February 1968 calendar

February 1968
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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in February 1968.
The US president was Lyndon B. Johnson (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was Harold Wilson (Labour), Pope St Paul VI was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on February 1968: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of February 1968?

Events

01 Feb 1968 Famous photo: Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head.
02 Feb 1968 Springer Publishers in West Berlin bombed.
04 Feb 1968 Golden Rainbow opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 355 performances
05 Feb 1968 KDTV TV channel 39 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
06 Feb 1968 KESD TV channel 8 in Brookings, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting
07 Feb 1968 WLED TV channel 49 in Littleton, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
08 Feb 1968 Officers kill three students demonstrating in South Carolina State (Orangeburg).
09 Feb 1968 Rotterdam metro is opened by Princess Beatrix.
10 Feb 1968 Spooky by Classics IV hits #3
11 Feb 1968 Jeffrey Kramer survives 76-metre jump off Washington Bridge into Hudson River, New York.
12 Feb 1968 Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat massacre.
13 Feb 1968 US sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam.
14 Feb 1968 WHKY TV channel 14 in Hickory, NC (IND) begins broadcasting
15 Feb 1968 WVUT TV channel 22 in Vincennes, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
16 Feb 1968 America's first 9-1-1 phone system goes into service in Haleyville, Alabama.
17 Feb 1968 In Springfield, Massachusetts, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens.
18 Feb 1968 10th Winter Olympic games close at Grenoble, France
19 Feb 1968 First US teachers strike (Florida).
20 Feb 1968 State troopers used tear gas to stop demonstration at Alcorn A&M
21 Feb 1968 150,000 demonstrate against leftist students in West Berlin.
22 Feb 1968 Rock group Genesis release their first record "The Silent Sun".
23 Feb 1968 Wilt Chamberlain becomes first NBA player to score 25,000 points.
24 Feb 1968 Darling of the Day closes at George Abbott NYC after 31 performances
25 Feb 1968 430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea.
26 Feb 1968 Clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission.
27 Feb 1968 Ex-Teenagers singer Frankie Lymon is found dead from a heroin overdose in Harlem.
28 Feb 1968 Pirate Radio Hauraki, off New Zealand, returns to the air
29 Feb 1968 1st pulsar announced
01 Feb 1968 Vietnam War: The execution of Viet Cong officer Nguyễn Văn Lém by South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan is recorded on motion picture film, as well as in an iconic still photograph taken by Eddie Adams.