Page 3: Historical Events In 1968

Jan 31   On this day in history uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

Jan 31   On this day in history viet Cong's Tet offensive begins   

Feb 01   Famous photo Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head in the year 1968.   

Feb 01   In the year 1968 former Vice-President Richard Nixon announces candidacy for President   

Feb 01   On this day in history lawson Little, amateur golfer (US/Brit Opens 1934,35), dies at 57   

Feb 01   In the year 1968 the government halted further unification of the Canadian Armed Forces, many say it did not work   

Feb 01   On this day in history vince Lombardi resigns as coach of the Green Bay Packers   

Feb 01   On this day in history world trade conference Unctad 2 opens in New Delhi   

Feb 02   Springer Publishers in West Berlin, bombed in the year 1968.   

Feb 04   Ed Baker, actor (Keystone Kops), dies of emphysema at 70 in the year 1968.   

Feb 05   KDTV TV channel 39 in Dallas-Fort Worth TX (IND) begins broadcasting in the year 1968.   

Feb 05   On this day in history luckey Roberts, composer, dies at 80   

Feb 05   On this day in history skater Kees Verkerk win Olympics gold in the 1500m   

Feb 06   In the year 1968 10th Winter Olympics games opens in Grenoble, France   

Feb 06   On this day in history c Montague Shaw, actor (Buck Rogers, Planet Outlaws), dies at 85   

Feb 06   Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns US bombing of North Vietnam on this day in history.   

Feb 06   In the year 1968 former President Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole-in-one   

Feb 07   In the year 1968 arthur Miller's "Price," premieres in New York NY   

Feb 07   Belgium government of Vanden Boeynants falls in the year 1968.   

Feb 07   In the year 1968 nick Adams, actor (Interns, Pillow Talk, FBI Story), ODs at 36   

Feb 08   J Borremans, Belgian politician (Communist), dies at 56 in the year 1968.   

Feb 08   Three college students are killed in a clash with the South Carolina highway patrol, during a civil rights protest in Orangeburg in the year 1968.   

Feb 09   On this day in history barbara Everest, actress (Inquest, Madeleine), dies at 77   

Feb 09   Rotterdam metro opened by princess Beatrix in the year 1968.   

Feb 10   "Spooky" by Classics IV hits #3 on this day in history.   

Feb 10   Peggy Fleming wins Olympics figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France in the year 1968.   

Feb 10   Pitirim A Sorokin, Russian/US sociologist, dies at 79 on this day in history.   

Feb 11   Howard Lindsay, US playwright (State of the Union), dies at 78 on this day in history.   

Feb 11   On this day in history israeli-Jordan border fight   

Feb 11   Jeffrey Kramer survives 76 meter jump, Washington Bridge, Hudson River NY on this day in history.   

Feb 11   Peggy Fleming wins Olympics figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France in the year 1968.   

Feb 13   Ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer, dies at 87 on this day in history.   

Feb 13   US sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam in the year 1968.   

Feb 14   On this day in history pennsylvania Railroad/NYC Central merge into Pennsylvania Central   

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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 on this day in history.   

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

Jan 02   Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies in the year 1968.   

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   On this day in history kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81   

Jan 07   Prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897) died on this day in history.   

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

Jan 10   On this day in history basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73   

Jan 11   Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) died on this day in history.