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Famous Births
- Jan. 02: Cuba Gooding Jr. - Boyz n the Hood
- Feb. 12: Josh Brolin - No Country for Old Men
- Feb. 18: Molly Ringwald - The Breakfast Club
- Feb. 22: Jeri Ryan - Voyager
- Mar. 02: Daniel Craig - James Bond
- Mar. 12: Aaron Eckhart - The Dark Knight
- Mar. 30: Celine Dion - Musician
- Apr. 08: Patricia Arquette - Medium
- Apr. 19: Ashley Judd - Actress
- May 07: Traci Lords - Actress
- May 11: Jeffrey Donovan - Burn Notice
- May 12: Tony Hawk - Skateboarder
- May 28: Kylie Minogue - Musician
- Jun. 14: Yasmine Bleeth - Baywatch
- Dec. 02: Lucy Liu - Kill Bill
- Dec. 22: Dina Meyer - Starship Troopers
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Famous Deaths
- Apr. 04: Martin Luther King Jr. - Civil Rights Activist
- Jun. 01: Helen Keller - Spokeswoman
- Jun. 06: Robert F. Kennedy - Fmr. Attorney General
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Chart Toppers
- Jan 01: The Beatles - Hello Goodbye
- Jan. 20: John Fred - Judy in Disguise
- Feb. 03: The Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine
- Feb. 10: Paul Mauria - Love is Blue
- Mar. 16: Otis Redding - The Dock of the Bay
- Apr. 13: Bobby Goldsboro - Honey
- May. 18: Archie Bell - Tighten Up
- Jun. 01: Simon and Garfunkel - Mrs. Robinson
- Jun. 22: Herb Alpert - This Guy's in Love with You
- Jul. 20: Hugh Masekela - Grazing in the Grass
- Aug. 03: The Doors - Hello, I Love You
- Aug. 17: The Rascals - People Got to be Free
- Sep. 21: Jeannie C. Riley - Harper Valley PTA
- Sep. 28: The Beatles - Hey Jude
- Nov. 30: The Supremes - Love Child
- Dec. 21: Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through the Grapevine Billboard: Historical Billboard Charts
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41st Academy Awards
- Presented on: April 14, 1969
- Best Picture: Oliver!
- Lead Actor: Cliff Robertson in Charly
- Lead Actress: Katharine Hepburn in The Lion in Winter
- Lead Acrtess (Tie): Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl
- Best Director: Sir Carol Reed in Oliver!
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Nobel Laureates
- Peace: Rene Cassin
- Physics: Luis Alvarez
- Chemistry: Lars Onsager
- Medicine: Robert Holly, Gorbind Khorana, Marshall Nirenberg
- Literature: Yasunari Kawabata NoblePrize.org: 1968 Noble Winners
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January 1968
- January 9: Surveyor 7 landed on the Moon as the last non-manned American craft.
- January 23: North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo within their waters and hold the crew for 11 months on charges of spying.
- January 9: Surveyor 7 landed on the Moon as the last non-manned American craft.
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February 1 1968
February 1: Vietnam War: Saigon Police chief, Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head. -
February 1968
- February 16: The 911 Emergency Response system was debuted on the telephone system in Haleyville, Alabama.
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March 16 1968
March 16: Vietnam War: America troops are involved in the My Lai Massacre, where they swept through a small village and killed over 500 unarmed civilians. -
April 4 1968
April 4: Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee. -
April 6 1968
April 6: Provoked by the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. race violence erupts in major American cities. -
April 1968
- April 2: The Stanley Kubrick sci-fi film A Space Odyssey premiers.
- April 20: Pierre Trudeau leader of the Liberal Party of Canada was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada.
- April 23: Students at Columbia University protest the Vietnam War by taking over campus buildings.
- April 2: The Stanley Kubrick sci-fi film A Space Odyssey premiers.
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September 1968
- September 24: 60 Minutes premiered on CBS, the show has featured journalists including Walter Cronkite, Mike Wallace, Dan Rather, Ed Bradley and Charlie Rose
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October 1968
- October 7: The Motion Picture Association adopts a new system that would rate each film.
- October 11: The first manned flight aboard an Apollo Spacecraft sends three America astronauts into orbit.
- October 18: The United States Olympic Committee suspend medalists Tommie Smith and John Carlos because they gave a Black Salute at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.
- October 25: Jimi Hendrix releases Electric Ladyland
- October 7: The Motion Picture Association adopts a new system that would rate each film.
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November 1968
- November 5: Richard Nixon barely is re-elected by defeating Hubert Humphrey with 287 electoral votes.
- November 20: 78 people die in a methane gas explosion in a West Virginia Coal Mine
- November 5: Richard Nixon barely is re-elected by defeating Hubert Humphrey with 287 electoral votes.
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December 1968
- December 24: Apollo 8 becomes the first manned craft to orbit the Moon.
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The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie "Barbarella.
@AgnesPitt | July 10, 2009 04:37 AM -
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Here is a link for that Monkees Live in Japan 1968 - http://bit.ly/CKWYp
@monkees_fan | July 10, 2009 04:31 AM -
But IIRC Mr. Jagger introduced himself in 1968 as "a man of wealth and taste" :-) http://bit.ly/jz4vM: But IIRC .. http://bit.ly/YEJNf
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But IIRC Mr. Jagger introduced himself in 1968 as "a man of wealth and taste" :-) http://bit.ly/jz4vM
@AthenaAtDelphi | July 10, 2009 04:29 AM
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View All 1968 Questions (6) | Ask a QuestionWhat is one photo that defines the year 1968? (7 Answers)Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated during his presidential campaign at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968. http://www.flickr.com/photos/33749589@N07/3462868115/ read moreHow can I review official scorecards from Winston-Salem State Unviersity Basketball games from 1964-1968; specifically games against FSU (1 Answer)I would call Chris Zona Director of Media Relations at (336) 750-2143 or E-mail Address zonac@wssu.edu WSSU Dept. of Athletics 200 C.E. Gaines Center Winston-Salem, NC 27110 Phone: (336) 750-2141 ... read more
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