Page 6: Historical Events In 1968

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

Mar 10   On this day in history helen Walker, actress (Brewster's Million), dies of cancer at 47   

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

Mar 11   Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 12nd string quartet in the year 1968.   

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

Mar 12   On this day in history mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day)   

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

Mar 12   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site in the year 1968.   

Mar 13   In the year 1968 beatles release "Lady Madonna" in the UK   

Mar 14   CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA in the year 1968.   

Mar 14   Erwin Panofsky, German/US art historian/iconologist, dies in the year 1968.   

Mar 15   In the year 1968 british minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns   

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

Mar 15   In Ottawa the government suspends gold trading by Canadian banks and dealers; to dampen speculation on this day in history.   

Mar 15   LIFE magazine calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world" on this day in history.   

Mar 15   Uprising in South Yemen in the year 1968.   

Mar 15   In the year 1968 uS Mint stops buying and selling gold   

Mar 16   In the year 1968 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   

Mar 16   In the year 1968 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   Robert F Kennedy announces Presidential campaign in the year 1968.   

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   Howard University students seize administration building on this day in history.   

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

Mar 20   Military intervene in South-Yemen (leftist ministers resign) in the year 1968.   

Mar 20   President Lyndon Johnson signs a bill removing gold backing from US paper money on this day in history.   

Mar 21   Israeli forces cross Jordan River to attack PLO bases in the year 1968.   

Mar 21   Portuguese socialist Mario Soares banished to Sao Tomé on this day in history.   

Mar 22   Jarmila Novotna resigns presidency of Czechoslovakia in the year 1968.   

Mar 22   Lynda Johnson ordered off San Francisco cable car for eating an ice cream cone in the year 1968.   

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

Mar 23   Edwin O'Connor, US writer, dies at 49 on this day in history.   

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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 in the year 1968.   

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

Jan 02   Evan Parke, Jamaican actor was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa)   

Jan 03   In the year 1968 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 in the year 1968.   

Jan 05   Jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79 in the year 1968.   

Jan 06   On this day in history 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   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)