Page 4: Historical Events In 1968

Feb 15   Little Walter, rocker, dies at 37 in the year 1968.   

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 on this day in history.   

Feb 16   Elvis Presley receives gold record for "How Great Thou Art" on this day in history.   

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

Feb 17   Donald Wolfit, actor (Lawrence of Arabia), dies of heart ailment at 65 on this day in history.   

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

Feb 18   10th Winter Olympics games close at Grenoble, France on this day in history.   

Feb 18   David Gilmour joins rock group Pink Floyd on this day in history.   

Feb 18   In the year 1968 sigurd Erixon, etnologist (Atlas "ver Svensk Folkkultur), dies at 79   

Feb 19   In the year 1968 ralph Dunn, actor (Mr Rudge-Norby), dies at 65   

Feb 20   Anthony Asquith, dies on this day in history.   

Feb 20   In the year 1968 john Cleese (Monty Python) marries Connie Booth   

Feb 20   On this day in history state troopers used tear gas to stop demonstration at Alcorn A &M   

Feb 21   150,000 demonstrate against leftist students in West-Berlin in the year 1968.   

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

Feb 21   On this day in history baseball announces a minimum annual salary of $10,000   

Feb 22   On this day in history omer CFL Tulippe, Belgian geographer, dies at 71   

Feb 22   Rock group Genesis release their first record "The Silent Sun" on this day in history.   

Feb 23   On this day in history fannie Hurst, US author (Anatomy of Me), dies at 78   

Feb 23   Wilt Chamberlain becomes first NBAer to score 25,000 points on this day in history.   

Feb 24   In the year 1968 a pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge)   

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

Feb 24   Gary Unger begins NHL consecutive game record of 914 games in the year 1968.   

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

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

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

Feb 25   On this day in history makarios re-elected President of Cyprus   

Feb 26   Clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission on this day in history.   

Feb 26   Eric Feldary, actor (16 Fathoms Deep), dies of burns at 55 in the year 1968.   

Feb 27   In the year 1968 johannes Tralow, writer, dies at 85   

Feb 28   In the year 1968 doretta Morrow, actress (Because You're Mine), dies at 41   

Feb 28   Pirate Radio Hauraki, off New Zealand, returns to the air in the year 1968.   

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

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

Jan 02   In the year 1968 birth of anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion   

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

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star   

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

Jan 03   In the year 1968 birth of shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah)   

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

Jan 05   In the year 1968 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   On this day in history death of prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)   

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 on this day in history.   

Jan 11   In the year 1968 death of isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)