Page 4: Historical Events In 1968

Feb 15   Little Walter, rocker, dies at 37 on this day in history.   

Feb 16   In the year 1968 beatles George Harrison & John Lennon & wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi   

Feb 16   Country's first 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville AL in the year 1968.   

Feb 16   In the year 1968 elvis Presley receives gold record for "How Great Thou Art"   

Feb 16   Healey Willan, composer, dies at 87 on this day in history.   

Feb 17   In the year 1968 donald Wolfit, actor (Lawrence of Arabia), dies of heart ailment at 65   

Feb 18   On this day in history 10,000 demonstrators against US in Vietnam War in West-Berlin   

Feb 18   In the year 1968 10th Winter Olympics games close at Grenoble, France   

Feb 18   On this day in history david Gilmour joins rock group Pink Floyd   

Feb 18   On this day in history sigurd Erixon, etnologist (Atlas "ver Svensk Folkkultur), dies at 79   

Feb 19   On this day in history ralph Dunn, actor (Mr Rudge-Norby), dies at 65   

Feb 20   On this day in history anthony Asquith, dies   

Feb 20   John Cleese (Monty Python) marries Connie Booth on this day in history.   

Feb 20   In the year 1968 state troopers used tear gas to stop demonstration at Alcorn A &M   

Feb 21   On this day in history 150,000 demonstrate against leftist students in West-Berlin   

Feb 21   On this day in history anthony Asquith, British director (Court Martial), dies at 65   

Feb 21   Baseball announces a minimum annual salary of $10,000 in the year 1968.   

Feb 22   Omer CFL Tulippe, Belgian geographer, dies at 71 on this day in history.   

Feb 22   On this day in history rock group Genesis release their first record "The Silent Sun"   

Feb 23   Fannie Hurst, US author (Anatomy of Me), dies at 78 on this day in history.   

Feb 23   In the year 1968 wilt Chamberlain becomes first NBAer to score 25,000 points   

Feb 24   A pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge) in the year 1968.   

Feb 24   Discovery of the first pulsar in space in the year 1968.   

Feb 24   On this day in history gary Unger begins NHL consecutive game record of 914 games   

Feb 24   US troops reconquer Hue Vietnam on this day in history.   

Feb 25   In the year 1968 430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea   

Feb 25   Camille Huysmans, Belgian premier (1946-47), dies at 96 on this day in history.   

Feb 25   Makarios re-elected President of Cyprus in the year 1968.   

Feb 26   On this day in history clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission   

Feb 26   In the year 1968 eric Feldary, actor (16 Fathoms Deep), dies of burns at 55   

Feb 27   Johannes Tralow, writer, dies at 85 in the year 1968.   

Feb 28   On this day in history doretta Morrow, actress (Because You're Mine), dies at 41   

Feb 28   On this day in history pirate Radio Hauraki, off New Zealand, returns to the air   

Feb 29   In the year 1968 1st pulsar announced (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge)   

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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 in the year 1968.   

Jan 02   Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion was born in the year 1968.   

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

Jan 03   Shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   Thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos) was born in the year 1968.   

Jan 02   In the year 1968 sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies   

Jan 04   Joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83 in the year 1968.   

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   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   In the year 1968 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)