Page 7: Historical Events In 1968

Mar 24   Howard Petrie, actor (Border River, Bounty Hunter), dies at 61 in the year 1968.   

Mar 24   Mickey Wright wins Port Malabar Golf Invitational in the year 1968.   

Mar 25   On this day in history douglas Evans, actor (South Pacific Trail), dies in Hollywood   

Mar 25   In the year 1968 uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

Mar 26   Operation Bold Dragon III began in Mekong Delta on this day in history.   

Mar 27   Japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated in San Francisco in the year 1968.   

Mar 27   On this day in history suharto succeeds Sukarno as President of Indonesia   

Mar 27   Yuri Gagarin, 1st man to orbit Earth, & Seryogin, in plane crash at 34 in the year 1968.   

Mar 28   On this day in history actress Lucy Lawless was born this day.   

Mar 29   In Ethiopia a 6.3 earthquake completely razed the town of Sardo, killing 24 persons and injuring 165 in the year 1968.   

Mar 29   Students seize building at Bowie State College on this day in history.   

Mar 30   On this day in history general Ludvik Svoboda elected President of Czechoslovakia   

Mar 31   President Lyndon B. Johnson announces that he will not seek reelection to the presidency on this day in history.   

Apr 01   Lev D Landau, Russian physicist (Nobel 1962), dies at 59 on this day in history.   

Apr 02   On this day in history beatles form Python Music Ltd   

Apr 02   Chad creates Union of Central African States on this day in history.   

Apr 03   N Vietnam agrees to meet US reps to set up preliminary peace talks in the year 1968.   

Apr 03   North Vietnam agrees to meet US representatives to set up preliminary peace talks on this day in history.   

Apr 04   In the year 1968 "Education of Hyman Kaplan" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 28 performances   

Apr 04   "Education of Hyman Kaplan" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 28 perfs in the year 1968.   

Apr 04   In the year 1968 apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V; unmanned   

Apr 04   On this day in history civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.   

Apr 04   Martin Luther King Jr, assassinated at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis Tennessee at 39 on this day in history.   

Apr 04   Rev Martin Luther King Jr assassinated in Memphis in the year 1968.   

Apr 05   Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego opens in the year 1968.   

Apr 05   On this day in history lois Andrews, dies of lung cancer at 44   

Apr 05   In the year 1968 uS marine base Khe San Vietnam, appalled   

Apr 06   94.5% of East German voters approve new socialist constitution in the year 1968.   

Apr 06   Bobby Hutton, US Black Panther leader, shot to death on this day in history.   

Apr 06   In the year 1968 gunpowder stocks at a sporting-goods store explode, killing 43 (Va)   

Apr 06   On this day in history hemisFair 1968 opens in San Antonio, Texas   

Apr 06   USS New Jersey recommissioned for shore bombardment duty in Vietnam in the year 1968.   

Apr 07   On this day in history jim Clark of Scotland, former world driving champ, dies in race car   

Apr 07   On this day in history jim Clark, of Scotland, world driving champ, dies at 32 in race car   

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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   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   In the year 1968 birth of evan Parke, Jamaican actor   

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

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   On this day in history birth of thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)   

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

Jan 06   Kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81 in the year 1968.   

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 in the year 1968.