quits the Beatles over a disagreement, temporarily on this day in history.   

Aug 24   In the year 1968 cyril Vincent, cricketer (84 wkts slow lefty for S Af 1927-35), dies   

Aug 24   On this day in history france became world's 5th thermonuclear power   

Aug 24   On this day in history france becomes a nuclear power, exploding a hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific.   

Aug 25   On this day in history john George, actor (Kolb-Adventures of Fu Manchu), dies at 70   

Aug 26   Kay Francis, actress (Charley's Aunt, Play Girl), dies of cancer at 65 on this day in history.   

Aug 27   On this day in history marina, princess of Greece/Denmark/Dutchess of Kent, dies at 61   

Aug 28   On this day in history anti-war demonstrators clash with police in Chicago, where Hubert H. Humphrey receives the Democratic nomination for president.   

Aug 28   John Gordon Mein, US ambassador in Guatemala, dies on this day in history.   

Aug 28   Police & anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Dem Natl Conven on this day in history.   

Aug 29   Victor Sutherland, dies at 79 in the year 1968.   

Aug 30   On this day in history death of CEW Bean, founder of the Australian War Memorial and editor of the Official history of Australia in the war of 1914-18   

Aug 30   On this day in history john and Yoko Lennon's One on One concert at Madison Square Garden raises $250,000 to help mentally retarded children.   

Aug 30   The first record under Apple label (Beatle's Hey Jude) on this day in history.   

Aug 30   On this day in history william Talman, actor (Hamilton-Perry Mason), dies at 53   

Aug 31   On this day in history 6,000 die in 7.8 quake destroys 60,000 buildings in NE Iran   

Aug 31   Dennis O'Keefe, actor (Suspicion), dies of lung cancer at 60 on this day in history.   

Aug 31   On this day in history in Iran a 7.3 earthquake was centered about 250 kilometers south of Mashhad. There were 12,000 to 20,000 deaths, many injuries, and over 60,000 homeless   

Aug 31   On this day in history private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon & Yoko Ono album will have a picture of them nude on the cover   

Sep 01   On this day in history granville English, composer, dies at 69   

Sep 01   On this day in history pirate Radio Marina (Netherlandsd) begins transmitting   

Sep 02   In the year 1968 ernest Claes, Belgium, author (The White), dies at 82   

Sep 05   21 killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi Pakistan in the year 1968.   

Sep 05   Juan Jose Castro, composer, dies at 73 in the year 1968.   

Sep 06   Karl Ranki, composer, dies at 69 on this day in history.   

Sep 06   In the year 1968 swaziland becomes an independent member of the British Commonwealth.   

Sep 06   In the year 1968 swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day)   

Sep 09   In the year 1968 the fir1st US Open, Arthur Ashe wins   

Sep 15   Launch of Zond 5, the first lunar fly around with Earth reentry in the year 1968.   

Sep 16   Richard Nixon appears on "Laugh-in&quot in the year 1968.   

Sep 17   Zond 5 completes circumnavigation of the Moon in the year 1968.   

Sep 18   Franchot Tone, actor (Advise & Consent, Dark Waters), dies at 63 in the year 1968.   

Sep 19   In the year 1968 a baby was born on Golden Gate Bridge yes the event slowed traffic   

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Jan 02   Cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men) was born on this day in history.   

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

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 in the year 1968.   

Jan 03   In the year 1968 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 on this day in history.   

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

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   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 in the year 1968.   

Jan 11   Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) died in the year 1968.