Page 3: Historical Events In 1968

Jan 31   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site in the year 1968.   

Jan 31   Viet Cong's Tet offensive begins in the year 1968.   

Feb 01   On this day in history famous photo Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head   

Feb 01   Former Vice-President Richard Nixon announces candidacy for President on this day in history.   

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

Feb 01   The government halted further unification of the Canadian Armed Forces, many say it did not work on this day in history.   

Feb 01   In the year 1968 vince Lombardi resigns as coach of the Green Bay Packers   

Feb 01   World trade conference Unctad 2 opens in New Delhi in the year 1968.   

Feb 02   On this day in history springer Publishers in West Berlin, bombed   

Feb 04   On this day in history ed Baker, actor (Keystone Kops), dies of emphysema at 70   

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

Feb 05   Luckey Roberts, composer, dies at 80 in the year 1968.   

Feb 05   In the year 1968 skater Kees Verkerk win Olympics gold in the 1500m   

Feb 06   10th Winter Olympics games opens in Grenoble, France on this day in history.   

Feb 06   In the year 1968 c Montague Shaw, actor (Buck Rogers, Planet Outlaws), dies at 85   

Feb 06   In the year 1968 dutch 2nd Chamber condemns US bombing of North Vietnam   

Feb 06   Former President Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole-in-one in the year 1968.   

Feb 07   Arthur Miller's "Price," premieres in New York NY on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history j Borremans, Belgian politician (Communist), dies at 56   

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

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   On this day in history peggy Fleming wins Olympics figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France   

Feb 10   Pitirim A Sorokin, Russian/US sociologist, dies at 79 in the year 1968.   

Feb 11   Howard Lindsay, US playwright (State of the Union), dies at 78 in the year 1968.   

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

Feb 11   In the year 1968 jeffrey Kramer survives 76 meter jump, Washington Bridge, Hudson River NY   

Feb 11   In the year 1968 peggy Fleming wins Olympics figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France   

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   Pennsylvania Railroad/NYC Central merge into Pennsylvania Central in the year 1968.   

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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   In the year 1968 birth of scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions)   

Jan 02   Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 03   Kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   In the year 1968 birth of kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa)   

Jan 03   Shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah) was born in the year 1968.   

Jan 03   In the year 1968 birth of thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)   

Jan 02   Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies on this day in history.   

Jan 04   In the year 1968 joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83   

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

Jan 06   Kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81 on this day in history.   

Jan 07   Prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897) died in the year 1968.   

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

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

Jan 11   On this day in history death of isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)