January 1968 calendar

January 1968
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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in January 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 January 1968: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of January 1968?

Events

01 Jan 1968 WDCO TV channel 15 in Cochran, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting
02 Jan 1968 Zizi closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 49 performances
04 Jan 1968 Duck hunter accidentally shoots endangered whooping crane in Texas
05 Jan 1968 Alexander Dubcek comes to power: ''Prague Spring'' begins in Czechoslovakia.
06 Jan 1968 Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by US for soft-landing on Moon.
07 Jan 1968 GE College Bowl quiz show premieres on NBC TV
08 Jan 1968 British Prime Minister Harold Wilson endorses the 'I'm Backing Britain' campaign for working an additional half hour each day without pay.ref name=quotWilson after-dinner speechquotJohn Chartres, quotWilson Joins 'I Back Britain'quot, ''The Times'', 9 January 1968, p. 1.
09 Jan 1968 US Surveyor 7 space probe soft lands on the Moon.
10 Jan 1968 Great Balls of Fire reaches #1
11 Jan 1968 Explorer 36 (GEOS-B) launched into earth orbit
12 Jan 1968 Beatles Film Production Ltd changes name to Apple Film Production Ltd
13 Jan 1968 Hallelujah, Baby! closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 293 performances
14 Jan 1968 Soyuz 4 launched
15 Jan 1968 KDCD TV channel 18 in Midland, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
16 Jan 1968 21st NHL All-Star Game: Toronto Maple Leafs beat All-Stars 4-3 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
17 Jan 1968 Soyuz 4 and 5 completed 1st docking of 2 manned spacecraft
18 Jan 1968 Happy Time opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 286 performances
19 Jan 1968 WKBF TV channel 61 in Cleveland, OH (IND) begins broadcasting
20 Jan 1968 US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming.
21 Jan 1968 US B-52 bomber with nuclear bomb crashes in Greenland.
22 Jan 1968 Apollo Program: Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
23 Jan 1968 Spy ship USS Pueblo and 83-man crew seized in Sea of Japan by North Korea.
25 Jan 1968 Risse St. in Bronx named
26 Jan 1968 Israeli submarine Dakar crashes in Mediterranean Sea, 69 die
27 Jan 1968 Darling of the Day opens at George Abbott Theater NYC for 31 performances
28 Jan 1968 Goose Goslin and Kiki Cuyler elected to baseball Hall of Fame.
29 Jan 1968 Nauru adopts constitution.
30 Jan 1968 Bobby Goldsboro records his biggest hit, Honey
31 Jan 1968 Record high barometric pressure (1083.8 mb, 32 inches), at Agata, USSR.
05 Jan 1968 Alexander Dubček comes to power in Czechoslovakia, effectively beginning the "Prague Spring".