Page 7: Historical Events In 1968

Mar 24   On this day in history howard Petrie, actor (Border River, Bounty Hunter), dies at 61   

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

Mar 25   Douglas Evans, actor (South Pacific Trail), dies in Hollywood in the year 1968.   

Mar 25   On this day in history uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

Mar 26   In the year 1968 operation Bold Dragon III began in Mekong Delta   

Mar 27   Japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated in San Francisco on this day in history.   

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

Mar 27   On this day in history yuri Gagarin, 1st man to orbit Earth, & Seryogin, in plane crash at 34   

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

Mar 29   On this day in history in Ethiopia a 6.3 earthquake completely razed the town of Sardo, killing 24 persons and injuring 165   

Mar 29   In the year 1968 students seize building at Bowie State College   

Mar 30   In the year 1968 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   In the year 1968 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 on this day in history.   

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

Apr 04   "Education of Hyman Kaplan" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 28 performances on this day in history.   

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

Apr 04   On this day in history apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V; unmanned   

Apr 04   Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee in the year 1968.   

Apr 04   Martin Luther King Jr, assassinated at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis Tennessee at 39 in the year 1968.   

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   On this day in history uS marine base Khe San Vietnam, appalled   

Apr 06   On this day in history 94.5% of East German voters approve new socialist constitution   

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   Jim Clark of Scotland, former world driving champ, dies in race car in the year 1968.   

Apr 07   Jim Clark, of Scotland, world driving champ, dies at 32 in race car on this day in history.   

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Jan 02   Cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men) was born in the year 1968.   

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   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   In the year 1968 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 on this day in history.   

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

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

Jan 07   On this day in history death of prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)   

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 on this day in history.   

Jan 11   On this day in history death of isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)