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 on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for "(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay"   

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   On this day in history 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   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   On this day in history in Ottawa the government suspends gold trading by Canadian banks and dealers; to dampen speculation   

Mar 15   On this day in history lIFE magazine calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world"   

Mar 15   Uprising in South Yemen on this day in history.   

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   June Collyer, actress (June-Stu Erwin Show), dies at 60 in the year 1968.   

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

Mar 16   In the year 1968 robert F Kennedy announces Presidential campaign   

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

Mar 18   On this day in history congress repeals requirement for a gold reserve   

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

Mar 19   On this day in history 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   In the year 1968 president Lyndon Johnson signs a bill removing gold backing from US paper money   

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 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 on this day in history.   

Mar 22   In the year 1968 student riot in Nanterre near Paris France   

Mar 23   In the year 1968 edwin O'Connor, US writer, dies at 49   

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Jan 02   Cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men) was born on this day in history.   

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   Evan Parke, Jamaican actor was born in the year 1968.   

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

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

Jan 03   Shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah) was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 02   On this day in history sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies   

Jan 04   On this day in history joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83   

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   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 in the year 1968.   

Jan 11   Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) died on this day in history.