Historical Events in 1968 (Part 3)

Events 401 - 600 of 805

• Jul 2 An El Al Israeli airliner is hijacked and diverted to Algeria by three armed members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
• Jul 3 41°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in July
• Jul 3 As part of a series of protests against housing conditions in Derry, the Derry Housing Action Committee (DHAC) hold a sit-down protest on the newly opened second deck of the Craigavon Bridge in the city, Northern Ireland

• Jul 3 Cleveland pitcher Luis Tiant strikes out MLB record 19 Minnesota Twins in 1-0 win; record for 10 inning game; also record 32 Ks in consecutive games

• Jul 4 Radio astronomy satellite Explorer 38 launched
• Jul 5 "Manifest of 1000 words" published in Prague

• Jul 6 Sacharov publishes "Manifest of 10,000 words"
• Jul 7 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• Jul 7 Rock group "Yardbirds" disband
• Jul 8 Israeli-Egyptian artillery duel along Suez Canal
• Jul 9 15.68" (39.83 cm) of rainfall, Columbus, Mississippi (state 24-hour record)
• Jul 9 BBC-TV broadcasts "Farewell", folk-rock band The Seekers final performance, draws 10 million viewers

• Jul 10 US Major League baseball announces it will split into 2 divisions for 1969

• Jul 12 Couve de Murville forms government in France
• Jul 12 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• Jul 13 French government-Couve de Murville forms

• Jul 14 Houston Astro Don Wilson strikes out 18, beats Reds 6-1 at Crosley Field in Cincinnati
• Jul 14 WSWO TV channel 26 in Springfield, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
• Jul 15 "One Life to Live", American soap opera, premieres on TV
• Jul 15 Commercial air travel begins between US & USSR

• Jul 15 France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa atoll
• Jul 15 NJ Americans moved to Comack & become NY Nets (ABA)
• Jul 17 Bloodless coup in Iraq led by General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
• Jul 17 The Beatles' animated film "Yellow Submarine" premieres in London

• Jul 20 First Special Olympics held in Chicago, Illinois for children and adults with intellectual disabilities
• Jul 20 Iron Butterfly's "In-a-gadda-da-vida" becomes 1st heavy metal song to hit charts, it comes in at #117

• Jul 22 Sir John Newsome recommends public schools should take 50% of their intake from the state school system
• Jul 23 Fred Blasie wins 5th wrestling world championship belt
• Jul 23 PLO's 1st hijacking of an El Al plane
• Jul 23 Race riot in Cleveland, 11 including 3 police officers killed

• Jul 27 Race Riot in Gary Indiana
• Jul 29 Cincinnati Red George Culver no hits Phillies, 6-1
• Jul 29 Gram Parsons refuses to play with the Byrds in South Africa
• Jul 29 Mount Arenal, Costa Rica kills 80 in Pelee-type eruption
• Jul 30 Washington shortstop Ron Hansen makes 8th unassisted triple-play in MLB history and first in 41 years as Senators lose, 10-1 to Cleveland Indians
• Jul 31 The Beatles close Apple Boutique in London, giving clothes away for free
• Aug 1 Canada begins replacing silver with nickel in coins
• Aug 1 Cleveland Metroparks begins operating Zoo (Cleveland, Ohio)
• Aug 1 The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.
• Aug 1 WXIX TV channel 19 in Cincinnati-Newport, OH (IND) begins broadcasting
• Aug 2 35th Chicago College All-Star Game: Green Bay 34, All-Stars 17, 69,917 at Soldier Field
• Aug 2 Ron Hansen (Washington Senators) & Tim Cullen (Chicago White Sox) become the first MLB players to be traded for each other twice in the same season; they had been traded in February in opposite directions

• Aug 3 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• Aug 4 WXTV TV channel 41 in New York-Paterson, NY (UNI) begins broadcasting
• Aug 5 WMCV (now WZTV) TV channel 17 in Nashville, TN (IND) 1st broadcast
• Aug 8 Jarry Park is approved by Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau for interim use by Expos
• Aug 8 Race riot in Miami, Florida

• Aug 10 Race riots in Miami, Chicago & Little Rock
• Aug 11 Beatles launch "Apple Records" label
• Aug 11 Fifteen Guinea Special - last main-line steam passenger train service in Britain. Selection of British Rail steam locomotives make a return 120-mile journey Liverpool to Carlisle, before having their fires dropped for the last time.

• Aug 14 Montreal Expos officially become a member of NL
• Aug 15 Pirate Radio Free London begins transmitting

• Aug 15 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
• Aug 17 Dick Beyers (Dr X) beats Verne Gagne, to become NWA champ

• Aug 20 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• Aug 21 After 5 years Soviet Union once again jams Voice of America radio

• Aug 21 PFC James Anderson Jr is 1st African American Marine to win Medal of Honor (Vietnam War)

• Aug 21 William Dana reaches 80 km (last high-altitude X-15 flight)
• Aug 22 1st papal visit to Latin America, Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota to open a Eucharistic congress.
• Aug 22 The Society of Labour Lawyers (SLL) publishes an 'interim report' about alleged discrimination in Northern Ireland; the report is heavily criticised by unionists.
• Aug 23 Ringo quits Beatles over a disagreement (temporarily).
• Aug 23 Yanks & Tigers play 3-3 tie in 19 due to 1 AM curfew
• Aug 24 France becomes the world's fifth thermonuclear power with a detonation on Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific
• Aug 24 Northern Ireland's first civil rights march held; many more marches would be held over the following year and Loyalists organized counter-demonstrations to get the marches banned

• Aug 26 "Hey Jude" single released by the Beatles in US (Billboard Song of the Year 1968, Billboard 10th biggest song of all time 2013)
• Aug 27 Protest by the Derry Housing Action Committee (DHAC) at the Guildhall's council chamber; after which Eamon Melaugh phones the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) to organise a march in Derry

• Aug 28 Police & anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Democratic National Convention
• Aug 29 Democrats nominate Hubert H Humphrey for US President (Chicago)

• Aug 30 1st record released on Apple label in UK is The Beatles single "Hey Jude"
• Aug 31 12,000 die in 7.8 quake which destroys 60,000 buildings in NE Iran
• Aug 31 68th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bruce Fleisher

• Aug 31 Roy Face ties W. Johnson's record of 802 pitching appearances with club
• Aug 31 Verne Gagne beats Dick Beyers (Dr X) in Minnesota to become NWA champ
• Sep 1 Earthquake destroys Ferdows Persia, 2,000 killed
• Sep 1 Pirate Radio Marina (Netherlands) begins transmitting

• Sep 4 Nigerian troops conquer the city of Aba, Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War
• Sep 5 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• Sep 6 American rock band "The Doors" open their first European tour with four sold-out shows over two days at London's 2.500 seat Roundhouse

• Sep 6 Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day)

• Sep 8 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• Sep 8 Saundra Williams wins 1st Miss Black America pageant
• Sep 9 WGIQ TV channel 43 in Louisville, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Sep 9 WVPT TV channel 51 in Staunton, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Sep 11 Air France Flight 1611 crashes off Nice, France, killing 89 passengers and 6 crew.
• Sep 12 Albania announces it is withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact
• Sep 13 Albania leaves Warsaw pact

• Sep 14 USSR's Zond 5 is launched on 1st circumlunar flight

• Sep 15 Launch of Zond 5, 1st lunar fly-around with Earth reentry
• Sep 15 NY Zendo (Shoboji) was opened by S Nakagawa & D S Harada
• Sep 15 Probable Test flight for a manned fly-around (scooped by Apollo 8)
• Sep 15 WUAB TV channel 43 in Lorain-Cleveland, Ohio (IND) begins broadcasting
• Sep 15 WXON TV channel 20 in Detroit, MI (IND) begins broadcasting
• Sep 16 KLNI (now KADN) TV channel 15 in Lafayette, LA (IND) begins
• Sep 16 Richard Nixon appears on "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in"

• Sep 17 Zond 5 completes circumnavigation of Moon
• Sep 18 "Funny Girl" biopic film based on life of Fanny Brice premieres, directed by William Wyler, starring Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif
• Sep 18 Ray Washburn (Cards) no-hits SF Giants 2-0

• Sep 19 Nigerian federal army begins the "final offensive" against the secessionist state of Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War
• Sep 20 Mickey Mantle hits final career homer # 536
• Sep 21 Police drama "Adam-12" debuts on NBC in the US
• Sep 21 Soviet spacecraft Zond 5 lands in the Indian ocean after a six-day flight - first successful circumlunar mission with two onboard tortoises surviving the trip

• Sep 22 Iraq adopts constitution
• Sep 22 KMTC (now KDEB) TV channel 27 in Springfield, MO (IND) 1st broadcast
• Sep 22 Minnesota Twins utility César Tovar pitches a hitless inning & plays all 9 positions in a 2-1 win over Oakland A's at Metropolitan Stadium
• Sep 23 WKAS TV channel 25 in Ashland, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Sep 23 WKGB TV channel 53 in Bowling Green, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Sep 23 WKLE TV channel 46 in Lexington, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Sep 23 WKMA TV channel 35 in Madisonville, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Sep 23 WKMR TV channel 38 in Morehead, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Sep 23 WKON TV channel 52 in Owenton, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Sep 23 WKSO TV channel 29 in Somerset, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Sep 23 WKZT TV channel 23 in Elizabethtown, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting

• Sep 24 "That's Life" premieres - A Broadway musical type TV show

• Sep 24 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Sep 26 "Oliver!" directed by Carol Reed and starring Mark Lester and Ron Moody premieres in London (Best Picture 1969)
• Sep 26 1st broadcast of "Hawaii Five-O" on CBS-TV
• Sep 26 Marcelo Caetano elected premier of Portugal
• Sep 26 St Louis Cards' Bob Gibson's 13th shutout ends with 1.12 ERA
• Sep 26 Theatre censorship ends in Britain
• Sep 27 "Hair" opens in London
• Sep 27 Cardinals' super pitcher Bob Gibson's 13th shutout of year
• Sep 27 France denies UK entry into common market
• Sep 28 Alberto Giolani of Italy roller skates record 23.133 miles in 1 hr
• Sep 28 Atlanta Chiefs beat San Diego Toros 3-0 for NASL championship
• Sep 28 Beatles' "Hey Jude" single goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks
• Sep 28 Chuck Hixson (Southern Methodist) completes 37 of record 69 passes

• Sep 28 Marisa Danisi of West Germany roller skates record 21.995 miles in 1 hr

• Sep 29 Chuck Latourette, sets NFL record 47.7 yd punt return avg (3 punts)
• Sep 30 1st Boeing 747 jumbo jet rolls out
• Sep 30 AL & NL umpires form a new Association of Major League Umpires

• Oct 1 The Guyanese government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS).
• Oct 2 First time, two soon-to-be-named MVPs oppose each other - St. Louis Cardinals Bob Gibson beats Detroit Tigers Denny McLain 4-0 in Game 1 of World Series at Busch Memorial Stadium in St. Louis
• Oct 2 Mexico City police fire on protesting students, 300-500 killed
• Oct 2 Redwood National Park established to preserve the tallest trees on earth, by an act of US Congress with 58,000 acres (later extended) [1]
• Oct 2 Republic Guinea forms (day of republic)
• Oct 3 Howard Sacklers "Great White Hope" premieres in NYC
• Oct 3 Military coup overthrows President Fernando Belaúnde Terry in Peru
• Oct 3 The proposed civil rights march in Derry, Northern Ireland, is banned from the area of the city centre and the Waterside area; the banning order is issued under the Public Order Act by William Craig, then Home Affairs Minister
• Oct 3 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Oct 4 A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) delegation meet with the Derry March organisers and try to have the march cancelled; eventually it was decided to go ahead with the march.
• Oct 5 Civil rights march in Derry stopped by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC)and resulting clashes lead to two days of serious rioting, often considered the start of 'the Troubles' in Northern Ireland
• Oct 5 KPLM (now KESQ) TV channel 42 in Palm Springs, CA (ABC) begins
• Oct 6 The Beatles promotional films (music videos) for "Hey Jude" and "Revolution" first broadcast in the US on "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour"
• Oct 7 Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system
• Oct 7 Rioting continues in Derry, Northern Ireland after Royal Ulster Constabulary put down civil rights march two days earlier
• Oct 8 Dutch aircraft carrier Karel Doorman (formerly British HMS Venerable) sold to Argentina

• Oct 9 Government seizes oil fields in Peru
• Oct 9 WKMU TV channel 21 in Murray, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting

• Oct 10 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Oct 11 Apollo 7 (Schirra, Eisele & Cunningham) made 163 orbits in 260 hours
• Oct 11 Coup d'état in Panama against President Arnulfo Arias

• Oct 12 Enriqueta Basilio, Mexican track and field athlete becomes 1st woman to light Olympic flame at 19th Summer Olympics, in Mexico City, Mexico
• Oct 12 Equatorial Guinea (Spanish Guinea) declares independence from Spain
• Oct 12 IXX Summer Olympic Games open at Mexico City, Mexico; first Olympics in Latin America

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