Page 16: Historical Events In 1968

Oct 18   Lee Tracy, actor (Doctor X, Bombshell, Best Man), dies of cancer at 70 on this day in history.   

Oct 19   In the year 1968 golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars   

Oct 20   On this day in history elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, TV preacher, dies at 84   

Oct 20   Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis in the year 1968.   

Oct 22   Apollo 7 returns to Earth in the year 1968.   

Oct 23   Kip Keino (Kenya) wins gold medal for 1,500m (3 min 34.9 sec) in the year 1968.   

Oct 24   In the year 1968 mick Jagger and Marianne Faithful busted for pot, released on œ50 bail   

Oct 25   In the year 1968 chicago recognizes Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable as its 1st settler   

Oct 25   On this day in history jean Schlumberger, French writer (Passions), dies   

Oct 25   On this day in history yoko Ono announces she is having John Lennon's baby   

Oct 26   On this day in history erich Von Stroheim, actor/director (Napoleon), dies of cancer at 52   

Oct 26   In the year 1968 soyuz 3 launched   

Oct 26   In the year 1968 the Flushing Meadow Park Zoo opens in New York City.   

Oct 27   Lise Meitner, Austria/Swedish physics (protactinium), dies at 89 on this day in history.   

Oct 28   In the year 1968 henricus WJM Keuls, lawyer/poet, dies at 85   

Oct 29   Marius Moaritz Ulfrstad, composer, dies at 78 in the year 1968.   

Oct 30   Conrad Richter, US writer (Light in the Forest), dies at 78 on this day in history.   

Oct 31   Linda Eastman moves to UK permanently on this day in history.   

Oct 31   President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam in the year 1968.   

Oct 31   On this day in history ramon Novarro, [Jose RG Samaniegos], actor (Ben Hur), dies at 69   

Nov 01   On this day in history georgios Papandreou, Greek minister/premier, dies at 80   

Nov 02   In the year 1968 ernst Hess, composer, dies at 56   

Nov 04   In the year 1968 paul JM Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer/author, dies at 78   

Nov 05   In the year 1968 estelle Hemsley, actress (Leech Woman, Take aGiant Step), dies at 81   

Nov 05   In the year 1968 nixon (R) beats VP Humphrey (D) & George C Wallace for Presidency   

Nov 06   In the year 1968 guillaume Landre, composer, dies at 63   

Nov 07   Willem A Wagenaar, Dutch journalist/author (3,000 meter), dies on this day in history.   

Nov 08   Cynthia Lennon is granted a divorce from John on this day in history.   

Nov 08   Wendell Corey, actor (11th Hour, Peck's Bad Girl), dies at 54 on this day in history.   

Nov 09   On this day in history jan Johansson, composer, dies at 37   

Nov 10   Gerald Mohr, actor (Christopher-Foreign Intrigue), dies at 54 in the year 1968.   

Nov 10   In the year 1968 launch of Zond 6, 2nd unmanned circumlunar & return flight   

Nov 11   Jeanne Demessieux, composer, dies at 47 in the year 1968.   

Nov 11   John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear nude on cover of "2 Virgins" album on this day in history.   

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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   Scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion   

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of evan Parke, Jamaican actor   

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   Shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   Thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 02   On this day in history sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies   

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

Jan 05   Jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79 in the year 1968.   

Jan 06   In the year 1968 kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81   

Jan 07   In the year 1968 death of prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)   

Jan 09   Kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide died in the year 1968.   

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)