Page 6: Historical Events In 1968

Mar 10   Ferry boat sinks in harbor of Wellington New Zealand (200 killed) on this day in history.   

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   Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 12nd string quartet on this day in history.   

Mar 11   Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for "(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay" on this day in history.   

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

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

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 in the year 1968.   

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 in the year 1968.   

Mar 15   In the year 1968 lIFE magazine calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world"   

Mar 15   On this day in history uprising in South Yemen   

Mar 15   On this day in history 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   On this day in history june Collyer, actress (June-Stu Erwin Show), dies at 60   

Mar 16   In the year 1968 my Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die   

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

Mar 17   On this day in history 2-tiered gold price negotiated in Washington DC by US and 6 European nations   

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

Mar 18   Manuel Gomez Carillo, composer, dies at 85 in the year 1968.   

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 in the year 1968.   

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

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

Mar 21   On this day in history israeli forces cross Jordan River to attack PLO bases   

Mar 21   Portuguese socialist Mario Soares banished to Sao Tomé in the year 1968.   

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

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

Mar 22   Student riot in Nanterre near Paris France in the year 1968.   

Mar 23   On this day in history edwin O'Connor, US writer, dies at 49   

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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 in the year 1968.   

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

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 on this day in history.   

Jan 03   Shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah) was born in the year 1968.   

Jan 03   Thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos) was born on this day in history.   

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

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   On this day in history kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81   

Jan 07   In the year 1968 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   In the year 1968 basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73   

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