Historical Events In 1968

Mar 10   Ferry boat sinks in harbor of Wellington New Zealand (200 killed) in the year 1968.   

Mar 10   Helen Walker, actress (Brewster's Million), dies of cancer at 47 in the year 1968.   

Mar 11   Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting in the year 1968.   

Mar 11   In the year 1968 dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 12nd string quartet   

Mar 11   Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for "(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay" in the year 1968.   

Mar 12   Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day) in the year 1968.   

Mar 12   Mauritius, in the Indian ocean island, granted independence after 158 years of British rule in the year 1968.   

Mar 12   In the year 1968 uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

Mar 13   Beatles release "Lady Madonna" in the UK on this day in history.   

Mar 14   CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA on this day in history.   

Mar 14   Erwin Panofsky, German/US art historian/iconologist, dies on this day in history.   

Mar 15   British minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns on this day in history.   

Mar 15   Diocese of Rome announces that it "deplored the concept", but wouldn't prohibit rock and roll masses at Church of San Lessio Falconieri on this day in history.   

Mar 15   In the year 1968 in Ottawa the government suspends gold trading by Canadian banks and dealers; to dampen speculation   

Mar 15   LIFE magazine calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world" in the year 1968.   

Mar 15   Uprising in South Yemen in the year 1968.   

Mar 15   US Mint stops buying and selling gold on this day in history.   

Mar 16   During the Vietnam War, a U.S. Army platoon from Charlie Company, 11th Brigade, Americal Division, massacres over four hundred unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in the village of My Lai in the district of Song My in the year 1968.   

Mar 16   On this day in history june Collyer, actress (June-Stu Erwin Show), dies at 60   

Mar 16   My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die on this day in history.   

Mar 16   On this day in history robert F Kennedy announces Presidential campaign   

Mar 17   2-tiered gold price negotiated in Washington DC by US and 6 European nations in the year 1968.   

Mar 18   Congress repeals requirement for a gold reserve in the year 1968.   

Mar 18   Manuel Gomez Carillo, composer, dies at 85 on this day in history.   

Mar 19   In the year 1968 howard University students seize administration building   

Mar 20   Carl T Dreyer, Danish director (Passion of Jeanne d'Arc), dies on this day in history.   

Mar 20   On this day in history military intervene in South-Yemen (leftist ministers resign)   

Mar 20   On this day in history president Lyndon Johnson signs a bill removing gold backing from US paper money   

Mar 21   In the year 1968 israeli forces cross Jordan River to attack PLO bases   

Mar 21   In the year 1968 portuguese socialist Mario Soares banished to Sao Tomé   

Mar 22   On this day in history jarmila Novotna resigns presidency of Czechoslovakia   

Mar 22   On this day in history lynda Johnson ordered off San Francisco cable car for eating an ice cream cone   

Mar 22   On this day in history student riot in Nanterre near Paris France   

Mar 23   Edwin O'Connor, US writer, dies at 49 in the year 1968.   

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Jan 02   In the year 1968 birth of cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men)   

Jan 02   Scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions) was born on this day in history.   

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   Kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star was born in the year 1968.   

Jan 03   Kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa) was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 03   On this day in history 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 in the year 1968.   

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

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