Historical Events In 1968

Feb 29   Beatles' "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" wins Grammy in the year 1968.   

Feb 29   Bryce Paup, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers, Buffalo Bills) in the year 1968.   

Feb 29   On this day in history dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell announces the discovery of the first pulsar (a star that emits regular radio waves).   

Feb 29   In the year 1968 first pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge)   

Feb 29   In the year 1968 uS end regular flights with nuclear bombs   

Feb 29   In the year 1968 uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

Mar 01   Country music artists Johnny Cash and June Carter are married in the year 1968.   

Mar 01   G v d Vring, writer, dies in the year 1968.   

Mar 01   In the year 1968 hong Kong flu in Worldwide killing 1-4 million people   

Mar 01   NBC's unprecedented on-air announcement, Star Trek will return great news!! on this day in history.   

Mar 01   Pirate Radio Atlantis South (England) begins test transmitting on this day in history.   

Mar 01   Political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands on this day in history.   

Mar 01   On this day in history singers Johnny Cash (36) &June Carter (38) wed   

Mar 01   In the year 1968 vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect   

Mar 02   USAF displays Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, biggest plane in the world in the year 1968.   

Mar 02   USSR launches space probe Zond 4; fails to leave Earth orbit on this day in history.   

Mar 02   In the year 1968 world Ice Dance Championship in Geneva won by Diane Towler &Bernard Ford (Great Britain)   

Mar 02   In the year 1968 world Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Lyudmila Belousova &Oleg Protopopov (USSR)   

Mar 02   On this day in history world Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Peggy Fleming (USA)   

Mar 02   In the year 1968 world Men's Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Emmerich Danzer (Austria)   

Mar 03   Greece, Portugal & Spain's embassies bombed in the Hague in the year 1968.   

Mar 03   Jean Beliveau (Montréal) becomes 2nd NHLer to score 1,000 points in the year 1968.   

Mar 04   Alexandre Cellier, composer, dies at 84 on this day in history.   

Mar 04   Joe Frazier TKOs Buster Mathis in 11 for heavyweight boxing title in the year 1968.   

Mar 04   Martin Luther King Jr announces plans for Poor People's Campaign in the year 1968.   

Mar 04   Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched on this day in history.   

Mar 05   In the year 1968 uS launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the Sun   

Mar 06   In the year 1968 isa Krejci, composer, dies at 63   

Mar 07   On this day in history operation Coronado XII begins in Mekong Delta, Vietnam   

Mar 07   Yuri Aleksayevich Gagarin, USSR cosmonaut (Vostok I), dies at 31 in the year 1968.   

Mar 08   On this day in history 6 year old Tommy Moore scores hole-in-one in golf (Hagerstown MD)   

Mar 08   In the year 1968 students demonstrate in Warsaw   

Mar 09   On this day in history 10th Grammy Awards Up Up & Away, Sergeant Pepper win   

Mar 09   10th Grammy Awards: Up Up & Away, Sergeant Pepper win in the year 1968.   

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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   On this day in history 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 in the year 1968.   

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

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah)   

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

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   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 in the year 1968.   

Jan 09   Kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide died on this day in history.   

Jan 10   Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73 in the year 1968.   

Jan 11   Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) died in the year 1968.